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Honey

Honey
Honey
Type Artisan Good
Machine Bee House
Ingredients Various flowers
Time 6100m (≈4d)
Sell Price 100g

Honey is the hands-off artisan good of the farm. A Bee House fills with Honey every few days without any ingredient, from Spring to the end of Fall. A blooming flower nearby turns plain Wild Honey into flower honey, and the right flower raises the price several times over. Fairy Rose Honey is the top prize, worth almost seven times the wild kind. Honey also feeds a Keg to make Mead, counts for the Artisan Bundle and goes into the Warp Totem: Farm. Almost every villager likes a jar, including Jas and Vincent.


Making

The Bee House is a Farming recipe from level 3. It takes Wood, Coal, an Iron Bar and one Maple Syrup, so a Tapper on a Maple Tree comes first. Once placed outdoors, a Bee House produces a jar every four days. Bees rest in Winter, and a Bee House inside the Greenhouse stays idle all year.

A flower changes the Honey. Any fully grown flower within five tiles of the Bee House gives its name and value to the jar. When several flowers sit in range, the closest one wins. The flower is never used up, so one Fairy Rose can serve a whole ring of Bee Houses. Flowers in Garden Pots count as well.

The type of Honey is fixed at the moment of harvest, not when the jar fills. A jar left waiting becomes flower honey as soon as a nearby flower blooms. Cutting the flower before collecting the jar turns it back into Wild Honey. A handy trick is to leave only one free slot in the inventory when collecting. The jar fills that slot, so a stray click cannot pick the flower by mistake.

Honey can also be bought. The Oasis sells it on Fridays, and the Traveling Cart stocks it now and then. Bought jars are plain Honey and work like Wild Honey.

Prices

Flower honey follows a simple rule. The jar is worth the base Honey price plus twice the base price of the flower. Expensive flowers therefore make expensive Honey.

Each season has a clear best flower. Spring offers Tulips and the pricier Blue Jazz. Summer brings Summer Spangle and Poppy, with Poppy Honey the better of the two. Sunflowers bloom across Summer and Fall, which keeps one patch working for two seasons. Fall belongs to the Fairy Rose, whose Honey beats everything else by a wide margin.

Only farm flowers count. Crocus and Sweet Pea leave the jar as Wild Honey, and so do Daffodil and Dandelion, which the game treats as forage.

The Artisan profession adds two fifths to every jar, Wild Honey and flower honey alike.

Sell prices by quality, with the bonus from each profession.

Quality Price Artisan (+40%)
Normal 100g 140g

Uses

A Keg turns any Honey into Mead in ten hours. The Mead price ignores the type of Honey, though. Several flower honeys sell for more than a bottle of Mead, so those jars are worth more sold as they are. Wild Honey makes the better Mead base, since Mead beats it comfortably.

One jar fills a slot in the Artisan Bundle in the Pantry. Crafting a Warp Totem: Farm, learned at Foraging level 8, needs Honey along with Hardwood and Fiber. Some Fish Pond fish also ask for a jar of any kind before their pond grows.

At the Sewing Machine, Honey in the spool makes the dyeable Simple Dress. It also counts as a yellow dye in the pots at 2 Willow Lane.

Crafting Honey with the other materials below makes these items.

Item Image Ingredients
Warp Totem: Farm Warp Totem: Farm Hardwood (1), Honey (1), Fiber (20)

Notes

Most of the valley likes Honey, including Abigail, Jas, Linus, Vincent and the Wizard. Maru and Sebastian hate it.

A tight cluster of Bee Houses around one valuable flower gives the most Honey for the least work. Fairy Roses take twelve days to bloom, so planting them early in Fall leaves more weeks of premium Honey before Winter.

All Artisan Goods

Every entry in this group, with its key details.

Name Image Machine Time
Aged Roe Aged Roe Preserves Jar 4000m (3-4 days)
Beer Beer Keg 1750m (≈29h)
Cask Productivity - - -
Caviar Caviar Preserves Jar 6000m (4 days)
Cheese Cheese Cheese Press 200min (3.3h)
Cloth Cloth Loom 240m (≈4h)
Coffee Coffee Keg 120m (2h)
Dinosaur Mayonnaise Dinosaur Mayonnaise Mayonnaise Machine 3h
Dried Fruit Dried Fruit Dehydrator 1750m (≈1d)
Dried Mushrooms Dried Mushrooms Dehydrator 1750m (≈1d)
Duck Mayonnaise Duck Mayonnaise Mayonnaise Machine 3h
Goat Cheese Goat Cheese Cheese Press 200m (≈3h)
Green Tea Green Tea Keg 180m (3h)
Honey Honey Bee House 6100m (≈4d)
Jellies and Pickles - - -
Juice Juice Keg 6000m (≈4d)
Keg Productivity - - -
Maple Syrup Maple Syrup Tapper; Heavy Tapper 9 or 4 days
Mayonnaise Mayonnaise Mayonnaise Machine 3h
Mead Mead Keg 10h
Mystic Syrup Mystic Syrup Tapper; Heavy Tapper 7 or 3 days
Oak Resin Oak Resin Tapper; Heavy Tapper 7 or 3 days
Oil Oil Oil Maker Varies by ingredient
Pale Ale Pale Ale Keg 2250m (37.5h)
Pine Tar Pine Tar Tapper; Heavy Tapper 5 or 2 days
Preserves Jar Productivity - - -
Raisins Raisins Dehydrator 1750m (≈29h)
Smoked Fish Smoked Fish Fish Smoker 50m
Truffle Oil Truffle Oil Oil Maker 360m (6h)
Void Mayonnaise Void Mayonnaise Mayonnaise Machine 3h
Wine Wine Keg 10,000m (≈7d)