What is worth silk touching?

[bwillb]

With the current versions of Gregtech, Thermal Expansion, and all the other mods, what is currently worth silk touching? What would you be better off using a fortune pick on?

 

[zooqooo]

Fortune is better than silk touch for pretty much everything. A vague answer I know, but I can't think of any exceptions

 

[KowKrisis]

Only time I can really think someone might want to use silk touch is with the gregtech industrial grinder. You will have to look to NEI to see if anything is worth doing that as I do not have any on the top of my head.

 

[MrRobbie]

Red Stone also..when pulverized (TE) you get 8 dust per ore block.

 

[DoctorOr]

Fortune is almost never worth more than silk touch, if you use an industrial grinder. Coal and some nether ores are the only times.

http://forum.feed-the-beast.com/threads/what-do-i-do-with-guide.4925/
(I need to update that for some changes in v8)

 

[Someguy]

Fortune is almost never worth more than silk touch, if you use an industrial grinder. Coal and some nether ores are the only times.

http://forum.feed-the-beast.com/threads/what-do-i-do-with-guide.4925/
(I need to update that for some changes in v8)

Yeah please do, I refer to your guide all the time. Great job.

 

[noskk]

It's easier to list the ores you might want to siltktouch, mostly in I.grinder:
1. Redstone ore(to save space when mining+you get 10 in I.grinder+ small piece of glowstne dust), fortune 3 on average gives 2.20*4.5 (around 9.9)..
2. Nikolite ore(if you need diamond dust)
3. Soon (added at GT 2.77g): Coal Ore(GT grinder: if you want thorium, or 3.5 coal in Factorizatin grinder)
4. Diamond ore(if you need diamond dust)
5. RUBY ORE (chrome FTW)
6. Uranium Ore (2 uranium+plutonium(GT 2.77f) )
7. Olivine Ore(for the emerald dust)
8. Sodalite Ore (not so important but more sodalite dust for more sodium persulfate)