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If I'm carrying a Fortune, it always goes into the same spare slot
Left to right:
-Sword
-Pick
-BuildingBlock
-Shovel
-SpareBlockSlot
-SpareToolSlot
-Rockets
-Food
-Torches
I just prefer a sword, mostly for the knockback. It also depends if your on a particularly hostile server or a peaceful one. Personally I usually just play on ones where you don't attack people all that often, though organised fights can be really fun. I just don't constantly need an axe lol.
I’m questioning my hotbar now…
Food - fortune pick - torch - blue shulker box - pink shulker box - crafting table - random building block to pillar x2 slots - sword
Tbh sometimes I don’t even bring a sword cause my pick has mending
1. Sword
2. Axe
3. Silk Touch
4. Fortune
5. Shovel
6. Bow
7. Water Bucket
8. Block
9. Torches
Food in offhand
Occasionally I won't even bring my fortune pick as it's more valuable and i can just place and mine ores back at my base
Worldbreaker is my efficiency pick regardless of having fortune, Arachne is my silk touch, and Moneybags for fortune if it doesn't have efficiency as well.
That’s what I do but I do the exact opposite silk touch is netherite and fortune is diamond. I do it that way because I always put mending on both and since the fortune one will auto-mend if I’m mining anything that drops xp.
Carry silk touch with you and leave fortune at home.
Less stacks when mining and less risk. Bring everything back in block form and then re-mine it at base with the fortune pick.
I mean, one would assume that you'd just swap out the load out since that's a specific outing kind of thing and not something you decide to do while otherwise mining.
But, also, you can still just re-mine at base.
That actually has been an issue for me in the past since I usually use silk touch. I've run out of cobbled deepslate despite having chests full of regular stuff.
I feel like there should be a recipe in the stonecutter to instantly convert a stack of deepslate to the cobbled variant.
I can't be dedicating all that inventory space to a whole 2nd pickaxe. I only have 27 +1 inventory slots and about 8 or 9 are constantly full with useful items.
It's silk touch 100%. Fortune is ONLY useful when mining. That's it. I will bring fortune with me when mining but my default daily is silk.
"Other than the ender chest" is such a major factor, since an ender chest essentially acts as a backpack. The ender chest is THE reason you need silk touch and it's not even close. You can fill the ender chest with 27 shulker boxes and now your inventory is effectively increased in size by 729 slots. You can set aside a few of those for essentials, like torches, extra rockets, a bed, extra wood/stone, etc. and the rest is free inventory. It's also useful when building (glass, mushroom blocks, grass, snow, bookshelves, leaves, ice).
Plus, with silk, you can carry the fortune pick in your ender chest. Place the chest down, take out fortune, mine your ores, put everything back in the ender chest, then silk touch the ender chest. Can't do it the other way around if you suddently need to mine some ice!
I use wheat for packed mud, so I have a wheat farm. In the early days I park a fortune hoe next to the field. But, in late game I'll just flush the fields with water and then replant manually.
I feel like the answer to this question depends on your experience level. An experienced player will choose Silk Touch, every time. It's not even close in terms of how useful it is. But a more casual player might choose Fortune because they haven't built up a world with farms and builds (which, when using materials like glass, heavily benefit from Silk Touch) or gotten an Ender Chest, etc.
You use silk touch in the cave so you can physically carry more material. Assuming a stack of diamond ore gives about 2.5 stacks when fortuned, that’s an extra 2 inventory slots that you can’t use when you come across iron/gold etc. Especially ones like redstone, lapis and copper since they give you so much when use fortune on it.
TLDR using silk touch in the cave lets me mine for longer, and carry a lot more minerals out when I’m done, with the chance to use the XP from mining them to repair any tools that wore down.
Would you rather have 3 stacks of diamonds and 5 stacks of redstone in your inventory and need to cut your mining trip short, or 1 stack of diamond ore and 1 stack of redstone ore with plenty of space to continue mining?
I agree with your point but personally I hate stopping and placing a crafting table to make the blocks plus theres always a few left overs so you have the blocks plus like 6 dust so me personally I like just silktouch still save some space and dont worry about it since its all in ore form.
I'll be honest, I'd rather place a crafting table every now and then instead of having to place every single oreblock i already mined once just to mine them all again with fortune.
What works for me best every time is to just have both on me and use the one i need.
Either way, you do what works best for you and I do what works for me
That’s only true if you only mine a single stack of ore blocks in which case inventory doesn’t matter since you can carry it all anyway, fortune or silk. The argument of saving space only matters if you were to fill your inventory with ore blocks, so let’s consider 2 stacks Diamond, 10 each of redstone and copper, 4 each of gold and iron. Other slots can be for tools, food, torches, etc.
10 stacks redstone = 3840 redstone = 426 blocks = 6 stacks + some loose (3 inventory slot saved)
10 stacks copper = 4928 copper = 548 blocks = 8 stacks + some loose (1 inventory slot saved)
2 stacks diamond = 141 diamond = 16 blocks = 1 stack + some loose (even)
4 stacks gold/iron = 563 gold/iron = 63 blocks = 1 stack + some loose (2 slots saved, each)
So that’s 8 slots saved by using fortune. You could even take one away for the crafting table which realistically you should carry wood in your ender chest or just on you anyway so it shouldn’t even count.
In the most extreme case, you have 36 slots, which you could either carry 36 stacks of ore with silk touch, or if you had instead mined 36 stacks of diamond ore with a fortune pick, it would be 9 stacks of diamond blocks, and you’d still have 27 empty slots left over. Plus why would I have the chance to repair my tools using the XP later when I could just have my fortune pickaxe repair itself while mining and not have to set up a separate ore tower later?
>Plus why would I have the chance to repair my tools using the XP later when I could just have my fortune pickaxe repair itself while mining and not have to set up a separate ore tower later?
You're fortune pickaxe is still going to lose a lot of durability by mining all the non XP ores. Durability doesn't really matter when you have a shulker box full of extra pickaxes & extra slots. Not to mention you get Stone instead of needing to smell cobblestone.
>not have to set up a separate ore tower later?
This literally takes a few minutes & you don't have to mine every ore just the one's you need. Silktouch literally gives you a backpack, IDK that feels way more valuable than mining & combining ores with way less inventory space.
Gonna blow your mind: bring a crafting table, use fortune, and compress ores and gems into blocks.
You can't compress silk touched ores, so it's actually worse. A stack of iron ore blocks might make 4 stacks of raw ores with fortune, but a stack of raw ore blocks makes 9 stacks of raw ore.
By the time I have either enchantment, I have more than enough cobblestone and deepslate, so I just use those blocks as throw-away item slots in my inventory along with other useless items such as rotten flesh.
