Better Beehives

Rewarding your beekeeping efforts in Valheim!

This mod is a very simple expansion to the beehive system in Valheim. It gives player-made beehives a configurable chance to drop a queen bee when the honey is harvested. Additionally, if a queen bee is harvested, you may also find some royal jelly in the hive as well.

Bees are also natural pollinators, and having hives near your farms can improve the growth speed of plants and pickables.

Why would this mod be useful?

• There are a finite number of beehives in a Valheim world, and these are the only source of queen bees.
• Servers with a lot of players have no way to generate additional queen bees, meaning all players may not have enough.
• This mod fixes this issue and allows you to get queen bees from your beekeeping activities.
• You won't need to make farms as huge, since you can accelerate growth of crops with bees! Also works on pickables too!

Configuration

Configuration is extremely simple.

Beehive Prefabs

This is the prefab names of pieces that have a beehive component. Useful if you have other mods that add beehives if you're wanting to add extra functionality to non-vanilla hives. Loads the vanilla hive by default.

Queen Bee Drop Chance

The value set is the chance that a queen bee will drop when the hive is at its maximum honey level.

Example: Setting the value to 0.2 (20%) means that a queen bee has a 20% chance to drop when you harvest 4 honey. If there is less honey in the hive, the probability will be scaled down based on how much honey is in the hive.

Chance of Queen Bee when harvesting = (Amount of Honey / Maximum Honey Level) x Chance of Queen Bee when hive is full

So in our above example, if the beehive had 3 honey in when harvested, the probability of getting a queen would be 15%.

Royal Jelly Drop Chance

Whenever a queen bee is harvested, this value sets the chance that you will also receive royal jelly.

Royal Jelly Drop Attempts

This is how many times the royal jelly will be attempted to spawn, with equal probability of success depending on Royal Jelly Drop Chance.

Nearby Plant Growth Chance

Every time the bees produce honey, all plants in range will have this chance to grow to their next stage. Set to 0 to disable plant growth.

Nearby Plant Growth Range

The radius around a beehive that bees will travel to pollinate plants. Default is 5m, but can be increased up to 20m.

Nearby Growable Plants

A list of prefab names that have a Plant script attached to them. Bees will try and pollinate plants that match these names. Default value is all vanilla plants that are not tree saplings.

Nearby Growable Pickables

A list of prefab names that have a Pickable script attached to them. Bees will try and pollinate pickables that meet these names. Default value is all vanilla mushrooms and berry bushes.

Bee Density

This is a clientside option that will adjust how often bees appear around growable plants. Lower this value to help performance on larger farms or set to 0 for no performance impact.

Compatibility

This mod has built-in compatibility for the following mods:

• ZenDragon ZenBeehive: Container size of beehive increased to allow for queen bee and jelly items to be deposited into the buffer.
• Blacks7ar SeedBed: Bees will look for seedbeds nearby their hive and provide a boost to growth of plants inside them, as long as the plant is allowed by configs.
• Blacks7ar LazyVikings: Queen bee and royal jelly will drop into containers placed near beehives.

This mod should be fully compatible with the following mods:

• Blacks7ar BeeKeeper
• JustMennowar BeehiveUtils_Revived
• EardwulfDoesMods OhBeehive

This mod has known incompatibilities for:

• TastyChickenLegs HoneyPlease: Plant growth should work, queen bee drop and royal jelly drop will probably not work. Auto deposit of queen bee and jelly into chests will not work. Will add compatibility if this mod updates. If you need this functionality before then, use LazyVikings instead.

Contact Me (Bug Reports & Suggestions)

If you have any suggestions, or experience bugs / problems using this mod please get in touch with me on my Discord.

Installation (Manual Download)

Move the 'plugins' folder from the archive to your BepInEx folder.