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Honey dressings for wounds

16 (24.6%)

Honey-preservation of foods

19 (29.2%)

Bee Anger (if stirred up, hives stay angry for a while; see post #162)

14 (21.5%)

Sting Effects (allergies/resistance; first post)

15 (23.1%)

Equine Enmity (hives attack nearby horses (unicorns maybe); see post #23)

1 (1.5%)

Addition of Stingless Bees (less risk/less honey; see posts #78-79)

0 (0%)

Total Members Voted: 34

Voting closed: June 18, 2011, 06:22:09 pm

[Buzzing_Beard]

What about bees attacking horses/unicorns/pegasus?

[Neonivek]

What about bees attacking horses/unicorns/pegasus?

What about Bees attacking the color brown and ignoring the color red?

[Buzzing_Beard]

     Neonivek: "What about Bees attacking the color brown and ignoring the color red?"

I've heard that bees can't see red light, but that doesn't mean they'll ignore something that's red. I also know that they are more aggressive towards darker things (wouldn't want to be a black horse near a beehive).

EDIT: To them, something red is a "darker thing".

[Flaede]

     Flaede: "So they'd leave blobs of honey goo everywhere?"

In RL, bees make and eat honey inside the hive. A teaspoon of honey is the life-work of a dozen bees, and they store it very carefully. Near a bee-yard, there isn't honey on anything for very long.

Um. I was talking about if you edited a spiderthing to have it's specific "webber"stuff made of honey. I'm aware bees don't work that way.

[Buzzing_Beard]

I know it wasn't your suggestion. Thanks for translating [WEBBER:LOCAL_CREATURE_MAT:HONEY] into something I could understand better.

[Lungfish]

Great thread. Favorite suggestions here so far; honey as a food preservative (would be great if famines are implemented or food production becomes more difficult), and sting allergy (12% of dwarves could easily have allergic to bee stings as an unlisted personal aspect, like a secret version "susceptible to infection").

One thing I'd like to add; given the surprise of an unexpected sting and fear of finding out that you're deathly allergic to stings, dwarves should be more commonly afraid of bees.

My cousin got stung by a bee when he was 8; hurt and surprised him but he got over it pretty fast. Later that month he saw a bee and reacted FAR more viscerally and violently than he did when he'd actually been stung. I know that there isn't really a fear mechanic right now like there is for preferences / dislikes, but it would be cool if some dwarves developed a fear of bees like my neurotic cousin.

[Granite26]

     Flaede: "So they'd leave blobs of honey goo everywhere?"

In RL, bees make and eat honey inside the hive. A teaspoon of honey is the life-work of a dozen bees, and they store it very carefully. Near a bee-yard, there isn't honey on anything for very long.

I think we were more speaking to the candyland 'good' areas and their floating bear/bee fairies with honey wands. 

I'm WAY more interested in the evil honey though...

[Flaede]

     Flaede: "So they'd leave blobs of honey goo everywhere?"

In RL, bees make and eat honey inside the hive. A teaspoon of honey is the life-work of a dozen bees, and they store it very carefully. Near a bee-yard, there isn't honey on anything for very long.

I think we were more speaking to the candyland 'good' areas and their floating bear/bee fairies with honey wands. 

I'm WAY more interested in the evil honey though...

Made from the tears of evil eyeball turf mixed with the slime of wigglywormgrass.

[NW_Kohaku]

Here we go:
http://www.sweetbe.com/candystore/catalog/Ganz-Sweet-Bee-Bear-9-p-16873.html

[Granite26]

     Flaede: "So they'd leave blobs of honey goo everywhere?"

In RL, bees make and eat honey inside the hive. A teaspoon of honey is the life-work of a dozen bees, and they store it very carefully. Near a bee-yard, there isn't honey on anything for very long.

I think we were more speaking to the candyland 'good' areas and their floating bear/bee fairies with honey wands. 

I'm WAY more interested in the evil honey though...

Made from the tears of evil eyeball turf mixed with the slime of wigglywormgrass.

Well, the LEAST malignant version would be to have it count as alcohol raw

[ikkonoishi]

Evil bees don't use hives. They use dwarves.

[Buzzing_Beard]

Fantasy is good, but bees are already so over-stereotyped, I think an informed treatment is better.
Plus DF already has the most realistic bees of any video game I know.

The Bee

[Buzzing_Beard]

     ikkonoishi: "Evil bees don't use hives. They use dwarves."

What would the status of these dwarves be?
Would they become undead... ZOM-BEES!? (I'm so clever)
or would they be, you know... dead?

[Lungfish]

I bet I'd use that zom-bees joke pretty regularly if I were a bee keeper.

Oh, a bee related idea; fortresses with honey are more susceptible to bear attacks. If you have too many hives and are in too wild of a location, the frequency of the attacks could become ... UNBEARABLE

[Buzzing_Beard]

     Lungfish: "I bet I'd use that zom-bees joke pretty regularly if I were a bee keeper. "

There's so many I'm thinking of and not using... it's like a beekeeper curse.

     Lungfish: "Oh, a bee related idea; fortresses with honey are more susceptible to bear attacks. If you have too
     many hives and are in too wild of a location, the frequency of the attacks could become ... UNBEARABLE"

Yep.

EDIT: While bears can and do trash beeyards, I don't know if they're more attracted to hives than to other "boxes of food".