Originally posted by knighttemplar1960:

Originally posted by Megahurts:

Nope, I'm using hatch.

If the thatch is over a meter up you still have the 1 meter clearance the hive needs.

Ahh. Well there's that. I'm not complaining though, just find it odd they're not happy yet still produce. I should probably keep it to myself or they may change it.

I always put bee hives on top of my house. Keeps them off the ground so they don't get busted if a mob gets into the base and they're always exposed to the sky, stay happy.

I've discovered that its the heights of objects near the bee hive that causes the issue (which goes back to cover which everyone else is talking about).

For example if you build an 8 meter earthen wall around your base the beehive has to be at least 4 meters away from the wall for the bees to be happy. If you are trying to put that hive near a corner of an 8 meter high earthen wall the hive has to be at least 8 meters away from the corner of the walls with adjacent hives having less requirements but still more than 4 meters.

What this also means is that the bee hives have to be a meter apart from each other (since they are also a meter tall) or raised up one meter off the ground or the bees will not be happy until the neighbor hive(s) on the outside are filled with honey.

If you lay 9 beehives right next to each other (all most touching) on the ground like this:

OOO
OOO
OOO

Only the corner hives will be happy

OXO
XXX
OXO

Once the corner hives are full of honey the side hives will become happy but the center hive will still be unhappy until the side hives are also full of honey

FOF
OXO
FOF

You can prevent this issue by raising the hives off the ground by 1 meter somewhere in the center of your base where there are no other objects or by moving the hives so that they are at least half a meter away from the closest hive which will fix all but the center hive.

(This is the answer to Archdeacon Monseigneur's question. Full hives don't count against cover but when you empty the adjacent hives the crowded hives become unhappy until the too close hives are filled again. The cultivated earth issue is kind of a bug. If you plant walking forward the new plant in your "hand" will stay red until its far enough from the previous plant to be healthy and turn green if you try to plant it while its still red you get need cultivated earth error even though the earth is cultivated or you'll get blocked if you are trying to plant it too close to your avatar. This only happens when you plant walking forward. If you plant side to side or walking backwards the plants stay green, can be planted, and will have the plant is unhealthy label and then die. Walking forward is the only way that you can be certain the plants will always be healthy because you will get the error instead of being able to plant if it is too close together.)

Originally posted by Megahurts:

Odd. I have 3 hives indoors right beside my cooking station. They may not be happy but they still produce honey, so...

That's because floor tiles used as a roof do not count as a roof for cover. Only thatch or the darkwood shingles count

Nope, I'm using hatch.

https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/2032846422866544556/9934C38E5F82F6F3C8B939DEDCEC9D61A5DECAD0/?imw=5000&imh=5000&ima=fit&impolicy=Letterbox&imcolor=%23000000&letterbox=false

Originally posted by Megahurts:

Nope, I'm using hatch.

If the thatch is over a meter up you still have the 1 meter clearance the hive needs.

It Bee's what it is.

They need less than 60% cover. Because of the way the cover system works this can result in some weird behavior. (https://valheim.fandom.com/wiki/Cover)

You can build beehives on 1 meter wood pole and that should get them high enough that your stake wall (and maybe the ground, depending on your base) isn't obstructing them anymore

Odd. I have 3 hives indoors right beside my cooking station. They may not be happy but they still produce honey, so...

Originally posted by d¢:

put them on poles above the ground

This is the way to make them bee happy. Just bee sure to give a bit of space beetween the hives. Beefore you know it you'll bee enjoying that fine honey.

speaking of the bees.
does anyone have a problem with bees "being happy" one moment, function for a good while, and then suddenly (without any additional structures being built near them) suddenly going "We need more space" ??
this has bothered me since the game's release, and i've noticed that its still an issue that occurs regularly.
same goes for cultivated earth suddenly doing "need cultivated ground" no matter how many times you run through your farm patch to fix up any invisible 'holes'.

had this once - but solved it soon after that by building "bee houses" where i set em up on small platforms
and keeping them away from my farming areas

first trys
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2783390859

a bit more advanced
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2909041784

actual build (best for colleting "da honee")
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2919151057

Originally posted by Godsmutant:

Why you have spike fence around the bees?

He's gotta protect his bees, man.

Why you have spike fence around the bees?

put them on poles above the ground

They need to not be covered or partly covered. Unless something changed, and I don't think it has, you can attach them to the spike wall if you want - they just can't be too close to each other or partially covered.