Many add-ons are regularly released for The Sims games. The next addon "The Sims 3: Supernatural" not only populated the game world with magical creatures, but expanded the list of hobbies of ordinary sims. In particular, now you can do beekeeping in the game.
Where to buy a beehive?
To buy a hive, a Sim does not have to travel to distant lands and explore the catacombs and mausoleums at the risk of their lives. The hive can be purchased using the standard purchase mode. It is located in the category of outdoor things in the section "outdoor activities". The hive is worth two hundred and seventy-five simoleons.
More often than not, Sims want to buy a hive after visiting an arboretum or taking care of another Sim's bees. To benefit from bees, you need to take care of them daily.
Place the hive on your property in a nook and cranny. One hive is enough for your Sim to get started, but you can increase the number over time. It takes the bees some time to make honey. Not only honey can be obtained from hives, but also wax.
Both honey and wax can be of different qualities, from disgusting to excellent. It depends on the skill of beekeeping and other factors.
Careful care and regular maintenance can speed up the production of wax and honey, and significantly improve their quality. Beekeeping should be done at least once a game day. Otherwise, you will run the bees, which will make them very angry, and the honey and wax will lose in quality. Aggressive bees will sting the beekeeper when trying to clean the hive. To reduce the likelihood of attack by bees, you can try to smoke them from the hive.
Honey can be used for food. If your Sim gets hungry with a jar of honey in their inventory, they can drink it. This will improve the Sim's mood by six hours due to the "sweet life" effect.
Beekeeping bonuses
Beeswax and honey are used as ingredients in elixirs if the Sim has the Alchemy skill. And if there are multiple hives on your Sim's lot, you can start selling honey and wax. It is better to sell them in a supermarket, as their value increases slightly there.
If your Sim was unlucky enough to get under the arm of an angry witch, and she put a toadification spell on him, then next to the hive, the transformed sim can catch insects.
Beekeeping is considered a fairly profitable occupation, since it can be practiced all year round, for some reason the change of seasons is not reflected in it. Although farming in winter will not work.
Honey can be added to almost any cooked food. To do this, you need to select the appropriate action. Sims feel better after eating sugary foods due to the already mentioned "sweet life" effect.