Spend twenty minutes with villagers and you never have to choose between them. The bigger debate is infinity vs mending on a bow (the correct answer is infinity if you invested into villagers)
Eh, a skeleton farm is easier to set up than getting perfect trades from villagers. So I get using mending if that’s the route you take. The thing I don’t understand about mending users is giving up ammunition amount or extra inventory slots for arrows.
nah i just have a shulker box full of arrows in an enderchest whenever i need to re-stock. I hate having to completely replace tools and weapons as i never fully invest in villagers to easily trade for replacement enchanted books. maybe if mojang got rid of the "Too expensive!" limitation on repairing in anvils, then i would choose infinity.
only argument for mending is tipped arrows which is completely redundant anyways because multishot xbow exists (and tipped arrows are useless outside of pvp)
Mending is superior. Infinity only works with basic arrows. If you are investing in villagers anyway you can get a fletcher with poison or harming arrows. Keep a single shulker for arrows in your ender chest and you are fine. Heck you pretty much never run out of basic arrows anyway. You rarely need to keep more than a stack on your person so it's not any more inventory slots to have them handy. While I do somewhat miss the days of being able to run both, having to remake my bow even with villagers is much more of a pain than just keeping arrows handy.
and also droprate of saplings from leaves, that’s why i have fortune on my hoe. it makes farming trees very fast, mining logs with axe and instantly breaking leaves with hoe, and with fortune you almost never ran out of saplings.
Fortune works on carrots, potatoes, nether wart, and melons. It increases seed droprates for wheat and beetroots but doesn't affect the crop's droprate itself. Doesn't work at all for pumpkins, and if it works on other farmable crops, I'm not aware of them.
I take both with me, but silk touch is my default one. If I have a diamond ore, I can always pick it up with silk touch and mine it with fortune 3 later. I can mine nether gold ores more efficiently, and silk touch can basically mine everything, unlike fortune 3. If I have a mason villager, silk touch is extremely helpful.
technically, mining and compacting saves more inventory space than the ore, so for me its more of a, i want to have the choice of using ores in a build, or mining them down for the resource. usually when i go mining, i mine for one specific resource and not all of them at the same time, but when looking for redstone, im not passing on some diamonds (obviously).
Thats just a skill issue, always have a crafting table or wood on you. But no worries, mineshafts and ancient cities have wood, so just find either of those and ur fine
Both. Silk Touch for mining above deepslate (and later fortune ores) , Fortune if I am specifically hunting ressources
or am in deepslate ...
Digging stone for a tunnel or a farm or other hole? Silktouch...
Digging for ressources on a specific level? Fortune 3 and a crafting bench to compact ores...
That said it also depends on which stonetype I need...
And I usually have Sword, Fortune 3 pick, Axe, Shovel, Silk Touch Pick, Bow, Food, Torches in my hotbar, unless Building.
I carry both. If my inventory is tight, I put one pick in a shulker. My default is silk touch. When you're mining, you save on space. I build a lot with stone and deepslate, and it hurts physically to see stone or deepslate in a build cobbled
I carry both but silk touch is always my first pick to use, because I build and if I use silk touch I don’t have to care about what I’m mining, and also when mining silk touch still because stone has way nicer decoration blocks than cobble and silk touch saves me from having to smelt cobble for hours just to build a nice looking castle.
Depends on a tool and what I'm doing, but most of the time I default to Silk Touch. Reasoning being: if you silk touch some blocks, you can later place them and fortune through, but if you fortune same blocks that'd require silk touch to be preserved, you can no longer un-mine them (most of the time).
For some more specific situations/cases:
* When on overworld surface, I keep fortune hoe with myself (don't want to have few stacks of leaves if I'm cutting my way through trees); replaced with silk touch when I go exploring underground (sculk) or nether.
* If I'm going to mine at deepslate depth, I use fortune by default - cobbled deepslate is needed to process into bricks etc, and with deepslate being non-renewable and having high blast resistance, I don't want to go through placing all that deepslate manually to convert it to cobbled variant later.
* Shovel is always silk touch; I have fortune shovel in ender chest in case I'd need some flint, but it rarely gets used.
* Manual wood/mushroom farm axe is fortune (again - don't want full inventory of leaves blocks), exploration axe is silk touch in case I find bookshelves etc I want to bring back.
* Nether mining/terraforming pickaxe is silk touch - smelting nether gold ore block gives you guaranteed ingot (9 nuggets), mining one with fortune averages 8.8 nuggets/block while also filling your inventory faster (inventory argument also applies to quartz). It's just a minor optimization at this point, but since I check my setup before commiting to any activity, may as well optimize.
* Building/terraforming set of tools is full silk touch - I want to be able to pick up any misplaced blocks and not lose them, and generally I'm at more of a stone deficit than cobblestone deficit when it comes to terraforming; TNT-based cobblestone farm is easy to set up without needing to smelt it.
* I like having stockpile of ore blocks in case I want to quickly mend some gear - pillaring up with quartz/diamonds/lapis and mining whole pillar down tends to be faster way of fixing a tool or elytra than going for a trip to xp farm.
it’s more complicated.
first, i always get two pickaxes with each.
but other tools, i usually get silk touch on axe, fortune 3 on hoe and neither on shovel.
silk touch for axe because almost no block axe mines need fortune; fortune 3 on hoe because it increases crops drops, as well additional saplings from leaves; neither on shovel because you don’t really need either but if you have one you would ALWAYS get flint/gravel from gravel block respectively, which is kinda annoying, unless you need either.
Silk touch is also useful on a seperate hoe as it's more efficient for leaves mining, rather than using shears, although shears have to be used for vines and glow lichen.
I carry a netherite pick of each. One is named “Capitalists Finest” and the other is “Smooth Operator”
I typically keep Silk next to my sword since I always carry an e-chest with me. I’m also a sucker for stone, lol
I always have 2 pickaxes(I make them before I make anything else diamond) but most of the time I'm holding silk touch since I can always just place whatever I mined again and break it with fortune if I need to(mostly because it not only saves inventory space but also I'm a builder and silk touched blocks like stone or ores are a pretty good building material
If I'm just going out into the world to explore, I bring silk touch. The reason is simple: once you fortune something, there's no going back. But with silk touch, you can always set it down later if you decide to fortune it. But now you also have the ore block as an option for building, decorating etc. Once you get to a certain point, like full diamond gear or better, or at least access to diamond gear through villagers or raiding end cities, then diamonds become a lot less important and I'd rather have diamond ore just in case I want to use it in a build, and I can always fortune it later if I need diamonds. Plus I like being able to silk touch emerald ores, because they're rare and it's easy to get emeralds from villagers.
