Honey is a special item in Raft. It can be consumed to keep you satisfied and generated as biofuel to keep your engines running. Like most resources, honey can be hard to acquire. But you can farm honey infinitely in Raft if you have a Beehive.
As you may expect, making a beehive for yourself in the game is possible, but the process requires some work. In this guide, we’ll tell you how to do so and enjoy a new limitless honey supply.
Find And Catch Some Bees
Crafting a beehive in Raft is very straightforward but first, you need some bees to populate that beehive. For that, you need to get to an island with plenty of bees and honeycombs on it. You need to progress the main story until you reach the Vasagatan shipwreck. Here, Balboa Island will get unlocked; that is where you need to go for your honey needs.
Before hunting for beehives and honeycombs, acquire a Sweep Net as needed. A sweep net can be made using the following items:
- 15x Planks
- 6x Ropes
- 2x Vine Goo
- 1x Bolt
With the Sweep Net, proceed to the island and look for bees. Thanks to the net, you should be able to catch them easily. Catching a swarm of bees with the net will result in you getting a bee jar in your inventory. This is what you will populate your beehive with.
Craft A Beehive
To craft a Beehive, you must first research it. Go to your inventory and look for a Beehive and Honeycomb. Research it and it will unlock the item that you can craft. To do so, you will need the following items:
- 20x Planks
- 8x Plastic
- 4x Clay
- 2x Hinge
- 15x Bee Jar
Once you have made it, place it down in the world where you want to make your bee farm.
How To Farm Honey Using Beehives
After you have crafted a Beehive, you must plant flowers in a Crop Plot. The closer you plant to a beehive, the more honeycombs and honey you will get. Listed below are the flower-to-honeycomb ratios for each beehive:
- 1-5 flowers: 1 Honeycomb
- 6+ flowers: 2 Honeycombs
- 12+ flowers: 3 Honeycombs
To make the most efficient Honey farm in Raft, surround your beehive from all sides with small crop plots. Make sure each of these crop plots has three flowers in them. If your honey farm setup is outdoors, place a scarecrow near your crop plants, as Seagulls tend to attack flowers.
Using the Honeycombs, you can quickly and easily turn them into jars of honey. Honey has numerous uses such as food and even as a healing salve if you find yourself injured. Moreover, honey can also be used to create biofuel, boosting any engine.
