🎪 Beekeeping Community Event Planner

About this simulation

A good beekeeping open day, honey festival, or school visit lives or dies on layout: how far the crowd is kept from the hives, how attention is spread across activity stations, and whether the flow of people stays calm even when the bees themselves are agitated. This scene models a simplified event field with a roped-off hive safety perimeter and five activity stations, then simulates a crowd of visitors moving between them.

How it works

• Visitors spawn near the entrance and steer toward whichever station they're drawn to, softly curving around the hive safety perimeter rather than cutting through it.
• Each visitor dwells at a station for a few seconds before choosing another, weighted by how compelling that station is for the chosen event format.
• Small guard bees circle above the hives; their number and speed scale with the agitation slider (representing hot, stormy, or freshly-inspected conditions).
• A perimeter breach is logged whenever crowding pushes a visitor closer to the hives than the current safety radius allows.

Controls

• Attendees — total visitors simulated on the field at once.
• Hive safety perimeter — radius, in metres, of the roped-off zone around the hives.
• Bee agitation / wind — how defensive the colony is; raises the recommended safe radius.
• Event format — shifts which stations draw the biggest crowds (tasting-heavy festival vs. hands-on school day).
• Show safety rope — toggles the rope-and-post perimeter markers.

Did you know?

Many beekeeping associations recommend keeping general public visitors at least 3–4 metres from an open hive, more on hot, thundery afternoons or right after an inspection — exactly the trade-off the agitation slider models here.