Don't Starve Together Guides and Walkthroughs
One of the more important and useful farms you can make for food in DST is a Honey Farm (or Bee Farm). In order to make a Honey Farm you'll need to make some Bee Boxes which require Honeycombs. This is a costly reagent since the only replenishable way to get Honeycombs is by defeating Bee Queen. Additionally, Honeycombs are used to make Bundling Wrap which is another extremely important recipe that you'll be making a lot of.
You only need a single Honeycomb to make a Bee Box which is good considering the resource is so difficult to get. Also, thankfully, a Bee Box is well worth the investment cost of a single Honeycomb so long as you build an appropriate area for the bees. To explain what I mean by an appropriate area around your Bee Box I first have to explain a little bit about how this all works.
In order to make Honey a bee needs to pollinate 6 flowers in a single day. They can not pollinate the same flower twice in one day and two bees can not pollinate the same flower at the same time. I bolded at the same time because your bees can all run a train on one flower if they so choose. Once a bee has pollinated 6 flowers they will return to the Bee Box and the amount of Honey will increase by 1.
When dusk hits your Bees will return home to their box and their counter will be reset. If a bee does not pollinate 6 flowers in one day it will not generate any Honey. For this reason it's typically important to have as many flowers around your Bee Boxes as possible. You can plant more flowers by catching Butterflies and planting them in the ground.
As for the layout you want to use for your Bee Farm - that's completely up to you. The farm you see at the top of the screen is the one that I made when I first started playing on this world. The Bee Boxes are spaced out more than they need to be but the whole setup is aesthetically pleasing. Next, the screenshot you see below this paragraph is setup moreso for maximize efficiency.
The Bee Boxes in the screenshot above are placed as close together as they possibly can be and I have planted Flowers inbetween each of them and around the edges of the pen. Eventually the Butterflies that spawn in this area naturally will make more Flowers in places that I can't but it isn't neccessary that they do either way. There are enough Flowers in this area for every Bee Box to max out their Honey in a single day.
It will take you a long time to farm enough Honeycombs to make a Honey Farm like you see in the screenshot above. Like I said at the start of this guide, the only way for you to farm endless Honeycombs is by farming Bee Queen. For more information about the best way to farm Bee Queen check out my Bee Queen Farming Guide.
Other Tips & Tricks
- All bees are hostile during Spring - I don't recommend you harvest any Honey during this month for that reason. During Winter Bees stop producing Honey and they also will not emerge from the nest to protect it when you harvest Honey. For this reason harvesting Honey during Winter is typically ideal.