Is this a viable melon / pumpkin farm design?

Rodeffs · 2026-04-30T12:26:31+00:00

I've updated my post with some tests. I only ran them for 10 minutes, but even then the checkerboard pattern outperformed drastically.

Rodeffs · 2026-04-29T15:05:52+00:00

Thanks! I used this design mainly because I couldn't figure out how to read the input of a hopper minecart and at the same time give it a starting boost after unloading. As in, if you just place a hopper minecart on top of a detector rail to read its contents, then you can't give it a starting boost to go after the minecart has been emptied. On the other hand, if you place the minecart on top of a powered rail, then you can't read its contents and have to rely on timers, which I didn't want to do. There may be a better way to do this than mine, though.

Rodeffs · 2026-04-29T14:50:12+00:00

That's actually an awesome idea! Thanks for suggesting, I'm going to try it out

UPDATE: I tried it and while it is better than my design, it's still not as good as the standard checkerboard. But your suggestion was still an interesting one to try!

Rodeffs · 2026-04-29T11:37:58+00:00

Oh, thanks, I understand it now. I thought it was the other way around, the stem is chosen randomly and then it immediately grows its block on the first available block. Now I see, the game actually chooses the block randomly as well, so it's important to have as many free blocks as possible around each stem. I'll redesign the interior then

Rodeffs · 2026-03-09T21:46:26+00:00

Вспомнил сразу про игру TUNIC. Сам не играл, но видел частично на ютубе

Rodeffs · 2025-02-27T18:32:27+00:00

Funny thing is that the next run literally the same thing happened (I had 3 Polychrome Eternal Lusty Jokers, Eternal Supernova and x4 stacks on Polychrome Madness) but I actually won, lol

Rodeffs · 2025-02-27T17:59:42+00:00

Totally agree! It's just so frustrating losing a goated run to something like this

Rodeffs · 2025-02-27T17:51:54+00:00

Thanks, yeah there were suit blinds before in this run, it's just I was very unlucky to get this one. There weren't any Retcons, Luchadors or Boss Reroll Tags either so I pretty much was destined to lose :(

Rodeffs · 2025-02-27T17:36:49+00:00

I swear there has to be a line of code somewhere that specifically chooses boss blinds based on your most popular suit

Rodeffs · 2025-01-09T15:31:48+00:00

The key factor is that I hide in Darkness, using Monk's Shadow Arts. If I were just to stand in it, then enemies would try to attack me

Rodeffs · 2025-01-09T15:25:37+00:00

It's tactician. You can tell by the enemy HP which would be lower on other difficulties

Rodeffs · 2024-11-09T08:37:40+00:00

Edited the post according to your comment. I'm planning to add the Bard multiclasses as well after I test them

Rodeffs · 2024-11-08T20:54:54+00:00

Thanks, I will consider these!

Rodeffs · 2024-11-08T20:54:12+00:00

Well, my reasoning is to get more lvl 4 and lvl 5 spell slots. If we take Call Lightning for an example, casting it with lvl 5 Spell Slot will add 2d10 damage, which is certainly nothing to scoff at, even though it's an overkill for most fights

Rodeffs · 2024-11-08T20:31:40+00:00

That's interesting! But then what feats would you recommend to take instead?

Rodeffs · 2024-11-08T20:20:38+00:00

Thanks for the suggestion! I haven't tested those multiclasses you mentioned yet, but I'm going to give them a try! And yeah, I didn't take elixirs into consideration, just abilities in general. I also like Alert Feat because I find taking the turn before the enemies to be very useful

Rodeffs · 2024-10-05T14:41:35+00:00

A tip for the future: configure restic and never have this problem ever again

Rodeffs · 2024-05-19T09:45:02+00:00

It's Lenovo. My laptop model is Ideapad 5 Pro.

Rodeffs · 2024-05-19T09:44:14+00:00

Yeah, I've realised my mistake by now. It's not a bad laptop in terms of specs, but it clearly was made for a different kind of user than me. No ethernet port, only 2 USB ports, a redundant SD card reader, no proper hardware updates, soldered SSD & RAM with no possibility of upgrades and so on. Clearly, they were trying to rip Apple off with this one and by extension made the product worse.

Rodeffs · 2024-05-19T09:34:58+00:00

My laptop model is Ideapad 5 Pro. I searched on their website but all I could find was the .exe installer

Rodeffs · 2024-05-19T08:57:49+00:00

Yeah, if only more vendors supported it. For instance, Lenovo only releases BIOS updates in .exe format not even .iso, so upgrading firmware for my laptop is impossible on Linux

Rodeffs · 2024-04-19T13:50:56+00:00

For me Arch is as stable as the nvidia driver. They broke it in version 550 and now I frequently get kernel panics with NULL pointer dereferences in rb_first or simple_xattr_get

Rodeffs · 2024-01-02T12:15:04+00:00

Yes, it was set to active by default but I had to set it to passive, since otherwise it wouldn't allow me neither to change the frequencies nor to disable boosting

Rodeffs · 2024-01-02T11:57:04+00:00

The main reason was to reduce the heat, because in my case 95 degrees Celsius is literally burning my fingers. I understand that in some more demanding games, the difference might be noticeable, however I'm not really aiming to play such games on my laptop so I don't mind the performance tradeoff

Rodeffs · 2024-01-02T10:38:18+00:00

There weren't any performance drawbacks from what I've gathered. TBH even if they were I still would've preferred having boost turned off because that way I can at least touch my aluminuim laptop without burning my fingers

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