What if you were told that you can produce honey in FS 25 without bees? Yes, it's possible! As you know, in the construction menu you can find beehives with bees that allow you to continuously generate honey. But there is a mod called Honey Production by an author under the nickname John Wayne 1930, which allows you to get honey without bees. This is an advanced production that gives a lot of honey.

Below, we will look at what this modification is and how to use it to earn money from honey without the “services” of bees.

After installing the mod, a building worth $18,000 appears in the game. And the most interesting thing is that honey is generated from water, sugar, and corn. It is not a beehive and there are no bees in it! And although it is not real honey, but only a substitute, it can also be sold and money can be earned for it.

In essence, it is a small building that can be purchased for $18,000. No additional points of sale are included, but that's not a problem — honey can be sold in most places that accept pallets or used to make various edible products.

Production preparation

You can purchase a building in the construction menu under “Factories”.

After purchasing the building, you need to decide on the installation location and start loading the ingredients.

The scheme is simple:

• Pour water into the production tank through the unloading icon.
• Deliver corn with any truck or trailer dump truck.
• Sugar is loaded onto pallets (using a loader, a module for lifting objects, or manually).

Capacity is limited: 2,000 liters of corn, 4,000 liters of sugar, and 8,000 liters of water. However, the balance is calculated so that when the container is full, all ingredients will be used up at the same time.

Starting the process

In the production menu, you can choose one of three operating modes:

   1. Storage — the finished honey is stored in the building until a full pallet is collected, after which it will appear in the shipping area.

   2. Sale — all honey produced is automatically sold every hour.

   3. Distribution — the product is immediately sent to another enterprise, for example, a cereal factory.

For testing purposes, it is convenient to leave it in storage to see how much honey the installation will produce per day.

Productivity and comparison with beehives

The recipe cycle is as follows: 3 liters of water + 2 liters of sugar + 1 liter of corn = 1 liter of honey.

The installation performs 1,080 cycles per month and consumes $24 in maintenance.

For clarity, you can compare it with beehives. If you buy large beehives for the same amount ($18,000), you will get six of them. In a month, they will produce a total of about 40 liters of honey. The production facility produces 1,080 liters. As you can see, the difference is enormous.

And the cost of these products is higher than the selling price of honey.

But if honey is used as an ingredient in more expensive products, for example, in a cereal production facility, it will be profitable. The margin is higher there, and honey is only part of the recipe.

When modification is useful

   1. If there is no space on the site to install dozens of beehives.

   2. If you need a fast and stable supply of honey for other industries.

   3. If automation is more important than savings — in distribution mode, the honey will go directly to the target enterprise without your involvement.

In direct sales, there is no point in modifying, because you will incur losses due to the high cost of products. But if you think about producing products from honey substitutes, then it will definitely be useful. Whether to use the mod or not is up to you. If you want to try new ways of producing sweet products, then it is definitely worth paying attention to it.