After many hours of research, I have finally compiled a table, and a graph to show the quickest way to obtain grass on skyblock survival. Each activity was tested 5 times before the mean was taken from the results. Results such as mob arena, island labour, and donations are unstable, therefore slightly unreliable and rely on luck, the time of day, and the wealth of other players if helping them. From my results, I can infer that map art is the best way of obtaining grass, but can be expensive from either buying the island yourself, or renting one out. Mob arena closely follows and then comes labour and donations. Although these once again are unstable values. Looking at the stable values; other than map art, shulkers are the most efficient way of gaining grass and almost double the speed of obtaining quartz. I would like to do some more things like this as I found gathering this data really interesting. I have several ideas of future data representation ideas which I'll no doubt be uploading in the upcoming months. I hope this chart helped at least 1 person. July/August 2020 update: Page 3
Gold was a surprising one. First of all, you have to kill the pigmen, then craft the nuggets into ingot, then the ingots into blocks. This means an average of 2430 nuggets were gained during the hour. Zombie pigmen drop an average of 0.25 nuggets meaning 9720 pigmen were killed during the hour. Again, gold doesn't sell for as much as it used to (approx. 10:1/12:1 these days). In theory, the grass obtained should be even less than I stated if anything. Glad I helped someone, haha. Mission accomplished.
Unfortunately I didn’t have a casino to experiment with. If I ever update this, I’ll be sure to gather data from one of them!
I'm told casino's can make upwards of 64 grass a day, but yeah upfront build cost if you are unable to build yourself is like a SC or DC of grass iirc
Where can I get paid two stacks of grass for an hour of island labor? Best I've ever been able to get is 32 grass per hour, sometimes less if I'm just doing things like building a 199x199 stone platform :dead
You would be surprised. If you get the right people, you can earn a lot. I recently just finished a project this morning where I had to build a villa and a yacht. It took approx 2-3 hours, but got paid this for it.
This is really interesting. For interest in the perspective, just a quick question about begging... did you do it from a non-donor account or your own?
What made me laugh reading the begging section was that it related to a certain player who I assisted recently and they were saying they had died and lost everything and can I give them 2 stacks to get started again, now usually I would help but I happened to know this person had asked everyone online and managed to rake in 14 stacks to pay for a rank upgrade by asking loads of people for 2 stacks because they died. If you are a smart beggar bordering on lying, you can make plenty because a lot of us are nice enough to care and help others. 14stacks!! In a few hours...
Begging was done on my alt account of which at the time was barely known and had skylord. I tried this again after the account was upgraded to skytitan, also donations became easier to get and there was such a large difference that I decided to delete the results because the average increased so much. It would be interesting to see this from an account without a rank- but at this time, that wasn’t possible for me. It wasn’t one specific player. Donations came from all over. My largest donations from one person was 14 grass.
You got more donations on a Skytitan account than on a Skylord or no-rank? That's been the inverse of my experience. When I was Skyking, people would donate stacks of grass at a time, or give me beacons and fun things like that. When I was Skylord, donations slowed down a bit, and people mostly just tossed a few grass here and there. Once I was Skytitan, donations became non-existent, and most of my donations were just funny named items or loot from my mob grinder that the person didn't want. He's asking who paid you that much to build something, not about the donations.
