L0ST5ILVER
Official Terrarian
hello everyone 
Let's not beat around the bush.
Drills, are for the most part, completely redundant and obsolete.
Here is why:
Sounds fair and reasonably balanced, correct? Well you'd be right, if these were the only differences between drills and pickaxes.
However there is one other subtle difference that may take more time to notice.
Drills... Are completely and utterly unaffected by Any Mining buff (eg: Mining potion, Ancient Chisel, Mining armour etc.).
This means, that while Pickaxes are slower by default, when you combine a Mining Potion, with an Ancient Chisel and full mining armour (for an 80% mining increase), Drills are completely unchanged by this, while pickaxes become tectonic plate tearing terrain murdering machines of doom and destruction.
This insane difference is both none sensical, and completely contradicts the purpose of Drills, which are meant to be faster but with less range.
All of that is out of the window, Drills are objectively worse than pickaxes. Period. Back in the day this was at least debatable, but laughably, ironically, the updates that were meant to make the drills unique and faster, ended up making them the biggest waste of 15/18 hardmode bars of your Terraria Career.
So in truth, Pickaxe pros: Good Range and insane speed.
Drills... Less range and slower. That's the bottom line.
Let me repeat myself, Drills are supposed to be faster, yet are unaffected by mining buffs while pickaxes aren't, making drills utter redundant and pointless over pickaxes.
This means a Cobalt Pickaxe is faster than a Titanium drill, possibly, even the Drax. Which is absurd.
Yes, you may say "Yeah but that requires potions and sacrificing armour and an accessory slot", but that's not the point, that point is moot, because everybody uses Mining potions, and I always keep an ancient chisel on me for mining, and just merely those two are enough to massively outspeed the drills.
I understand that 1.4.1.1 is out, and we're not going to see anymore updates, however, this is not a usual suggestion, this is a protest. After years of debating whether pickaxes or drills are better, this piece of unforgiveable injustice has hit home hard. I cannot understand what possible Logic Relogic were using when deciding "Hey, let's make drills totally useless , for realsies this time" (Because they were always slightly slower than pickaxes anyway).
I can only beg and prey that Relogic see this, and see sense in their unjust decision to banish Drills to the underworld forever.
#JusticeForDrills
Kind regards,
-L0ST
Let's not beat around the bush.
Drills, are for the most part, completely redundant and obsolete.
Here is why:
- Drills:
Pros: Faster base speed than pickaxes
Cons: Shorter range than pickaxes
- Pickaxes:
Pros: Larger range than drills
Cons: Slower base speed than drills
Sounds fair and reasonably balanced, correct? Well you'd be right, if these were the only differences between drills and pickaxes.
However there is one other subtle difference that may take more time to notice.
Drills... Are completely and utterly unaffected by Any Mining buff (eg: Mining potion, Ancient Chisel, Mining armour etc.).
This means, that while Pickaxes are slower by default, when you combine a Mining Potion, with an Ancient Chisel and full mining armour (for an 80% mining increase), Drills are completely unchanged by this, while pickaxes become tectonic plate tearing terrain murdering machines of doom and destruction.
This insane difference is both none sensical, and completely contradicts the purpose of Drills, which are meant to be faster but with less range.
All of that is out of the window, Drills are objectively worse than pickaxes. Period. Back in the day this was at least debatable, but laughably, ironically, the updates that were meant to make the drills unique and faster, ended up making them the biggest waste of 15/18 hardmode bars of your Terraria Career.
So in truth, Pickaxe pros: Good Range and insane speed.
Drills... Less range and slower. That's the bottom line.
Let me repeat myself, Drills are supposed to be faster, yet are unaffected by mining buffs while pickaxes aren't, making drills utter redundant and pointless over pickaxes.
This means a Cobalt Pickaxe is faster than a Titanium drill, possibly, even the Drax. Which is absurd.
Yes, you may say "Yeah but that requires potions and sacrificing armour and an accessory slot", but that's not the point, that point is moot, because everybody uses Mining potions, and I always keep an ancient chisel on me for mining, and just merely those two are enough to massively outspeed the drills.
- How To Fix the Problem: Make drills affected by mining buffs... It's literally that simple. I see no reason other than "a potion can't make a machine go faster" (which is by the way, forgive me, total wyvern dung) to justify such a silly limitation. As I've said 3 times already, it marks all drills are inferior to pickaxes in every. single. way.
I understand that 1.4.1.1 is out, and we're not going to see anymore updates, however, this is not a usual suggestion, this is a protest. After years of debating whether pickaxes or drills are better, this piece of unforgiveable injustice has hit home hard. I cannot understand what possible Logic Relogic were using when deciding "Hey, let's make drills totally useless , for realsies this time" (Because they were always slightly slower than pickaxes anyway).
I can only beg and prey that Relogic see this, and see sense in their unjust decision to banish Drills to the underworld forever.
#JusticeForDrills
Kind regards,
-L0ST
