All right, time for Ideas on high end tool materials:
1. Nerv of current high end materials. There is a big gap between mid and high level materials.
Material / Current Durability / Current Miningspeed / Nerved Durability / Nerved Speed
Titanium / 256000 / 8 / 160000 / 7
Tungsten / 512000 / 8 / 256000 / 7
Iridium / 512000 / 6 / 256000 / 6
Osmiridium / 300000 / 8 / 160000 / 7
Tungsten Steel / 512000 / 10 / 256000 / 8
2. New high end Alloys
1 Tungsten(W) + 1 Carbon(C) in EBF -> Hot ingot into Freezer -> 1 Tungsten carbide(WC)
Extreme Hardness, but breaks easily. So 128000 Dura, 14 Miningspeed, Mininglevel 4 (Weapton encant Sharpness V)
7 Steel dust + 1 Vanadium + 1 Chrome = 9 Vanadium-Chrome-Steel in EBF (120EU/t cupnickel coils)
192000 dura, miningspeed 3 mininglevel 3 (good for midgame in base tools but not for mining)
HSS-G: 5 Tungstensteel dust + 1 Crome dust + 2 Molybdenum dust + 1 Vanadium dust
High-Speed steel (what drills and saw blades are made from today)
400000 Dura, 10 Miningspeed, Mininglevel 3
HSS-E: 6 HSS-G dust + 1 Cobalt + 1 Manganese + 1 Silicon
HSS-G with higher heat restist.
512000 dura, 10 miningspeed, mininglevel 4
Not a realistic alloy but as an alternative to HSS-E
6 HSS-G dust + 2 iridium dust + 1 osmium dust
300000 Dura, 14 Miningspeed, Mininglevel 4
3. Hardening of Toolheads (Can be done with most of the advanced metallic materials)
Laser surface hardening: Process Toolheads in Precision Laser Engraver (Slow but low energy usage like 240 sec, 20EU/t) Gives Hardend Toolheads, +20% Dura, +1 Miningspeed
Nitriding: 1 Titanium + 2000L Nitrogen In chemical reactor (1024EU/t, 60 sec) procuces 1000L Titanium nitride (TiN)
100L Titanium nitride + Toolhead in chemical reactor (20EU/t 150sec) produces Nitrided Toolhead, +30% dura, +2 Miningspeed
Polycrystal Diamond + Advanced Nitriding:
1 Carbon dust + 10l Titanium nitride in Chemical reactor (1024EU/t 10 sec) 10l Titancarbonitrid
32 carbon dust + 1 tiny diamond dust in EBF (480EU/t or even 1024EU/t? 120 sec) produces 1 tiny polydiamond dust (type of artificial industry diamond, 50% harder than natural diamonds, state of the art for RL tools)
1 full polydiamond dust + 100l Titancarbonitrid + Toolhead in chemical reactor (120EU/t 150sec) produces Nitrided Polydiamond Toolhead (+40% dura, +5 Miningspeed)