Changes to mcmmo - Mining and Salvage
As many of you are aware, there has been a lot of spicy conversation going on about methods of gaining gold on the server these past few weeks. The survival development team and I have been listening to your concerns and opinions, and after some data collection and discussion have settled on a couple of tweaks to improve the situation.
In order to make these tweaks we assessed the gold production of the most effective farms on the server and the most effective mining methods on the server, with maxed mcmmo stats for each. We tested multiple times so we’re pretty confident that our data is sound.
For the farms, we took into account the time it takes to process the items for the gold farm, the amount of gold armour drops per hour, farm size, item sorting systems and server tps. For mining, we used a variety of the most effective methods including haste 2, efficiency 5, blast mining, second smelt and an untouched mesa/badlands biome.
We discovered that there was still a decently sized difference in profit from both methods despite the nerf we already did for gold farms. It wasnt a ridiculously large difference, but enough to warrant a balance.
After much deliberation, we decided the best solution was to bring both gold methods to roughly the same level by making the farms slightly less effective and mining slightly more. Best of both worlds! The nerf and the buff are both approximately the same percentage, but still balanced overall to keep the economy stable and inflation reasonable.
The changes are as follows:
Mcmmo double drop is now capped at 35% at level 100
Mcmmo second smelt is now capped at 50% at level 100
Mcmmo salvage drops on gold armour are now capped at helmet:4 chest:6 legs:5 boots:3
Hopefully this means that gold farms are still profitable enough to be a decent source of income, but are now balanced with people putting a similar amount of time and effort into mining.
As always, we will be keeping an eye on how the changes pan out and are open to making further tweaks as necessary.
Ibby x
