BeachComber - fast and efficient beach combing

[Veracity]

(9063,3,7) is a rare?

> BeachComberUtilities combed verbose

Loading rare tile data...
Loading verified rare tile data...
Loading uncommon tile data...
Loading common tile data...
Loading beach head data...
Loading sand castle data...
Loading combed tile data...
Done loading tile data
There is 1 unknown combed tile on 1 beach.
    (9063,3,7)

That is, literally, the only tile I have only seen as "combed" which is not in combo's raretiles.json.

By the way - once I have seen all "combed" tiles, I will update my data files to make columns run from 1-10, rather than 0-9.
I sort of understand why combo did that - the _beachLayout property lists rows from 1-10, but then gives a 10-character string for each row - and the character index in the string runs from 0-9 - but that's a computer-readability thing, not a sensible human-readable notation.

 

[Irrat]

Funny. So 1001 rare tiles.
We could have a false rare, but frankly it should've been found by now and I'm assuming you've have mentioned it if you found it.

As Rinn said in discord, 1001 is similar enough to 11
Funny enough of a number, 1002 and 999 is just weird.

I have 198 rares to verify, no other tiles remaining.

1/24/2024, 11:50:36 AM  1706050236      Sand: 949,500
1/24/2024, 11:50:36 AM  1706050236      Uncommon Sparkle: 48,976
1/24/2024, 11:50:36 AM  1706050236      Rare Sparkle: 803
1/24/2024, 11:50:36 AM  1706050236      Castle: 512
1/24/2024, 11:50:36 AM  1706050236      Unknown tiles: 198
1/24/2024, 11:50:36 AM  1706050236      Head: 11

 

[Veracity]

I added that "combed" tile to tiles.rare.json (which now has 1001 entries) and removed it from tiles.combed.json (which now has 0 entries).
I therefore removed detection of new combed tiles; the only remaining ones are simply unverified rares.
I changed "spade all" to go after unverified rares rather than "combed" - and stop after it has looked at all of them.
I also removed "combed" and "uncommon" from BeachComberUtilities, since they are no longer useful.

Iterating over 10,000 beaches, 10 rows, 10 columns

Total rares = 1001
(Unverified rares = 377)
Total uncommons = 48976
Total commons = 949500
Total beach heads = 11
Total sand castles = 512
Total: 1000000

You have 198 unverified rares and I have 377 of them. Other than that, aside from terminology, we are in agreement.

I guess I am gradually removing "spading" features. Once I have personally seen all 1,000,000 tiles, MY spading will be done.
I'll adjust the data format to be more human (rather than machine) readable, and tiles.{rare,uncommon,common,head,castle}.json will be the ground truth for every tile on the beach.

And BeachComber will simply be functionally equivalent to a more efficient version of combo.

 

[Veracity]

Revision 37 adds another 51 verified rares. It also publishes tiles.combed.json, which contains the remaining 332 unverified rares.
BeachComber spade all will visit only beaches with unverified rares that are not washed by the tides.

Next revision:

- I'll be simplifying the format of the various tiles.xxx.json files to be much more compact and, presumably, much faster to load.
- I'll also be generating a tiles.txt data file which has a million lines keyed 1-1000000 and a single string - rare, uncommon, common, head, castle, combed. "combed" is assumed to be "rare", but is not yet verified (by me). That will readable by file_to_map().

Total rares = 1001
(Unverified rares = 332)
Total uncommons = 48976
Total commons = 949500
Total beach heads = 11
Total sand castles = 512
Total combed = 332
Total: 1000000

row	rare	(combed	#)	uncommon	common	head	castle	#
10	183	77	76	4992	94825	0	0	0
9	172	66	66	4808	95017	3	0	0
8	133	47	47	4897	94962	8	0	0
7	117	45	45	4845	94945	0	93	84
6	99	42	42	4910	94991	0	0	0
5	60	28	28	4928	95012	0	0	0
4	79	19	19	4931	94794	0	196	156
3	67	4	4	4884	95049	0	0	0
2	54	2	2	4841	95105	0	0	0
1	37	2	2	4940	94800	0	223	178

Accumulating tidal data for 10 rows

row	rare	(combed	#)	uncommon	common	head	castle	#
10	183	77	76	4992	94825	0	0	0
9	355	143	142	9800	189842	3	0	0
8	488	190	189	14697	284804	11	0	0
7	605	235	233	19542	379749	11	93	84
6	704	277	274	24452	474740	11	93	84
5	764	305	302	29380	569752	11	93	84
4	843	324	319	34311	664546	11	289	164
3	910	328	323	39195	759595	11	289	164
2	964	330	325	44036	854700	11	289	164
1	1001	332	327	48976	949500	11	512	180

 

[Veracity]

While verifying three more rares today, I found a beached whale and a meteorite fragment.

Spading is its own reward, but today was a tad special!

 

[Irrat]

I still have 58 rares to verify, but I've updated https://kol.coldfront.net/thekolwiki/index.php/Comb_the_Beach with the % chances for beach outcomes from what I've logged.
I've also updated it to include the distribution of tiles.

I need to post a github page now

 

[Irrat]

Irrat's Beach Retreat

libraryaddict.github.io

Here we go. It could be improved and definitely could have the source tiles and whatnot included and compiled into said packed version..
But there's only so much effort its worth.
I'm currently on like, 52 rares left to verify. But I just marked every unverified tile as a rare for the built file.