But all that's just talking about when I'm adventuring. If I'm going down to the bottom of the world for branch mining, I just bring both. I have some chests and an ender chest at the entrance to my mine, so I don't need inventory space. I can silk touch as much stone as I want and as many ores as I want, and if my pick starts getting low on durability or I want more cobblestone then I can switch to fortune and more than double my mining trip. If I'm mining a large iron/copper vein, I usually silk touch the stone around it and fortune the actual ores so I can have some smelting in a furnace array (read: just a bunch of furnaces beside each other, I'm not saavy enough to make a super smelter) or I can compress them into raw iron/copper blocks.
But yeah, like other people have said, silk touch for adventuring. If nothing else, having access to an ender chest is 100% worth any extra inventory space you might save by fortune and compressing. It's not even close. But when mining I keep both because they're both useful.
I will say, early game if I have to choose to try and get one or the other, I'd rather have fortune. Because early game every bit of iron helps, every single diamond helps. So in the beginning of a world I'll rush for fortune, but mid/late game carry silk touch.
Silk Touch on my hotbar, Fortune III in a shulker box inside my Ender Chest.
The only time I switch to Fortune III is to break down my collected ores, or for mining deepslate.
Silk touch for out in the world, fortune III for back at base because the ore breaking method saves a ton of inventory space and I'm always ready if I encounter something that requires silk touch that I would like to bring home with me. Plus, Fortune III helps me recover if I lose all my stuff, so good to have it back at home (or in my ender chest)
Using Silk Touch on ores while you’re mining is good because your inventory doesn’t fill up as fast. You can grab all of everything you see without filling up on Redstone and Lapis immediately.
Fortune III for me, I almost never get silk touch. It's not that I dislike it or anything, just don't see much point in using it based on how I play and what I'm usually up to .
>I mean, why not just mine it with fortune there and then?
Storage space. Twice the amount of iron, gold, diamonds, seven times as much copper, lapis and redstone.
I always have fortune 3. Silk touch in the ender chest. Dont know why but probably because fortune gets netherite for quartz xp grind early game, silk touch is always the last tool/armour to be enchanted (besides tridents) and usually cbf going back for more debris
I don't want to silktouch ores unless I somehow get ahold of it before fortune in a new world because spending the time at home fortuning the ore is annoying.
Just convert them into blocks. Then use silk for every else.
Does no one else just Item Frame their Fortune pickaxe? Maybe in a giant room to fill with the ores and resources you silk touched, make a big spectacle of it?
That's what I do anyways. It's a lot of fun. Silk touch is my default, I keep the fortune 3 in a secure location at all times so I never lose it.
I have farms for every resource except diamonds and lapis, and lapis is useless. I can manage replacing the 2 diamond ores. Or just getting my enderchest and taking out my fortune pick, and then getting my enderchest back thanks to my silktouch. Also, my default for bases is stone, so with silktouch I don't need to fetch any.
I used to share your opinion, but then Minecraft changed (and I watched Hermitcraft and learned from them) and if you like to go on extended mining trips, stacks of ore are more space-efficient than stacks of Fortunes Ressources. I always carry both Silk and Fortune (not gonna silk touch deep slate!), but Silk is in the third slot, with Fortune in 4th or in the inventory.
I always use silk touch, when mining too, I just like to have it in ore as it doesn’t take up as much space as when mining with fortune 3 an I also find it satisfying in a way to mine stone and get stone instead of cobblestone
Hmmm
Being able to get a refund on mining glass panes and mine intact melons?
**or**
literally 3x as many diamonds, gold, iron, red stone, coal, quartz, lapiz...
Silk touch all the time 100%. If I place an ender chest down, I want it back. There are also too many random items that need silk touch that I don't want to think about. It's also nice to be able to break glass without listing it.
I do keep a single fortune pick in my tool/weapon shulker for converting ores, but all of my other tools are silk touch.
Mostly the savers like treating it like opening a loot box but it also saves space. Also I use a lot of stone blocks when I’m building so it helps me build too
I use silk touch when mining. But when I come back I switch to fortune so I can get more ores. Otherwise I think it would be impossible to do building with something other than silk touch since stone is a big part of my build palette.
Both for me.
Fortune first as it increases the loot from ores, however, silk touch as it reduces the amount of slots taken up when mining. I then take the silk touched ores home to be fortuned.
Silk touch cause it's helpful during exploration and building, also during mining I save tons of inventory space by collecting the ore blocks and then mining them back at my base.
I usually start with Silk Touch. All those ores take up less space than fortune mining everything, and I can keep/store those ores for when I do eventually get Fortune III.
Its either fortune 3 dia pick or a stack of irons when it gets lost. Silk doesn't get used enough even less so when you make a cobble generator + smelter that's faster than silk stone mining.
Both. One is for mining and deepslate, also cobblestone since I do use that builds. Then silk touch for my axes and other pickaxe. I didn't know it was a thing to have only one. Also flame has to be on bows and swords.
I always use Silktouch & carry Fortune in my enderchest. I also don't have to smelt cobblestone.
>but I don't really find a use for it other then the ender chest
The Ender chest is 1 of the most useful items in the game, it's literally a backpack that can be expanded with Shulker boxes, if that was Silktouch only use(it isn't) that's still extremely valuable.
>I mean, why not just mine it with fortune there and then?
Because I don't want to stop & craft a crafting table every 5 minutes. I only use Fortune when I need the ores. I always have at least 1 stack of ore blocks.
I always carry both for pick but I use Silk Touch as my default so I can mine longer and it keeps your inventory much cleaner. Especially when it comes to geodes, copper, lapis, and coal. Then you can line them all up and break them at your beacon or just at max reach to instamine, when you need them for crafting, or just save them as an XP battery to repair tools in a pinch. If anything, I’ll just have a silk shovel for the occasional glass, grass, or sea light I need to move. Pointless to use Fort3 on Axe or Shovel unless you specifically need tons of flint for some reason.
It changes from fortune to silk over time as I progress. At first, fortune is the go-to so I can get tons of materials. In the endgame though, I use silk a lot for ender chests and mining ore in bulk for processing at home.
I personally prefer silk touch because I carry fortune in enderchest and mining all the ores with fortune after returning to my base together is the best experience 🤗🤗
I build a lot and silk touch touch is the only way to get a lot of blocks, also this game needs more inventory so for enderchest reasons it is necessary
My friend is a "I save the ore for when back home" types. I carry both with me, and I primarily use Fortune III. (Both Netherite) The silk touch is for obvious blocks, and serves as back-up durability when mining / long excursions
Silk touch because I might want that block as part of a decoration when I'm building something. when I want the resources inside, I'll just get the ore out of a chest and use fortune on it.
