User blog comment:Scooter8pie/Pit Mobs/@comment-4583259-20111130063843/@comment-4501235-20111130204531

I am so glad you worded your compliment exactly the way you did. :-) If you had written it any other way, I would have thought you were being insincere.  I embrace my neuroticism.  Some people would say I had OCD.  I prefer to think of myself as exceedingly particular.

You were actually the catalyst that started me counting the number of block destroyed by a brown mob's blast. When you told me that you noticed that blocks above you were being destroyed, whereas I thought it was mainly below and to the sides. I realized I was leaving too much head room in my tests. And I wondered what the proportion of the blocks above were destroyed compared to the blocks below. In explore mode it's easy to count. I know the size of my stack before I start filling the blast hole in and compare it to what's left in my stack when I'm finished. In creative mode it's pretty tedious. My data set isn't big enough to make a good estimate. The test above was the largest blast to date, The others have all been under 400. I'm wondering if it was because there were other mobs in there with it? I'm not going to go through the trouble of finding out. I'm not even sure I'm going to do any more tests. I did one with Blue Gravel, but that's a story for another day.