Apiary - How to Build and Use

The Apiary is one of the Gathering buildings available in Manor Lords. Learn what the Apiary does, how to build and upgrade the Apiary, and tips on how to use the Apiary effectively here!

How to Use Apiary

Unlock Beekeeping Development

To build Apiaries, you must first unlock the Beekeeping Development Node. It also has another upgrade called Advanced Beekeeping, allowing Apiaries to produce Wax, but will cost you another Development Point.

Beekeeping Development and How to Unlock

Produce Honey

Apiaries are primarily built to produce Honey for your settlement. Honey is a great way to increase food diversity for your settlement, increasing your Approval Rate, as well as meeting upgrade requirements for Burgage Plots.

Keep in mind that only 2 Apiaries can be built per village, so plan ahead where you want to put your apiaries, and when to construct them.

Honey: How to Get and How to Use

Not a Reliable Food Source for Large Populations

As you expand your settlement, you may begin to notice that Honey can no longer sustain your townsfolk's food necessity by itself. Apiaries produce roughly 1 Honey per month, and while it may seem consistent, it becomes barely enough as you expand your settlement.

Having Apiaries is still a great alternative Food source, as well as providing Food Variety for your town, just make sure to use it in conjunction with other Food Sources, such as Farms and Hunting Camps.

List of All Food

Candles Currently Unavailable

While Apiaries can produce Wax once you unlock the Advanced Beekeeping Development node, it has minimal use as of the Early Access of the game.

There is currently no building that produces Candles, so the only way to profit off of your Wax is by exporting it via a Trading Post.

Wax: How to Get and How to Use

Apiary Description and Details

Apiary
Type	Gathering
Can Be Moved?	No
Worker Slots	4
Description and Effects
Workers collect Honey. Every region can sustain up to 2 apiaries by default, placing more will not increase the yields.

Apiary Resource Production

Apiary Resource Storage

How to Unlock the Apiary

Development to Unlock	Beekeeping

The Apiary is unlocked and built by getting the Beekeeping Development from the development tree.
List of All Development and Branches

All Related Development Nodes

Development	Description & Effect
Beekeeping (Main)	Unlocks new building: Apiary.
Advanced Beekeeping	Apiaries can now produce Wax. Required Development: Beekeeping

All Developments and Branches

How to Build the Apiary

The resources and materials listed above are needed to construct the Apiary. Make sure you have enough of them when building.

How to Upgrade the Apiary

This building has no available upgrades in the current Early Access build of Manor Lords. Look out for any improvements in future updates!

Manor Lords Related Guides

List of All Buildings

All Building Types

List of Buildings
Gathering	Mining	Logistics
Residential	Farming	Burgage Ext.
Industry	Trade	Administration

All Gathering Buildings

Logging Camp	Woodcutter's Lodge	Sawpit
Forester's Hut	Charcoal Kiln	Hunting Camp
Forager Hut	Apiary