Gath thinks this is a game, it should be fun!

[Felis]

This could be expanded upon by adding a visible beehive to certain trees in a particular zone. Setting the notch to +4 or +5 will allow you a chance to strike the beehive and collect 1~X beehive chips before that particular hive is exhausted and you must move to another tree that has a beehive in it.

You don't get beehives from trees anymore.

I don't like OPs idea.
SE has streamlined DoL with 1.19 enough with the removal of lot gathering items.
What we need is more spice in the mini-game, not less mini-game.