yeah mod should still work great, it is a small change and the game has received barely any updates

does this work?

I think it's part of a system that allows the game to update your mods mid-save for you if the "earliest compatible version" is the same. Otherwise it has to wait for a new game to use the updated version of the mod

Not 100% sure, the workshop system isn't explained well lol

@Haethei just a small fix for the mod: the file info.txt is missing two lines:
[EARLIEST_COMPATIBLE_NUMERIC_VERSION:1]
[EARLIEST_COMPATIBLE_DISPLAYED_VERSION:1.0]
both are marked as "required" by the wiki (https://www.dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/Info.txt_file)
I have no idea what "required" means since the mod is obviously working without those lines, but maybe it can make the mod usage a bit more stable or at least help to avoid some arcane troubles for some rare users or anything. Again, no idea, I just stumble upon it while going through all mods I have installed and checking for everything irregular to identify the ones that was the cause of the world generation crash. I already found the most likely suspects and this mod is not one of them. But I am a professional QA and just cannot not tell about an issue I found =)

Wish I had that mod idea before they did, it's pretty clever

Lovely! Combines nicely with the below that adds a royal mead reaction that also consumes the royal jelly and makes six units of mead:

https://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2920685841

@Haethei Royal jelly has a lot of health benefits in nature. What about using royal jelly and some herbs to make a poultice that can be used in the hospital?

If you want to add more uses for wax, perhaps involve it in the writing/sheet industry? Could be crafted into wax tablets, could be used for the production of wax paper. Could also get it involved in the clothing industry. Perhaps you rename leather to "raw <animal> leather" & after combining it with wax, you get "finished <animal> leather". Similarly, perhaps you could make "<material> canvas" using wax.

Presumably, other types of wax could be added & used (bayberry wax from bayberries in a farmer's workshop). There's a lignite wax, but it wasn't extracted until the 1800s & the process uses hydrocarbon solvents, so it's probably not worth adding to the game.

Considered just removing royal jelly entirely, since it ends up being more annoying than useful

This is a great mod. Would be awesome once vanilla fixes the "dwarves won't cook liquids" bug & we can start freeing up some of our jugs--or, alternately, it lets us store jugged liquids in barrels.

sv3den, the only good way is to trade them, if you don't want to get money for it just select all of them and offer as tribute (which means its a gift)

you can technically cook with it but chefs usually dont select it as an ingredient at all because of weird coding

Does anyone know how I can get rid of the hundreds and hundreds of pot of royal jelly I have in Vanilla?

Your post about expanding on wax and stuff would be absolutely amazing. Beekeeping is such a woefully underrated job and I'd like to see someone take a stab at making their own dwarfy mods that use honey and wax (I always thought medical usage would be cool in some way to treat with honey and "cast" in wax to seal it or something.) Even though a lot is ground in reality, there are plenty of handwoven things for the sake of dwarfiness!

I've used this mod in my new fort and it's been a real treat. I don't think I can play without it now lol

I look forward to seeing whatever else you decide to do!

I think it'd be possible for sure, but I don't really want to add it. Mainly because soap isn't made from wax in real life and I'd like to keep this mod completely simple vanilla-friendly as well

Soap in DF is well implemented already, as it resembles historical recipes that people once used to make soap. Fat (oil or tallow) and ash (lye)

Might find another way to use wax though, I was thinking about that. It would probably be in a separate mod

would it be possible to add the ability to make soap from wax?

Ayy, can't wait to give this a spin in a new fort!

Let me know what you guys think after using the mod for a while. It's difficult to test this kind of thing long-term, its possible that it could get out of hand after you've built like 40 hives but I think at that point you can probably make more money off other things anyway

Alliteration

Always glad to see our little bee buddies being bestowed buffs!