Translations:GregTech 5/Mining and Processing/650/en

Tools
In addition to inventing a new ore generation system, creates its own tool system, commonly called the Meta-Tool system. 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. The result is that if you look up a GregTech tool in NEI, you will find a tool that has 0/0 durability, no coloration, and extremely low mining speed and attack damage statistics. However, if you look up recipes for them, you will find pages upon pages of recipes, all resulting in tools with differently colored heads, made of different materials. 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, as GregTech significantly reduces the durability of Vanilla tools.