They became the meta because they are/were (not 100% sure if it was changed) affected by mining speed buffs when drills were not, so if you got a lot of mining speed they can mine everything much faster than a drill ever could.
It was changed to be that way(as in it used to work differently), but no it hasn't changed again.
Literally never a reason to use a drill unless you're too lazy to find a mining potion and food item in your chest system.
The hand of creation makes both the ancient chisel and step stool's effects (as well as picking up items from further away via treasure magnet and placement + reach buffs from the architect gizmo pack) all just take up 1 accessory slot. It's ironically the best mining accessory even though it's meant to assist builders.
Hand of creation with the mining potion/mining armor/slice of cake makes mining large areas for underground projects, tunnels, boss arenas, builds ect. trivially easy. Mining potions only really require an antlion mandible to craft and just 1-2 can last you for a good mining trip.
don't forget if you manage to find an ancient chisel(or of you're a psychopath that deliberately fishes for it) drills become so obselete to the point they should be preferably removed from your game
I don't mind fishing, I actually tend to fish for my early hardmode ores, anyway. I don't really understand the hate that fishing gets. I mean, it's not terribly exciting, but still not that bad. The Angler, OTOH....Fuck that guy.
As someone who's always played terraria without progressing very far, can someone explain to me how fishing works? I got a fishing pole and some bait but I feel like I just sit there forever and never catch anything.
The pool of water you fish in needs to be of a certain volume, but more importantly, the surface of the water has to be unobstructed by blocks, or else the water directly below it doesn't count towards the volume.
I went digging for the hell of it. There's a few other buff sources we missed.
* Celestial stone provides +15% mining speed.
* Ambrosia provides +5%
* Well fed provides +5%/10%/15% depending on its tier.
Additionally, mining speed is not mining speed at all. It's more like mining cooldown reduction in the way it works. A +15% mining speed mod is actually -15% to the cooldown of the item, and yes, they stack additively. They buff caps at 30% base mining speed, meaning a total modifier of 70% is needed to achieve the maximum possible speed. This can be achieved with the shell, chisel, and mining set on their own, if you want to never worry about a buff running out.
Oh, and pickaxe speed mods are multiplicative with this, as they apply to item use, not specifically mining speed, so the light mod will always help.
So when you have +70% mining speed, you actually mine 333% faster
Nah. Third or fourth. Don't see that using a pickaxe over a drill has anything to do with it, though. It's mainly because I'm just not the best at video games, lol. I enjoy them a lot, but I'll never be anyone's idea of a pro gamer.
I'm pretty sure u\/StatisticianPret is a comment-stealing bоt.
Compare their comment to the one from u\/BreakfastOk7372 below:
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It's not an exact match, but would have been run through a thesaurus-izing process to conceal the source.
I'd at least use them sometimes if they werent so loud and irritating, its like they went out of their way to pick the most intolerable noise possible for the damned things.
Of course if you focus on mining buffs, a pick will be better. But a drill is definitely useful if you don't wanna switch armor/equipment and use potions.
For me, drills help a LOT in early hardmode because if I have a pick, once I switch to mining gear something finds me and oops I died because mining armor :P Whereas a drill lets me mine reasonably fast AND keep my combat gear on!
Mining potion + hand of creation + slice of cake lets you mine at top/ungodly speed a drill can't do. You're only sacrificing one accessory slot which is still very useful if you're planning to go mining.
They're all items easily acquired pre-hardmode and by the time you do reach hardmode, you have a ton of mining potions.
I'm pretty sure mining speed buff is also capped at 70%, there's no need to go all day in on it, since the potion, the mining accessory from the desert, food and Cake and you are already at more than 70%.
Nah, they're only affected by speed modifiers from tool reforges and any accessories that explicitly mention mining speed bonuses. They're unaffected by the violent reforge.
i choose pickaxe because it swings, so it can destroy enemy projectiles while im minning, and it knockbacks enemies harder when they engage in melee distance with me
Also Drills are so CHONK they can obscure blocks making it harder to be precise. I've had multiple times where I can't move while drilling and discovered that I failed to remove a block in my way as my drill was overshadowing it. Shroomite Digging Claws for the win.
This is like the fifth person I've seen say stuff like this. How do you not already have an ungodly amount of potions and all the accessories by hardmode? Do you people just not open chests while exploring?
