Tutorial:Honey farming

Honey farming is the process of collecting honey bottles and honeycombs from beehives and bee nests. To get honeycombs, you can use shears when the beehive or bee nest has reached honey_level of 5. Honeycomb is used for crafting your own beehives or bee nests for bees to inhabit, as well as for crafting decorative honeycomb blocks, candles, and waxing copper blocks. To get honey bottles, you can use an empty bottle on a hive or nest at honey level 5. Honey bottles are food items that are able to cure Poison, and can also be used to craft sugar and honey blocks, the latter of which have sticky properties that give them a variety of useful applications.

Honey is generated by bees after they collect pollen and nectar. Bees emerge from their home and go looking for flowers. After collecting pollen and nectar from the flowers, the bees return home and go inside to turn the nectar into honey. Once finished, the bees emerge again to look for more flowers. The honey collects over time until the bee nest or beehive is full, and can then be harvested by the player in various forms.

The first step on your foray into apiculture is to find bees in your world. Your initial source of bees is a naturally generated or spawned bee nest. Bee nests have a small chance to generate on oak, birch, or cherry trees in specific biomes during world generation. After world generation, there is also a chance for a bee nest to spawn on an oak, birch, or cherry tree when that tree grows near flowers, or any player-grown mangrove tree (see Bee Nest § Post-generation).