IC2 Experimental - Iridium Drill Power

IC2 Experimental - Iridium Drill Power

Love the new Iridium drill, especially with Fortune III and the built-in Silk Touch mode. My only gripe is the fact that in normal mode you get the same amount of uses as the old diamond drill which had to be recharged almost constantly. For the Iridium drill to consume 800eu to break a brick vs the old diamond drill consuming 80eu to break a brick is a bit too excessive.

First option is just to drop the consumption by a factor 10. ( My personally preferred option, it took 6 mass fabs and a wait till this morning to have my 12 iridium ores replicated. )

Second option is to split of Fortune into it's own mode, and have Normal power consumption dropped by a factor of 10 leaving Fortune & Silk Touch power hungry.

Pretty sure one of the devs have their eye on the consumption so just adding my 2c.

Quote from SpwnX

Well, my opinion is that by the time you have resources to make the iridium drill, you surely have enough energy to keep it fed.

Obvious and correct although missing my point. It's about uses before having to recharge during normal operating conditions. It's two tiers up, pretty expensive piece of equipment with ten times the storage and it's not breaking 9 blocks at a time.

Quote from Omicron

It's true that the power draw of the iridium drill renders it extremely impractical as a mining tool. I know I wouldn't choose it for the job. That said, you have no obligation to make it your mining tool - or you could bring more energy.

Option one: take a normal diamond drill to break rock. Use the iridium drill only on ores where fortune or silk touch is desired.
Option two: wear an energy backpack. There are now three tiers of this, the largest one storing two million EU. That is a lot of energy to work through even for something as hungry as the iridium drill.

The way I see it, the iridium drill is a special purpose tool that's intentionally not designed to be your run-off-the-mill handheld tunnel bore. If you're blowing 800 EU per block of stone, you've chosen the wrong tool for the job at hand.

I usually use the Mining Laser for pre-quarry mining with a Fortune pickaxe that would last me basically forever. The normal diamond drill was mostly used around the base for jobs where you wouldn't really want to use a laser. I like the new drill, just feels like a V8 having the consumption of an Boeing. I'll get used to it