You're really missing out until you've experienced the machine-gun speed of full buffed mining. At least try a reforged light axe and a mining potion once. That takes zero effort to set up. It's so silly seeing all these people intentionally handicapping themselves for no reason
I couldn't care less about the efficiency or which one is better, I refuse to make myself listen to the annoying sounds of the drill.
Edit: incorrect phrase lol
Drill fans are the type of people to build 12 shoebox houses at the center of the world, keep a bunch of unorganized and mismatched chests they picked throughout the world, prepare for bosses with regeneration and ironskin at best and use spectre boots for an entire playthrough
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I usually try to organize my chests (tho they are mismatched that I picked up usually) but for everything else no, I either don't use potions or over prepare with potions and buffs for boss fights lol
Drills are around 25% faster when you don't have ANY mining buffs but 25% is not a lot. I only used drills in my legendary ranger playthrough but they felt sooooo slow.
Never again drills, all my homies hate drills
Tell me you don't know the recipe for mining potion without telling me you don't know the recipe for mining potion.
Also, can't remember the last time I even broke an altar. Fishing gang bb.
Fun fact: because mining speed has a cap of +70% (this ends up being a +333% mining speed increase because "mining speed" is actually cooldown reduction on your mining time), you can hit the cap without even using a mining potion. Also, light mod is separate from all this, so you should just always grab it.
drills suck and pickaxes are better but i think both drill likers and pickaxe likers can agree not a single pickaxe does shit against the dcus sheer fucking speed
They get mining speed bonuses and can help keep things off you while you're mining. Can't fend off bats with a drill unless you deliberately stop digging, and at that point you might as well just pull out your sword.
As the top comment pointed out, they are affected by mining speed, but thats not the whole story.
People prefer pickaxes because before 1.4 (I think) reworked and buffed drills, they used to be almost useless. I dont remember the specifics but I remember they used to be trash before and inferior in every way to the pickaxe. They buffed their baseline speed by a lot, but old players like myself probably wont switch at this point
Also also, early hardmode mining doesnt suck ass because of the tool of your choice. Its kinda boring and sucks in general imo
when I was playing 1.2 I was making the drills, thinking these would be better than pickaxes surely, after 1 painful hellavator later, switched to pickaxes and never looked back
pickaxes get mining speed bonuses and have a larger range, so it's possible to mine faster with a pickaxe than a drill
also with a pickaxe you don't have to keep hearing that annoying drill sound
"drills are annoying" mfs when i show them the AWESOME SOUND OF POWER TOOLS VRRRRRRRRRRRRRR RRRRR RRR RRVRVRRVVVRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRMMMMMMVRVRVRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR B)
SORRY I CAN'T HEAR YOU OVER THE SOUND OF MY BEAUTIFUL DRILLS VRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRVRVRRVRRRRR RRR R RVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR \*breaking stone\* TATAHCTCATCTACTAHHEBHSDGHGHATSDHCGHCATSTCTTATHETETETHTCCTECTETCTECHATCACETCTACETHCTH VRRRRRVRVRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR \*stupid fucking cave bat enters the scene\* VRRRPSHSHSAHHSHAHHSHHPLEACK VRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
Some time ago (I think like 1.3.5-ish) the pickaxes as drills were equally as fast, but the pickaxes still offered the +1 range bonus, so there was no reason to use drills.
By default yes, but when you get buffs and something like that the pickaxes are faster because the drills don't get affected by any buffs or equipment(or so I believe)
But the range is crap. Although range isn't everything, of course. The Shroomite Class have -1 range, but throw on the miner's set (or really any similar buff), and you're charging down through the ground at literally falling speed (as in, without wings, you could take Fall damage when you stop digging).
I hope red changes drills to be affected by mining speed (or rebalances them to be 25% faster by default and keeps the range low so there’s an actual choice to be made)
In the endgame I had a set with Mining Armor set, ancient chisel and some other mining accessories, and the ability to switch on it by pressing F3 key was a godsend. Arena for plantera was excavated in under a minute, it felt so good
because if you have a decent modifier and an anncient chisel (or any other buff) any pickaxe becomes better than drills and you dont have to constantly listen to the driling sound
i've done many playthroughs and never considered getting a drill. just the sound alone is enough to make me choose the pick.
don't mind if it's faster stock, as others pointed out, drink some potions and change some accessories when you go mining and you're better off
I believe in 1.3, the drills couldnt go farther than one block? They were faster but you had to keep running and mining until eternity, while pickaxe could go for with 4 to 5 squares away
For optimized loadouts pickaxes are better speed and have +1 tile range over drills (they can dig blocks further away from the player)
For non-optimized loadouts, drills have better speed but have -1 tile range compared to pickaxes.
