Mineclonia Minetest with Bees and Wine Mod

 There is a lot to poke around with on this combination - and not all of it actually works.  That makes me wonder more, and keep trying things.  This is writing down some of the things that made me scratch my head to figure them out. 

 I had found out how to make cider, sparkling cider, wheat beer, barley beer, rum and coffee liquer.  I had not yet figured out how to get honey, or how to make it into mead.  I also have, for all it being named 'wine' not found grapes yet anywhere in the world - but I'd like to, and try that out.  It says there is corn, too - and tomatoes, haven't found either of those yet, either.  I've got a little pillager problem on both sides North and South of me in this map but have been cautiously expanding my territory East and West - and now I'm edging North again at one spot to see if I can make it across the sea.  Monsters are on, so I'm having to make safe places and carry enough materials to quickly make a basic house.

A bigger, fancier house - I wouldn't do those stairstep roof quite like that again - it was difficult - and with the 'get comfortable' mod on, it makes it even more difficult to make the stairstep roofs that I do like, like in the below picture.  But, not impossible.  I have just had to use a lot of dirt scaffolding and then break it back out from the inside.

 One of the biggest problems with this combination and survival is that there are two of many things, sugars - one from sugarcane and one from stevia, different flours and uses of wheat, not all that work quite like they should and do in the Asuna mods .. and there are also two honeycombs.  One honeycomb is gotten by shearing a hive (smoke it first and you won't get hit damage, otherwise, take the hit damage) and the other is gotten by catching three bees in a jar and putting them together in a small 'r' formation on the crafting grid.  Both of those make hives by putting three honeycombs across in the center and planks above and below - but they make DIFFERENT hives.

 The hive on the left is made with the hive shearing method.  This is also the type of honeycomb you get out of shearing wild hives.  The hive on the right is made by putting three honeycombs from the 'bee in a jar' method.  And then you have to catch more bees in jars to put them into that hive.  Bee in a jar does not work in the left hive... but it still makes more honey and acts just like a wild hive.

Now, when it comes to making something out of the honeycombs besides hives - you can use the wild type honeycomb in a crafting grid with a piece of string above it to make a candle.  And then you can set the candle somewhere and light it with a flint and steel.  It also makes honeycomb blocks with foursquare, but they are just a building material. I'd really like to see that be more useful, and possibly the honeycomb itself be a foodstuff.

As far as I've seen you can't use either honeycomb as sugar, and neither can be eaten. 

Only the wild bee type honeycomb shows up in your inventory when you are in the fermenting barrel mode from the wine, but I haven't found a recipe with it yet to make mead.  However, the hive on the right (the one from the honeycomb gotten from bee jars) when full can be emptied with a glass bottle, to get a bottle of honey.  That bottled honey can be placed in the below recipe of one drinking glass and one bottle of honey to make honey-mead in the fermenting barrel!  It seemed like it took forever to get that to work out!

honey mead recipe in luanti mineclonia minetest

coffee liquer / liquor recipe in luanti mineclonia minetest

make the glass of rum (bottom left corner) by fermenting sugarcane in the top right and bottom left corners with the empty drinking glasses, and then ferment the rum with the coffee beans

Also discovered : You can dry kelp in the furnace and it becomes a food source. 

I have the 'plant based foods' mod as well - and for some silly reason it does not let the soybeans from the farming redo be made into plant milk - but it will let rice (not the one that grows on silt, but the one obtained from punching grass for random seeds) be made into plant milk.  You place the water filled bucket in the top left corner of the crafting table, and then fill all but the bottom two right squares with uncooked rice.  It turns into a bucket of plant milk.  You can then place the bucket of plant milk in the furnace and it becomes tofu.  But why aren't the soybeans worked into this, since that is the actual way you make tofu?  Make that make sense!  But the tofu can be eaten.  In these mods also cow's milk in a bucket can be put in the furnace to make edible mozzarella cheese.  All of those are correct in giving you back your empty iron bucket.  BUT - beware of the ice cream recipe, because it takes a bucket of milk but does not give you your bucket back.  That's expensive ice cream!