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[EmperorJon]

My biome is definitely Not Freezing, but I see no bees... do colonies have a chance of popping up?

[Bouchart]

I think they will, over time, if you aren't in some extreme climate.  I don't know if it's been verified yet.

[Neopolis]

I'm having the same problem. Then again, I don't know what the hives look like, so maybe they're carefully hidden.

And it seems I can't make hives yet. I guess you need to have at least one real hive before you can make artificial ones?

[agatharchides]

Hives look like ant colonies. Maybe you glossed over one?

[Bouchart]

If you have a hive set up and someone with Beekeeping the beekeeper will automatically find a hive if it exists, so you don't actually need to know where one is.

[Neopolis]

If you have a hive set up and someone with Beekeeping the beekeeper will automatically find a hive if it exists, so you don't actually need to know where one is.

But I can't make any hives. At least, I assume it's under Craftsdwarfs Workshop -> Rock, but there's nothing bee-related there.

[Lielac]

If you have a hive set up and someone with Beekeeping the beekeeper will automatically find a hive if it exists, so you don't actually need to know where one is.

But I can't make any hives. At least, I assume it's under Craftsdwarfs Workshop -> Rock, but there's nothing bee-related there.

I'm pretty sure hives are under wooden crafts.

[Neopolis]

Nope, just bolts and crafts under "Wood". And you should be able to make stone hives.

[Sirdrake]

hives are under both wood and stone as well as metal

[Deimos56]

hives are under both wood and stone as well as metal

And also the kiln; you can make ceramic hives.

Edit: If you're actually looking for bee hives in nature, look for small brownish vermin swarming around something that looks like an ant colony. Those aren't the hives the game refers to when trying to build one, you need to create a hive item at the Craftsdwarves workshop or kiln, then place that, and your beekeeper will run off, grab a natural hive, and shove it in the artificial hive in the form of thousands of live honey bees.

If you're worried about having a sustainable supply (Although I doubt you'll only ever have 1 bee colony on the map), keep your first hive so you can split it later. You'll have to tell your beekeeper not to take products from it if you're trying to do that, though.

[Quietust]

If the game isn't letting you make hives, then you're probably running a fortress that was generated in version 0.31.18 or earlier, in which case bees do not exist - you need to generate a new world and start a new fortress within it before you'll get bees.

[RedWick]

Anybody else having problems getting your dwarves to collect bumblebee hives from the wild?  On the current map I'm playing, there's at least one or two bumblebee hives (but no honeybees) and despite having three available hives to place a wild hive in, my dwarves won't collect them.  I've noticed this happening in other fortresses I've run as well.

[scotch208]

I also noticed my dwarves would not collect bumblebees even with 5 open hives, but hastily collected the 3 honeybee colonies on my map.

[Neopolis]

If the game isn't letting you make hives, then you're probably running a fortress that was generated in version 0.31.18 or earlier, in which case bees do not exist - you need to generate a new world and start a new fortress within it before you'll get bees.

But I'm not... I just generated this new world.

[Haruspex_Pariah]

If the game isn't letting you make hives, then you're probably running a fortress that was generated in version 0.31.18 or earlier, in which case bees do not exist - you need to generate a new world and start a new fortress within it before you'll get bees.

But I'm not... I just generated this new world.

Just curious, in the craftdwarf workshop can you make pots, jugs, and nest boxes?