Do you suffer from bad short term memory?

[twisto51]

If saving the world meant remembering how to make a piston, youd all die.

In an effort to save humanity I made a piston plan in my project table.

I don't forget recipes I've made more than a couple times. What I do do is forget whatever I was working on after answering questions from other players on the server. I'll find myself standing in a room with an inventory of random materials and have to deduce what I was trying to make with them.

 

[netmc]

My energy production is a little low, so I need to make a generator. I need to move an IC2 machine to make room, so I look through the various chests of stuff trying to find which one I left my wrench in. I look through all of them and can't find it, so then I use the yellow box thing in NEI to highlight it, run through all my chests again, and this time when everything is greyed out, I find another block for a build I hadn't completed yet, pull those out and start working on it, still not grabbing the wrench I meant to, then run completely out of power to my plantball compressors, which I have to then kickstart with an re-battery I keep around for this express purpose, to start the energy production back up, then I remember I was going to fix my energy production, go through and find my wrench again, then find I hadn't charged it after my last use, then turn off all the machines so I can get enough power to charge the wrench, while waiting for the trickle of power to charge stuff back up, I forget what I was going to use the wrench for in the first place. I go and work with the block I found in the chest, then half-way working with that, I remember and abandon the project I'm working on to go fix my energy production, then finally build the item I was going to an hour and a half earlier, then forget where I was going to place it, and spend another 15 minutes figuring it all back out again. My wife says I have ADD. I just thought this is normal.

 

[Bigglesworth]

In an effort to save humanity I made a piston plan in my project table.

I don't forget recipes I've made more than a couple times. What I do do is forget whatever I was working on after answering questions from other players on the server. I'll find myself standing in a room with an inventory of random materials and have to deduce what I was trying to make with them.

And then I had it and just make two stacks. problem solved.

I then proceeded to place them... somewhere?? Lost forever

 

[whythisname]

I think my short term memory is fine, all these mods just take up way too much memory with all their complicated recipes and 5 bazillion unique resources. Seriously, modded MC is the only thing where I regularly forget what I was doing, in other games or RL I rarely have that (or at least I don't notice it in other games and RL xD).

 

[ApSciLiara]

Sometimes I have such bad memory that I--wait, what was I saying?

Sent from my phone using black magic

 

[jumpfight5]

Now my computer, on the other had, does suffer from short term memory loss.
It tends to forget what it's doing in the middle of simple tasks (playing a video), and it remembers again. This is what we call lag.

 

[Bigglesworth]

Now my computer, on the other had, does suffer from short term memory loss.
It tends to forget what it's doing in the middle of simple tasks (playing a video), and it remembers again. This is what we call lag.

Lots of GPUs suffer from micromemory loss. Its a terrible pox on many gamers.

 

[Fuzzlewhumper]

I try to avoid GPU, I heard it raises sugar levels.

 

[egor66]

I hate to say that I know way to many recipes off by heart, Yes my name is Paul & I have a problem......

 

[BeastFeeder]

I used to be real bad at it. But lately I've started thinking in patterns and it's helped a lot. Like it's iron in the corners, glass in a diamond, and gold in the middle for something or other (PCB maybe? lol!). I could never remember the advanced circuit until I realized it was redstone in the corners, glowstone top and bottom, and lapis on the sides with the circuit in the middle. For me it's a lot easier to memorize the patterns like that.

Another thing I've noticed is that many of the recipes just add on to vanilla recipes, or they use a vanilla pattern with different items like the iron furnace and machine block do.

 

[Bagman817]

For me it's less memory loss, more ADD. Like, "Today, I'm going to make that reactor!" Two hours later, "I wonder what kind of bee these two will make?"

 

[fergcraft]

well I also have this issue when I'm just getting started and I realize I'm out of xx ore and go mining or caving. All of a sudden it's mine all the colors and I forgot to actually get what I needed cause I didn't see it right away. The process tends to repeat its self quite frequently

 

[EternalDensity]

I use NEI for most recipes, not because of memory, but because shift-clicking the [?] automatically puts the items into the crafting table, saving much time.

 

[ThemsAllTook]

I used to be real bad at it. But lately I've started thinking in patterns and it's helped a lot. Like it's iron in the corners, glass in a diamond, and gold in the middle for something or other (PCB maybe? lol!).

Thermal Expansion Machine Frame. Built so many of those I can't possibly forget it! PCB is the same but with redstone instead of glass I think? Haven't built nearly as many of those.

I could never remember the advanced circuit until I realized it was redstone in the corners, glowstone top and bottom, and lapis on the sides with the circuit in the middle. For me it's a lot easier to memorize the patterns like that.

I assumed that was how everyone remembered these things. I guess not!

Any time I need to craft something complicated without knowing the recipe beforehand, I challenge myself by looking at each component recipe once, then crafting as many of the components as I can remember without looking again. Picking out patterns as mentioned above gives you crucial mnemonics that allow you to remember much more information at a time by encoding it more efficiently into your short term memory. A recipe with some symmetry to it, like an advanced circuit or machine frame, is much easier to remember than one without, like a Railcraft receiver circuit (blank, repeater, green wool, slimeball, gold ingot, redstone, green wool, redstone, lapis...what the hay?)