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just wonder if its better to use tom on shovels or pickaxes?
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just wonder if its better to use tom on shovels or pickaxes?
shovels ;)
Really.....does it make a difference? I automatically order pickaxes but have never made a note of how many diamonds I get as assumed it was random :facepalm:
yes it does.;)
Be careful with any sort of survey of diamond drops. It seems to vary of time of day, differently for each farm ("seems to" being important words) So I would be skeptical of any study that didn't do thousands of shovels/pickaxes/tnt/dynamite, and carefully spread the samples over time.
Also, SC changes the drop rate from version to version of the game, so any such study will be moot by the next update.
Having said all that, yes, Shovels for the win!
I recorded EVERY drop-item on my farm for a period covering almost four months and I didn't learn too much from all the data except..... my results, in no way, tallied with any other similar surveys. My farm is chronically short of planks. Weeks and weeks of, for me, fairly intensive wheating didn't affect the daily drop rate one iota. There were very brief fluctuations with tapes, boards and nails and then back to mainly bolts and screws. The much vaunted advice of maintaining a balance between your bems and tems didnt work for me and I laugh out loud every time this myth is put forward as a method of increasing one's rare drops. I don't go around searching farms specifically for boxes and sea chests but I do open them if they are available and I can state categorically that, on average, I do not find enough diamonds in a week to buy the tenth task. In the mine? Again they fluctuate and it doesn't seem to matter which tool I use. Fact for your farm, fiction for mine.Quote:
Originally Posted by XYZZY
It seems. It seems. It seems. It seems to me that everybody should play their farms as it seems to them.😀
For me personally shovels seem to drop more diamonds but it's all probably specific to each person's farm, and you should concentrate on the trends of your own farm.
Well, I start at dynamite, then TNT, shovels and pick axes. There are some times when 20-25 dynamite will yield 3-4 diamonds and 15 pick axes yield none or one. Ditto comparisons with any combination. I get 8 in a chest about once a month or 6 weeks and in toolboxes, every one to two weeks. I get more in the derby consistently.
Think Its All About Ur Luck..
As i recently Got one On Shovel & Pickaxe too on The first use..
But have Heard from everyone Shovels are Better..!! so,
Will go for Shovels..
Psychologically the human brain is hardwired to look for patterns. Complete randomness does not compute in our biological make up. Therefore everyone believes they see patterns or sees a sense of order in how things work- even when randomness is at play.
:-)
Regardless of what everyone thinks,
Take 1000 shovels and 1000 pickaxes,
The chance of getting more diamonds by pick axes should be below 1%.
It is a fact guys no need to state what you believe.
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So you're saying we have a chance .... (squeeee !!!)Quote:
Originally Posted by myso
Hold tight, Team Pickaxes. There is hope.
But seriously, Myso, I now pretty much accept everything you say as gospel truth.
Did you oversee a count where a statistically significant number of farms kept track of these drop rates? Or did you pull this probability from some other factors? Inquiring minds want to know!
The data is from other forum users actually, since they have much better data than mine. :) But i remember shovels were giving 1 diamond out of nearly 8 shovels, or nearly 10 pick axes. And 1% value is what i think it should be below. Just an estimate since i don't know the standard variation of hay day's random number generator. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by LetTheMusicPlay
But it was the reason why I said 1000 shovels and pick axes. If you use 100 pick axes and shovels, you'll surely get winning results from both tools. But can you get more diamonds from 100 pick axes, 10 times in a row? (the answer still yes but as i said it is probably below 1% chance. :D)
Think about flipping coins, can you flip a coin and get tails 10 times in a row?
Yes but only once in like a thousand times. :)
Playing Devil's Advocate, you can't possibly know had you used a pickaxe after 8,9 or 10 shovels whether or not you would have gotten a diamond. Unless you want to play with airplane mode...Quote:
Originally Posted by myso
Just because YOU got it with your 9th shovel for argument sake doesn't mean you wouldn't have gotten it with a pickaxe too.
Just to throw a wrench into the discussion...
I use up my TNT and dynamite as mining tools and save my pickaxes and shovels in case someone in the NH needs them for a mining task. In the last 24 hours. I've used 10 TNT and 6 dynamite in two bursts of mining and gotten 6 diamonds. Best diamond haul ever.