Beekeeping Guide

Bees are an important enviromental creature that pollenates and makes delicious honey. In archeage beekeeping might not pollenate trees but one thing is for sure it does make honey as well as royal jelly. These can be very useful items in game. Beehives can be used to make a good income in archeage. So today I will teach you how to make a beehive and also how to tend and care for bees in archeage. Also some of the ways that you can make income by beekeeping.

To make a beehive you will need a large enough farm space to actually place a beehive. This can be accomplished by either having a 16x16 farm or one of the larger medium houses such as the 24x24 or larger. You cannot use a beehive on one of the small scarecrow farms or small houses because beehives take up a lot of space and wont fit. You can find the beehive under Handicraft and under the section called Contraption. Its listed as the Acorn Beehive.

• 20x Lumber
• 5x Aspen Hardwood (Aquired from rare aspen drops)
• 3x Acorn (From Oak trees)
• 1x Dawn Lake Light Essence (Aquired from fishing)

Beehives have stages of growth depending on the situation. If you choose to not add a queen to the beehive then it will only grow for a day and the amount of honey recieved from the beehive will be a very small amount usually between 3-5 honey with a very low chance for royal jelly. You can use a Queen Bee Taming Net by reducing the queens health low and using the net to capture her. You can catch her in the following locations:

• Mahadevi
• Falcorth Plains
• White Arden
• Solzreed Peninsula

After you have a queen in the beehive it takes up to 4 days for the beehive to hit prosperous and give the largest amount of honey. The stages of this are as follows:

• Alluring – No harvest 
• Moist – 200 Labor harvest 3-5 Honey small chance for Royal Jelly
• Sweet – 400 Labor harvest 12-18 Honey small chance for Royal Jelly
• Prosperous – 600 Labor harvest 24-30 small chance for Royal Jelly

Beehives have a chance to be attacked when this happens you have a limited duration before the beehive gets destroyed so you need to either make or buy a smoke bead to prevent the destruction of the beehive. The beekeepers veil will keep you from getting stung by the bees but its not required in order to pick the beehives and the poison from the bees isnt that notiable. But its possible it reduces the chance for the beehive from going into the "attacked" state.

Beehives can be grown in all climates and no climates speed up the process of bees. Beehives can be good for a number of things. Alchemy, Cooking, Trade Packs, and Pet raising require honey as well as submarines which require royal jelly. Of course submarines have not been added yet in the NA release of Archeage so they are only used for the butterfly frame decoration and do not have much of a use currently aside from something pretty to put in your house.

Trade Pack wise you can make the aged larder which honey can be used as an ingrediant for aged honey this takes 2 days to mature but pays a premium pack which is 130% since it doesnt end up being run fast like most standard packs.

Alchemy potions of defense require honey as an ingrediant to recipes making them have a constant use in pvp. Cooking also requires it for higher level food recipes as well.

You can also use 500 honey to upgrade the polar bear pet the one obtained by breeding the bears. And is used to create a black bear pet.