XP in Minecraft is Super WEIRD... 

hey Nico! one question, do you happen to know the theoretical best mob for grinding XP with this in mind? one that is farmable that is.

So a looting sword is not desirable for pillager farms?

There is a video by cubicmetre from about a year ago called "The Quest for Minecrafts God Particle" where he explains a possible reason why those numbers where chosen for XP. He starts explaining it at 5:17 in the video. The reason that he gives is that with this set of numbers you can access every number possible, while from a game design standpoint it still looks natural.

@@AnimilesYT Yeah you're right actually, so in the pillager farm it is undesirable. It's not such a small impact though so it's probably not like.. that big a deal.

​@@N0ark.I guess it matters. Outside the dragon or wither I guess a ravager with 10 xp per orb average, no penalty or gain for over-absorption rate farms, 360,000 XP/hr.

They don't seem to like fun. Notice how desperately they try to nerf update suppression and light suppression, even though it's a bug that no one will ever run into accidentally, and is only done as _extreme_ endgame content.

Look at how they slaughtered villagers

​@@xxthelinkxx3296 I feel that was justified though Villagers skipped 90% of the game, and after that there was nothing to do to progress

@@fireninja8250 Yeah, but they skipped the worst parts of the game...if you want to try getting certain enchants you now have to hunt down a biome that could very well not have a village and usually is hundreds of thousands of blocks away depending on rarity. If you hadn't gone for an Elytra AND already had Mending on it, it's a PITA.

Agreed, in my 2000+ day world I still haven't come across a swamp and I don't look forward to either dragging villagers to one once I break down and use chunkbase, or else going fishing in minecraft for another 2000+ days. They could at least up it's chances with fishing/looting chests, by the time I get enough ancient debris all my godtier equipment is busted, it's undoubtedly a pain in the gluteus region.

The xp you get when you kill a mob is split in orbs based on a mathematical formula, where you can get low value xp orb or higher value xp orb. Mobs with a weapon/armor will drop more low value orbs. After a while, orbs will despawn if not picked up by a player. When there is a lot of orbs, to prevent lag the orbs have a chance to merge into a stack of orbs. The "age" of the stack of orbs is set by the latest orb added, so the stack will never despawn if it keeps merging with other orbs. This is important because the player can only absorb a maximum amount of orb/hour, regardless of the orb value. As I understand it, a stack does not count as one orb, each orb of the stack is still counted as individual orbs. Therefore, to be efficient, you want to absorb higher orb value instead of lower orb value. If your farm produces a lot of low value orbs (like a pillager farms), they will merge and you will get a lot of low values xp orb that won't despawn. Thus, to optimize this kind of farm you either need to lower the orb production rate to reduce merging, or delete the orbs stacks with a cactus, fire or lava.

Exp merging on an enderman farm makes it more likely to pick higher valued orbs, merging on a pillager farm makes it more likely to pick lower valued orbs. So, merging exp on enderman good, merging on pillager farm bad

Bro it’s was basic math for the most part. Elementary school level or I guess middle school level in some red states

Pillager -> merge bad -> place cactus Enderman -> merge good -> do nothing

I learned pretty early around 2013

Brother didn't you know that xp also despawns since counts as entities!

I learned that when I thought I was clever for just burning down one of those houses in the forest and ended up burning half the forest and myself

Xp orbs often fall in lava, they do be kinda funny lol

@@AdawaShiwanithis sounds like it comes with a sad story involving lots of experience and a form of fire based death. 👀

certified 'the gods must be crazy' moment this feels like lifting up the veil to see a carrot on a stick that powers minecraft to run i have seen botch-jobs in the minecraft code before but this made me realise these duct-taped walls may hold up more of the game than i had previously thought

Wait Crafty!

You have excellent taste in content

Glad you're enjoying it :-]

I think zedaph did this in hermit craft with no "cheats". pure vanilla. I think it was smelting then 1 TNT if I remember correctly

It got fixed like month ago in 1.20.2 snapshot

@@willparkin cubic did it in vanilla too

I thought this too, but it doesn't hold up. For instance: 149 * 2 + 1 = 299, nearest primes: 293 (-6), 307 (=8), They picked 307. My anal retentiveness really wanted to find a set pattern but failed :-P

@@NicoisLOST "anal retentiveness"? D:

@@NicoisLOST >My anal retentiveness Your what now?

​@@NicoisLOSTdid you run your python script over these "corrected" sets of primes? (for either rule) maybe something weird happens with different orb size choices

Is 13 a prime number? It chooses 17 over 13 despite 13 being closer.

I'd be interested in whether we can use the grouping mechanic to pull out orbs of a certain size. That's assuming that the orbs will snap into stacks the same way items do

Maybe something where you spawn the first bunch of xp "manually" until you have the orbs where you want them and then activate the farm so they fill up the stacks where you want them

as a 3rd year student, I can assure you - it's not, unfortunately

@@dzuchun as a non-student, anyone can assure that

@@danisob3633as anyone, I assure you that math isnt real

​@@milesdsyas a single peice of you, i can say youre wrong, but only mostly

​@@jc_art_as a single carbon atom in that piece, na he's right

Colonialism 2 Electric Boogaloo

Sounds like more of the effect of communism.

Opposed to communism which is murder, exploitation, and destruction.

Now that I think of it technical servers mass enslave villagers and other mobs, destroy giant areas just for better farm rates and produce enough emissions and waste to destroy an entire climate

its not fractional, its discrete.

​@@nikolasscholz7983wouldn't it still have a dimensionality though, just of a line? So 1?

@@abyssaljam441 dimensionality is kinda weird on non continuous sets. what dimension does the set {1,2,3,4} have? now map each of the elements onto another set of 4 elements and you have a structure thats similar to what is shown (just with more elements per set).

@@nikolasscholz7983 I guess, you can always double it, and get a really continious-looking graph in the end then, we should define what our object actually is. I propose it being a set of rectangles, kinda like histogram then, you can measure how it's area changes, when you double it's length. my guess it that it will be between 2 and 4-times increase, and thus this structure would have fractional dimentionality although, the more I think about it, the more I feel like it will still be just 2 :sad:

@@nikolasscholz7983 yeah, about {1,2,3,4} set - I meant geometric dimentionality as I understand it, so we need to define some sort of geometric object to compute it

21st and 37 hmmm /Laughs in Polish/

that's not possible but yes

Yes.. but go just one more ;-)

@@NicoisLOST Nevermind then! Yeah there probably isn't a pattern to this... lol

lol