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Has anyone had any success using a gold pan?

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Has anyone had any success using a gold pan as directed by the wiki?

 

When it comes to underground prospecting, I have gotten the hang of the sluice and of course the prosp. pick but I would really like the gold pan as a third prospecting tool.  If an underground (long range) sluice yields Ores A, B, and C, and (short range) gold panning at the same point only yields Ores A and C, I would like to infer - after a sufficient sample size - that I am more likely to find Ore B in the area outside the gold pan's range but inside the sluice's range.  I'm not expecting a clear process of elimination (and how could you with the inherent "fuzzy" nature of sluices and gold pans), just an increased likelihood that my inference is accurate. I would prefer if prospecting were a skill that the player could strategically develop with experience and patient prospecting as opposed to mindlessly grinding through endless branch mines in various rock layers in the mid-game.

 

When I didn't have much luck in survival multiplayer, I started a creative world to test and learn more about how to gold pan.  I set up shop underground immediately above a very large copper vein that I uncovered for my test.  On the surface of the vein, I built a 1x2 channel with gravel at the bottom an a water source block on one end. I then switched to survival mode and repeatedly gathered the gravel from under the source block and sifted it for ores in the flowing water at my feet. 32 units of gravel later (which make up several gold pan units each), I was empty handed. For the sake of comparison, I then created a sluice in the same space and it yielded lots of ores and gems over the course of 32 units of gravel.

 

Despite my search, I haven't found anyone on this forum claiming any success with the gold pan aside from using it to fill the sluice. According to the change log, gold pans should be working so I must be doing something wrong.  Could anyone kindly point out how I can use the gold pan as the "sluice light" that it's described to be in the change log?

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The gold pan sadly still doesn't function exactly how I want. I'll probably recode it when I have the time.

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Thank you for your reply Bioxx.  I'll stick to the sluice and prosp. pick.

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Huh, I've had it function just great recently, have gotten plenty of copper, silver, gold and even a few platinum nuggets.  I guess it still is a little OP in how many times I got nothing.  Might want to raise the chances for copper slightly to allow people to have a better chance of making it into the bronze age.

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Huh, I've had it function just great recently

 

..That would be because you just pulled a 10 month old post out of mothballs. The gold pan has been rewritten now.

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