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::Ok. The article had not said that the first one was guaranteed. I was figuring there was only a 2/3 chance of a first one, putting my count off by one. [[User:Butterbur|Butterbur]] ([[User talk:Butterbur|talk]]) 05:50, 11 November 2018 (UTC)
::Something is still incorrect about the mechanics here. Despite my best efforts, I am unable to replicate an average of 3 truffles per day. With 12 pigs over 28 days, maxed friendship and the Shepherd profession, and grass-free pens (grassy tiles can significantly reduce the truffles found each day) I get about 2.35 truffles/day per pig. If this math is even correct about how extra truffle probability is determined (what's the source?), the probability of getting that first truffle at all and/or pathfinding and time considerations may also play significant roles.[[User:Farmonymous|Farmonymous]] ([[User talk:Farmonymous|talk]]) 16:03, 10 January 2020 (UTC)
:::Well, I have yet to be convinced that one truffle is guaranteed, experience being contrary. However, I've never optimized production as One More Day speaks of. I tend to think that the amount of grass-free space affects the count, up to who knows how many pigs in whatever number of open tiles. I'm not sure the pig pen needs to be grass-free if there's enough room total. I've never selected the Shepherd Profession.
:::There's more than one way to skim a profit. ;) [[User:Butterbur|Butterbur]] ([[User talk:Butterbur|talk]]) 02:10, 14 January 2020 (UTC)
:::Here's an update to these old numbers. I'm not sure why precisely my older 2.35/day estimate was inaccurate, but I've attempted the experiment again. In practice I think it's probable that area boundaries and the presence of other truffles on the ground inhibits the production of more truffles. With that in mind I setup an enclosure with no grass, a larger area, my barn located at the top and center of the enclosure (attempting to increase the space between barn door and pen boundaries), and the barn door open at all times (maximizing time pigs spend outside). I was able to boost the average truffle production to ~2.66 truffles/day per pig. That's still not 3/day however. A question I've been interested in answering is what amount of space is necessary for a pig to maximize its potential truffle production.
:::Our probability series is indeed (1 * 2^1)/(3^1) + (2 * 2^2)/(3^2) ... (x * 2^x)/(3^x) and its sum from x=0 to infinity should indeed = 2 extra truffles on average. But how would we actually fully reach an average of two in practice? We would in practice need to observe rare situations where a pig produces 5, 6, 7, 10... even 20 extra truffles in a given day. In fact we would need to observe the entire spectrum from 0 to an infinite number of extra truffles. In practice, a single pig's ability to find a large number of truffles in a given day is going to be limited by the finite number of open tiles available to that pig and the finite amount of time in which a pig can engage in searches from 6am to 5pm. Thus the real average number of truffles will be something less than 3. To further estimate the real limits to daily truffle finding, I would like to know more about how the truffle search behavior works. Is a random check done to initiate searching behavior every game tick or perhaps every 10 in-game minutes?[[User:Farmonymous|Farmonymous]] ([[User talk:Farmonymous|talk]]) 18:47, 17 October 2020 (UTC)
