Meta-Tools (GregTech 5)

GregTech, like many mods, adds several tools for mining or block manipulation. However, GregTech tools are not like the tools from other mods. GregTech tools are known as Meta-Tools, as they are generated as a part of the GregTech material dictionary Meta-Item system. All Meta-Tools have their own uses, but they also have certain properties shared across all of them.

Properties
The first notable thing about all Meta-Tools is that they do not follow the conventional item damage system. The tooltip-listed durability of all Meta-Tools is hundreds of times higher than would be expected of normal tools; even the weak Flint Tools have a durability of 6400. There is a purpose to this: GregTech Meta-Tools take damage from breaking blocks proportional to the hardness of the broken block. The damage taken is roughly equal to 100 * Hardness. For tools used in crafting recipes or other non-block breaking actions, in most cases 100 Durability is used.

The statistical attributes of a tool are determined by the material the tool is made of, modified by certain tool-specific ratios. Durability and Mining Speed are multiples of materials' base attributes; Attack Damage is the sum of the tool's base damage and the material's base damage.

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tools !replace vanilla

Non-Metal Meta-Tools
names material options

Electric Meta-Tools
Electric tools may be charged in a battery buffer.

durability charge voltage speed