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sdbaynham

Gravel/Sand In Sluices & Pans

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Are you sure that the improved chance of metals for gravel and the improved chance of gems for sand is actually working? I really cannot notice a difference either way, I'm still averaging around 10 blocks/small ore regardless of which block I use.

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Maybe I just have bad luck with it - I've filled it 5 times and all I've gotten were 2 gems.

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Actually I tossed an entire stack of gravel and left it 5 times (didn't leave far away since I was working on smelting all the ore i found on the ground)

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I'm pretty sure that gravel will be always be consumed but that the sluice cannot have more than 50 blocks queued to be processed. So I'm pretty sure you only actually sluiced 12.5 blocks worth.

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Well the sluice will only holds 50 in its queue and any excess blocks placed on it will stay there until it it no longer full(or just disappears) and it will then use a block to fill itself, i.e. once its queue is at 49 it will then consume an entire block to bring its queue back to 50.

So if he had tossed 64 block on the sluice (and none disappeared/unloaded) then it probably would have run about 111 times (initial 50 queue + 61 blocks left on top), compared to the 1280 times it would have run at max efficiency.

So I hope we just misunderstood his statement, and didn't waste all of that.

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And from my experience my sand sluices (9x) seem to produce a lot higher ratio of gems to ore, compared to my gravel sluices (5x), though they were also in two different areas, and I wasn't especially trying to compare results.

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I should have worded that better. I watch my sluice from the perch where my firepit is while I make my first tools and throw gravel down from where I'm at onto it. I had my stack of gravel in my inventory while I was working. I'm actually about to build my forge as soon as I have time to play MC again (and the charcoal finishes). It's built right on the edge of the river biome (I made sure it's in it but I know it's along the edge, 2 blocks in).

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