Working Beehives

Working Beehives is a settlement workshop mod containing both Langstroth and feral beehives you can make in your settlement. Hives have bee swarm FX and sounds during the day and produce a harvestable honey that can be eaten, sold, or used to brew mead. Settlement Menu Manager is required.

In the process of completely overdoing my latest mod, The Bleachers: A Diamond City Story (ADCS; see below), it slowly occurred to me I had several mods worth of content packaged into it. Honestly, compare to some of hot files recently, it occurred to me I technically had hundreds of mods packaged into it if I wanted to go the DP mining route (HD bees anyone?).

One of the features of ADCS is a new greenhouse and apiary (Beehives) that kind of got a little out of hand. In the process of making the apiary as realistic as possible, I added an actual bee swarm and bee soundFX to the hive with a script to control the swarm. But what is an apiary without Honey and Mead? And what is a beehive without a Queen? So I made those too. Two modding friends on Discord helped in the effort when they heard about it: Ethreon made the Langstroth Hive mesh singlehandedly (I didn't even need to ask), and FrogprincessQ4 turned the tree fungus meshes into feral beehives.

So now I had a fully functioning apiary with the meshes, scripts, and materials to support it. Perfect for a nice tidy little mod, right? Right.... But we can't have that. So into my bigger mod, ADCS, it went to collect dust while tour de force mods such as 4k bobby pins, Tits on a Poster, and Funbags4U CBBE preset came and went on hot files.

Thus the idea of "Working Beehives" was born from a blatant, bald-faced attempt to drum up attention for my much larger mod, A Diamond City Story (No really, see below), in which the beehives are contained as well. So yes, I'm going to release these beehives twice eventually. Once now, and once more when ADCS is released in a month or two. Think of it like me releasing a bunch of small mods individually, such as HD 10mm casing normal map, better bootlaces for Roxy, 8K scrap steel component texture, nipples on the mannequins, a cubemap redirect for the combination wrench, and green handle vanilla screwdrivers to maximize DPs and then rolling them into an AIO for another round of shameless DP fishing - amirightguys? Except I'd like to think my smaller mods are nice sized in their own right.

So into the sea of guns, boobs, and one item retextures I release my beehive mod.

Look for more mod releases in the near term, including a new working Diner style tabletop jukebox constructable, FO76 style rotating Nuka Cola lamp and glowing Nuka Mix bottle lantern workshop mod, and maybe ev