Translations:GregTech 5/Mining and Processing/651/en

The most noticeable aspect of the Meta-Tools is that they all appear to have absurdly high durability. The weakest tools have 3,200 durability, most of the good ones have durabilities in the hundreds of thousands. However, this absurdly high durability is somewhat misleading, as GregTech Meta-Tools take damage significantly more quickly than conventional tools. More importantly though, when Meta-Tools are used to break blocks, they take durability damage proportional to the hardness of the broken block. Using a Shovel on a block of Sand causes it to take 25 damage; on a block of Gravel, 30 damage. Breaking a block of Stone deals 75 damage to a Pickaxe. Most Ores deal either 100 or 150 damage.