Beekeeping Mod | v14+

🐝 Beekeeping Mod — Eco 14+

Explore the wilderness, master hive management, and build a thriving honey operation. Completely rebuilt from the ground up for Eco 13+.

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What's New in V3

• 🌸 Pollination system — Hives placed near crops boost their growth by 15% within a 10-block radius
• 🐝 Dynamic wild ecosystem — Wild swarms hide throughout the world and naturally repopulate after harvest
• 🍯 30+ new recipes — Cooking, Baking, Carpentry, Milling — honey and wax across every profession
• 🪵 New materials & décor — Wax Lumber, Honey Sugar, Pure Wax, Honeycomb Shelves, Stone Vessels, and more
• ⚙️ Reworked mechanics — Hive spacing rules, flower requirements, and colony health all affect production
• 🎨 Original assets preserved — Classic models by Ondulas remain, extended with new decorative items

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Getting Started

1. Explore — Walk through nature to find wild bee colonies. Press E to collect bee eggs and hive cores.
2. Build — Ask a Carpenter to craft your first Small Hive. Place it somewhere with flowers nearby.
3. Hatch — Place bee eggs inside the hive. They'll grow into bees that produce honeycombs over time.
4. Extract — Use an Extractor to process honeycombs into honey and wax, then craft the full recipe tree.

⚠️ Hives need at least 100 flowers within 10 blocks to function, and must not be placed too close to each other.

⚠️ Hives production speed is now based on the pollen around them.
💡 Storing bees and eggs inside hives slows their decay significantly.

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New Recipes

🍳 Cooking

• Honey Glazed Meat
• Honey Glazed Mushrooms
• Honey Glazed Vegetables
• Salmon Honey
• Honey Roast
• Skewer Meat & Honey
• Blueberry Cocktail
• Honey Vinegar
• Tajine

🥐 Baking

• Honey Bread
• Honey Wheat Rolls
• Honey Pastries
• Berry Honey Cake
• Royal Honey Cake
• Royal Honey Tart
• Fruit Cake
• Gingerbread
• Madeleine

🍬 Confectionery

• Honeycomb Candy
• Hard Honey Candy
• Royal Candy
• Candied Fruit
• Marshmallow
• Pancake
• Herbal Honey Tea
• Honey Beer
• Mead

🔨 Crafting

• Wax Lumber (Sawmill)
• Honey Sugar (Mill)
• Wax Candles
• Biodiesel from Wax
• Wax Sealed Bread
• Sweet Charred Fish
• Sweet Charred Meat
• Simple Syrup from Honey

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🌸 Pollination System

Bees actively pollinate crops within 10 blocks, boosting growth speed by 15%. The closest hive takes priority to prevent stacking bonuses.

Affected crops: Wheat · Corn · Beet · Beans · Tomato · Potato · Pumpkin · Huckleberry · Cotton · Rice · Agave · Papaya · Pineapple · Taro · Sunflower · Camas

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Admin Commands

• /clusterstatus — Instant diagnostics: hive counts, cluster health, ecosystem overview
• /resetcluster — Destroy all wild swarms and fully regenerate the ecosystem
• /beekeepinghelp — List all available beekeeping admin commands

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Installation

1. Extract Beekeeping.zip into your server's /Mods/UserCode/ folder
2. Restart the server — the mod compiles automatically

No additional setup required.

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Credits

• Ondulas — Original models and initial design
• Nebouh — Ongoing maintenance, Eco 14 compatibility, V3 update
• Starfail — rework, regeneration system, new mechanics, expanded recipe list

Questions or ideas? Ping Nebouh on the Eco Official Discord.