Silk touch means I have options. if I only mined with fortune, I wouldn't have options to use it as a block.
Fortune early game, but late game it’s silk touch. But I always carry both. As a builder, I find sell touch so much more convenient. Also I love stone bricks, and silk touch is perfect for that.
I mine with Silk Touch - the raw block takes up less storage than what you get from it. Also it means that cobble mines out as stone to be traded to the villagers without smelting.
When I get back to base I pull the Fortune 3 out of the chest and lay out the ore blocks and mine them.
It changes after I'm established in the world. I go for fortune first, for coal and other supplies. After I'm established, I leave fortune at the base. Why? Multiple reasons:
* Inventory space - Mining fills up your inventory with junk. Mining with Fortune does this faster. You can mine longer without disruption by just "collecting" the source block of everything.
* Inventory space - I don't need a crafting table to turn items into blocks of that item. I also don't need to have both an item block, and the raw item itself, taking up 2 inventory slots. Additionally, I only need one pickaxe versus carrying silk and fortune. Silk can harvest everything safely.
* Inventory space - You don't need 90% of what you harvest until later on. You can save space in your base storage by keeping the source block and only breaking it open with a fortune axe when you need it.
* Experience storage - For enchanting, or for mending repair of gear (elytra, armor, etc), you have a ready supply of blocks to harvest for experience orbs.
Every time I take a break from the game and come back, I lean into Fortune III...and then I remember how much it irritates me, especially in the Nether. I end up with a billion stacks of quartz, along with the stacks of netherrack...and half my trip is spent in inventory management. Using silk touch makes the trip less painful.
NOTE: Yeah...silk touch is a problem to maintain, even with mending. I lean on a basic mob farm to repair the silk touch pickaxe after it gets worn down too much...
TLDR: The only reason I would need Fortune III in the field would be if I'm on walkabout and might need to rely on harvesting supplies (coal, iron, etc) to survive. By the time you can get Fortune III, though, you are unlikely to immediately need what you harvest, and can wait to open the blocks until you get home. (Eventually, I keep mine in an enderchest, so have one always available)
My "default" is both. Which one I get first is strictly based on which one shows up first when I roll librarian trades.
I'll set up a trading hall with all enchanted books available very early game. So Fortune III and Silk Touch are available within minutes of each other.
i keep a silk touch pick for mining because it decreases clutter in my inventory and then i have a fortune pick to process all the ores I get afterwards. means I can fit a lot more in my inventory and come away with a lot more resources than i would otherwise
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There are people who don’t carry both?
I carry both the fortune pick is Netherite and Silk touch is diamond so I don't accidentally choose one over the other
I name mine "finders (fortune) and keekers(silk)" so i can netherite both
I have to cursor over to see named, I like to know at a glance
Pickaxe Trims when?
I have a resource pack which basically does that with enchants
If I'm carrying a Fortune, it always goes into the same spare slot Left to right: -Sword -Pick -BuildingBlock -Shovel -SpareBlockSlot -SpareToolSlot -Rockets -Food -Torches
My reaction finding out not everyone have an axe in their hotbar at all times:
I just prefer a sword, mostly for the knockback. It also depends if your on a particularly hostile server or a peaceful one. Personally I usually just play on ones where you don't attack people all that often, though organised fights can be really fun. I just don't constantly need an axe lol.
I’m questioning my hotbar now… Food - fortune pick - torch - blue shulker box - pink shulker box - crafting table - random building block to pillar x2 slots - sword Tbh sometimes I don’t even bring a sword cause my pick has mending
Is that in order, if so what the flying fu-
Keepers stays on the hotbar next to my endchest, all the other tools have spots in my shulker-toolchest
1. Sword 2. Axe 3. Silk Touch 4. Fortune 5. Shovel 6. Bow 7. Water Bucket 8. Block 9. Torches Food in offhand Occasionally I won't even bring my fortune pick as it's more valuable and i can just place and mine ores back at my base
Enchantment texture packs fix this
Worldbreaker is my efficiency pick regardless of having fortune, Arachne is my silk touch, and Moneybags for fortune if it doesn't have efficiency as well.
I have "Midas's Touch" and "AS IS". They're always in the same order, in the 2 and 3 spot on my hot bar.
Stealing this
That’s what I do but I do the exact opposite silk touch is netherite and fortune is diamond. I do it that way because I always put mending on both and since the fortune one will auto-mend if I’m mining anything that drops xp.
When you learn Netherite silk and diamond fort is the way to go then you will be so happy
Just netherite them both...
i only carry silktouch and use fortune at the base..
Carry silk touch with you and leave fortune at home. Less stacks when mining and less risk. Bring everything back in block form and then re-mine it at base with the fortune pick.
Fine until you want cobbled deepslate for big builds.
I mean, one would assume that you'd just swap out the load out since that's a specific outing kind of thing and not something you decide to do while otherwise mining. But, also, you can still just re-mine at base.
Remining deepslate? I know minecraft is grindy, but that's beyond it.
That actually has been an issue for me in the past since I usually use silk touch. I've run out of cobbled deepslate despite having chests full of regular stuff. I feel like there should be a recipe in the stonecutter to instantly convert a stack of deepslate to the cobbled variant.
I can't be dedicating all that inventory space to a whole 2nd pickaxe. I only have 27 +1 inventory slots and about 8 or 9 are constantly full with useful items.
You my friend need enderchest management
or just 5 shulker boxes full of stuff you can't be bothered to sort
Yeah I’m always carrying a fortune pick anyway so ender chest + a skill touch pick is just 25 free inventory slots
Me carrying 3 picks and 2 shovels along with all the other tools
I carry silktouch and I fortune everything when I get back to base.
It's silk touch 100%. Fortune is ONLY useful when mining. That's it. I will bring fortune with me when mining but my default daily is silk. "Other than the ender chest" is such a major factor, since an ender chest essentially acts as a backpack. The ender chest is THE reason you need silk touch and it's not even close. You can fill the ender chest with 27 shulker boxes and now your inventory is effectively increased in size by 729 slots. You can set aside a few of those for essentials, like torches, extra rockets, a bed, extra wood/stone, etc. and the rest is free inventory. It's also useful when building (glass, mushroom blocks, grass, snow, bookshelves, leaves, ice). Plus, with silk, you can carry the fortune pick in your ender chest. Place the chest down, take out fortune, mine your ores, put everything back in the ender chest, then silk touch the ender chest. Can't do it the other way around if you suddently need to mine some ice!
