Who even uses drills?

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Aren't they just a straight downgrade to pickaxes since they cannot benefit from the mining bonuses and buffs? (Mining Potion, Party Cake Buff, Mining Set Buff, Miner's Armor Buff, etc)
They just get a -1 range and call it a day? or am I missing something? (So far only gotten as far as plantera in progression so I might not be certified to speak on the matter)

[catnip]

tac tac tac tac tac 👎

vroom, vroom, vroom, vroom 👍

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Originally posted by catnip:

tac tac tac tac tac 👎

vroom, vroom, vroom, vroom 👍

fair

[amazingfrog16]

i use both the drill for mining and pickaxe for base building

[ShadowPhoenix]

I use drills. The reason to use them is that they are faster at digging on their own compared to pickaxes. But yeah, with buffs pickaxes are better.
It just depends on what your doing. If you want to dig out a giant area, go with a pickaxe with buffs. But if its just for normal use, you'd have to keep using the buffs, which is why I go for drills.

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Originally posted by ShadowPhoenix:

I use drills. The reason to use them is that they are faster at digging on their own compared to pickaxes. But yeah, with buffs pickaxes are better.
It just depends on what your doing. If you want to dig out a giant area, go with a pickaxe with buffs. But if its just for normal use, you'd have to keep using the buffs, which is why I go for drills.

Oh, thanks for clarifying

[dandinks]

Drills are never worth crafting, with a cake buff and a chisel with the light modifier they drastically outpace drills for no upkeep cost, infact you can reach the mining speed cap with just a potion and medium food buff on top of the previous listed items making pickaxes by far the better option

[James]

Pickaxe bros 💪💪💪💪