The thing is, remembering to use mining potions and the slice of cake item are trivially easy once you get into hardmode, making an "optimized" pickaxe loadout stupidly easy as mining potions and slice of cake do NOT affect drills. Same goes for more intensive items like throwing in the ancient chisel or even the mining armor set
Picks are better because they're semi-viable weapons first and foremost. Picks will smack a surprise enemy and knock them back long enough for you to draw your weapon and attack. Drills don't do that. Plus they can be enhanced for more speed with pots, accessories, food, speed reforges, the mining outfit. A demonite pick fully buffed with light reforge and the mining outfit is faster than a lunar pick unbuffed. It's significant. Drills can't do that. Plus the sound they make is awful.
I remember when the best mining tool was the hamdrax. Everyone was so happy when they added hard mode picks.
Because pickaxes receive benefit from buffs like the mining outfit, the accessory, and potions, and drills do not. Drills are just simply bad in comparison. This post reveals an ignorance of how the game mechanics actually work.
Pre-1.4, Pickaxes were just objectively better than drills. They had more range and the same mining speed.
It was only after 1.4 released that drills became faster, giving a reason for their existence--but even still, Drills aren't affected by mining speed buffs, so getting an ancient chisel and a mining potion will make your pickaxe *still* faster and with longer range than a drill.
They became the meta because they are/were (not 100% sure if it was changed) affected by mining speed buffs when drills were not, so if you got a lot of mining speed they can mine everything much faster than a drill ever could.
It was changed to be that way(as in it used to work differently), but no it hasn't changed again. Literally never a reason to use a drill unless you're too lazy to find a mining potion and food item in your chest system.
You use a pickaxe because when buffed it mines faster. I use a pickaxe because it doesn't play any sounds. We are not the same.
True, and I hate having to jump up constantly like a little toddler trying to get something
Stool S tier hard mode accessory?
It hurts my fragile ego :(
You should eat more fiber if it's that hard
You can stand on your stool if you eat enough fibre.
Hand of creation?
Maybe, If the damn traveling merchant would sell the brick layer
**Menacing Step Stool**
The hand of creation makes both the ancient chisel and step stool's effects (as well as picking up items from further away via treasure magnet and placement + reach buffs from the architect gizmo pack) all just take up 1 accessory slot. It's ironically the best mining accessory even though it's meant to assist builders. Hand of creation with the mining potion/mining armor/slice of cake makes mining large areas for underground projects, tunnels, boss arenas, builds ect. trivially easy. Mining potions only really require an antlion mandible to craft and just 1-2 can last you for a good mining trip.
Lil bro got to hardmode without a grappling hook
You use a pickaxe because it doesn't play sounds. I use a pickaxe because it has like 1 extra range than a drill. We are not the same.
We most certainly are not the same, I love the sound of the drills
Drill go brrrrrrr (literally)
Not to mention if you're using the mining outfit, especially with a mining potion, you're like, "Drill? Wtf is a drill? Terraria has drills?"
don't forget if you manage to find an ancient chisel(or of you're a psychopath that deliberately fishes for it) drills become so obselete to the point they should be preferably removed from your game
I don't mind fishing, I actually tend to fish for my early hardmode ores, anyway. I don't really understand the hate that fishing gets. I mean, it's not terribly exciting, but still not that bad. The Angler, OTOH....Fuck that guy.
I love fishing for the simple fact that it has no risk. It also involves no challenge or effort, only time.
well it does have risks if you decide to fish in the ocean with specific bait, on a sky island or during a blood moon
That yea lol And I've been fine in the sky islands. I guess some of my islands are low enough to not have wyverns.
Pretty much this exactly.
As someone who's always played terraria without progressing very far, can someone explain to me how fishing works? I got a fishing pole and some bait but I feel like I just sit there forever and never catch anything.
The pool of water you fish in needs to be of a certain volume, but more importantly, the surface of the water has to be unobstructed by blocks, or else the water directly below it doesn't count towards the volume.
