Talk:Miner
Happiness and mining trips[edit]
I was curious if happiness affects (mining) trips, so I just made a quick test with the same miner. 4 different tests, unhappy and happy. Times are not exact, so might be around 5 minutes off.
tl;dr: Happiness might only affect the main item they are going for, maybe also the shortens duration of the trip. But that could also just be part of the RNG.
54 happiness: Coins for copper trip: 115 Coins for tungsten trip: 636
Trip Tungsten Ore: Sent at 12:00 Returned next day at 02:20 Total duration: Around 14 hours and 20 minutes
Ruby: 11
Tungsten Ore: 37
Deep Stone: 139
100 happiness:
Coins for copper trip: 114 Coins for tungsten trip: 612
Trip Tungsten Ore: Sent at 09:30 Returned 18:00 Total duration: Around 8 hours and 30 minutes
Ruby: 3
Tungsten Ore: 68
Deep Stone 246
100 happiness: Coins for copper trip: 95 Coins for tungsten trip: 521 (Interestingly a life quartz trip would cost 618 coins)
Sent at 20:40 Returned 06:40 Total duration: 10 hours and 00 minutes
Ruby: 6
Tungsten Ore: 74
Deep Stone 236
30 happiness:
Fourth test, third tungsten ore trip:
Coins for copper trip: 94 Coins for tungsten trip: 662 (now a life quartz trip would cost 562 coins)
Duration: Didn't count, since I slept in a bed to get a quicker result ... but the miner didn't return after 50 hours, so I realized that if the player sleeps in a bed, the time might speeds up, but other things not. So you can't just send people on a trip, sleep in a bed for 20 seconds to get the rewards. I didn't think of that...
Ruby: 9
Tungsten Ore: 34
Deep Stone 147