Replace Silk Touch with Fortune on Legendary Pickaxe (and possibly axe)
Submitted by redstoneisgreat
Suggestion
Silk Touch and Fortune are mutually exclusive (you can't add both to the same tool). For pickaxes, I would argue Silk Touch is more often annoying than helpful. Most ores are useless other than for decoration. If I am mining, it's annoying to mine the ores, have to place them, and then have to mine them again with a non-Silk pickaxe.
Given that Legendary gear is meant to be the best gear in the game, I think replacing Silk with Fortune makes sense for the pickaxe. In terms of the level of Fortune, possibly Fortune 5, though I may want to double check for eco exploits first. (for most ores, it isn't an issue). If it is still desired to have Silk in the custom gear pool (for situations where it's useful), perhaps it can be one of the lower tier pickaxes.
For the axe, there are two blocks that I am aware of that are optimal to mine with an axe and affected by Fortune. Melon, and Creaking Heart. This is a possible argument for replacing Silk with Fortune on the axe, but haven't really looked into this deeply
As for the shovel, the only block that is optimial to mine with a shovel and affected by Fortune is to my knowledge Gravel (and this isn't always desireable, for example crafting concrete powder). I can't think of any reason off the top of my head for the shovel to not have Silk.
If you add both Silk Touch + Fortune to the same tool (with commands/plugins), my understanding is that Silk Touch takes priority (i.e. if you mine ore, it drops the ore).
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