How many people do this?

[Mash]

So, I have an almost-annoying, obsessive habit of needing to calculate almost everything that goes on in my base.

For me, sometimes the larger numbers are a little meaningless. Like, if someone told me that they have 2.3 million cobble, I know that it's a LOT of cobble, but it's really hard to put it into perspective. To help with this, I like to calculate it into terms that I can wrap my head around easier.

For instance, in my base I have a LP boiler feeding off of a DSU that's being supplied wood. Supposedly this thing can store 2 billion of any one item. Now, I already know that it's a massive number, but it's really hard to understand just how massive. Now, my tree farm is bringing in between 7000 and 9000 logs per hour. I've timed it a couple times to make sure it was close enough to calculate accurately. Now, I've gotten a few different results each time, so I decided to round up to 10,000 for the purpose of this.

Even if the DSU can only hold 2 million of any one item, it would take my tree farm 8.3 days at 10,000 logs per hour to fill it up completely, not counting the 130~ thousand that's already in there.

Times that by a thousand, and it would take my tree farm 8,300 days or 22 years to completely fill up my DSU at its current speed.

So, are there any other people that find themselves doing shit like this? The biggest irony in my doing it is that I hate math.

 

[tompy97]

Definitely, I've written programs for my mining turtles to calculate exactly how many blocks they dig and report it back to my base. Its kind of cool to see the numbers slowly creep upwards.

And I think powercrystals has said he has never seen anyone fill up a DSU before. I doubt anyone ever will, 2b items is just an insane amount

 

[YX33A]

To be honest... sometimes. Not often, and never as in depth as that, but sometimes I go a little insane when trying to figure out EXACTLY HOW MANY BLOCKS I need for a build. I will mine exactly 11 cobblestone with my first wooden pickaxe. To the point where I question why it lasts longer then 11 uses if you're just going to mine 3 blocks for the stone pickaxe you'll be crafting, and 8 for the furnace you obviously also will be crafting. If I want to build something FaNcY I first build a dirt version to tally the total blocks needed. Then I replace sections with all kinds of blocks you can mine by hand, calculating exactly how much of what I need. Then I start crafting 'dat shit. If I have to use Glass Panes or Prison Bars, I build in counts of 16(unless I have my TC3 stuff built, in which case I'm a bit more lax), and if I need ANYTHING which crafts into a number of blocks higher then 1 I kind of flip my shit.
I do NOT want to have spare parts left over. Makes me feel like I missed something. If I craft too much of something I often just end up chucking the waste into a Recycler rather then try and remember later what I forgot to build.

Y'know, unless it's really easy to turn back into what I crafted it from. Or if it's some kind of wood. But that's because I have found that the best use for wood is Wrath Igniter.

 

[TangentialThreat]

8,300 days or 22 years

And I think powercrystals has said he has never seen anyone fill up a DSU before.

I'd be willing to wait about 8.3 days to test something so utterly pointless. This will require 1000x the production.

With a sawmill each log will make 12 sticks, which brings us down to 692 days of operation (1.89 years). The calculator says I'd need about 84 of his tree farms to do this within the target timeframe.

Do item tesseracts have a bandwidth limit?

 

[tompy97]

ah, see i'm the opposite when it comes to crafting things. "4 stacks of pistons!, why, because i may need them someday!"

 

[Mash]

To be honest... sometimes. Not often, and never as in depth as that, but sometimes I go a little insane when trying to figure out EXACTLY HOW MANY BLOCKS I need for a build. I will mine exactly 11 cobblestone with my first wooden pickaxe. To the point where I question why it lasts longer then 11 uses if you're just going to mine 3 blocks for the stone pickaxe you'll be crafting, and 8 for the furnace you obviously also will be crafting. If I want to build something FaNcY I first build a dirt version to tally the total blocks needed. Then I replace sections with all kinds of blocks you can mine by hand, calculating exactly how much of what I need. Then I start crafting 'dat shit. If I have to use Glass Panes or Prison Bars, I build in counts of 16(unless I have my TC3 stuff built, in which case I'm a bit more lax), and if I need ANYTHING which crafts into a number of blocks higher then 1 I kind of flip my shit.
I do NOT want to have spare parts left over. Makes me feel like I missed something. If I craft too much of something I often just end up chucking the waste into a Recycler rather then try and remember later what I forgot to build.

Y'know, unless it's really easy to turn back into what I crafted it from. Or if it's some kind of wood. But that's because I have found that the best use for wood is Wrath Igniter.

You know, this is like, the only thing that I don't calculate out in my head. Every single construction attempt I have ever done has been impulsive and completely unplanned. Even the ones I did plan got changed halfway through because I thought of something else that I liked more.

I calculate materials used in certain crafting recipes, but usually only in the large-scale crafting projects, or when I need to craft something extremely complicated or tiered, like a 64k storage unit or ultimate solar panel.

 

[fergcraft]

<== Keep all the cobble for reasons that I just can't explain

 

[Adonis0]

[Snip]
Do item tesseracts have a bandwidth limit?

the bandwidth limit on item and liquid tesseracts is only in the speed that you can send into them. So it's dependent on the pipes before them