From Golden Combs

An Apiculture Mod By Aetherial Labs

Author: Vinter_Nacht, Texture Artist: AnxietyPealope

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From Golden Combs introduces a new step (somewhat sideways) in the apiculture progression in the game.  No more need you be troubled by constantly replacing your skeps after harvesting them, or dealing with angry bees.  The clay pot hive consists of two components, the Brood Pot, and the Honey Pot. (Just called Clay pot Hive and Hive Top in the mod for now).  Both components are made using clay forming and then fired in the pit kiln.  After firing them you can easily pick up the honey pot, but the brood pot will require an empty bag slot.

Once you have your new brood pot placed, you can move a colony in by right-clicking it with a populated skep.  Be sure to keep one populated skep for creating new colonies though! The Clay Pot hive doesn't spread to other hives like a populated skep. However, you also don't need to destroy it to harvest it!  Once you place the honey pot on top of the hive and get the hive population over poor (just place flowers around it like with any hive) they'll start working on your next harvest.

Once the wax ring appears, take the top off and place it somewhere stable, and use a knife on it (right-click it) to harvest the honeycomb!  Now you have a nice empty honey pot you can place back on top of your perfectly safe hive.

So long as it doesn't have a honey pot on it, you can pick up and move brood pots with and without bee colonies in it. Just pick them up in an empty bag slot.

Current Features:

• Clay forming recipes for honey pot and brood pot
• Ability to place colonies in the brood pot using a populated skep
• Repeatable harvest by emptying the honey pot with a knife, and returning it to the honey pot
• Movable brood pots, both with and without a bee colony

Anticipated Development:

      In the works:

• Langstroth Hives - Multi-box hives for larger harvests that occasionally produce new queens you can transfer to another hive
• Fire Clay/Blue Clay variants for clay pot hives
• Varietal Honey (New honey types based on the type of flowers they're feeding on. I'll leave implementations for those varietal honeys to other modders, or a later mod)

       Eventually(?):

• Overhaul of vanilla bee mechanics including new bee species with different temperature tolerances, flower preferences, and attitudes (some are stingier than others, even in domestic hives)
• Advanced hive maintenance concerns (Hive temperature, humidity, populations, disease, hive collapse, swarming, etc.)