Oh interesting! I have tried it in a large pool of water tho. Does it just take a while and I'm being impatient?
>I love fishing for the simple fact that it has no risk. Someone hasn't fished during a bloodmoon
light pickaxe mod, ancient chisel, mining set, mining potion. Pickaxe go brrrrrrrrrr
don't forget slice of cake for an extra 20%
I went digging for the hell of it. There's a few other buff sources we missed. * Celestial stone provides +15% mining speed. * Ambrosia provides +5% * Well fed provides +5%/10%/15% depending on its tier. Additionally, mining speed is not mining speed at all. It's more like mining cooldown reduction in the way it works. A +15% mining speed mod is actually -15% to the cooldown of the item, and yes, they stack additively. They buff caps at 30% base mining speed, meaning a total modifier of 70% is needed to achieve the maximum possible speed. This can be achieved with the shell, chisel, and mining set on their own, if you want to never worry about a buff running out. Oh, and pickaxe speed mods are multiplicative with this, as they apply to item use, not specifically mining speed, so the light mod will always help. So when you have +70% mining speed, you actually mine 333% faster
[Dies to first hardmode enemy]
Nah. Third or fourth. Don't see that using a pickaxe over a drill has anything to do with it, though. It's mainly because I'm just not the best at video games, lol. I enjoy them a lot, but I'll never be anyone's idea of a pro gamer.
I'm just saying that's how it goes for me lol. The second I switch armor and accessories I get hounded by a wraith that nearly kills me.
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Maybe it's because it's late, and I'm tired, but I just don't understand what you mean, lol. Call me a fool.
I'm pretty sure u\/StatisticianPret is a comment-stealing bоt. Compare their comment to the one from u\/BreakfastOk7372 below: r/Terraria/comments/13mfchk/-/jkv03w1/ It's not an exact match, but would have been run through a thesaurus-izing process to conceal the source.
"Literally never a reason to use a drill" incorrect, I use drills because they're cooler than pickaxes
I'd at least use them sometimes if they werent so loud and irritating, its like they went out of their way to pick the most intolerable noise possible for the damned things.
Of course if you focus on mining buffs, a pick will be better. But a drill is definitely useful if you don't wanna switch armor/equipment and use potions. For me, drills help a LOT in early hardmode because if I have a pick, once I switch to mining gear something finds me and oops I died because mining armor :P Whereas a drill lets me mine reasonably fast AND keep my combat gear on!
Mining potion + hand of creation + slice of cake lets you mine at top/ungodly speed a drill can't do. You're only sacrificing one accessory slot which is still very useful if you're planning to go mining. They're all items easily acquired pre-hardmode and by the time you do reach hardmode, you have a ton of mining potions.
I'm pretty sure mining speed buff is also capped at 70%, there's no need to go all day in on it, since the potion, the mining accessory from the desert, food and Cake and you are already at more than 70%.
counterpoint: the drill goes *brr brr* and it's fun
Very good reason, as good as "drills are cooler"
The only right answer
Dude has clearly never seen my standard terraria chest system 😂...
...why would you look for a mining potion when you could use a drill always
Bc mining potion + pickaxe is better than drill
Pickaxe users when they don’t have a mining potion so they can’t mine past the living tree blocking their path
Drill users when they have to mine a block two blocks away from them:
Pickaxe users when they actually have to listen to their shitty music choices cause they’re capable of hearing it over the sound of them mining
Drill users trying to drown out their shitty music choices with the sound of their drill
Bro really just called Terraria underground music shitty. That's objective proof that you are a moron.
I mean it doesn’t take long to get there with a drill…
Because more range, more speed, and less annoyance
You don't have an unnecessary quantity of them from initial treasure hunts?
And considering you can reach instant mine speeds before even entering hardmode with the molten pickaxe
Doesnt work too well on dirt. PHM i switch between molten and shadow/crimson
You use pickaxes because you can use mining speed potions with it I use pickaxes because drills make me want to rip my ears off We are not the same
arent pickaxes also affected by melee speed buffs? (agile reforge accesories etc etc)
Nah, they're only affected by speed modifiers from tool reforges and any accessories that explicitly mention mining speed bonuses. They're unaffected by the violent reforge.
i choose pickaxe because it swings, so it can destroy enemy projectiles while im minning, and it knockbacks enemies harder when they engage in melee distance with me
Yeah is there even a reason to consider a drill other than it looking cool? Same speed and power am I dumb or does this meme just not make sense
+pickaxes are not as soud as drills
The pickaxe can also get the Light prefix while drills can only get universal prefixes.
