Diregoldleaf

Yes maybe > Tempering 22 times is not exactly practical for most people, and it may get patched out if they end up adjusting the in-game behavior to match the handbook guide ATM tempering is harmful/useless due to the cumulative shatter chance and you shouldn't temper at all (I used the old maths so could be wrong here)

Firstly, my maths was off, not sure where I got the obtainability graph but it's clearly wrong starting at 2 quenches with 99% obtainability. You are right saying 50% shatter chance doesn't guarantee 2 tool heads because of different outcomes, but I am not guaranteeing an outcome, just working on simple averages. Basically what I'm saying is, with an obtainability of 50%, 1/2 tools will shatter therefore you'd need an average of 2. You could have different success rates like 95% 80% etc, which is what you're saying All off the maths is based off of early (and wrong) assumptions as well as testing, everything looks a whole lot easier to calculate from the code Not sure what you are trying to say here as you'd never end a tool in a temper. But let's say you did 5 Quenches, Temper, then Quench, .95 * .9 * .85 * .8 * .75 * .71 which is 31%. Makes sense that the obtainability would be higher after a temper Great chart btw, very helpful. I think the numbers are a little off though, at 0 quench 0 temper, the shatter chance should be 5%. I think it also does matter which route you take, looking at the code. The reason I assumed shatter chance was 0 with a new falx is cos you can't temper it. If it's at 5% they should change it so you can temper before 1st quench

Fair enough, I must've heard it from a youtube video or read it somewhere. Either way, it's wrong. As you can see from the tree, I've tempered many many more times than the tool has been quenched, as well as vice versa, albiet in creative mode (someone tested it in survival mode) I wouldn't trust the handbook though, the tempering and quenching pages aren't written well and are not very clear, and there are errors. Here it's supposed to say "if your quenching", not tempering image.png

Did you read it with your eyes closed, or your mind Thank you so much, I will look into this I haven't played it in survival so I'm only talking from theory, but the way I see it, you'd need 8 toolheads and a load of spare time. If someone manages to make a tool with 50% power gain, they deserve it. I can see where you're coming from though, a copper falx with 50% dmg bonus is stronger than steel. I would agree this is OP. What I'm more worried about is the tempering mechanic not being fixed

So I made a mini tree for quench-temper combinations. At the moment tempering is broken, but when it is fixed, we can mathematically calculate the best possible combination to get to a certain part of the tree. PS, yes in the handbooks says you can only go linear quench-temper-quench etc, but either they lied, it's bugged (thus I wasted my time), or they changed it in a pre release. Either way, this tree mechanic is WAY more fun than the boring linear thing. I've done some testing across the tree and I've got into the ballpark of what the shatter-chance and power-gain curves look like. Shatter chance is linear (gradient is 5), but for power-gain I highly suspect it isn't a single function, but multiple, and, using regression, I was only able to plot it semi-accurately to a quartic function. Different curves for different routes through the quench-temper tree. As for tempering, it looks like an exponential curve, though I couldn't match it completely. Green function is the power gain; red is the shatter chance. At the moment tempering is useless, broken, and harmful I made a post on it on discord, hope the devs see it. I put everything into tables. Here's some common obtainability chances after quenching a toolhead a certain number of times. Notice at 18 quenches in the far right table, the shatter chance and power gain drop, almost like a tempering mechanic. Not sure if this is intended but it fits into the quartic curve well. At 0.004% obtainability though, no one will ever have to worry about that (you've have to go through 250,000 tool heads) Plotting it on a graph shows us how unobtainable certain quench numbers are. We can use this to calculate how many toolheads we'd need to get to a certain obtainability. For example, if I want to do 6 quenches (and get 40% power gain), it is ~55% obtainability, meaning I'd need 1/.55 ~= 2 toolheads. We can also do this backwards. If I have 10 toolheads to sacrifice, how many quenches would I be able to get probabilistically? 1/10 means I'd need at least 10% cumulative shatter chance, and we can see about 11% gives us 10 quenches. 9 tools shatter, 1 remains, giving us ~58% power gain. And finally, the chart for how many toolheads you'd need for different number of quenches (Q#, no tempering). Please devs show me the functions you used for shatter chance, power gain etc. I spent too long on this If I'm able to get the exact functions, I will use it to write a python code that gives you the best possible path to get to a certain part of the tree. Some changes I would make to the system -Return metal from shattered toolheads -Allow removal of toolhead from tool to allow re-quenching. This would make the whole system more dynamic.