Yet another proclamation of my love for
Tinkers' Construct, with my two most recent creations and their cheesy RPG names which were bestowed upon them by my inner 10-year-old:

4,500 durability | 6 hearts of damage | Does 1.5x damage while sprinting, holding right-click charges a lunge attack
- Reinforced III: An obsidian hand guard gives the tool a 30% chance of not using durability per hit
- Life Steal: The bone of a Wither Skeleton at the hilt makes damage done to enemies heal you
- Sharpness: 72 pieces of Quartz increase the damage by 2 hearts
- Durability +50%: An Emerald raises the base durability by 50%
- Luck: Lapis Lazuli occasionally gives the blade Looting, the enchantment level increases the more it's used and may decrease if repaired

2,100 durability | 13 speed (more than double standard Iron) | Great for getting glass
- Reinforced II: A colbalt handle gives the tool a 20% chance of not using durability per block broken
- Auto-Smelt: A lava crystal, made from a variety of flame-based items, smelts any block broken instantly (as the shovel's name implies this means digging sand gives you glass)
- Auto-Repair: A compact ball of moss stone gives the tool slow regenerative properties, this increases in sunlight
- Haste: 50 pieces of Redstone increases the mining speed moderately
I love that it makes the materials just hard enough to get that you can't make all sorts of godly tools without working for it but not too hard that it's annoying and grindy. Modifications, no real need for a wiki, and a practical use for all my Lapis/Redstone are icing on the cake.