Apiary and honey house

One apiary and its honey house from 47 of the pack's 50 models, on open grass inside a picket boundary of repeated fence bays, under the outdoor preset with warm afternoon light.

You start at the field gate with the working hive four metres ahead and the glazed front of the honey house across the yard to the left. Eighteen framed hives stand on their bearers in four rows, each angled a few degrees off the row line so returning bees do not drift, four of them square to the row and carrying feeder trays on the roof, every one with its entrance reducer in place. Five stacks of spare boxes stand between the rows in assembly order, and the fence line east of them carries six nucleus colonies, water feeders and the swarm capture boxes. At the working hive the smoker, fuel tin, hive tool, frame grip, brush and two drawn frames are down on the grass, with transport cradles and their ratchet straps waiting behind.

The yard fills the west half: three suited stands and a rank of frame storage racks along the glazed front, an outdoor bench with the gloves and a veil drying, a component bench where a hive is laid out part by part, a teaching bench carrying the glazed observation hive, and sixteen four-high stacks of jar crates with loose jars ranked along the tops. The honey house's blank side, west and rear walls are dressed rather than left bare: a service alley of frame racks and crated jars runs down the east wall, more crates and racks fill the west strip, and a low run of crates sits behind the rear wall under the fence.

Inside, the room is ten by eight metres, closed on three sides with a glazed front and a beam-supported glass roof, so the floor reads from the yard and lights itself from above: the uncapping bench with knife and fork and the cappings strainer beside it, two radial extractors, three settling tanks, the bottling pail under the tank valves, two bottling stands carrying the sieve and a rank of filled jars, the tabletop jar filler, the packing bench with label dispenser, refractometer and scale, the equipment wash sink, the wax melter with its block moulds, and a clean store of frame racks and crated jars at the back.

Nothing moves: this pack ships without animation clips. Every mechanism in it is hand worked rather than powered (the extractor crank, the tank valves, the hive lids and frames), so the models are authored as static geometry and lifting a frame out is left to the consumer's own rig. The pack's composed starter scene and its twenty by eighteen metre flowering ground slab are not placed here, the slab because at this size it read as a poured pad rather than a meadow; the two queen cages are left out because at eight centimetres across they read as nothing at walking distance.

Every piece here is a published model from the pack, placed by hand. Walk with the keys or touch, and approach a piece to see it move if it has animation. Colliders, navigation and gameplay are yours to add.