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[Uzu Bash]

Beekeeping might get more respect if there were some underground equivalent the skill could apply to. There may be strains with exotic nectars. Perhaps if wild underground colonies aren't kept under control, they can kill off useful vermin, such as cave spiders.

How about traps -- made of BEES! Bee allergies aren't uncommon, but anyone would lose their nerve to advance with enough stings. Swatting them away might also cost them their balance in precarious places. A colony that's ready to split may also be ready to load onto a catapult.

[mardouille]

A cool use or bees could be to heal infections.

There's probably information somewhere on the Wikipedia, but I know there is stuff from bees that is an antibiotic. That much I remembered from my visit to my local beekeeper.

Anyone a real beekeeper here?

[Badger Storm]

Only crazy people willingly put themselves within 10 feet of a bee.

But I've been thinking about the same thing.  Two things I came up with are soap made with beeswax and wax statues.  I don't know if wax statues are within the allowed technology, but they can actually be very lifelike.

[Deboche]

Bees might really shine if light becomes necessary and we get candles.

[falcc]

A bee/honey overhaul would be great. Especially if it involves bee siegecraft. There could be some room set aside for it honey in hospitals to use it as something antibiotic too.

If there's some time spent on bees again it'd be nice to have aggressive killer bees that could be a hazard in some areas. And then catapulted into some other area to be a hazard there.

[Niddhoger]

As part of the food/spoilage overhaul, I've suggested wax as a sealing agent for large pots and honey as a perservative for fruits.  In fact, you can store your fruits from the summer harvest in pots, dump in some honey as a perservative, then seal the whole thing shut with wax! Historically both were in common usage. 

[taptap]

I would prefer all the beekeeping bugs were resolved first, some were, but stockpiles for beekeeping are still a mess. (Honeycombs, empty and filled jugs, wax etc.)

[Waparius]

Wax could be used to polish wooden items, increasing their value the same way glazing ups the value of clay crafts.

For later on, definitely good to have it used for candles, sealing food (and preserving it with honey), maybe for things like sealing wax and wax tablets as bureaucracy gets to be more of a thing (also good for Adventure Mode).

In general once food preservation kicks in, honey ought to be one of the easiest foodstuffs to trade long-distance, what with never going off.

[taptap]

Instead of the fancy proposals I would like to remove royal jelly from beekeeping or make it optional in the hive. There is no equivalent for the forced equal honeycomb + jelly harvest, and jelly just tends to annoyingly block jugs anyway, unless you micromanage cooking.