by hazzor » Tue Jun 18, 2013 2:11 pm Bones
Each animal has a quality cap on it's bones, assuming all animals are level 10 they are;
Mouflon, Rabbits, wild Chickens & Aurochs - 10
Fox - 40 (Level*4)
Boar - 80 (Level*8)
Deer - 100 (Level*10)
Bear - 200 (Level*20)
Troll - 425 (175+Level*25) but as a troll's level is dependant on it's cave level, the max is 5, which gives a Q of 300
to use bears as an example, the quality calculation is - (Level*20 + Survival)/2
to do this simply you can just add your survival to 200 and then half it, so if you have survival 50, half of 250 is 125.
Handily, with bears, the quality of bones goes up in increments of 5 with each 10 points of survival, at 60 you'll get quality 130 bones, until you cap their quality at 200 with survival 200.
Wood
The easiest to acquire wood at >q10 is boards, since you can take a high Q bonesaw and cut a q10 log into boards and get boards of quality based on this calculation
From that calculation, using quality 10 trees (the ones you find everywhere) you can determine quickly what quality board you can expect.
to determine the quality of a bonesaw,
so with Q125 bones (50 survival from a bear) and a Q10 branch, you can make a q78 bonesaw. That's because 50 survival is lower than the Q106 saw that the calculation spits out, you add the 106 to your survival (in this case, 50) and divide the answer by 2, which gives you 78.
with that bonesaw, you can use
Using that, you can see that you're going to get Q28 boards from a Q10 log, assuming your carpentry is high enough.
however even using a Q200 saw you're only going to get Q45 boards from base quality trees, so it's worth farming them, which brings us to the scary subject of tree quality.
The calculation ( which is approximate as the quality varies randomly) is
so if we try to use fairly average values and you start with a Q10 seed, from a wild tree, and use Q10 water and Q20 soil, and a Q20 pot on a Q20 herbalist table. The calculation spits out Q40 (-2+5) but the Q can be pulled down by your farming level, and environmental effects like people walking over the babby tree or taking products (branches etc.) from a tree that isn't fully matured. (these are both from experience, not sure if they're completely correct)
So if we did indeed get a tree at exactly Q40 (which you would check by taking a branch from it when it's fully matured) and cut it down to boards with your Q78 saw, they would come out at Q56, which is higher than from a Q10 tree with a Q200 saw, GREAT SUCCESS
I may add more to this, It's really only relevant to things that I'm doing right now, so if anything it'll be metalworking values and baking stuff, if you want to add anything though feel free and I'll edit the good ones in.
