FS25_BeesRevamp

With this mod, bees in Farming Simulator 25 become more realistic and a bit more complex but also more productive.
All values and changes are scientifically proven and/or perhaps slightly adjusted so that they do not completely kill the fun of the game. The focus will always be on having fun.
Most questions can be answered by the in-game help of this mod.

Features

• Two states of a colony (young colony and economic colony)
• Only the economic colony produces honey
• Bees collect nectar
• Bees only collect when the weather is good
• Nectar is converted into honey
• Bees eat nectar
• Range of the beehives has been increased
• Pollination performance improved
• Beehive has a variable number of bees
• Swarming season is between Mar-Jul
• Prices of the beehives have been adjusted
• Honey sales price has been adjusted

Current development:

See TODO.md

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Current Beehivesystem

The beehivesystem class is the main controller for all beehives. It controls the flying bee animation (fx) and also the honey production.

Honey production

	Honey per Period	Honey per Hour	Placeable Price
BeeHive LVL1	5	0.2083¯	1100
BeeHive LVL2	20	0.8333¯	4400
BeeHive LVL3	25	1.0416¯	6600
BeeHive LVL4	150	6.25	12500
BeeHive LVL5	495	20.625	19000

Beehive behavior

	Flying bees fx	Honey production (every hour)
SunIsOn	x	x (HoneyPerHour * reciprocal(DaysPerPeriod))
IsRaining	-	x (HoneyPerHour * reciprocal(DaysPerPeriod))
IsWinterPeriod	-	-

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New Behivesystem

Honey production

It's hard to re-calculate a new value for real bees. In real, a bee hive with two brood boxes + one honey box can produce 50kg per year (spring and summer) - in average, or also 90kg just on a canola field in spring, depending on the weather. But a two boxes brood hive also needs nearly 15kg food for winter (Nov-Feb/Mar), mostly feeded with sugar water or something similar.

Below you can see some "real" numbers for the placables and situations. Based on the average of 50kg per year and 8 month of production + 2 days per month as season settings:

50kg/year / 8 = 6.25 kg/month / reciprocal(2) = 3.125 kg/day / 24 = 0.13020833¯ kg/hour

For a single box hive, the defined Beehive groth factor simulates the growing/shrinking of a hive. So, a single box hive can produce 0.26041666 kg/hour instead of its 0.13020833¯ kg/hour on month Jun.

Season	Honey per Period	Honey per Hour	Placeable Price
BeeHive LVL1	6.25	0.260416¯	200
BeeHive LVL2	11.25	0.46875	400
BeeHive LVL3	12.25	0.5104166¯	450
BeeHive LVL4	73.0	3.04166¯	2500
BeeHive LVL5	240.9	10.0375	8500

Beehive growth factor

	Period	Factor
Spring	Mar	0.75
Spring	Apr	1.50
Spring	May	2.25
Summer	Jun	3.20
Summer	Jul	2.80
Summer	Aug	2.00
Fall	Sep	1.50
Fall	Oct	0.75
Fall	Nov	-0.50
Winter	Dec	-0.50
Winter	Jan	-0.50
Winter	Feb	-0.50

Beehive behavior

	Flying bees fx	Honey production (every hour)
SunIsOn	x	x (HoneyPerHour * reciprocal(DaysPerPeriod)) * BeehiveGrowthFactor
Is under 10°C	-	x (HoneyPerHour * reciprocal(DaysPerPeriod)) * BeehiveGrowthFactor
IsRaining	-	x (HoneyPerHour * reciprocal(DaysPerPeriod)) * BeehiveGrowthFactor
IsWinterPeriod	-	x (HoneyPerHour * reciprocal(DaysPerPeriod)) * BeehiveGrowthFactor

Helps

• Accessing global to the beehive system:

g_currentMission.beehiveSystem

Devs

Spezialisierungen

PlaceableBeehiveExtended

Placable related functions. Registered methods:

• getBeehiveHiveCount()
  Get the current beehive count for this placeable
• updateActionRadius(number)
  Set the flying radius to a new value. Currently set to 500. Basegame ~150
• updateNectar(number)
  Update the current nectar value by the given number of nectar in liter.
• updateNectarInfoTable()
  Refreshs the nectar info text for the placeable

BeeCare

In der BeeCare Spezialisierung geht um das Wohl der Bienen. Hier wird gesteuert ob Schwarmkontrolle gemacht werden muss, die Aktion wird hier gesteuert, die Winterbehandlung, die Anzahl der Binen pro Volk (Hive). Registrierte Methoden:

• getBeePopulation
• updateInfoTables
• getCanInteract
• doSwarmControl
• getSwarmControleNeeded

Manager

BeehiveSystemExtended

Copyright

Copyright (c) 2023-2024 Dennis Schmitt. All rights reserved.

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