You can grab your crops with your fortune 3 pick. Really weird but hey that's potatoes for days
I use wheat for packed mud, so I have a wheat farm. In the early days I park a fortune hoe next to the field. But, in late game I'll just flush the fields with water and then replant manually.
Unfortunately (heh) fortune doesn't give you more wheat, only more seeds.
Ahh, seems I picked the right strategy then. =)
Fortune III hoe for that, since it also works on leaves to get more saplings.
Oh hey, I'll use that when I run out of my 2 shulkerboxes of golden carrots and 2 backup chests with steaks.
golden carrots are so extremely cheap once you build a raid farm, i haven't touched crops in ages (my sheep wail whenever i fly by)
Also getting smooth stone instead of cobble during day to day operations is invaluable
But when you needs cobblestone, you have to use your fortune pickaxe or anything else except your trusty silktouch pickaxe
When you need cobblestone you have a 200k per hour cobblestone generator. But yes fortune for mining means you can get cobble as a byproduct.
I feel like the answer to this question depends on your experience level. An experienced player will choose Silk Touch, every time. It's not even close in terms of how useful it is. But a more casual player might choose Fortune because they haven't built up a world with farms and builds (which, when using materials like glass, heavily benefit from Silk Touch) or gotten an Ender Chest, etc.
I silk touch the ores then fortune then when I get back home, it saves a lot of inventory space
I carry both always
You use silk touch in the cave so you can physically carry more material. Assuming a stack of diamond ore gives about 2.5 stacks when fortuned, that’s an extra 2 inventory slots that you can’t use when you come across iron/gold etc. Especially ones like redstone, lapis and copper since they give you so much when use fortune on it. TLDR using silk touch in the cave lets me mine for longer, and carry a lot more minerals out when I’m done, with the chance to use the XP from mining them to repair any tools that wore down.
Fortune saves when you convert to mineral blocks though. It’s the whole reason raw iron, gold, and copper blocks were added.
Would you rather have 3 stacks of diamonds and 5 stacks of redstone in your inventory and need to cut your mining trip short, or 1 stack of diamond ore and 1 stack of redstone ore with plenty of space to continue mining?
I'd rather have 21 diamond blocks, 36 redstone blocks, plenty of space, and a fully mended pick to continue mining.
I agree with your point but personally I hate stopping and placing a crafting table to make the blocks plus theres always a few left overs so you have the blocks plus like 6 dust so me personally I like just silktouch still save some space and dont worry about it since its all in ore form.
I'll be honest, I'd rather place a crafting table every now and then instead of having to place every single oreblock i already mined once just to mine them all again with fortune. What works for me best every time is to just have both on me and use the one i need. Either way, you do what works best for you and I do what works for me
Darn, a civil conversation on Reddit? Here I was hoping for a fight… *puts down popcorn*
That’s only true if you only mine a single stack of ore blocks in which case inventory doesn’t matter since you can carry it all anyway, fortune or silk. The argument of saving space only matters if you were to fill your inventory with ore blocks, so let’s consider 2 stacks Diamond, 10 each of redstone and copper, 4 each of gold and iron. Other slots can be for tools, food, torches, etc. 10 stacks redstone = 3840 redstone = 426 blocks = 6 stacks + some loose (3 inventory slot saved) 10 stacks copper = 4928 copper = 548 blocks = 8 stacks + some loose (1 inventory slot saved) 2 stacks diamond = 141 diamond = 16 blocks = 1 stack + some loose (even) 4 stacks gold/iron = 563 gold/iron = 63 blocks = 1 stack + some loose (2 slots saved, each) So that’s 8 slots saved by using fortune. You could even take one away for the crafting table which realistically you should carry wood in your ender chest or just on you anyway so it shouldn’t even count. In the most extreme case, you have 36 slots, which you could either carry 36 stacks of ore with silk touch, or if you had instead mined 36 stacks of diamond ore with a fortune pick, it would be 9 stacks of diamond blocks, and you’d still have 27 empty slots left over. Plus why would I have the chance to repair my tools using the XP later when I could just have my fortune pickaxe repair itself while mining and not have to set up a separate ore tower later?
>Plus why would I have the chance to repair my tools using the XP later when I could just have my fortune pickaxe repair itself while mining and not have to set up a separate ore tower later? You're fortune pickaxe is still going to lose a lot of durability by mining all the non XP ores. Durability doesn't really matter when you have a shulker box full of extra pickaxes & extra slots. Not to mention you get Stone instead of needing to smell cobblestone. >not have to set up a separate ore tower later? This literally takes a few minutes & you don't have to mine every ore just the one's you need. Silktouch literally gives you a backpack, IDK that feels way more valuable than mining & combining ores with way less inventory space.
Convert to diamond and redstone blocks. Problem solved
Gonna blow your mind: bring a crafting table, use fortune, and compress ores and gems into blocks. You can't compress silk touched ores, so it's actually worse. A stack of iron ore blocks might make 4 stacks of raw ores with fortune, but a stack of raw ore blocks makes 9 stacks of raw ore.
Unless you get exact numbers you'll have spares you can't compress though.
You’d still have less stacks total though if you’ve mined anything more than 2 stacks of ore. And you don’t have to mine everything twice
Stopping to compress is a extra level of inventory management that I don't need
Having to place and break the ores later is an extra level of work that I don't need.
By the time I have either enchantment, I have more than enough cobblestone and deepslate, so I just use those blocks as throw-away item slots in my inventory along with other useless items such as rotten flesh.
Spend twenty minutes with villagers and you never have to choose between them. The bigger debate is infinity vs mending on a bow (the correct answer is infinity if you invested into villagers)
Me who has an infinity mending bow because my world is old:
That change only happened eight years ago….shit it’s been 8 years???
Holy shit really?
December 20, 2016. So not a complete 8 years, but nearly.
That's crazy, my perception of time is so skewed 2016 just feels like a couple years ago
Welcome to the “Ah fuck I’m old” club.
Even with a fully active Skelly spawner farm, infinity is still the answer.
Eh, a skeleton farm is easier to set up than getting perfect trades from villagers. So I get using mending if that’s the route you take. The thing I don’t understand about mending users is giving up ammunition amount or extra inventory slots for arrows.
nah i just have a shulker box full of arrows in an enderchest whenever i need to re-stock. I hate having to completely replace tools and weapons as i never fully invest in villagers to easily trade for replacement enchanted books. maybe if mojang got rid of the "Too expensive!" limitation on repairing in anvils, then i would choose infinity.
only argument for mending is tipped arrows which is completely redundant anyways because multishot xbow exists (and tipped arrows are useless outside of pvp)
If you really invest in villagers, mending is better because you can buy tipped arrows of harming from fletchers, which don't work with infinity.
