Honey Production

Structure preparation
Honey production starts with building a Skep or a Beehive. Once done, it must be filled with one Bee Nest. Whether the building has a bee nest inside or not is indicated in its rollover next to the picture of a bee.

Honey production
A Skep or Beehive with a bee nest inside is ready to produce honey. Bees fly to random flowers growing nearby to gather nectar. After visiting 5 flowers the bee is full and comes back to its skep or beehive, contributing toward production of honey. The production status is indicated in the rollover by the bar next to the honey icon. A full bee returning to the building will fill the bar by 20%. When the bar is full it starts flashing and honey is ready to be gathered by a player or a bot with a bucket. Even when the building is full, bees will continue to fly to flowers, but they won't produce more honey. Gathering honey from a building empties the honey bar and production starts again.

Miscellaneous
A Skep sends 2 bees to harvest while a Beehive sends 4. Each building can only hold a single bee nest, and each bee gathers nectar independently. When a bee lands on a flower, the plant loses its nectar immediately and needs 10 seconds to restore it. During this time the flower can't be visited by any bees. If there are no more available flowers in a bee's range it will go back to its skep or beehive. A flower is in range if the distance from the structure to the flower is less than 10, measured in a straight line (thus the search area is in the form of a disk), where the tiles adjacent to the building are at a distance of 1 (see Picture 1). A lack of available flowers is indicated by a bubble over the structure: