Originally posted by Dwarflord:

Just put them in a row on top of your house. You can put them pretty close together so long as their roofs aren't clipping eachother.

I have spent the past hour trying to put beehives down in what logically would be considered such an open space that a spaceship could land, and it keeps saying needs more space. It's such a ridiculous restriction. I've just plain given up on beehives, and started using console commands for honey. Seems to be a pretty big issue since the game came out based on google searches, yet they haven't done anything about it. I personally don't understand the since in it, but it is what it is. Hope they remove it but I doubt it. Just really is an immersion killer in an otherwise amazing game. I imagine people who've had a bee infestation in the walls of their house would love to have had this kind of logic in place.