(This is Day 16 of Foxy’s Diary or BLSBD by FF according to Euloran naming habits. You can start with Day 1. Or not.)
As I unleashed my barely hatched mining bot on the lush hills of Eulora, it ate a few hundred Cruddy Hoes, about 1000 Little Bits O' Nothing and around 500 Coarse Frangible Threads, spitting in return ...some data. Sorely needed, totally missing and otherwise rather utterly depressing data. But needs must and hunger makes a meal tastier, so I reluctantly made a few basic calculations:
Wooly Mushroom (WM) mining cost: approx 3500 coppers per 1 WM
- based on a mining run of 10 hoes from the merchant (quality 9352) that resulted in 29WM
- considering I paid approx 12k to the merchant and spent tools currently still fetch 2k: 10*(12k-2k)/29 = 3448
! Note that costs incurred for thread and bits of nothing and time used for the mining are purposefully ignored in a rather optimistic assumption that they are compensated by the experience points also gained in the process.
Magical Dungbeetles (MD) mining cost: approx 8000 coppers per 1 MD
- based on a mining run of 26 hoes (q 9352) that resulted in 33 MD
- using same assumptions as above: 26*(12k-2k)/33 = 7878
Note that neither MD nor WM *ever* gave me anything better than a small claim when mined with basic or improved tools, despite having mined them for more than 3 days and 3 nights together. I got both ordinary and even 1 remarkable claim on WM though, when using a chetty stick.
Update: Clump of Dry Grass (CDG) mining cost: approx 72 coppers per 1 CDG
- based on a mining run of 2 hoes (q 9352) that resulted in 275 CDG (from 10 Small claims and 88 tiny, so ratio almost 1:9)
- using same assumptions as above: 2*(12k-2k)/275 = 72
Ratios of small:tiny (on a rather tiny sample)
BBB: 1:2.4 (based on 27 total)
RR: 1:6.4 (74)
SR: 1:8 (27)
TPT: 1:7.33 (50)
WM: 1:8 (27)
WPL: 1:19 (20)
Data
CSV file with claim found and output from each claim: here. Feel free to use it in any way and share (or not) as you think it's fine.
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The WM numbers are pretty terrible, comes to what, 300% adjusted for quality. Meanwhile the CDG numbers are actually pretty good, if you make q 160 grass then you;re making 95c grasses at a cost of 72c each.
Yes. Essentially rares are in various degrees of horribleness, while basic resources are mostly ok.
It occurs to me that if instead of mining your own WM and making q 160 stuff you want 2k coins for you had a noob mine, he'd make q 16 stuff worth 200! I'd very much buy shrooms for 200 each :D
That sounds great in theory, but the practicality of it is dubious. The trouble with WM is not the building part (since most claims are tiny anyway) but the gathering/exploring part - where a noob wouldn't help at all. So yeah, it might make sense to give smalls to a noob in the hope that they might at least get more than 1WM out of them in more cases than I do, but that kind of ignores the main trouble which is the very low success ratio of exploring for WMs in the first place...
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