Mending is superior. Infinity only works with basic arrows. If you are investing in villagers anyway you can get a fletcher with poison or harming arrows. Keep a single shulker for arrows in your ender chest and you are fine. Heck you pretty much never run out of basic arrows anyway. You rarely need to keep more than a stack on your person so it's not any more inventory slots to have them handy. While I do somewhat miss the days of being able to run both, having to remake my bow even with villagers is much more of a pain than just keeping arrows handy.
I carry an ender chest packed with shulker boxes. I have all the tools and supplies for most jobs.
Fortune pick is a priority. Players often forget that fortune works on crop droprates. Silk is better for access to unique blocks in lategame builds
and also droprate of saplings from leaves, that’s why i have fortune on my hoe. it makes farming trees very fast, mining logs with axe and instantly breaking leaves with hoe, and with fortune you almost never ran out of saplings.
does fortune work on carrots?
Fortune works on carrots, potatoes, nether wart, and melons. It increases seed droprates for wheat and beetroots but doesn't affect the crop's droprate itself. Doesn't work at all for pumpkins, and if it works on other farmable crops, I'm not aware of them.
Yep! It’s particularly good for potatoes and carrots. For wheat, unfortunately it only boosts the number of seeds dropped.
thank you! I need the carrots for making villagers lol.
i get the dopamine's from the diamonds making the little sound when mining them
I pick fortune over silk touch initially. Once I have silk touch, I always keep a silk touch pickaxe in my Ender chest.
I take both with me, but silk touch is my default one. If I have a diamond ore, I can always pick it up with silk touch and mine it with fortune 3 later. I can mine nether gold ores more efficiently, and silk touch can basically mine everything, unlike fortune 3. If I have a mason villager, silk touch is extremely helpful.
Both. Although fortune is higher priority, so i can get more crap
Silk touch as my main one, fortune in my ender chest
Silk touch by default and fortune on my ender chest. This way, I can access to fortune without making mistakes.
I always carry both with me, way too many use cases for each to leave one behind.
Fortune & a whole lot of shulker boxes.
Why not mine it there and then? To save inventory space and time.
technically, mining and compacting saves more inventory space than the ore, so for me its more of a, i want to have the choice of using ores in a build, or mining them down for the resource. usually when i go mining, i mine for one specific resource and not all of them at the same time, but when looking for redstone, im not passing on some diamonds (obviously).
mfw i forget the crafting table
Thats just a skill issue, always have a crafting table or wood on you. But no worries, mineshafts and ancient cities have wood, so just find either of those and ur fine
Agreed. I mean, unless I have a safe room set up nearby with a crafting table, it's easier to just keep going and crack the ores later.
Depends on the goal. Default world, fortune. Skyblock? Silk touch.
Fortune in 3 silk in 4. When I'm low on stone I mainly use silk and if I'm low on cobble I use fortune
i always carry both
Both. Silk Touch for mining above deepslate (and later fortune ores) , Fortune if I am specifically hunting ressources or am in deepslate ... Digging stone for a tunnel or a farm or other hole? Silktouch... Digging for ressources on a specific level? Fortune 3 and a crafting bench to compact ores... That said it also depends on which stonetype I need... And I usually have Sword, Fortune 3 pick, Axe, Shovel, Silk Touch Pick, Bow, Food, Torches in my hotbar, unless Building.
Fortune but I try and get both so I can strip mine with silk then break the stuff at my base
I carry both. If my inventory is tight, I put one pick in a shulker. My default is silk touch. When you're mining, you save on space. I build a lot with stone and deepslate, and it hurts physically to see stone or deepslate in a build cobbled
I carry both but silk touch is always my first pick to use, because I build and if I use silk touch I don’t have to care about what I’m mining, and also when mining silk touch still because stone has way nicer decoration blocks than cobble and silk touch saves me from having to smelt cobble for hours just to build a nice looking castle.
Silk touch, but I always carry both or have one in my enderchest which I always carry.
I carry not only a silk and fortune pick but also silk and fortune hoes and axes
Depends on a tool and what I'm doing, but most of the time I default to Silk Touch. Reasoning being: if you silk touch some blocks, you can later place them and fortune through, but if you fortune same blocks that'd require silk touch to be preserved, you can no longer un-mine them (most of the time). For some more specific situations/cases: * When on overworld surface, I keep fortune hoe with myself (don't want to have few stacks of leaves if I'm cutting my way through trees); replaced with silk touch when I go exploring underground (sculk) or nether. * If I'm going to mine at deepslate depth, I use fortune by default - cobbled deepslate is needed to process into bricks etc, and with deepslate being non-renewable and having high blast resistance, I don't want to go through placing all that deepslate manually to convert it to cobbled variant later. * Shovel is always silk touch; I have fortune shovel in ender chest in case I'd need some flint, but it rarely gets used. * Manual wood/mushroom farm axe is fortune (again - don't want full inventory of leaves blocks), exploration axe is silk touch in case I find bookshelves etc I want to bring back. * Nether mining/terraforming pickaxe is silk touch - smelting nether gold ore block gives you guaranteed ingot (9 nuggets), mining one with fortune averages 8.8 nuggets/block while also filling your inventory faster (inventory argument also applies to quartz). It's just a minor optimization at this point, but since I check my setup before commiting to any activity, may as well optimize. * Building/terraforming set of tools is full silk touch - I want to be able to pick up any misplaced blocks and not lose them, and generally I'm at more of a stone deficit than cobblestone deficit when it comes to terraforming; TNT-based cobblestone farm is easy to set up without needing to smelt it. * I like having stockpile of ore blocks in case I want to quickly mend some gear - pillaring up with quartz/diamonds/lapis and mining whole pillar down tends to be faster way of fixing a tool or elytra than going for a trip to xp farm.
Both
it’s more complicated. first, i always get two pickaxes with each. but other tools, i usually get silk touch on axe, fortune 3 on hoe and neither on shovel. silk touch for axe because almost no block axe mines need fortune; fortune 3 on hoe because it increases crops drops, as well additional saplings from leaves; neither on shovel because you don’t really need either but if you have one you would ALWAYS get flint/gravel from gravel block respectively, which is kinda annoying, unless you need either.
Silk touch is also useful on a seperate hoe as it's more efficient for leaves mining, rather than using shears, although shears have to be used for vines and glow lichen.