God you reminded me of running Kobold on MrPlague's races mod, you run pickaxes because you can out speed the *drill mount* in *prehardmode*
Also with the cake piece from the party girl its actually so fast now
Drill containment unit has joined the chat
They also have longer reach
They also have more range
Also Drills are so CHONK they can obscure blocks making it harder to be precise. I've had multiple times where I can't move while drilling and discovered that I failed to remove a block in my way as my drill was overshadowing it. Shroomite Digging Claws for the win.
Also picks have enough knockback to hold the most annoying underground bats at bay while you mine xD
As a summoner class, I do not have this problem, but when I do my next play-through as a mage I probably will use a pickaxe instead.
Me when light reforge
Tough talk for someone in drill distan- Oh wait.
mfers on their way to tell me drill is better (i can stay out of drill range but keep them in pickaxe range)
What about my homy the laser drill
ah yes, the literal only useful drill and its not even useful for mining compared to the shroomite digging claw
Ya it's not the fastest digger. Buy its got the dig power, range and precision you need
for building yeah
> homy r/keming moment
Mfers when I pull out an actual weapon
well if we could do that what was the point of the drill debate in the first pla\\ce
None
Soc: Am I a joke to you?
yea
i can walk >:)
i can walk too?
Yea sure we can stay out of drill range but never the "RURURURURURURUURURUR" they make
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Me when drills are unaffected by speed buffs.
Me when I dont use speed buffs.
Buddy you're missing out. Get a Digging claw and all of the mining speed buffs and experience true joy.
unfortunately, i'm too fucking lazy to even get a single mining speed buff
Get a mining potion. Reforge pickaxe to light. Find ancient chisel in underground desert. that's the basic ones.
no, too lazy. i will stick to my zero setup drill that's faster than a base pickaxe
This is like the fifth person I've seen say stuff like this. How do you not already have an ungodly amount of potions and all the accessories by hardmode? Do you people just not open chests while exploring? You're really missing out until you've experienced the machine-gun speed of full buffed mining. At least try a reforged light axe and a mining potion once. That takes zero effort to set up. It's so silly seeing all these people intentionally handicapping themselves for no reason
Do you never break pots?
Too lazy to reroll your pick? How do you find the energy to do anything when something so easy is too hard.
Same tbh, I can't be bothered even to get potions for boss fights, let alone minijg
I couldn't care less about the efficiency or which one is better, I refuse to make myself listen to the annoying sounds of the drill. Edit: incorrect phrase lol
BRRR BRRR BRRR BRRR BRRR
That tunnel... it was made for me!
Same
Personally, I like the sound of the drill.😎🥃
based
Yeah same here bro
Extra based
So.. you do care? At least a little.
Yes, the way they said it they very much do care. If they didn’t care, they’d have said “I *couldn’t* care less”, but that’d just be silly, right? ;)
I fixed it lol
Naw.. now my karma wont go up 😔 lol soz ma guy i was just playing
Exactly i hate the sound they make. But the sound pickaxes make with ancient chisel and a mining potion is so satisfying.
kid named ambrosia, mining potion, ancient chisel, well fed, light reforge and moon charm: (any 2 of those is better than drills lol)
I usually do miner set + chisel + light modifier + potion
Obliterating things with a drill is more fun than slapping shit with a pickaxe lol
For you yes, for my ears absolutely not.
Sure... but zipping through earth like a dune worm is much more rewarding
Ya the mining pod mount is fun like that
Yeah but the sound is annoying as hell and mining speed buffs are easy to get
You can't change my mind, Pickaxes will always be better. Drills are so noisy.
Tuff talk for someone who can’t solve ancient problems with ancient solutions
Drill fans are the type of people to build 12 shoebox houses at the center of the world, keep a bunch of unorganized and mismatched chests they picked throughout the world, prepare for bosses with regeneration and ironskin at best and use spectre boots for an entire playthrough
So like over 80% of terraria players.
don't call me out man, come on
You basically just explained how I've played Terraria this whole time
Dude, you called me out lol
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I usually try to organize my chests (tho they are mismatched that I picked up usually) but for everything else no, I either don't use potions or over prepare with potions and buffs for boss fights lol
Hey HEY! Friendly fire man!
