Tempered Iron Pickaxe
alaindustrial:tempered_iron_pickaxe
Summary
The Tempered Iron Pickaxe is the mod's first hand tool. It is crafted like a normal pickaxe — three ingots on top, two sticks below — but uses the mod's tempered iron instead of plain iron.
On every stat it is a touch better than the vanilla iron pickaxe: 100 more durability, slightly faster mining, slightly more damage, and a little better at catching enchantments. It cannot mine diamond-level blocks (diamond ore, obsidian, ancient debris), though — same as iron — so the diamond progression is not devalued. It is the natural upgrade slot between an iron pickaxe and your first diamond one.
Mini-example: you have iron but no diamonds yet. Smelt that iron into tempered iron, craft this pickaxe, and you have 350 durability of mining at speed 7.0 — enough to last you comfortably until you finally strike diamonds.
Stats
The baseline is the vanilla iron pickaxe. Every difference fits in one table:
| Stat | Iron (vanilla) | Tempered iron |
|---|---|---|
| Durability | 250 | 350 (+100) |
| Mining speed | 6.0 | 7.0 |
| Attack damage | 4.0 | 4.5 |
| Enchantability | 14 | 16 |
| Attack speed | same as iron | same as iron |
| Mining level | iron | iron (diamond/obsidian/ancient debris — no) |
| Repair at anvil | iron ingot | tempered iron |
It drops nothing from diamond ore, diamond deepslate, obsidian and ancient debris — exactly like iron. That is the single limit that keeps it short of diamond.
How it behaves
- Mining: mines everything a pickaxe should, at speed 7.0 — a bit faster than iron. Diamond-level blocks drop nothing and mine more slowly, exactly like an iron pickaxe.
- Combat: 4.5 damage, same attack speed as iron. The slightly higher damage is its only combat edge.
- Durability: 350 (100 more than iron), spent on mining and hits like any tool. It needs no EU/FE — just ordinary wear.
- Enchanting: enchantability 16 (vs iron's 14), so it catches enchantments a little better. The enchanting table offers the full vanilla pickaxe set — Efficiency, Unbreaking, Fortune, Silk Touch, Mending.
- Repair: in the anvil with tempered iron, at the vanilla XP cost.
Block Properties
Not applicable (item).
Recipes
Crafted at a workbench in the vanilla pickaxe pattern — three tempered iron ingots on top and two sticks down the centre. Repair it at an anvil with tempered iron, the way an iron ingot repairs a vanilla iron pickaxe.
Progression
- A hand tool — not tied to the mod's energy tiers.
- It slots between the vanilla iron pickaxe and the diamond one: by durability and speed it is closer to iron, and it does not overlap diamond on block access.
- It appears as soon as you start smelting iron into tempered iron in bulk — a natural upgrade to carry you until your first diamond pickaxe.
Related
- Tempered Iron — the crafting and repair material.
- Tempered Iron tools — the rest of the tempered iron tool family.
- The vanilla iron pickaxe — the balance baseline.
Crafting
Shaped Crafting
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Tempered Iron Pickaxe