I tried searching the forums, but I couldn't find anything, so I apologize in advance if this has already been asked.
So, how do I get good quality honey?
I smoke the box, feed the bees and clean the box a lot, but then the honey goed from bad to horrible quality. What on earth do I need to do to get some good honey? Or is this some glitch that can't be fixed?
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At home - it's a matter of time and persistance.
Buy the boxes (just 2 to start with).
Smoke, clean, feed. (harvest won't be an option when it's brand new.)
Then twice a day, maybe even more sometimes - do the smoke, clean, feed then harvest.
Keep checking the boxes, if harvest isn't an option yet, you'll get an idea of how long to wait in between harvests.
It seems to me that regular harvesting improves the honey.
In between home harvests, dash out to the elixer store and fairy garden area and grab their honey too.
I don't know if it's a hidden skill - but - it seems that way. You get stung, no matter what at the beginning. Later on, it's all perfect and no stings if you really "work" the hives.
Bee-keeping is fulltime - no time for anything else.
Also, try to make sure your sims are well greened in motives.
My sims stock up on their perfect honey and beeswax (99 of each) and then I plop the hives into household inventory so they can do something else with their lives.
Also, I read, but have not yet seen - a ghost can shake the box and make the bees sting sims nearby.
If I get a ghost (by accident) sometime, I'll try it on those obnoxious zombies
I harvest and clean the boxes twice a day, and feed the bees twice a day. I only smoke the box if the bees are angry. If they're calm before I go to harvest and clean the boxes, I don't bother with the smoke. I only use it if I really need to, say, if the clean interaction got intterupted by a bee attack or something
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I actually have a bee-keeping ghost and I've never seen that option.
I'll try not smoking the box for a while then, see if that works.
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