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Post by Sonshine » July 24th, 2019, 5:20 pm

Hi, is there a way to disable the bee swarm/attack or at least tune it down when your sim cleans, feeds, and collects the honey? My poor sim has been attacked at least 3 times now in one session w/3 boxes although he's only done 2 so far. His motives are not even in the yellow let alone red! Most of them are green. I usually use him to collect the honey while his wife tends the garden. The only other thing is that he is elder now.

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Post by igazor » July 24th, 2019, 5:29 pm

It's the bees' motives that are important here, not that of your sim. But of course we can't really see if they are happy or not.

One thing that breaks the happy, well kept, and smoked before cleaning and harvesting bee cycles is switching active households. But even without that, many of us feel that the entire beekeeping scenario is flawed because the bees aren't really meant to be as angry or unhappy as they behave for us. And one way to avoid that mess is to keep the bees on community lots rather than residentials. Not as convenient to be sure, but they seem to stay happier and attack far less often that way.

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Post by Sonshine » July 24th, 2019, 6:31 pm

Thanks Igazor!

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Post by Sonshine » July 24th, 2019, 8:01 pm

You know, I still think there is something to him being elder. He is constantly being attacked now where he wasn't when he was not an elder. He just got attacked twice in a row just trying to clean one box. I may well just have the wife do it and he can just tend the garden, lol. I read somewhere that smoking would decrease the value of the honey. Maybe I should try it and see what happens.

Edit: So far when the wife did it, not one single attack. When she becomes elder, I'll have their son take care of it and so on. I did make a community lot w/some hives so I'll experiment w/that as well.

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Post by Kukko69 » July 25th, 2019, 3:53 am

This frustrates me so much! I play with an elderly family in their adorable little paradise-like cottage with garden, hens, cows - and bees. But the bees! Not a single operation of trying to take care of them goes well and without the colony ambush. I mean, what the heck are they so angry about?

Is there really no way (mod or else) to ease up these bee attacks?
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Post by Sarah_Sims » July 25th, 2019, 7:02 am

Try these settings in Retuner > Settings > General > By Tunable XML > Sims3.Gameplay.Objects.Insect >
  • BeekeepingBox > kChanceToHarvestBeeswax > 100 (Default:60)
  • BeekeepingBox > kCleanlinessDecrementPerSimHour > 0 (Default:2)
  • BeekeepingBox > kHungerDecrementPerSimHour > 0 (Default:4)
  • BeekeepingBox > kMinimumCommunityHappiness > 100 (Default:72)
  • BeekeepingBox > kStartingHappiness > 100 (Default:50)
  • BeekeepingBox+SmokeOut > kHappinessLevelReductionFactor > 1 (Default:0.85)
  • BeekeepingBox+SmokeOut > kHungerLevelReductionFactor > 1 (Default:0.75)
This is what I use to keep the bees happy. The first setting gives you more beeswax so you can leave that one out if you don't want it. :-)


Edit: Changed 'By Object' to 'By Tunable XML'.

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Post by Sonshine » July 25th, 2019, 2:54 pm

Thanks Sarah! I'll also try these settings and see if it works. There must be something buried in the code somewhere though, that the bees "hate elders" or something. Of course EA's general treatment of elders has not been all that good.

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Post by Sonshine » July 25th, 2019, 4:11 pm

Hi Sarah, you made a mistake in the path. It should be Settings/General/by Tuning XML (not by Object)/Sims 3.Gameplay.Object.Insects I am also experimenting on the "chance of attack."

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Post by Sarah_Sims » July 25th, 2019, 8:12 pm

Sonshine wrote:
July 25th, 2019, 4:11 pm
...you made a mistake in the path.

Whoops, sorry! I wasn't quite awake when I posted earlier. Glad you figured it out though. Well done! :-)

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Post by igazor » July 25th, 2019, 8:28 pm

I've been pondering this elder question and I think I have the answer. Most of us play with things arranged so that elders cannot be impregnated, right? Thus...wait for it...they can't be pollinated, either! Of course the bees aren't going to like that, bees live to pollinate things or at least the ones with stingers do. :D

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