Island Beekeeper

Island Beekeeper is about building a beekeeping farm on floating islands in a sky world. Earth is dying from disease, famine and ruin, and honey is one of the few resources helping people survive. You raise bees, produce honey to ship back to Earth, and search for the beekeepers who came before you, none of whom returned.

Bees and honey

You care for hives and collect honey. Each bee type has its own traits, and you can crossbreed different species to create hybrids with new properties. Bees can gradually take over part of the work at the apiary.

Build your farm

You expand your island, place hives, grow crops and build an apiary to suit your plans. You can develop it as a farm, a small house with hives or a large apiary that grows alongside your settlement.

You grow flowers for the bees, as well as vegetables, fruits and other plants for yourself. Some crops attract particular bee types and affect honey quality; others are useful for cooking, crafting and everyday life. You choose plants to suit your apiary and expand the farm with new crops.

Explore the islands

You travel between islands with different biomes, plants, resources and bee species. Each island may have something useful for your apiary, such as a rare bee, a needed material or a new crop. As you explore, you find traces of earlier beekeepers and gradually learn what happened to them.

The Medocycle is a vehicle for traveling between islands, finding rare locations and returning to your apiary. You can upgrade it to reach previously inaccessible places.

Play together

You can play solo or with friends in a shared world, developing the apiary, growing plants, building and exploring. Players can divide the work—for example, one can care for the bees, another shape the island and a third search for new islands and bee species—or do everything together.