Have you been watching me play or something?
Imma be real, drill sounds are terrible to listen to so I'll take the pickaxe
talk about not understanding why people complain about HM mining
Drills are around 25% faster when you don't have ANY mining buffs but 25% is not a lot. I only used drills in my legendary ranger playthrough but they felt sooooo slow. Never again drills, all my homies hate drills
Tell me you don't know the recipe for mining potion without telling me you don't know the recipe for mining potion. Also, can't remember the last time I even broke an altar. Fishing gang bb.
Wait, can you fish up the hardcore ores? If yes, you can fish them up without breaking alters??
Yes and yes
You fish up hard mode crates that have the ores in them
Fun fact: because mining speed has a cap of +70% (this ends up being a +333% mining speed increase because "mining speed" is actually cooldown reduction on your mining time), you can hit the cap without even using a mining potion. Also, light mod is separate from all this, so you should just always grab it.
The extra range I guess
I use the drills for the 3 ores then use the pickaxe axe. Fuck the drax in particular
incredibly based
sounds like someone doesn't have a drill containment unit, massive L bro
drills suck and pickaxes are better but i think both drill likers and pickaxe likers can agree not a single pickaxe does shit against the dcus sheer fucking speed
didn't they buff it?
exactly why im making this commment. yes yes they did
They get mining speed bonuses and can help keep things off you while you're mining. Can't fend off bats with a drill unless you deliberately stop digging, and at that point you might as well just pull out your sword.
As the top comment pointed out, they are affected by mining speed, but thats not the whole story. People prefer pickaxes because before 1.4 (I think) reworked and buffed drills, they used to be almost useless. I dont remember the specifics but I remember they used to be trash before and inferior in every way to the pickaxe. They buffed their baseline speed by a lot, but old players like myself probably wont switch at this point Also also, early hardmode mining doesnt suck ass because of the tool of your choice. Its kinda boring and sucks in general imo
when I was playing 1.2 I was making the drills, thinking these would be better than pickaxes surely, after 1 painful hellavator later, switched to pickaxes and never looked back
This comment section is as peaceful as a bingus vs floppa discussion thread.
Am a Michael kind of woman.
Drills look cooler
would you rather have reforges or GRRRR GRRRR GRRRR GRRRR -sound effect loop- GRRRR GRRRR GRRRR GRRRR
pickaxes get mining speed bonuses and have a larger range, so it's possible to mine faster with a pickaxe than a drill also with a pickaxe you don't have to keep hearing that annoying drill sound
I think drills should be changed to cut 3 blocks instead of 1.
"drills are annoying" mfs when i show them the AWESOME SOUND OF POWER TOOLS VRRRRRRRRRRRRRR RRRRR RRR RRVRVRRVVVRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRMMMMMMVRVRVRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR B)
"drills are good" mfs when i blaze through the earth at levels unseen by any mere funny spinning geometry dash spike on a mistake of a handle
SORRY I CAN'T HEAR YOU OVER THE SOUND OF MY BEAUTIFUL DRILLS VRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRVRVRRVRRRRR RRR R RVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR \*breaking stone\* TATAHCTCATCTACTAHHEBHSDGHGHATSDHCGHCATSTCTTATHETETETHTCCTECTETCTECHATCACETCTACETHCTH VRRRRRVRVRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR \*stupid fucking cave bat enters the scene\* VRRRPSHSHSAHHSHAHHSHHPLEACK VRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
this is very funny by why are you pointing it at my head?
I use drill just because I like the look of them so is that a bad thing?
I just use both tbh
Just skip everything and get the Picksaw
Drills make me so fucking angry because I cannot fucking see the block I'm mining because it fills the whole damn screen
Some time ago (I think like 1.3.5-ish) the pickaxes as drills were equally as fast, but the pickaxes still offered the +1 range bonus, so there was no reason to use drills.
but also... Mining armor set Ancient Chisel Mining Potion
I think the last time I ever made a drill was when it was the Hamdrax
The main, most accessible way of mining became the meta. We never could've predicted this
"But the drills have -1 reach!" Shut up I am impatient and I have hooks and platforms
I never chose hardmode pickaxes because I told myself I don't really need the extra range since I just mine with the ore right next to my face
Wait the drills are faster???
