Honey is a steady-supply crafting material in Enshrouded, and the reliable way to get it is to build your own hive at base. Once the Honey Beehive stands in your settlement, it converts Sugar into Honey on a timer. Its item text reads “The following sugar rush recharges stamina!”
Quick answer: Complete the Farmer’s quest “A Beehive Smoker”, set the Beehive Smoker at your base, then place the Honey Beehive you craft there and add Sugar. Processing 1 Sugar yields 5 Honey after 2 minutes 30 seconds.
Unlock the Honey Beehive through the Farmer
The hive is gated behind the Farmer, Emily Fray. You have to rescue her first so her recipes and quests open up, then clear the quest that hands over the tool the hive needs.
Craft and place the Honey Beehive
With the smoker down, open the Farmer’s crafting menu and build the hive. The Honey Beehive costs the following:
- 4 Wood Logs
- 20 Straw
- 4 Lump of Clay
Place the finished hive anywhere in your base. The hive produces both Honey and Wax, so its menu has two outputs to choose from once you interact with it.
Make Sugar to feed the hive
The hive runs on Sugar, which you cook from Sugar Cane. If you do not already have a Cooking Station, build one at the Farmer using 4 Flintstone, 1 Kettle, 10 Revelwood Stone, and 2 Metal Scraps.
At the Cooking Station, turn 10 Sugar Cane into 5 Sugar over 1 minute 30 seconds. The Sugar recipe appears once you have picked up Sugar Cane for the first time.
Where to get Sugar Cane
Sugar Cane grows wild across the Nomad Highlands, which holds nearly all of it. A few plants also grow in the Springlands, Albaneve Summits, Kindlewastes, and Cinder’s Cradle, and planted patches appear in the Veilwater Basin.
To grow Sugar Cane, have the Farmer make a Seedbed with 10 Wood Logs, 2 Metal Scraps, and 10 Farm Soil. Each batch consumes 1 Sugar Cane and 1 Farm Soil to yield 5 Sugar Cane Seedlings. Plant a seedling and it will develop into a plant that yields a single harvest.
Produce Honey at the Beehive
Open the Honey Beehive, select Honey as the output, and load Sugar as the input. Each batch converts 1 Sugar into 5 Honey over 2 minutes 30 seconds. Collect the finished Honey from the output slot.
Eaten by itself, Honey is a stamina food, and a slot holds up to 20.
Early Honey from wild hives
Before the station is up, you can gather a few pieces from wild beehives hanging in trees. Harvesting a hive, or chopping the tree it sits on, drops both Wax and Honey.
Health potions that use Honey
Every tier of health potion at the Alchemist takes 1 Honey and 1 Chamomile, with the remaining ingredients deciding how much health it restores. Here is what each one makes and heals.
| Potion | Rarity | Restores | Extra ingredients |
|---|---|---|---|
 Greater Health Potion | Uncommon | 400 | 1 Purple Berries |
 Revitalizing Health Potion | Uncommon | 800 | 1 Aloe, 1 Alchemical Base |
 Superior Health Potion | Rare | 1000 | 1 Gentian, 1 Shroud Vapor |
 Ultimate Health Potion | Rare | 1250 | 1 each: Ginger, Shroud Sludge, Aquamarine Dust |
 Ancient Health Potion | Rare | 1500 | 1 Thyme, 1 Diamond Dust |
Food and farming recipes with Honey
Beyond potions, Honey feeds a range of cooked dishes and farm supplies. Each food recipe below makes 5:
- Popcorn (Kitchen) takes 5 Corncob and 1 Honey.
- Fruit Bowl (Kitchen) takes 4 Honey with Date, Strawberry, Purple Berries, Yucca Fruit and Gloomberry.
- Honey Baked Banana (Kitchen) takes 5 Honey and 5 Banana.
- Thyme Tea (Kitchen) takes 3 Honey and 5 Thyme.
- Cooked Fae Deer Milk (Cooking Station) takes 1 Honey and 4 Uncooked Fae Deer Milk.
- Ectoplasm Soup (Collector) takes 5 Honey and 5 Ectoplasm.
Honey is also used by the Farmer for base and animal supplies. To make 10 Goat Food Bait, use 1 Honey, 3 Plant Fiber, and 1 Corncob. A batch of 10 Yak Food Bait requires 1 Honey, Yucca Fruit, Flat Bread, Corncob, and Dried Purple Berry. For Flower Soil, combine 10 Farm Soil with 1 Honey to get 10; 4 Farm Soil and 1 Honey produce 100 Ivy.
