Honey, Inc. Reincarnation: the prestige reset
Reincarnation trades your farm for Royal Jellies — a permanent earnings bonus that carries into every run after it.
Reincarnation is Honey, Inc.'s prestige reset. You give up the farm you have built and receive Royal Jellies in exchange, then start again with a permanent bonus attached to every future run. If you have played other idle games, the shape will be familiar: the reset is not a punishment, it is the mechanic that lets the numbers keep climbing.
What makes the Honey, Inc. version distinctive is how modest the prestige bonus itself is, and how much of your real power lives in things the reset never touches. Understanding that split is the difference between reincarnating usefully and reincarnating out of impatience.
Requirements
You cannot reincarnate on demand. Two conditions must be met:
| Requirement | Value |
|---|---|
| Honey type reached | At least tier 4 — Acacia Honey |
| Minimum earnings this run | 25,000,000 |
The honey tier requirement is the real gate. Acacia Honey is the fourth entry on the honey type ladder, and it unlocks at a farm value of 840,000,000 — a long way past the 10,000,000 needed for Clover Honey before it. Getting to Acacia is most of the work of a first cycle.
The 25,000,000 earnings minimum is measured within the current run, and in practice a farm capable of reaching Acacia will clear it comfortably. It exists to stop instant re-resets rather than to block ordinary play.
What you get, and what it is worth
Reincarnating awards Royal Jellies. Each one grants a permanent +1.2% earnings bonus, and the total is capped at +25%.
That cap is worth sitting with, because it sets expectations honestly. At 1.2% apiece, twenty-one Royal Jellies is already 25.2% before the ceiling clips it — so the entire Royal Jelly earnings bonus is fully maxed at 21 RJ, and every one you earn after that adds nothing to that particular number. This is not a runaway multiplier. It is a modest, early, permanent floor under your income.
So why keep reincarnating after the cap? Because the earnings bonus is not the only reason to reset. Royal Jellies are one of the values the leaderboard ranks players on, alongside cycles completed, Honeycombs and farm level — and because the reset itself lets you rebuild a farm much faster than you built it the first time.
What resets and what survives
| Resets | Survives |
|---|---|
| The farm itself — buildings, hives, bees, cash | Royal Jellies and their earnings bonus |
| Regular research — all 13 tiers, all 57 groups | Epic research — all 18 upgrades |
| Your progress up the honey type ladder | Honeycombs in your balance |
The right-hand column is where your long-term account power actually lives. Epic research is bought with Honeycombs and is never lost, which means Honeycomb income is the one form of progress that a reset genuinely cannot take from you. Two epic upgrades — Royal Jelly Amplification and Reincarnation Mastery — sit directly on this loop, and both persist across the very resets they improve.
The left-hand column, by contrast, should be treated as disposable. Cash held at the moment of reincarnation is simply gone, so there is no reason to bank it. The same goes for research levels you were "saving up" for.
When to reincarnate
There is no single correct trigger, but there is a reasonable way to think about it.
Reincarnate when the run has stopped moving
A run is worth continuing while your farm value is still climbing at a rate that meaningfully unlocks new content — a new honey type, a new hive tier, deeper research tiers. When each of those milestones starts taking substantially longer than the last one did, the run has flattened out. That is the honest signal to reset: you are no longer buying progress with your time, you are only buying larger numbers on the same farm.
Do not reincarnate the moment you unlock it
Hitting Acacia Honey makes reincarnation legal, not optimal. Because the Royal Jelly bonus caps at +25%, the marginal value of one more early reset is small, while the cost — rebuilding four buildings, your hives, and 57 research groups — is real. Players who reset the instant the button lights up often end up slower than players who pushed one or two honey types further first.
Push honey types before you push reset
The honey ladder is the strongest lever in the game. Basic Honey has a base value of 2; Acacia is 1,200; Manuka is 12,000. Each step up is a large multiplier on everything you ship. Since switching honey type already starts a fresh farm at that type's base value, the ladder gives you a smaller, more frequent reset that you can use several times before committing to a full reincarnation.
Two different resets. Changing honey type is a mid-game reset, not a pure upgrade — the farm starts over at the new type's base value. Reincarnation is the full reset, and only reincarnation pays Royal Jellies. Do not confuse the two when planning.
Reincarnate when the rebuild will be fast
This is the criterion most players underrate. Your rebuild speed is set almost entirely by things that survive the reset: epic research, your Royal Jelly bonus, and any boosts or Honeycombs you have banked. A player with a deep epic tree can re-reach Acacia in a fraction of the time a first-cycle player needed. If your epic tree is thin, spend Honeycombs there first, then reset — the same reset is worth much more afterwards.
How it fits the wider progression
Honey, Inc. has no XP and no player level. Progress is measured by farm value, which is bucketed into Scale of Production tiers: tier 0 at 1,000, then a thousandfold jump per tier — 1e6, 1e9, 1e12, and onward to tier 20 at 1e63. Farm value gates which honey types unlock, honey types set the value of everything you ship, and reincarnation is the loop that lets you climb that scale repeatedly rather than once.
Seen from far enough back, the game has three nested loops. The short loop is the shift: bees fly, honey fills storage, the depot ships it. The middle loop is the honey type change, a partial reset that resets the farm at a higher base value. The long loop is reincarnation, which resets everything except the permanent tree you have been quietly building the whole time.
If you are on your first farm and this all sounds abstract, it will make more sense after one cycle. Read how to play for the basics, keep an eye on the beginner tips, and treat your first reincarnation as a learning run rather than an optimization problem.