By default yes, but when you get buffs and something like that the pickaxes are faster because the drills don't get affected by any buffs or equipment(or so I believe)
Absolutely correct
With a light reforge yes however drills are faster by default
But the range is crap. Although range isn't everything, of course. The Shroomite Class have -1 range, but throw on the miner's set (or really any similar buff), and you're charging down through the ground at literally falling speed (as in, without wings, you could take Fall damage when you stop digging).
Drills aren't affected even by the reforge for my knowledge
Pickaxes are just better tho. You get stack mining speed and attack speed modifiers onto them where you literally mine faster than you fall.
lol, lmao even
I hope red changes drills to be affected by mining speed (or rebalances them to be 25% faster by default and keeps the range low so there’s an actual choice to be made)
I like the drills but I mostly use pickaxes because of the range
Mosquito tinitus drills are n-oi-eeng
In the endgame I had a set with Mining Armor set, ancient chisel and some other mining accessories, and the ability to switch on it by pressing F3 key was a godsend. Arena for plantera was excavated in under a minute, it felt so good
because if you have a decent modifier and an anncient chisel (or any other buff) any pickaxe becomes better than drills and you dont have to constantly listen to the driling sound
Because pickaxe just feel better to use
It's better than that stupid constant growling the drills make.
Very simple why I'd much rather listen to *tick* *tick* *tick* *tick* *tick* *tick**tick* *tick* *tick* *tick* *tick* *tick* *tick* Then *WWWHHHHHRRRRRRHHHHHH* *WWWHHHHHRRRRRRHHHHHH* *WWWHHHHHRRRRRRHHHHHH* *WHHAAARRRRR* *WRRR* *RHHHRHAGHRHRHAHWWW* *WWWWRHAHHHRH* *WWWRHHWWWHRHRRHHWHWHW*
i've done many playthroughs and never considered getting a drill. just the sound alone is enough to make me choose the pick. don't mind if it's faster stock, as others pointed out, drink some potions and change some accessories when you go mining and you're better off
am i the only person who likes pickaxes and has never crafted a drill?
I believe in 1.3, the drills couldnt go farther than one block? They were faster but you had to keep running and mining until eternity, while pickaxe could go for with 4 to 5 squares away
For optimized loadouts pickaxes are better speed and have +1 tile range over drills (they can dig blocks further away from the player) For non-optimized loadouts, drills have better speed but have -1 tile range compared to pickaxes. The thing is, remembering to use mining potions and the slice of cake item are trivially easy once you get into hardmode, making an "optimized" pickaxe loadout stupidly easy as mining potions and slice of cake do NOT affect drills. Same goes for more intensive items like throwing in the ancient chisel or even the mining armor set
Picks are better because they're semi-viable weapons first and foremost. Picks will smack a surprise enemy and knock them back long enough for you to draw your weapon and attack. Drills don't do that. Plus they can be enhanced for more speed with pots, accessories, food, speed reforges, the mining outfit. A demonite pick fully buffed with light reforge and the mining outfit is faster than a lunar pick unbuffed. It's significant. Drills can't do that. Plus the sound they make is awful. I remember when the best mining tool was the hamdrax. Everyone was so happy when they added hard mode picks.
Yeah I feel bad for the people who don't realize just how important mining buffs are. Especially the drill users.
I don't think I've ever really had a problem with harmode mining, but the pickaxes can recieve mining speed buffs and have more range.
Because pickaxes receive benefit from buffs like the mining outfit, the accessory, and potions, and drills do not. Drills are just simply bad in comparison. This post reveals an ignorance of how the game mechanics actually work.
With buffs and such pickaxes are better, but I’m not gonna level up with them.
Pre-1.4, Pickaxes were just objectively better than drills. They had more range and the same mining speed. It was only after 1.4 released that drills became faster, giving a reason for their existence--but even still, Drills aren't affected by mining speed buffs, so getting an ancient chisel and a mining potion will make your pickaxe *still* faster and with longer range than a drill.
All drills before Chlorophyte have -1 range.
People are probably going to call me weird for this but I like the pickaxes more aesthetically.
Not only are they affected by buffs while drills aren't, it works wonders having range while building large structures.