Honey

Honey is an Artisan Good produced by a Bee House every 4 days in every season except Winter on the mainland, and in every season on Ginger Island. It can also be bought from the Oasis year-round on Fridays and from the Traveling Cart. Honey can be placed in a Keg to make Mead.

The type of honey produced by a Bee House depends on fully grown flowers within 5 tiles of the house. Flowers grown in Garden Pots also count, and a single flower can affect multiple Bee Houses. The honey type is determined when it is harvested, not when it becomes ready, so leaving honey in the Bee House until a nearby flower blooms will turn it into that flower’s honey. If there are no qualifying flowers nearby, or if the flower is harvested before the honey is collected, the result is Wild Honey, which is the least profitable form. Honey bought from the Oasis or Traveling Cart, or deconstructed from a Warp Totem: Farm, is functionally identical to Wild Honey.

Flowers not listed among honey-producing crops do not affect honey prices. In particular, Crocus and Sweet Pea do not influence honey, and Daffodil and Dandelion also do not because they are classified as forage rather than flowers in-game. The sale price of flower honey is calculated as the base Wild Honey price plus twice the base sell price of the flower used. Because of this, several kinds of flower honey can sell for more than Mead, even though Honey can be processed into it. Mead can also be aged in Casks to increase its quality, but its sell price does not change based on the type of Honey used to make it.

Honey is also used in crafting and dyeing. It is placed on the spool of the Sewing Machine to create the dyeable Simple Dress, and it can be used as yellow dye at the dye pots in Emily’s and Haley’s house. In Fish Pond quests, some fish may request one Honey of any type.

A practical farming tip is to keep only one empty inventory slot when harvesting honey. Since the harvested honey fills the last available slot, this helps prevent accidentally picking the flowers that are being used to produce flower honey.