Unbreaking is alot more powerfull then reinforced. Additionally to get a pick equally fast to a diamond efficiency 5 pickaxe you need a cobalt pickaxe head with 3 modifier slots used up for haste. For a shovel its even more hilarious as you pretty much need 5 slots used up for haste. Now if you factor in that reinforced is no where near as powerfull your realy not getting that good a deal.
Yes, but they are alot more expensive and/or time consuming. Getting 450 lapis for looting isnt done in a couple of minutes, mining your way from 1 lapis to 450 (it increases slowly by using the tool) isnt done fast either. Additionally, silk touch is overrated. Its a good thing its so rare in vanilla because of how mandatory fortune 3 is.
And? Are you saying coal/charcoal is rare? In vanilla play troughs i got chests filled with coal that i simply have no use for...
Ah, finally, we arive at the point where TiC's downsite shows. Yes, yes there is one. TiC tools dont last as long as vanilla tools, with the exception of the much, much, much more expensive t2 tools. The reason is obvious: Reinforced is weak compared to unbreaking. So to counter that we get to place moss on a tool that will repair it over time. But! With heavy use, 1 moss is not enough, even with reinforced 2/3. We already established that we need 3 of our slots for haste, 1 for looting wich only leaves 1 for moss. It also means we used a block of gold, a diamond and a nether star!!!. So eventually you will have to go to base to repair the pick or give it time to repair by using another. On the topic of repairing your TiC tools, you need alot more meterials to repair a TiC tool then you do a vanilla tool. Vanilla you simply slap on 3 diamonds or incase of a shovel another shovel (aka 1 diamond). With TiC you need to slap on up to 9 ingots to repair your tool. Not a big deal with cheap materials like iron/steel. But cobalt/manylian? Thats going to be quite some nether adventures to keep that one up.
And here we get to vanilla balance, you can easely maintain your tools when mining. You get more exp then it costs to repair your tools (and thats ignoring mob grinders!). You get way more diamonds then it costs to repair your tools. Ontop, diamonds are only used for making and repairing tools and armor in vanilla. So realy, vanilla tools are not hard to maintain at all....
And then we have the most important part: fun! TiC is fun to play around with all the possibility's, what strengths will you take? At wich tradeoffs? There are lots of tool combinations with different strengths and weaknesses giving you choices!!!
While vanilla is not fun at all, you either get lucky with your first enchant or your stuck grinding for more XP ontop of there being only 1 best possible tool.
If annything, vanilla tools are cheap. Cheap to get and cheap to maintain. They just require a stupid RNG mechanic thats bypassed with boring mob grinders... TiC tools are alot more expensive, but also garunteed and alot more fun to find the right tool for you.
Sure there is, a diamond shovel with eff 5 unb 3 is still the best shovel
A diamond pickaxe with Eff5 unb3 fortune 3 can still compete with the t1 TiC tools. Getting said tools however will take a considerable amount of time or simple luck in the RNG lottery thats vanilla enchanting. Additionally, depending on your game plan, getting diamond tools is actually alot faster then getting cobalt/ardite/manylian. And just like enchanting, your unlikely to spend resources on earlyer TiC tools. So with luck, getting diamond tools is better/faster.This is false. Fortune 3 does not take up 3 enchantment slots. Additionally it does not necessarily require you to put on 450 lapis either. Putting on 1 single piece of lapis will, by using it over time, grow into 450 lapis and thus looting 3 and/or fortune 3.