WOW That's a Lot of Truffles!

[Pristine1281]

I tend to only stick with 1 pig for my barn because he can dig up a good number of truffles, and with my foraging skill of the chance of getting 2 items when I pick up one, there's the potential of getting a good number of them, but tonight during my latest play through, I ended up getting 13 truffles in ONE day! WOW. I had to make another machine that makes oil just to keep up (I have 5 now).


So I have a question for those with a pig (or multiple ones). How many truffles in one day have you gotten? Because 13 by one pig, that's insane!

[Pixel Peeper]

Well, I don't think I ever had a single pig, so I wouldn't be able to tell you. You can't just divide the number of Truffles by the number of pigs to get an average, because the more pigs you have the more average the results will be. It's like throwing two dice; you get 7 way more often than 2 or 12.

There's also the matter of Gatherer doubling Truffles at various rates. Your pig could generate 9 Truffles and you could double none of them, or your pig could generate 7 Truffles and you could double all of them.

[Zales]

Originally posted by Tripoteur Ventripotent:

Well, I don't think I ever had a single pig, so I wouldn't be able to tell you. You can't just divide the number of Truffles by the number of pigs to get an average, because the more pigs you have the more average the results will be. It's like throwing two dice; you get 7 way more often than 2 or 12.

There's also the matter of Gatherer doubling Truffles at various rates. Your pig could generate 9 Truffles and you could double none of them, or your pig could generate 7 Truffles and you could double all of them.

You could take all of the numbers of truffles from 1 pig and get the average from that.
Like so:
Day1: 5
D2: 7
D3: 6
D4: 7
D5: 9
D6: 4
D7: 10
=
48
48/7 = 6.56
That's about 6.56 truffles a day, if I'm correct, for 1 pig.
Now, if we assume that each pig gets about the same amount of truffles per day then all we need to do is muliply the average by the number of pigs.
6.56(x) = y
y being the amount of truffles we get on average per pig.

Correct me if I'm wrong.

[Pixel Peeper]

Sounds right, but we're looking for a record here, not an average.

To know the record production of one pig while owning multiple ones, you'd have to stay with them all the time, note which ones produce which Truffles so you can mark each Truffle in the right pig's column, and look for signs of double-harvests so you can compensate for Gatherer. And you'd have to do this every day.

I'm content with knowing that a pig could potentially produce over two dozen Truffles if you were lucky enough.

[Awen]

I've got four pigs and between them and the (20% forraging chance to get double) I usually get 10-15 iridium truffles per day. I usually just sell them without making oil, since the difference even with artisan is only a few gold with the botanist perk.

[Zales]

Originally posted by Tripoteur Ventripotent:

Sounds right, but we're looking for a record here, not an average.

To know the record production of one pig while owning multiple ones, you'd have to stay with them all the time, note which ones produce which Truffles so you can mark each Truffle in the right pig's column, and look for signs of double-harvests so you can compensate for Gatherer. And you'd have to do this every day.

I'm content with knowing that a pig could potentially produce over two dozen Truffles if you were lucky enough.

You could figure out which pig digs up which truffle by putting them each in their own pen with their own barn. A bit expensive, but in the world of mathematics we have all seen weirder (damn John, eating 30 candy bars by himself).
I myself wouldn't compensate for Gatherer as it is too random as of what gives you 1 item and what gives you multiples.

[Bad Aim Bodyshot Barry]

Originally posted by red255:

theres a one in a million chance it keeps digging up truffles from dawn till dusk I guess. and for sake of whatever your foraging skill gives 20% chance of doubling every time.

24 would seem like the limit in that case. one an hour from 6am to 5 PM, doubling every time.

at max friendship the pig has an 66% chance of digging up another truffle, if its NOT that 66% chance then no more truffles will come from that pig