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When do we get a massage like this: "you need a better tool to mine this "

I've only seen it in modded games. The Dytech mod has ores (e.g. Crystal Formation) that have a higher "Mining hardness" than the vanilla ores and if you try to mine them by hand, this message is shown.

You also can only place mining drills there that have a mining power that is higher than the ore's hardness, but then no message is shown.

You need to research and build one of late game mining tools to mine those. It goes also for mining drills.

daniel34 wrote:I've only seen it in modded games. The Dytech mod has ores (e.g. Crystal Formation) that have a higher "Mining hardness" than the vanilla ores and if you try to mine them by hand, this message is shown.

You also can only place mining drills there that have a mining power that is higher than the ore's hardness, but then no message is shown.

orzelek wrote:You need to research and build one of late game mining tools to mine those. It goes also for mining drills.

I'm talking about the vanilla game - Is there a reason for this message to show ? (I know about the DyTech ores)

There's no reason for that message to appear in vanilla Factorio.