Artisan Archive

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I am new to harvestors. I see people post about 10+ heavy harvestors and 10 medium harvestors.

2 Questions-

1-is there a difference between a 10 heavy harvestor and a 10 medium harvestor? Will he heavy get more resources if its the same extration rate?

2-What is meant by people saying expreminted to like 94%. What exactly does that mean and when crating, how do you see that?

like i said, Newb questions but needed to know

Thanks

heavy harvesters extract more resources per hour then medium harvesters

1) As far as I've been able to determine, two harvesters with the same extraction rate will harvest the same amount. This last patch added experimentation on personal harvesters, so I whipped up a few 4 BER (base extraction rate) minerals. I had an old un-experimented medium which also had a 4 BER. I put them down next to each other, and when I came back the next day they had the same quantity of resources. Of course, the medium had cost twice as much in power and maintenance, so when I burned off it's reserves I trashed it.

So the only difference between a 10 medium harvester and a 10 heavy harvester is that the heavy will cost more.

2) The 94% is the percentage value of the experimented category. If you were seeing this on harvesters, that's probably the "Efficiency" category, which determines the extraction rate. So using those experimented personals I did above, they started out with an efficiency percentage of 20%, and an extraction rate of 1. After experimenting a few points, I got it up to 81%, which gave an extraction rate of 4. I think the hard max on personals is 5 at 100%, and to get the actual rate you scale that down based on the actual efficiency percentage; rounding down to get an integer rate. This would mean that any experimentation points spent once you get over 80% are pretty pointless. Of course, if someone has made a 5 BER personal, I'd love to hear about it.

You see these percentages after the initial assembly of an item, the first screen of the item details has the category percentages as bar graphs at the bottom third of the window. You also see them during experimentation. Experimentation requires using a specialized crafting tool (a "structural crafting tool" when doing harvesters) while standing next to a structural crafting station.