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Arguably one of the coziest farming simulators out there,Coral Islandhas everything you could want in a farming game. From sowing and reaping crops, raising adorable livestock, foraging the wild and oceans for food, and creating artisan products from your hard-earned crops, Coral Island has a farming style for everyone.
Artisan machines are one of the most interesting and useful items you may have on your farm, and they are a great way to make money. The Bee House is an artisan machine that allows you to input flowers and receive honey for your troubles, which is amazing considering honey is a hot ticket item on Coral Island.
What Is The Bee House?
The Bee House is anartisan machinethat allows you to create different kinds ofhoney. To get honey, you mustput a flower of any kindinto the Bee House. After a few days, you will be rewarded with a nice, lucrative jar of honey for your efforts.
The Bee House is one of thebest artisan machinesto place on your farm for making apassive profit.
How To Get The Bee House
To get the Bee House, you must first achievelevel three Catching Masteryin your Mastery tab. Once you have reached level three, you will be rewarded with thecrafting recipe for the Bee House.
Toincrease your Catching Mastery, use your bug net tocatch insects and crittersacross the map. It doesn’t matter if you’ve already caught the critter or if it’s low value.Catch every critter and insectyou see to level up faster!
Tocraftthe Bee House you need50 Woodand15 Bronze Ore.you’re able to also earn a single Bee House when you complete the Day Insect offerings in the Lake Temple’s Catching Altar.
No Town Rank requirementneeds to be met before you can get the Bee House. You can get the Bee House crafting recipe atany Town Rank levelso long as you have completedlevel three of your Catching Mastery.
How To Use The Bee House
You are ready to place it once youhave crafted or earneda Bee House for your farm. Placing the Bee House works thesame way as placing any other artisan machine. With the Bee Houseselected in your hot bar, use youraction buttonto place it in anunoccupied space.
The floor tiles will turngreenif you cansuccessfullyplace the Bee House andredif yourplacement is incorrect.
To use the Bee House, you first need to have someflowershandy. Flower crops areavailable in every season, including winter, and they are also readily available in the environment as aforageable, so there will always be flowers available for you.
Once you have some flowers to feed your bees, you are ready tostart making honey. When you arewithin range of the Bee House, use your console’saction buttontoplace the desired flowerinto the Bee House. Once the flower is successfully placed, the Bee House willstart making honey of that flower type.
Unlike other artisan machines, the Bee House can makemore than one type of honeyat a time. Youdo not needto verify that all of your inputted flowers are of thesame type or rarity.
For example, you can place a silver star larkspur and a regular quality daisy in the Bee House at the same time. In that case, thedaisy honeywould be processedafter the larkspur honeyis completed.
You must add flowersmanually. The Bee Housedoes not functionunless you have input flowers. Just putting it next to a flower field isnot enoughto start the honey production process.
Allhoneys taketwo days to processin the Bee House and canonly process three jarsof honeyat once.You cannot process more than three honeys at a time, but once youharvest one jarof honey, you canadd another flowerto the Bee House to bring the total count back up to thethree honey maximum.
Best Flowers To Use In The Bee House
As stated earlier, you can process honey inany seasonand all seasons have flowers that you can plant. Foraged flowers are also applicable, but most honeys made withforaged flowers(like larkspur and hibiscus)won’t sell for very muchmoney.
Thebest type of honeyto make for a profit isBlack Honey. There aretwo kinds of Black Honeyand both are created by placing a foraged flower into the honey machine.Rafflesia Black HoneyandTitan Arum black honeyare the best honeys to make, and both honeys sell for2,500 Coral Coins.
However, it takes a while to find and scavenge therare Rafflesia and Titan Arumflowers, and they are only available inwinter and fallrespectively. That being said,farming flowersis themost reliableway to ensure that your Bee Houses are seeing constant use.
Themost lucrativefarmed flower to use in the Bee House is theCactus Flowerwhich sells for1,215 Coral Coins, but it’s alate-gamecrop. Flowers, like any crop,unlock as you progressthroughTown Ranklevels andmore lucrative flowerswill become available athigher Town Ranks.
Here’s thefull listof flower honeys you can make in the Bee House, organized frommost lucrative to least.
Town Rank And Season Of Flower
2,500
1,215
515
445
390
375
305
245
240
210
155
135
125
120
80
70
60
50
40
30
20
Forageable
How To Get Mead
Another great thing about honey is that you can essentiallyprocess it twice. Honey can be inputted into anAging Barrelto createmead. Like any other aged product, mead willsell for much morethan honey sells for.
5,470
2,320
2,005
1,755
1,690
1,375
1,105
1,080
945
700
610
Peony honey
565
540
360
315
270
225
180
90
Youcannot put Black Honeyinto an Aging Barrel.
Other Uses For Honey
While it isn’t needed in very many crafting recipes, you do need to have honey jars handy forcooking and crafting.
You need to use honey jars to craft theFlying Insect Trapas well asMonster Lure Scent II.
As forcooking,you need to use honey in the following recipes:
Since honey is one of themore lucrative artisan productsyou can make, you may be feeling precious about what you use it for. One recommendation for usinghoney to craftis to have aseparate Bee Houselocation away from where you usually put your regular Bee Houses.
Place achest of low-value forageable flowersbeside this Bee House and only use thelow-value honey for crafting.
