Arelith

Mining Picks from Tinker's Don't work

Don’t work in what way?

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I think he means that they don't harvest more ore than other weapons, but they're not the same ones intended to, as those ones do not load on tinkers, but in random containers (crates, barrels) like gem mining hammers do.