Hivewick: Beekeeping Sim

A beekeeping sim: keep one colony through a year, split workers between foraging, comb, brood and guards, beat wasp raids, and harvest honey without starving the hive in winter. Free, no ads, no tracking; keyboard or touch.

Hivewick is a small beekeeping simulation. You keep one colony through a year of spring, summer, autumn and winter, about two minutes each, and decide how many workers forage, build comb, nurse brood and guard the entrance.

Honey is your score, but it is also the colony's winter food. Harvest too little and the full comb stops the queen laying; harvest too much and the bees starve in January. From summer on, wasp raids are announced a few seconds early: shift bees to guard duty in time or the wasps steal honey, kill bees and can reach the queen.

• Four roles: foragers, builders, nurses and guards, set with simple weights
• Seasons: spring, summer and autumn flowers, rain days, and a winter with no forage
• Living hive: the queen lays by food, free comb and nurses; brood hatches after six days
• Swarming: a crowded hive loses almost half its bees unless you build comb
• Wasp raids with a warning, a fight at the entrance and a threat meter for the queen
• Winter estimate in the HUD so you know how much honey you can take
• Keyboard or touch: keys 1-4 and arrows, or big − and + buttons

Code and text written with AI assistance; checked by PN Scripts with automated tests. Every shape is drawn and every sound synthesised by code; there are no AI-generated image or audio files.

Controls

• 1-4 / Tab: pick a role (Forage, Build, Nurse, Guard)
• Arrow keys: give the role more or fewer bees
• H / Enter: harvest a 2 kg jar of honey
• Touch or mouse: the − and + buttons, role cards and Harvest
• P / Esc: pause, M: sound

Made by PN Scripts.