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no warning messages with mine...


==How long do these things actually last?==
I decided to blow up the Chef-in-the-box that I installed at the end of this run, and I am seriously into the multiple hundreds of items with this thing. It clanks, it rattles, it vibrates, but it will not explode. Since starting this talk post, I fed it 100 pie tins and wads of dough, and nothing. Then I fed it another 100 of each, one at a time, and still nothing. I've seriously spent multiple times as much trying to break it as it cost in the first place. [[User:Id the Mildly Forgetful|Id the Mildly Forgetful]] 07:49, 6 March 2012 (CET)
*Since the last cooking revamp only certain foods will cause an explosion. Making pie crusts won't do it. I think it is only fancy cooking that counts. --{{User:Club/sig}} 08:05, 6 March 2012 (CET)
**The box servants will only explode when making something with fancy ingredients, that is true. Otherwise they'd be soaking up non-existent turns for crafting.--[[User:Toffile|Toffile]] 08:21, 6 March 2012 (CET)

==Parts from Explosions==
Has anyone started to collect data on how many parts you typically get from explosions? It occured to me after I blew one up today and only got one part (a [[spring]]) in addition to the random food items. I've never seen so few parts from an explosion before. --{{User:Club/sig}} 19:16, 17 May 2007 (CDT)

- I've been working on this; I've recorded the data for 53 so far, and I will analyze it when I've done over 1000. I've now got a multi doing nothing but building and breaking boxen, so it should move more quickly now. --[[User:Maddsurgeon|Maddsurgeon]] 00:34, 22 June 2007 (CST)

I was able to get 164 iterations with my chef before it blew.  I got six parts back; the skull broke, but other than that everything's just fine.  --[[User:Claymore|Claymore]] 15:51, 27 December 2007 (CST)
:No I wasn't, I only got 82.  I multiplied when I shouldn't have.  But I did still get back all my items.  w00t.  --[[User:Claymore|Claymore]] 07:59, 28 December 2007 (CST)

I am now trying to figure out the chances of different items coming back, but it would help if people would buy some of the pear tarts I am cooking at low prices. Then I would be able to afford more chef-in-the-boxes and cooking ingredients.--[[User:Larryboy|Larryboy]] 18:56, 2 August 2008 (CDT)

I should preface this comment by saying that I haven't collected nearly enough data for anything definite. I've only started recording the results of normal chef use out of curiosity, so I have about 50 samples.

That being said: for the components, there's definitely a fixed chance of each being recovered, independently of any of the others. It seems to be 40% for the box and spring, 50% for the hat, 60% for the brain and the oven, and 75% for a broken skull. I have yet to see a smart skull appear, so if it does the chances of that could be around 1%.

For the food items, an alternate mechanism is used. Either 3 or 4 items will be returned. A random food will be picked for each of the 3-4 "slots", with a definitely skewed probability. So far, I'm guessing that each food has one of four different probabilities, with the white chocolate and tomato pizza having the lowest. But this last part really needs more data to check. --[[User:DarkerLine|DarkerLine]] 21:42, 26 November 2008 (UTC)