Beekeeping Buff
Makes the Beekeeping industry a little more lucrative by increasing the value of wax, honey, royal jelly and mead. Edits both honeybee materials AND bumblebee materials, even though you can’t use bumblebee items in-game, it would work well with any other mods that allow it. This mod uses non-destructive edits, so it should be compatible with everything, just let it overwrite other mods.
Royal jelly value 1 -> 5
Honeycomb value unchanged (10)
Wax value: 1 -> 2
Honey value: 1 -> 10
Mead value 1 -> 5
This means you harvest royal jelly worth 5, honeycombs worth 10, then press the combs into honey worth 10 and wax worth 2. After that, you can turn the honey into five mead (equal 25 value before quality modifiers) and you can turn the wax into crafts (value varies). For comparison, the most expensive alcohol in the vanilla game is Sun Berries, and that has a value of 5 just like the new mead. Additionally, wax having a value of 2 is equal to making crafts with flux stone such as marble.
Royal jelly is only used for cooking meals (like vanilla) and your cooks probably won’t use it very often, but it’s valuable when used for cooking and you can just sell it to merchants to get rid of it if you want. In real life, royal jelly would be a pretty worthless byproduct, but we can pretend it’s some delicacy for cooking in Dwarf Fortress.
