I've decided that I want to a bit of silk touch automining, which is why i'm aiming to get an arcane bore. I've tried it out in a test world and it seems pretty good. However, i'm worried that my tools might break while its going, so it won't be silk-touching them anymore. Is there a way to somehow automatically shut it off before they break?
Question about the arcane bore
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If the tools break it stops altogether. I don't think there is a built in way to stop it when the tools are about to break. You could maybe try stopping it automatically after a certain amount of time or having a turtle remove the tool and compare it to another one or something?
As I recall (it's been a while since I used it), the Bore requires both the wand and the pick in order to function. It also won't break them. I think it stops just at the breaking point, meaning that you can repair the tools, or they can repair themselves if they have the enchant.
It does indeed need both a mining wand and a pickaxe. I'm about to set up a test world to see if this is the case(the stopping bit, I mean).
Well, ive played with the arcane bore for a bit. Its pretty quick, but it doesn't clear out all the blocks within its radius like I thought it would. It just destroys a seemingly random selection of blocks and then stops. Is there a way to make it destroy all blocks in its range?
I waited. It eventually had a hole to bedrock. A clean one, except for the edges. Also I may need to use a different test zone. Tundra's aren't very deep, so the tools were barely scratched. Plus there was all those caves...
I placed the bore head on the bottom of the base. It aimed down.
The base is just a block, it can even float in mid air if you need it to. The bore head has to be attached to the base, and I placed mine on the bottom so it aimed down.(I stuck the base against some leaves because I was lazy and didn't want to have to use the Angel Block to position it)
The base is just a block, it can even float in mid air if you need it to. The bore head has to be attached to the base, and I placed mine on the bottom so it aimed down.(I stuck the base against some leaves because I was lazy and didn't want to have to use the Angel Block to position it)