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:::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. (Interestingly, I did NOT use the Shepherd profession this time.) 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)/(3^12) + (2 * 2^2)/(3^23) ... (x * 2^x)/(3^x+1) 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. The question is how much less.
:::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]]) 1819:5521, 17 October 2020 (UTC)
