Translations:Meta-Tools (GregTech 5)/5/en

While other mods add individual tools for each of their materials, each tool an individual item, GregTech creates a set of tool templates, and fills in their material, properties, and durability as NBT data. As a result, when a GregTech tool is looked up in, it will show a tool that has 0/0 durability, no coloration, and extremely low mining speed and attack damage statistics. Upon looking up the recipes for a Meta-Tool, there will be pages upon pages of them, each resulting in a tool with a differently colored head and made of a different material. Most Meta-Tools can be crafted out of almost any metal and many crystals, and will have mining speed, attack damage, mining level, and durability values corresponding to that metal. The most basic Meta-Tools are made of Flint, and are usually the main tools in the early game, since GregTech significantly reduces the durability of Vanilla tools.