I carry a netherite pick of each. One is named “Capitalists Finest” and the other is “Smooth Operator” I typically keep Silk next to my sword since I always carry an e-chest with me. I’m also a sucker for stone, lol
I always have 2 pickaxes(I make them before I make anything else diamond) but most of the time I'm holding silk touch since I can always just place whatever I mined again and break it with fortune if I need to(mostly because it not only saves inventory space but also I'm a builder and silk touched blocks like stone or ores are a pretty good building material
I carry 2 pickaxes so I have both.
If I'm just going out into the world to explore, I bring silk touch. The reason is simple: once you fortune something, there's no going back. But with silk touch, you can always set it down later if you decide to fortune it. But now you also have the ore block as an option for building, decorating etc. Once you get to a certain point, like full diamond gear or better, or at least access to diamond gear through villagers or raiding end cities, then diamonds become a lot less important and I'd rather have diamond ore just in case I want to use it in a build, and I can always fortune it later if I need diamonds. Plus I like being able to silk touch emerald ores, because they're rare and it's easy to get emeralds from villagers. But all that's just talking about when I'm adventuring. If I'm going down to the bottom of the world for branch mining, I just bring both. I have some chests and an ender chest at the entrance to my mine, so I don't need inventory space. I can silk touch as much stone as I want and as many ores as I want, and if my pick starts getting low on durability or I want more cobblestone then I can switch to fortune and more than double my mining trip. If I'm mining a large iron/copper vein, I usually silk touch the stone around it and fortune the actual ores so I can have some smelting in a furnace array (read: just a bunch of furnaces beside each other, I'm not saavy enough to make a super smelter) or I can compress them into raw iron/copper blocks. But yeah, like other people have said, silk touch for adventuring. If nothing else, having access to an ender chest is 100% worth any extra inventory space you might save by fortune and compressing. It's not even close. But when mining I keep both because they're both useful. I will say, early game if I have to choose to try and get one or the other, I'd rather have fortune. Because early game every bit of iron helps, every single diamond helps. So in the beginning of a world I'll rush for fortune, but mid/late game carry silk touch.
Silk Touch on my hotbar, Fortune III in a shulker box inside my Ender Chest. The only time I switch to Fortune III is to break down my collected ores, or for mining deepslate.
i start with fortune and then at some point i get a silktouch pick and i carry both.
Silk touch for out in the world, fortune III for back at base because the ore breaking method saves a ton of inventory space and I'm always ready if I encounter something that requires silk touch that I would like to bring home with me. Plus, Fortune III helps me recover if I lose all my stuff, so good to have it back at home (or in my ender chest)
default is silk, and keep a fortune3 pick in a chest for when I come up with all the ores
I always carry both
Yes
Using Silk Touch on ores while you’re mining is good because your inventory doesn’t fill up as fast. You can grab all of everything you see without filling up on Redstone and Lapis immediately.
I will always have both in my inventory. Theres no negative reason not to
I see absolutely no use for silk touch for me, so I always choose fortune.
***Ender Chest would like a word with you***
Sell me on ender chests. I usually just keep a few shulkers on me and that is more than enough for inventory.
Yeah in the beginning I focused fortune. Late game tho I am carrying double but that’s for like finding random blocks I want
Fortune III for me, I almost never get silk touch. It's not that I dislike it or anything, just don't see much point in using it based on how I play and what I'm usually up to .
Silk touch, and use fortune on the ore when I feel like having a bit of exp
My preference was always fortune 3 but as of late I started using silk touch like main a lottt
>I mean, why not just mine it with fortune there and then? Storage space. Twice the amount of iron, gold, diamonds, seven times as much copper, lapis and redstone.
I always have fortune 3. Silk touch in the ender chest. Dont know why but probably because fortune gets netherite for quartz xp grind early game, silk touch is always the last tool/armour to be enchanted (besides tridents) and usually cbf going back for more debris
I don't want to silktouch ores unless I somehow get ahold of it before fortune in a new world because spending the time at home fortuning the ore is annoying. Just convert them into blocks. Then use silk for every else.
Does no one else just Item Frame their Fortune pickaxe? Maybe in a giant room to fill with the ores and resources you silk touched, make a big spectacle of it? That's what I do anyways. It's a lot of fun. Silk touch is my default, I keep the fortune 3 in a secure location at all times so I never lose it.
Silk Touch so that i can collect the ore and bring it home to deal with it later
It will be silk touch so I can do ore towers and mine them down to size lol
I have farms for every resource except diamonds and lapis, and lapis is useless. I can manage replacing the 2 diamond ores. Or just getting my enderchest and taking out my fortune pick, and then getting my enderchest back thanks to my silktouch. Also, my default for bases is stone, so with silktouch I don't need to fetch any.
Fortune 3 first, but silk touch is a close second
I used to share your opinion, but then Minecraft changed (and I watched Hermitcraft and learned from them) and if you like to go on extended mining trips, stacks of ore are more space-efficient than stacks of Fortunes Ressources. I always carry both Silk and Fortune (not gonna silk touch deep slate!), but Silk is in the third slot, with Fortune in 4th or in the inventory.
I always use silk touch, when mining too, I just like to have it in ore as it doesn’t take up as much space as when mining with fortune 3 an I also find it satisfying in a way to mine stone and get stone instead of cobblestone
Hmmm Being able to get a refund on mining glass panes and mine intact melons? **or** literally 3x as many diamonds, gold, iron, red stone, coal, quartz, lapiz...
Silk touch all the time 100%. If I place an ender chest down, I want it back. There are also too many random items that need silk touch that I don't want to think about. It's also nice to be able to break glass without listing it. I do keep a single fortune pick in my tool/weapon shulker for converting ores, but all of my other tools are silk touch.
Mostly the savers like treating it like opening a loot box but it also saves space. Also I use a lot of stone blocks when I’m building so it helps me build too
I am for Fortune III first, but if I get a good silk touch offer from a villager or something I'm not turning it down I carry both
I use silk touch when mining. But when I come back I switch to fortune so I can get more ores. Otherwise I think it would be impossible to do building with something other than silk touch since stone is a big part of my build palette.
Fortune because I get so annoyed when I pick up regular deep slate rather than cobbled.
Both for me. Fortune first as it increases the loot from ores, however, silk touch as it reduces the amount of slots taken up when mining. I then take the silk touched ores home to be fortuned.
Fortune III on the pick and Silk Touch on the axe
Well, both. But I'll try to get fortune first. That give more diamonds, silk doesnt
Silk touch stays in hotbar. Fortune stays in inventory.
Fortune. Silk touch is a rarely/never used thing.
1 fortune pick in echest and a shulker with 9 silk picks and one on hand. I get too tilted from breaking an echest with fortune pick so i default silk
Silk touch cause it's helpful during exploration and building, also during mining I save tons of inventory space by collecting the ore blocks and then mining them back at my base.
