Advanced diamond drill: fortune III or silk touch?

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What enchant gets the most out of mining?


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SatanicSanta

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Make both :) Figure out which ores you can get more out of using silk touch, or fortune and mine those with that specific enchant (if that makes any sense). I'm reading this over and realize it doesn't make much sense, but if you understand it, great, if you do not, tell me and I will try to explain better.

My Advanced Diamond Drill (Ore Destroyer), has Efficiency 4, and Fortune 3 on it, and it's awesome. I would make a Silk Touch Drill but I've already had to make 2 Advanced Diamond Drills in this world, and don't feel like doing it again (thank's Nether :/).
 

Oatmonster

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I find that an efficiency 4 rock cutter is enough for my silk touch needs, it never runs out of juice either when I'm wearing my advanced nano.
 

SatanicSanta

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I find that an efficiency 4 rock cutter is enough for my silk touch needs, it never runs out of juice either when I'm wearing my advanced nano.

Sorry to digress, but I am just wondering, can Advanced Nano Jetpack Armor or whatever the hell that armor piece is called be used to craft Quantum armor?
 

Betadan

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Sadly it cannot. But honestly i prefer the Advanced nano when puttering around my base and Gravi when exploring.
 

DoctorOr

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With GregTech or Factorization you can get more than Fortune III from most silktouched ores.
 

SatanicSanta

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Sadly it cannot. But honestly i prefer the Advanced nano when puttering around my base and Gravi when exploring.

AAAARRRGGGGHHHHH! That's annoying. I probably will never craft one of those things than, even though Nano Armor is super cheap I would much rather not just have a random piece of nano armor sitting around my storage area not doing anything. Ugh, that's super obnoxious, and hopefully it will be a thing that happens in 1.5 or 1.6.
 

Poppycocks

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AAAARRRGGGGHHHHH! That's annoying. I probably will never craft one of those things than, even though Nano Armor is super cheap I would much rather not just have a random piece of nano armor sitting around my storage area not doing anything. Ugh, that's super obnoxious, and hopefully it will be a thing that happens in 1.5 or 1.6.
Lol, the personal quirks people have amaze me sometimes :D.

Adv. nano is great, easy to acquire, works well, and after you get gravi, there's no need to feel bad about ritually burning it in lava if you really can't stand the idea of storing an useless bit of armor.

You could also just stick it on a armor stand for pretties.
 

SatanicSanta

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Lol, the personal quirks people have amaze me sometimes :D.

Adv. nano is great, easy to acquire, works well, and after you get gravi, there's no need to feel bad about ritually burning it in lava if you really can't stand the idea of storing an useless bit of armor.

You could also just stick it on a armor stand for pretties.

It's actually kind of funny, I have 3 naga chest plates in my storage at home, and a very close to broken pair of steel legs in my quarry chests :p. I would rather just use a jetpack and save my nano armor until I get iridium. I keep the jetpack for an emergency if I die somewhere.
 

Poppycocks

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The 10 minutes spent making adv. nano and its constant use will save you wast amounts of time :). Less walking, less re-charging and more defense means you can keep on doing the important stuff instead of focusing on survival.
 

JezuitX

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Also, why are people acting like it isn't ridiculously easy to make another nano chest piece in no time. It's just coal, a diamond, and some redstone. It's cheaper than making diamond armor for pete sake.
 

Poppycocks

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Also, why are people acting like it isn't ridiculously easy to make another nano chest piece in no time. It's just coal, a diamond, and some redstone. It's cheaper than making diamond armor for pete sake.
Well, adv. nano is a bit more complex than that, there's even a few non-stackables, but it's still rather easy to build.
 

Bibble

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I quite like the Advanced Nano armour, mainly because I don't usually invest in mass fab until quite far through, and it gives some of the advantages of the other "good" armours (MPS, gravisuit, etc.) of charging tools, defending, and allowing flight. I's even easier to make with AE, and I don't really have any issue with it lying around afterwards (hell, the amount of random armour I pick up every now and then, it's nice to have one that I actually WANT to wear when things go wrong and I lose whichever one I'm wearing at the time).
 

Bomb Bloke

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I find that an efficiency 4 rock cutter is enough for my silk touch needs, it never runs out of juice either when I'm wearing my advanced nano.
This. Some things get better yield from fortune, some get better yield from silk touch. The solution is to have both at hand, but making another drill is a waste of resources when you've got the rock cutter option sitting there.

You can also use a secondary efficiency IV book on these tools to bring them up to V.
 

atheneftw

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This. Some things get better yield from fortune, some get better yield from silk touch. The solution is to have both at hand, but making another drill is a waste of resources when you've got the rock cutter option sitting there.

You can also use a secondary efficiency IV book on these tools to bring them up to V.
but the rock cutter is very slow isnt it? i honestly dont see the point of it..
 

gusmahler

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Get both. Sometimes you not only do you not need silk touch, you don't want silk touch (e.g., I don't want leaves, I want saplings).