Cow Numbers

[Starrider]

Cow Numbers

I've just recently been wondering if there is any indication of how many cows actually spawn in the Secret Cow Level. I'm guessing somewhere in the realm of 100-150?

 

[Frosty_The_Snowman]

I've just recently been wondering if there is any indication of how many cows actually spawn in the Secret Cow Level. I'm guessing somewhere in the realm of 100-150?

Dunno, but a good way to figure it out roughly would be to check your experience before and after you clear the entire level, and divide the difference with the experience granted by a single cow :xmas12:.

It seems to me someone already asked this question, trying to put an end to the "Full book of TP" myth. Maybe using the search button will give some hints :scratch: ?

[HIGHLIGHT]EDIT :[/HIGHLIGHT] 3333th post :xmas9: !

 

[F1R3STR1D3R]

How are you supposed to kill just one cow? I'm too uber-leet that it's impossible...

Just did a test with my level 90 sorc in a single player game.
Starting EXP = 1621127638
EXP after killing one cow = 1621128203
EXP per cow = 1621128203 - 1621127638 = 565
Ending EXP = 1621659433
EXP Gained = 1621659433 - 1621127638 = 531795
Number of Cows = 531795 / 565 = 941

What a bad test. That can't be right. Those damn minions/uniques ruined it.


On a related topic, lets see who can beat my time for totally clearing a Hell cow level (except Cow King) in single player closed of 4:46.90.

 

[Orphan]

There's two types of monster spawns, the ones that are set in stone, and the random ones. For the cow level, the cow king will always spawn, so that's set in stone, but everything else is virtually random.

Monster density is set in the Levels.txt. For example, the monster density for the cow level is 800, on all 3 difficulties. The problem though, is that I don't think anyone outside of Blizzard actually know what this figure translate to.

Levels.txt can tell us how many unique/champion monsters will spawn though. The Normal Cow Level can have between 0-1 "unique" groups, Nightmare Cows can have between 3-4 and Hell Cows can have between 6-8. By "unique", I mean unique and champion packs.

Also, the cow groups can be between 5-10 cows.

 

[Merick1]

Someone specifically studied this before, when people did cow runs all day.
I think his answer was around 350.

 

[Frosty_The_Snowman]

Another way would be consisting in killing all the cows with a summoner necro, and then raising the corpses one by one into skeletons, so you can count them all precisely . Longer, but more efficient than the XP thing, possibly.