Honey Calculator

How the Honey Formula Works

Grow a Beehive honey production scales with how often bees complete collection trips. Each trip requires the bee to fly from the hive to a flower, gather pollen up to its Carry limit, and return. We model one-way travel time as distance ÷ speed, double it for the round trip, and add a one-second collection buffer that approximates in-game gathering animation.

Trips per hour equals 3,600 seconds divided by total trip time. Multiplying trips per hour by Carry gives honey per hour for a single bee. This is why the Cactus Bee dominates the meta at 18 m/s and 1,000 carry — and why planting that Cactus at the front of your garden matters more than buying a second one far away. Read our flower placement guide for layout strategies.

Use presets to compare early-game Daisy Bees (12 m/s, 5 carry) against mid-game Tulip Bees (14 m/s, 130 carry) and endgame Fire Blossom or Cactus setups. If you run multiple identical bees on separate flowers at similar distances, increase the bee count field. For mixed hives, calculate each flower cluster separately and add the results.

Giant Bees from random mutations can reach 20 m/s and 1,500 carry — plug those values manually for endgame projections. Event bees like the Star Bee also work with custom inputs. Remember that elixirs, Weightless Weather, and server performance can shift real rates slightly above or below these estimates.