Digging Straight Down: A Meep Experiment

This idea was 100% stolen from @Iridium "SAW" Ore in his thread:
http://meepcraft.com/threads/chances-of-finding-something-by-chance.55073/

So, I think it would be fun for us to take some data to deduce the probability of finding ores when digging straight down. To take part in this experiment, all you have to do is dig straight down. Ignore all caverns and mineshafts you run into, just keep digging until you hit lava or bedrock. After you finish a dig make sure you record your data then /random to a new spot and start again. While digging record any ores that are directly beneath you, or directly around you (So digging into a cavern and seeing iron 10 blocks away doesn't count). Below is the survey I would like you all to use:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1voD9QUYklqw8rOqVNFGFQnCHKrmsR-tgKaMOJz1AKMU/viewform?usp=send_form

Once you finish a survey it should pop up a link to do it again, so fill it out as many times as you want. It would be awesome if we could get at least 100 data points to make this more accurate, but if that doesn't happen it's perfectly alright. If the thread blows up to some ridiculous number (I hope), I will try and post results for every 100 data points.

 

Could make a Google Drive survey for this and then be able to tally things quicker if that was what you were going for.

 

(Reserving spot)

Data Point: 1
Emerald: No
Diamond: No
Gold: No
Iron: Yes
Coal: Yes
Redstone: No
Lapis: No

Data Point: 2
Emerald: No
Diamond: No
Gold: No
Iron: Yes
Coal: No
Redstone: Yes
Lapis: No

Data Point: 3
Emerald: No
Diamond: Yes
Gold: No
Iron: Yes
Coal: No
Redstone: No
Lapis: No

Data Point: 4
Emerald: No
Diamond: No
Gold: No
Iron: Yes
Coal: No
Redstone: No
Lapis: No

Data Point: 5
Emerald: No
Diamond: No
Gold: No
Iron: Yes
Coal: No
Redstone: No
Lapis: No

Data Point: 6
Emerald: No
Diamond: No
Gold: No
Iron: No
Coal: Yes
Redstone: No
Lapis: No

Data Point: 7
Emerald: No
Diamond: No
Gold: No
Iron: No
Coal: Yes
Redstone: No
Lapis: No

 

Yeah that would be the better method, but I'm not well learned on the art of google drive surveys.

 

I am a master of Google Drive surveys, lemme know if you need help

 

Why u so ugleh, No beauty sleep?

 

idk maybe because i am not a girl to rely on makeup to make me look pretty

 

Thanks for the help! I changed the format to a google drive survey to make things easier, but I will record all your previous results into the survey

 

Data Point: 1
Emerald: No
Diamond: No
Gold: No
Iron:No
Coal: No
Redstone: Yes
Lapis: No

Data Point: 2
Emerald: No
Diamond:No
Gold: No
Iron: Yes
Coal: No
Redstone: No
Lapis: No

Data Point: 3
Emerald: No
Diamond: No
Gold: No
Iron:Yes
Coal: Yes
Redstone: No
Lapis: No

 

Thanks for the help! I changed the format to a google drive survey to make things easier, but I will record all your previous results into the survey

 

You don't have to post your results, as long as you take the survey.

 

shhh...
my bad.

 

that seems like a neat idea I was curious so I wrote a quick plugin to do some sampling in the wild. Here's 15000 records for you.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Puqj5hP_FFEZ7hCe6ntjXwCox_tr2cjqj6Pph_Zzut4/edit?usp=sharing
Not only included if an ore was found but how many were found. The plugin used /randoms coordinate system and tested the block under it and the block in every direction N S E W moving down a block till it hit 0 15000 times.

 

This is really cool, and that is a pretty nice set of numbers. While it is nowhere near as big as testing even 1% of wild, assuming it is still a 20k by 20k block area, it kind of shows how lucky you really have to get when mining up certain things. Hmmm.

 

Yet no one here is willing to spend 10 minutes on math homework

 

Try 1
Coal:No
Iron:No
Gold:No
Lapis:No
Redstone:No
Diamond:No
Emerald:No
Spawner:No

Try 2
Coal:No
Iron:No
Gold:No
Lapis:No
Redstone:No
Diamond:Yes, 2
Emerald:No
Spawner:No

Try 3
Coal:No
Iron:Yes, 3
Gold:No
Lapis:No
Redstone:No
Diamond:No
Emerald:No
Spawner:No

 

interesting data on mob spawners

@DBLOSEVN any way you could include mossy cobble stone to give us an idea of the probability of digging near a spawner? and run it again?

 

HotAsianBeans I decided to make you a good forms application to submit a data point, go here ---> http://goo.gl/forms/nCr0YPa25o TO VIEW FORM ENTRIES GO HERE ---> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet...74jKePJLmptR4RRtb-Sv_NOWo/edit#gid=1040607345

 

I got banned for digging straight down!