Lootbox - Infinite buckets do not seem worth it, if they are kept cooldown should be decreased
Submitted by redstoneisgreat
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If this gets cut off (ends in ...) please see comment.
If I fill my inventory with 27 stacks of buckets, that's 16 x 27 = 432 water/lava sources. Once filled, I can then pour these buckets with no cooldown, only having to move them around in my inventory once I empty my hotbar.
I timed myself doing this, and came up with a time of roughly 3 mins, 40 seconds to fill 432 buckets (can possibly be faster depending on practice/technique). In terms of the time to actually pour the buckets, that depends on the type of defense you are building. The most "lava-intensive" defense would likely be regen walls, most types requiring lava sources from bottom to top.
I tried filling a 100 high regen with fire resistance potions (swimming up the lava), and it took about 2 mins 10 secs. Roughly 1.3 secs per bucket placed. If we multiply this by 4.32, we get a rough estimate of 9 mins 20 secs.
If we add up the time to fill the buckets, and the time to empty them, we get roughly 13 minutes.
With an infinite bucket, pouring 432 sources with a 5 sec cooldown takes 36 minutes, almost 3x longer than doing it without infinite buckets. I don't see cost as an advantage either. By my estimate if you had only 64 buckets, you could fill + place 64 sources in just over 2 minutes, compared to 5 mins 20 secs, still over a 2.5x difference.
I'm not sure yet how I feel about lootbox exclusive basebuilding items, but as it is now, it's not worth it. A 2 sec cooldown would still be slower than regular buckets. A 1.5 sec cooldown would likely be faster for building regens, but might be slower in contexts where lava can be poured more quickly, i.e. non regen lava walls, or generating walls.
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