Core Barrel

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Summary

Three parts of one chain. The core barrel is the hollow tube a core passes through; it does nothing on its own and exists only as an ingredient. The column bore module is built from two of them and gives an electric drill the ability to take a column three blocks tall: the one you aim at, plus one above and one below.

The row bore module is the second upgrade of this kind: it makes the drill also break the block to the left and the block to the right of the one it hits, judged by the direction the player is facing horizontally — a row three blocks wide. It is crafted from one core barrel and two irradiated diamonds. Both modules can sit on one drill, and then it takes a cross of five blocks.

All of them are deliberately built from parts the mod had no use for: the reinforced invar plate had no consumer recipe at all, and the choke and reinforced choke worked only inside their own line.

The module does nothing in your hands. It does not fit onto a drill and does not react to a click — the upgrade table takes it, eats it, and writes the upgrade onto the tool.

Properties

Recipes

Core barrel — a crafting table; the shape draws the tube itself: walls around the edge, a choke on each side, nothing in the middle.

Column bore module — a crafting table, the whole grid filled.

Row bore module — a crafting table, the whole grid filled.

What the upgrade does

A drill carrying the column bore breaks the block above and the block below the one it hits, so a corridor you can walk through takes one pass. The line's rules hold: Silk Touch, when it is on, applies to all three blocks, and so does Fortune; protected land and adventure mode give up nothing extra. Only blocks a pickaxe can take join a column.

Carrying the row bore, the drill breaks the block to the left and the block to the right of the one it hits (judged by the player's horizontal facing), so a corridor three blocks wide takes one pass. With both modules fitted it bores a cross of five blocks: the aimed block, the ones above and below, and the ones to the left and right. Every extra block follows the same rules: only blocks a pickaxe can take, only when digging with the main hand, unbreakable blocks are skipped.

The row bore pays the same price per extra block: a row costs 200 EU/FE, the cross of five blocks 350 EU/FE (50 + 4 × 75). A drill that cannot pay for the whole set breaks only the block it aimed at. Only blocks that really break are counted and paid for: air and blocks a pickaxe does not take (dirt, sand) are neither in the set nor in the price, and those same blocks are the ones that show cracks.

Each extra block costs 75 EU/FE against 50 EU/FE for the one you aimed at — 200 EU/FE a stroke instead of 50. A drill that cannot pay for the whole column breaks one block rather than starting what it cannot finish.

The mode is switched with the L key: both mouse buttons on this drill are taken — a plain right-click places a torch, and sneak plus right-click switches Silk Touch on the two tipped tiers. With one module fitted, L switches it on and off; with both, L cycles the modes in a loop: cross → column only → row only → a single block → cross again. The new mode is announced in a message; with no module fitted, L says so.

Related

• Electric Drill — the tool that receives the upgrade.
• Upgrade Table — the only place the module goes.

Crafting

Shaped Crafting

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Core Barrel

Used in

Shaped Crafting

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Column Bore Module

Shaped Crafting

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Row Bore Module