This is mostly depndent on if you have access to a mine with more tokens than usual - though it's good advice either way.
If you somehow obtain a pickaxe with 3000-4500 explosive (Insane Explosive Pickaxe, Godly Pickaxe, really good rng on a Summer pickaxe, you actually grind one out madlad, or you have a shared gang pickaxe), that pickaxe will make tokens faster than a "slow" jackhammer pick (jh 1-~3500). You would need to add levels in Soul Luck (Soul Luck doesn't increase the explosion's radius IIRC, only improves the explosion by breaking more blocks inside that radius. Soul Luck = Cleaner explosions, not bigger explosions -
kaivalya
or someone else please correct me if i'm wrong on this.)
Jackhammer is
not a guaranteed activation, not even when fully maxed out and with soul luck 35 equipped - it
might be guaranteed if you somehow get Gang Luck minepoints tier 4, Soul Luck 35, Jackhammer 5000 and a Legendary Jackhammer Wizard pet to level 50-100. (That said, I still love and prefer Jackhammer, it takes less concentration and effort)
Explosion is not initially a guaranteed activation, but somewhere around level 2000-2500 it spawns an explosion for every block you mine.
To maximize token gain
- Dig straight down, then fly back up to the top of your mine and repeat.
- OR if you have Thug rank+ (which lets you instantly teleport when using /warp [name] or /spawn, /warp to the top of your mine.
The bigger your explosion radius is, the more tokens you'll get per activation.