Has anyone tested to see if you get more XP via Fast Brew + Teaching Pie vs Fast Brew + Starberry Pie? This was during some gleamball farming.
After some quick observations, with both Energy Epics, I noticed that with a 100 Speed Hammer, both Hammer Mastery (max) and Hammer Epic it takes me 20 seconds to burn through my Energy and 10 secs to replenish it.
With Starberry Pies I have zero downtime.
So… 144xp per 9 blocks with 10 sec downtime vs 72xp per 9 blocks with no downtime.
Seems to me that Starberry may be the better choice.
I always do starberry pie for maximum speed possible without having to stop. Then I save my teaching pies for all building and crafting and stuff and get so many more levels that way through it.
Don’t you need to have downtime anyways to throw and wait for the regen bomb?
I always used persisting pies to get the most out of my hammers and use teaching pies for the crafting part only. But I go for more of a balance between exp gain and coin gain, So I use persisting pies so I buy less hammer.
Well, it’s mostly when I grind gleamballs and say go mining that I was questioning.
All in all, here is what I do when I am trying to get a lot of cubits/xp for plots. I queue up a mass amount of concrete in 16 machines (for my concrete shop)…a mass amount of rock in 16 machines (for gravel), a mass amount of gravel in 16 machines (for sand) and then I go farm gleamballs during the time that those are cooking.
I use the Rock/Gravel for sand for concrete. I gain a lot of XP this way and it’s quite fast. Was just trying to min-max like always.
Actually no. You can regen on a cycle of fractions of a second. It’s hard to maintain around 1 second or less (manually) while you’re farming but it can be done for a few minutes at a time.
If you can get a bomber they can regen essentially non stop and you never have to let off the tool. You can fill both inventories (bomber and swinger) in a couple minutes.
6 - 8 players can lock down a planet this way
Yeah I’m definitely talking about stationary block farming. There’s no reason to be using regen bombs while mining
If you have a partner, this is the way. If not, starberries. Or persist, if you are farming for blocks. Having a dual bombing partner adds a good amount of flexibility regarding both buffs and offhand options.
EDIT: Going to put this here for people who don’t understand what I’m talking about.
Adding a partner with a regen bomb in one hand and a set of heal/replenish bombs in the other hand (only need level 2 forging for this) means that the tool user can go non-stop with any configuration while their energy is endlessly replenished.
I used to use this method. But now since I forge my own hammers and coin hasn’t been an issue for me in years, it’s so much more value for my time to go Starberry. I rarely use a brew even more bepending on the tool I have or activity I’m doing.
My best method for gaining xp still is either mining or building.
Yeah there’s mention in that thread I linked about dragging over a dead mob to accelerate single player farming. It does enable instant bombs but also it’s a headache to deal with that every three minutes.
For me continuous wins, over that sort of delay.
For you @almund I could participate in a test. I do this sort of thing for block farming tbh, other than stats for stuff I’ve posted I never even calculate XP.
Your calculation with the 20 seconds uptime and 10 seconds down time shows that teaching pie is better.
20 up, 10 down means you have 33.33% uptime, it would have to be 50% to make it even because the pie gives you x2 xp. So teaching is better, also better for item durability and if you’re feeling fancy throw a energy bomb
But if you want more Gleam, starberry is better ofc
