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AllenWL

Sluices and overworking areas

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I learned that a sluice could be used to get nuggets in a area overworked by a gold pan, because it had a higer threshold before it overworked an area or something, so I made a sluice. After a few tries, I got it working, but... I have a few questions.

 

For one, how do you know if a sluice overworked an area?

What can I expect to get from a sluice?

Does using a sluice raise my prospecting levels?

What's the difference between a gold pan and sluice?

And finally, do overworked areas ever recover?

 

The place I'm in has little ores, and I really don't want to have to go exploring god knows how many blocks for ores.

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For one, how do you know if a sluice overworked an area?

What can I expect to get from a sluice?

Does using a sluice raise my prospecting levels?

What's the difference between a gold pan and sluice?

And finally, do overworked areas ever recover?

 

Not an expert, so this is just my experience.

 

Overworked sluice stops processing material.  You'll add sand or gravel, material count goes to 50, arrow still indicates it's processing w/ water, but that 50 count doesn't go down.

 

You'll get small nuggets and ores, plus gem stones.

 

Not sure

 

Gold pan and sluice cover different radius.  Sluice searches a larger area, so you'll get a greater variety of ores.

 

They did recover in b78, but I havent tested that in b79

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I'm going to re-answer all the questions, since some of Temujen's answers aren't completely accurate.

  • You will know that a sluice has overworked an area because the UI will stay at 50 soil indefinitely, and you won't be able to add any more soil to it.
  • Sluices provide small ore pieces (the same ones that you find on the ground), and gems. It does not provide minerals such as graphite or kaolinite. Feeding the sluice gravel increases the likelihood of getting ore, while feeding it sand increases the chance of getting gems.
  • The sluice does not increase skills, because there is no way to tie it to a specific player.
  • The gold pan produces nuggets of the native metals (Copper, Gold, Platinum, and if your prospecting skill is high enough, Silver). The gold pan produces these purely by a chance drop, and it does not matter if there are any ore veins in the area. Using the gold pan increases your prospecting skill.
    The sluice is extremely different from the gold pan. The way that the sluice works is that it scans the nearby area and produces items that could be obtained by mining in that area. For example, you will only ever get native copper nuggets from a sluice if there is a native copper vein within the range that the sluice scans.
  • Overworked areas do not recover. The only reason they recovered in 78 was if the server restarted, because of a bug in saving chunk data. There is no way to 79 to make it so that you can use a sluice or a gold pan in an area that has been completely overworked.
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Ok, thanks for the information.

This answers all my questions and very nicely too.

 

I guess this means I need to go further and further out to sluice/pan

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