ShelterHold: Beehive

Compatible with Project Zomboid Build 42.12.3 – 42.21.0 — SP / MP

ShelterHold: Beehive adds a complete beekeeping gameplay loop to Build 42: find queens and Wild Honeycombs, build and manage Beehives, fill Hive Frames, extract Raw Honey, use Beeswax, craft honey-based items, and place Bait Hives to attract wild colonies.

Special thanks to ivmakk for detailed testing and contributions during development.

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Required Mod & Load Order

ShelterHold: Beehive requires [B42] NeatUI Framework.

Recommended load order:

• [B42] NeatUI Framework
• ShelterHold: Beehive

For multiplayer servers, add both mods to Mods and both Workshop IDs to WorkshopItems.

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Main Features

• Functional Beehives with queen and Hive Frame management.
• Honeybee, Bumblebee and optional Zombee Queens with different environmental behavior.
• Honey production affected by time, local temperature, weather, location and inserted frames.
• Configurable temperature limits, production speed, foraging abundance and crop-growth radius.
• Honey Extractor with Raw Honey storage and multiplayer synchronization.
• Wild Honeycomb and queen foraging.
• Bait Hives using Honey, Beeswax and supported sugar items.
• Optional filtering of invalid Bait Hive bait.
• Honey-based foods and medical items.
• Beeswax crafting and weapon-maintenance uses.
• Crop-growth bonus around active hives.
• Single-player, MP Host and Dedicated Server support.

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Beehives & Queens

Build a Beehive, insert a queen and add Hive Frames. Frames gradually fill whenever the colony's working conditions are met.

• Honeybee Queen — fastest producer under normal conditions.
• Bumblebee Queen — slightly slower, but more tolerant of temperature.
• Zombee Queen — slower, but works day and night and ignores temperature, rain and snow.

Temperature ranges and production behavior can be adjusted through Sandbox Options. Zombees can be disabled with Enable Zombees.

Bee Stings

Removing queens or frames can occasionally cause a minor sting/scratch.

Hazmat and Spiffo mascot suits provide protection, and bee stings cannot transmit the Knox infection.

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Honey Extractor

Insert sufficiently filled Hive Frames and start extraction with a single interaction.

• Extraction time scales with the number of frames.
• Extracted honey is stored as Raw Honey.
• A full frame yields up to 1.5 L.
• Processed frames are returned as wax frames.
• Extraction can occasionally reduce frame condition.
• Fluid and frame state are synchronized in multiplayer.

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Bait Hives & Wild Honeycombs

Bait Hives use Project Zomboid's vanilla trapping system.

Use Bait Hive > Add Bait to add supported Honey, Beeswax or sugar bait.

An optional sandbox setting can hide foods that appear in the vanilla trapping menu but cannot attract a Wild Honeycomb.

A successful catch produces a Wild Honeycomb, which can provide Honey, Beeswax or a bee queen when disassembled.

See the gameplay guide below for bait effectiveness, zone chances and trapping details.

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Foods, Medical Items & Beeswax

The mod includes honey-based foods and:

• Honey Bandage
• Honey Patch

Raw Honey can be converted into vanilla Honey using a reusable Funnel.

Beeswax has several crafting uses and can also be used for weapon maintenance.

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Foraging & Farming

Bee Queens and Wild Honeycombs can be found through Foraging / Search Mode.

Active Beehives also provide a small configurable crop-growth bonus to nearby plants.

Both foraging abundance and crop-growth radius can be adjusted in Sandbox Options.

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Useful Links

• How to use ShelterHold: Beehive — full gameplay guide, Sandbox Options, Bait Hive probabilities and troubleshooting.
• Questions and Bug Reports — setup help, compatibility questions and bug reports.
• ShelterHold: Beehive - Safe Uninstall Support — safely disable SHB in existing worlds.

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Compatibility & Safe Uninstall

• Project Zomboid Build 42.12.3 – 42.21.0.
• Single-player, MP Host and Dedicated Servers.
• Safe to add to an existing save.

⚠️Do not load an existing world that has already used ShelterHold: Beehive without either the full SHB mod or Safe Uninstall Support enabled.

To remove the full mod from an existing world, replace it with: ShelterHold: Beehive - Safe Uninstall Support

It keeps the persistent definitions required by existing SHB content without loading the full beekeeping gameplay.

Do not enable ShelterHold_Beehive and ShelterHold_Beehive_SafeUninstallSupport at the same time.

See the Safe Uninstall Support Workshop page for setup instructions.

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More Mods & Support

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