Enshrouded Farming Honey — Beehive Setup and Sugar Chain

Honey looks like a cooking ingredient; it is actually an economy of its own, feeding baits, soils, and dishes across the whole farming system.

The unlock chain

1. Rescue the Farmer and progress her quests until A Beehive Smoker appears
2. Craft and place the Beehive Smoker at your base — this unlocks the hive recipe
3. Build the Honey Beehive: 4 Wood Logs, 20 Straw, 4 Lump of Clay
4. Place the hive anywhere in your base and load inputs

The production loop

The hive menu offers Honey and Wax outputs — toggle by need. Because one planted Sugar Cane returns more cane than it consumes, a small permanent patch runs the hive indefinitely. Stockpile Sugar; the hive drains it faster than you expect.

Wild hives first

Before the station chain is up, harvest wild beehives hanging in tree branches — chopping the tree drops both Honey and Wax. It is a one-time trickle, not a supply, which is why the built hive matters.

Where honey goes

• Animal bait — Goat Food Bait (1 Honey, 3 Plant Fiber, 1 Corncob) and Yak Food Bait; both open the animal husbandry line
• Flower Soil — 10 Farm Soil plus 1 Honey yields 10, for decorative planting
• Kitchen dishes — Honey Baked Banana, Thyme Tea, Fruit Bowl, Popcorn
• Cooking Station — Cooked Fae Deer Milk from 1 Honey and 4 uncooked milk
• Emergency stamina — eaten raw, Honey restores stamina, 20 per stack

Efficiency notes

Place the hive beside the well and kitchen — its 2 Water per batch adds up. One hive comfortably feeds one player; group bases should build two.

Related guides

• Farming guide
• Farming animals
• Water source guide

Sources: allthings.how 1.0 honey guide (quest, recipes, timings), official wiki beehive entries, TechRaptor seedling data. Last verified 2026-10-23 for v1.0.