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Who cares the auger is noisier than it is useful. Steel pick FTW.
Once your pick is 500+ and you have Miner 69er perk maxed out and above lvl 50 in mining tools, it's a one-hit swing for stone. All the while, the Auger has several aiming issues, is noisy as hell and is a gas hog.
By the time you go through your 200 units of gas, I'm pretty sure I probably dug more than you did with the above Steel Pickaxe/perk/skill level - not to mention that while you refuel - I'm still going.
Ladders take an entire block, despite their appearances. And they have clunky hitboxes when placing them, so since tunneling straight down make the hole diamond-shaped, you hardly see the ladder being placed. Also - you need to be one or two blocks under the position you wish to place the ladder to ensure you aren't blocking its voxel place.
Hence why I dig 2 voxel-wide and place wood frames, upgrade them once, then the ladder on the now complete frame. Easier to see and place the ladders that way.
Edit (addon): Also - I don't usually mine straight down anymore. I usually mine at an angle to also eventually include stairs or ramps as I go down my mines.
As for the auger.... You can no longer one hit stone underground- it takes 2. The auger is harder to control so I tend to get a lot of collateral damage lol. Still, nothing beats it for huge projects.
I prefer the pick for more delicate parts though.
Before I get an auger, I mine out a frame (my tunnels are always 5x5 with floors, roofs and side walls later which leaves a space of 3x3).
I go across the sides where my walls will be, ignoring the floor section. I'll do that to one side until I get bored. I then mine the floors and go down the opposite "wall". Then I place a line of frames 2 high along one wall section.
I mine the back to complete the "frame".
Then I mine the roof section (3 across), pick up the frames and mine the floor section (three across) and do that until it collapses. I lose a lot of resources, but I save a LOT of time.
It is a big bother to need the auger part to upgrade the auger part :D I haven't found but two low quality pieces of the auger since I started this game (day 21).
It's like when A15 first dropped, I pondered at the fact I needed a wrench to make a workbench, but need a workbench to make a wrench. I needed short iron pipes to make a forge, but need a forge to make short iron pipes. I need a wrench to teardown sinks and other things for short iron pipes, but need a workbench to make a wr....ahhhh!!! it's maddening. lmao
To the vets in here, we know what it's talking about on these issues, but to new players it does get confusing. They really do need to make it more clear in the recipes or we are going to have tons of threads about it being "broken" or "this makes no sense".
LOL you must be new around here :)
Yama is a veteran of the game and knows about the heat map :)
The Auger is off-puttingly noisy and I don't care to adjust sound settings to use it. I'm also not a big fan of the recoil...I prefer more surgical mining/tunneling. It requires Gas and has several parts that wear down, most of which are not craftable. I'm not saying it's useless, just pointing out some reasons why some people may prefer the Pickaxe.