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Most of the cost comes from the 18 iron needed to make the plow, not counting tool use. The iron alone takes 3.6 doses to mine:

18*0.2=3.6

Water costs 0.25 kero per bucket, so with 6 buckets that's 5.1 kero. That's 666 hoe uses worth of kero needed to pay off beyond the operating cost of 5.45 per run.

The problem here isn't strictly the lengths of the runs, but how much it's used past that initial 5.45 tiles. That's determined by your rate of consumption, which is determined by the size of your society. A population of 12 is still going to take days and days of IRL time to consume all the wheat and potatos from the plow whether your runs are 10 or 100 tiles long, which means the engine will likely never get paid off. By all means, if some dingus made 4 engines then go ahead and turn one into a plow. But never make one for this purpose. For some reason everybody likes making engines, so you can probably loot a couple from a dead town before you fire up that newcomen hammer.

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I think we get a nice amount of teamwork on cooking and furnace tasks. And delegation and division of labor still counts as teamwork to me. Having someone go prep stacks of kindling is a huge help for everyone, even if they never personally use the kindling and it's an individual task.

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So each tank of crude takes 1 bucket of water to make, not counting drilling. So right away each crude use takes one bucket.

There's a 1/5 chance to get a gushing oil well each time you drill, and each gushing spot is good for 11 crude extractions on average. 5/11 =.4545

So far we have

1+0.45=1.45

But! Rolling and boring the steel into pipes also takes water in the multipurpose Newcomen engine. Assuming you can make 6 rods with each firing of the roller mechanism and bore those 6 rods with each firing of the boring mechanism that's 1/3 of a bucket of water per pipe. That's a fairly generous allotment, as firing that many takes skill, setup and a good connection. The maximum amount of water it could take is 2 buckets per pipe. So let's add that back into the drilling cost:

5.33/11=0.48
7/11=0.63

This is still pretty middling so I'm going to go ahead and average those values to 0.56, bringing us to a cost of 1.56 buckets of water per tank of crude.

Drilling also takes steel pipes, each requiring 1 iron to produce. Each iron takes 1/5 of a kerosene use in a diesel mine, and each kerosene use takes 1/6 of a tank of crude. This is a small amount, but for now we'll just call it X. The real value of X will always be greater than 0 but less than it's max value, since manual mining accounts for some amount of iron that will go into the system initially. I think this requires an infinite series to calculate, since kerosene takes itself to produce, but I'm just going to treat it as a flat value for simplicity.

1.56/30=0.052

Add that back into the cost of drilling again:

5.39/11=0.49
7.052/11=0.64

So each tank of kero takes, on average, ROUGHLY, 1.49 to 1.64 buckets of water to make. That's 0.25 to 0.27 buckets per use.

The only part of this we have any control over is how many pipes and rods we get out of each Newcomen firing, which doesn't amount to much in the equation. So if you're rolling and boring pipes for it in a dedicated fashion then go ahead and get as many as you can out, but if there's any sort of logistical cost such as storage or transportation associated with making them in advance then I would definitely pass on it. Just make enough for one trip out to the oil rig.

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