Editing Guides/Mine Mixing (section)

=== Bringing Food ===
OKay so how do you determine how much of the food to bring? Takes a lot of math huh? Lets, see. Now that you figured out how much each HE weighs when running up to the mine with the ings, you have multiply that number with the food cost, then divided by the amount of points your food gives. Say you had 120 emu left over to stock up on the ings, this means you can make 66 HEs at the mine if you used FPs or bones as food(120/1.8). The chart will help you understand the math you'll need to do:

*'''BONE : 66(HEs) * 8(food cost) = 528 (total food cost) / 10 (Food points from bone) = 52.8 bones'''
*'''FP      : 66(HEs) * 8(food cost) = 528 (total food cost) / 50 (Food points from FP) = 10.56 FPs'''
*'''TOAD : 66 (HEs) * 8(food cost) = 528 (total food cost) / 10 (Food points from toad) = 52.8 toads'''
*'''FRUIT : 66(HEs) * 8(food cost) = 528 (total food cost) / 20 (Food points from fruit) = 26.4''' fruit'''

So, you should have every thing you need now. Once you head to the mine, you notice you're full! No worries, just drop 25 flowers on the ground and mix until you have enough room to pick them up and have room to harvest/mix (I usually do this at 46 free emu, that way, when I pick up the flowers, i have 21 emu free to harvest,allowing me to collect 10 silver ore, and 1 emu left over to mix). If you teleport off the bag, it's only 25 flowers lost if someone BJ, so no big loss.

This method also allows you to bring BACK some of the item you harvested because of the left over space. In this case of 66 HEs, if you used bones as your food, you'll get to bring back 26 or so silver (weight of the food).

I would say it's a lot faster than go to the silver mine 2 or 3 times for that same amount of HEs to mix at the storage (and that's just the silver). This method is much better used with things that need iron though.

I do this successfully with Steel Bars. Bringing coal/FE to the iron mine. It allows to me to carry about 1/3 of the iron I use back to the storage.