New players ofRaftmay look at the research table options and wonder when it is they’ll get items like bees and honeycomb. The answer is Balboa Island, which isthe third story island in the game. After that, bees and honeycomb will randomly appear on islands with the evergreen and desert biomes.
Balboa Island is also whereRaftplayers will find the blueprints for a biofuel system, and honey is essential for refining biofuel. Luckily, players don’t have to wait for evergreen islands to get more honey, because it’s possible to raise bees and collect honeycomb without leaving the raft.
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Finding Wild Bees and Honeycomb
All islands with the evergreen and desert biomes will have some bees and honeycomb that players can collect, including the story locations Balboa Island and Caravan Town. Bees appear as swarms of insects that move randomly along a set path, and while they can cause a small amount of harm to players who walk into the swarmthey otherwise aren’t aggressive.
To capture bees, players will need to build and equip a net. They then need to get close to a swarm and swipe the net, and if they succeed the swarm will disappear and players will get 4-5 jars of bees in their inventory. This may seem like a lot, but players will need 15 jars to build a beehive.
Collecting honeycomb is even easier. Wild beehives look like a series of horizontal shelves sticking out of trees and stumps, and players can gather from them by holding down the interaction button for several seconds. Bees appear to swarm around these wild hives, but they won’t harm players no matter how close they get.
Raising Bees
The way beehives work is a bit tricky, especially compared to finding wild hives. First, players will need to research the hive at the research table, and thenthey’ll need to collect 20 planks, 8 plastic, 4 clay, 2 hinges, and 15 jars of bees.
After that, players will need to make surethe bees have a food source: flowers. The beehive helpfully hints at this, with symbols on the base that say “bees love flowers.” So to keep their bees fed and producing honeycomb, players must plant and grow some flowers close by.
So long as there are flowers nearby, either growing or ready for harvest, the beehive will generate honeycomb every 8 minutes or so.A scarecrow is essential at this pointsince seagulls will go after even fully grown flowers. Players can tell when the hive is generating honeycomb because bees actively fly through the area, and when they don’t have enough flowers they’ll go quiet and dormant. When the honeycomb is ready for collection, honey will ooze out from between the planks of the beehive.
How much honeycomb players get depends on how many flowers are nearby. Beehives need at least three flowers to create one unit of honeycomb, six to create two, and twelve to create three. This means the best configuration is four normal small crop plots or three advanced crop plots. Also, several beehives can use the same set of flowers, so players can surround twelve flowers with eight beehives and get three units of honeycomb from each one. This makes it very easy for players to get as much honeycomb as they want.
Raftis available now on PC.
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