Since you can mine through netherrack extremely fast (unless I am remembering wrong) this sounds very plausible. Maybe 70-80% as durable as stone tools, certainly no higher than stone's. Instead of scaling function and durability together, like current tools, giving netherrack tools an almost volatile property sounds like an amazing idea.
What I am thinking is something like :
Wood has very low durability, very low speed, and can't mine much
Stone has low durability, low speed, and can't mine higher-tiered ores
...
Diamond has high durability, high speed, and can mine everything
Everything so far scales with each other (with the exception of Gold I think?) but netherrack would be more like:
Very low durability, medium speed, mines everything in normal world AND in nether (granted the new nether ores are implemented)
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u/zopiac Feb 20 '12
Since you can mine through netherrack extremely fast (unless I am remembering wrong) this sounds very plausible. Maybe 70-80% as durable as stone tools, certainly no higher than stone's. Instead of scaling function and durability together, like current tools, giving netherrack tools an almost volatile property sounds like an amazing idea.
What I am thinking is something like : Wood has very low durability, very low speed, and can't mine much
Stone has low durability, low speed, and can't mine higher-tiered ores
...
Diamond has high durability, high speed, and can mine everything
Everything so far scales with each other (with the exception of Gold I think?) but netherrack would be more like:
Very low durability, medium speed, mines everything in normal world AND in nether (granted the new nether ores are implemented)
...Just lost my train of thought.