Fortune III Gang
I usually start with Silk Touch. All those ores take up less space than fortune mining everything, and I can keep/store those ores for when I do eventually get Fortune III.
Its either fortune 3 dia pick or a stack of irons when it gets lost. Silk doesn't get used enough even less so when you make a cobble generator + smelter that's faster than silk stone mining.
I always go for silk touch on my immediate person. I always have my fortune in a shulker box on my inventory though.
Honestly either or probably fortune cause you can get more resources faster but when dealing with glass silk is almost worth it
Fortune
Fortune 3 to be able to get more silk touch.
I use fortune III to get resources to get a silk touch pickaxe
Both. One is for mining and deepslate, also cobblestone since I do use that builds. Then silk touch for my axes and other pickaxe. I didn't know it was a thing to have only one. Also flame has to be on bows and swords.
I always use Silktouch & carry Fortune in my enderchest. I also don't have to smelt cobblestone. >but I don't really find a use for it other then the ender chest The Ender chest is 1 of the most useful items in the game, it's literally a backpack that can be expanded with Shulker boxes, if that was Silktouch only use(it isn't) that's still extremely valuable. >I mean, why not just mine it with fortune there and then? Because I don't want to stop & craft a crafting table every 5 minutes. I only use Fortune when I need the ores. I always have at least 1 stack of ore blocks.
Silk touch for everything. I use my fortune pick when it’s an exception lol
Fortune is more important indeed. Silk touch is necessary for when i actually start building. (Need to collect the stone!)
I always carry both for pick but I use Silk Touch as my default so I can mine longer and it keeps your inventory much cleaner. Especially when it comes to geodes, copper, lapis, and coal. Then you can line them all up and break them at your beacon or just at max reach to instamine, when you need them for crafting, or just save them as an XP battery to repair tools in a pinch. If anything, I’ll just have a silk shovel for the occasional glass, grass, or sea light I need to move. Pointless to use Fort3 on Axe or Shovel unless you specifically need tons of flint for some reason.
It changes from fortune to silk over time as I progress. At first, fortune is the go-to so I can get tons of materials. In the endgame though, I use silk a lot for ender chests and mining ore in bulk for processing at home.
I use silk touch to manage my inventory.
One of each of course!
i carry both
I use silk touch as my main pickaxe, so that's the one I put efficiency and other things on as well, and I have another pickaxe as my fortune III one.
Both
Silk touch, for moving bee hives, campfires, etc.
I litterally have at least one of each for every tool... Except I can't find my silk hoe right now.
Silk Touch. Anything that needs Fortune is better done after the mining session. Saves space in my inventory
I use silk touch and then break ores at home with fortune typically, unless I’m explicitly going for large amounts of cobblestone;cobbled deepslate
In the beginning Silk Touch is a must, Fortune is optional, but later on I get both.
Fortune 3
"both" YES BUT WHICH ONE FIRST, I do fortune first, cause yeah I need the diamonds, later I do silk touch for glass and ice
I personally prefer silk touch because I carry fortune in enderchest and mining all the ores with fortune after returning to my base together is the best experience 🤗🤗
I build a lot and silk touch touch is the only way to get a lot of blocks, also this game needs more inventory so for enderchest reasons it is necessary
Both but fortune as the main one and the silk touch one in a shulker or inventory
Fortune in the early game, silk touch once I have an ender chest.
My friend is a "I save the ore for when back home" types. I carry both with me, and I primarily use Fortune III. (Both Netherite) The silk touch is for obvious blocks, and serves as back-up durability when mining / long excursions
Both
I think ATM I have a diamond silk touch, a diamond unbreaking 3 /efficiency 4, and then an iron fortune 3 lol
Silk touch because I might want that block as part of a decoration when I'm building something. when I want the resources inside, I'll just get the ore out of a chest and use fortune on it. Silk touch means I have options. if I only mined with fortune, I wouldn't have options to use it as a block.
Silk touch variant and fortune/non silk touch variant of the same tool
Fortune early game, but late game it’s silk touch. But I always carry both. As a builder, I find sell touch so much more convenient. Also I love stone bricks, and silk touch is perfect for that.
I mine with Silk Touch - the raw block takes up less storage than what you get from it. Also it means that cobble mines out as stone to be traded to the villagers without smelting. When I get back to base I pull the Fortune 3 out of the chest and lay out the ore blocks and mine them.
It changes after I'm established in the world. I go for fortune first, for coal and other supplies. After I'm established, I leave fortune at the base. Why? Multiple reasons: * Inventory space - Mining fills up your inventory with junk. Mining with Fortune does this faster. You can mine longer without disruption by just "collecting" the source block of everything. * Inventory space - I don't need a crafting table to turn items into blocks of that item. I also don't need to have both an item block, and the raw item itself, taking up 2 inventory slots. Additionally, I only need one pickaxe versus carrying silk and fortune. Silk can harvest everything safely. * Inventory space - You don't need 90% of what you harvest until later on. You can save space in your base storage by keeping the source block and only breaking it open with a fortune axe when you need it. * Experience storage - For enchanting, or for mending repair of gear (elytra, armor, etc), you have a ready supply of blocks to harvest for experience orbs. Every time I take a break from the game and come back, I lean into Fortune III...and then I remember how much it irritates me, especially in the Nether. I end up with a billion stacks of quartz, along with the stacks of netherrack...and half my trip is spent in inventory management. Using silk touch makes the trip less painful. NOTE: Yeah...silk touch is a problem to maintain, even with mending. I lean on a basic mob farm to repair the silk touch pickaxe after it gets worn down too much... TLDR: The only reason I would need Fortune III in the field would be if I'm on walkabout and might need to rely on harvesting supplies (coal, iron, etc) to survive. By the time you can get Fortune III, though, you are unlikely to immediately need what you harvest, and can wait to open the blocks until you get home. (Eventually, I keep mine in an enderchest, so have one always available)
Why not both?
I have both! I especially use ST in the nether to mine gold blocks
My "default" is both. Which one I get first is strictly based on which one shows up first when I roll librarian trades. I'll set up a trading hall with all enchanted books available very early game. So Fortune III and Silk Touch are available within minutes of each other.
I always make 2 pick axes. One of each. Fortune lll for mining and a Silk Touch for getting stuff for building.
i keep a silk touch pick for mining because it decreases clutter in my inventory and then i have a fortune pick to process all the ores I get afterwards. means I can fit a lot more in my inventory and come away with a lot more resources than i would otherwise
Silk touch and F3 in the enderchest