#How many cowries does this yield anyway?
tender timber
C2 through C6, WS1-3
in WS4:
natron - spectacles - natron - spectacles - natron
natron - lantern - natron - lantern
firesand - bathtub - firesand - bathtub
firesand - brick counter - bathtub - brick counter
firesand - brick counter - bathtub - brick counter
and now I go farm iron ore XD
tender timber
S113 C4 - 3632 cowries
tender timber
S113 C5 - 3882 cowries
this is on a R20 character doing favors though, so with everything unlocked. at lower ranks during the process, I guess my educated guesstimate of ~12k a week average was fairly close to reality.
if I end up with useable selections of favors again I'll try the new bot settings and perhaps something whacky like trollollol all potion-firesand or all necklace-chairs too, but all in good time.
distant ice
so looks like RNG hit cod's prepeak, coral sword's (low pop) prepeak, and iron axe's strong (low pop) peak
seems like an "average" enough result to me 🤷
oh and bathtub, since that was a c4 peak when you made the first half of those favors
but you are exactly right, when we throw around those "this makes X many cowries" estimates when talking about stockpile, the workshop levels and max groove matter, as do the number of workshops...
tender timber
ah, I wasn't even thinking of workshop levels, but you're right. I was basing my estimates on my testing alts stuck at CC3/L0~1 so workshop levels would have been stuck at WS3
tender timber
S113 C6 - 3841 cowries
total cowries for this experiment: 16252
distant ice
so c5 and c6 would probably be lower due to lower max groove, and the whole thing would be at 20% bonus cowries intead of 40%, so probably like 13k cowries for a mid level player?
so I'd say the 12k estimate was pretty accurate
better to underpromise lol
thanks once more for Doing Weird Stuff for Science
tender timber
I love Doing Weird Stuff for Science :3
tender timber
Ouuuuuuu Riri/Marilith rolled Rope/Chair/Axe for favors next week, more testing! Which testing condition shall it be this time?
tender timber
hum. guess there's no simple fulltext copy for bot outputs, let's see....
S115 /this_week no-rare-mats adjusted to allow for favors (swapping in necklace and wooden chairs on C3)
Cycle 2
First 3 Workshops - Firesand (4h) Essential Draught (6h) Squid Ink (4h) Salt Cod (6h) Squid Ink (4h)
4th Workshop - Rope (4h) Spectacles (6h) Rope (4h) Spectacles (6h) Rope (4h)
Cycle 3
First 3 Workshops - Necklace (4h) Wooden Chair (6h) Mammet Award (8h) Dried Flowers (6h)
4th Workshop - Brass Serving Dish (4h) Stove (6h) Mammet Award (8h) Dried Flowers (6h)
Cycle 4
First 3 Workshops - Rope (4h) Lantern (8h) Rope (4h) Lantern (8h)
4th Workshop - Brass Serving Dish (4h) Durium Tathlums (6h) Stove (6h) Mammet Award (8h)
Cycle 5
All Workshops - Brass Serving Dish (4h) Stove (6h) Durium Tathlums (6h) Iron Axe (8h)
Cycle 6
All Workshops - Squid Ink (4h) Salt Cod (6h) Coral Sword (8h) Salt Cod (6h)
yep that broke. gonna have to edit it.
tender timber
S115 C4 - 3977 cowries
tender timber
S115 C5 - 4252 cowries
tender timber
S115 C6 - 4480
S115 total doing this_week no-rare-mats with chairs shoved in: 20092
next time I end up with non-rare-mats favors I'm gonna try potion-firesand
distant ice
so a marked improvement over stockpile, unsurprisingly
notably, that sounds like similar-ish results to the silera no gather guide's cowrie returns
tender timber
I haven't actually looked at that particular guide/preset at all because micromanaging the granary sounds a lot less desireable than hours and hours of gathering to me XD
distant ice
if you start off ahead enough, you can just change it once a week anyway
but yea personal preference does apply
tender timber
all valid. but, like, I'm insane in 99 ways but that one isn't one of them.
tender timber
fun stuff - Ley/Maduin got rope - stove - quartz ring for next week's (S120) favors, so I'm gonna mix and match those into a potion and firesand only (very high pop and low pop respectively) schedule. while going for zero efficient crafts.
C2 WS1-4: quartz ring - quartz ring - rope - rope
C3 WS1-3: stove - stove - firesand - firesand - firesand; WS4: firesand x6
C4 WS1-4: potion x6
C5 WS1-4: firesand x6
C6 WS1-4: potion x6
tender timber
your daily dose of trauma - how low can we go?
S120 C2 - 1480 cowries
S120 C3 - 973 cowries
tender timber
S120 C4 - 1336 cowries
S120 C5 - 456 cowries
(those are WS5 values of course, so for WS1 they'd have to be further adjusted, plus the no-rare favors and zero efficiency - but it's pretty close to the lowest you can force XD)
tender timber
S120 C6 - 768 cowries
S120 total - 5013 cowries. zero efficiency. I got no groove ♪
distant ice
That is misery lol
tender timber
I dunno, 5k for "I refuse to engage with workshop mechanics, like, at all" is still pretty high IMO.