Remove some GT tools

[Connor-Colenso]

Removes all GT pickaxes, shovels, hoes, axes and swords. Adds a new flint tool for each, that is a separate item. Each current item will be converted into a flint equivalent tool. Both axes and swords will retain their fire aspect enchant and new crafted tools will also retain this. Tested postea transforms and all seems to work fine. Will need some QB adjustments but nothing major. Main progression should be unchanged. I believe this is a good step to untangling the GT hell that is every item sharing an ID.

Removed the GT sense, plow, sickle and universal spade with no replacement, just because these tools are rather pointless. The sense head was used in one recipe, and I just replaced it with a plate of the same material, no substantial change in balance.

This should hopefully help speed up pack load (very) marginally as it will likely result in a reduction of 100s of random unused recipes for tons of useless GT tools with random materials. With the additional benefit of less confusion from new players clicking R on a GT pickaxe, to be met with 100s of recipes.

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#3204

[boubou19]

use ___placeholder___ instead of removing the prefixes, otherwise you shift all the meta ids

[boubou19]

Sense should be added back but as a single item, its AOE cleaning ability is nice. (or we add AOE to mattocks)

[LazyFleshWasTaken]

Can we at least keep gt pick in? For some people that don't want to use tinker's for some time at the beginning they can do flint pick -> small iron/banded iron/magnetite/whatever ore -> ingots -> hammer -> gt pick -> full ores.

Or, if the gt tools are removed, can the vanilla ones be re-enabled with a matching recipe to not remove the alternative progression?

[boubou19]

Can we at least keep gt pick in? For some people that don't want to use tinker's for some time at the beginning they can do flint pick -> small iron/banded iron/magnetite/whatever ore -> ingots -> hammer -> gt pick -> full ores.

Or, if the gt tools are removed, can the vanilla ones be re-enabled with a matching recipe to not remove the alternative progression?

We want to improve early game by removing bloat. GT pickaxes are just some pickaxes. We want to properly integrate and balance tinker construct stuff in the progression. Part of this effort is to remove the absurd amount of materials in tinker so we can properly balance the tools, part of this effort is to remove GT tools, so the progression is simplier. Tinker tools are objectively more interesting than GT pickaxes, and we have a huge interest to remove them, as it removes the tools, but also the pickaxe heads, and the recipes associated to them, resulting in a faster booting time, and less code to migrate for the future material rework.

The alternative progression path is an oversight, so aside maybe special behavior tools such as amethyst which has silk touch, they won't be added back.

[LazyFleshWasTaken]

Can we at least keep gt pick in? For some people that don't want to use tinker's for some time at the beginning they can do flint pick -> small iron/banded iron/magnetite/whatever ore -> ingots -> hammer -> gt pick -> full ores.
Or, if the gt tools are removed, can the vanilla ones be re-enabled with a matching recipe to not remove the alternative progression?

We want to improve early game by removing bloat. GT pickaxes are just some pickaxes. We want to properly integrate and balance tinker construct stuff in the progression. Part of this effort is to remove the absurd amount of materials in tinker so we can properly balance the tools, part of this effort is to remove GT tools, so the progression is simplier. Tinker tools are objectively more interesting than GT pickaxes, and we have a huge interest to remove them, as it removes the tools, but also the pickaxe heads, and the recipes associated to them, resulting in a faster booting time, and less code to migrate for the future material rework.

The alternative progression path is an oversight, so aside maybe special behavior tools such as amethyst which has pickaxe, they won't be added back.

I see. Nevermind then.
Also, it'd still technically be possible, you'd just have to use iron hammer instead of iron pickaxe, but it would also return crushed ores intead.