Buying Gleam at 1.2c selling for 1.3 Will keep filling baskets. Top down Or Bottom Up gleam mining setup

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I removed a bunch of distracting rambling on this XP issue and moved it to another thread:

Block Farming - A Giant Essay

First, a bit of classic “chicken farming”, as @May-L04 has dubbed it. I’ll be testing against gleam as it’s got the highest XP per block, and thus the most interest for this. I went to a large gleam farm and cleaned it out with no regen at all. Starting XP: 167816 Harvested: 11080 Gleam Finishing XP: 56456 200000 - 167816 = 32184 + 56456 = 88640 xp / 11080 blocks = 8 XP per block Numbers check out, as expected. I dropped a couple of regen bombs and went to find a smaller farm. I picked …

I’ll be expanding and clarifying that later.