4 months ago - Shurenai - Direct link
Provided you are using the appropriate tool for the material (IE, pickaxe/auger for stone, axe for wood, shovel for dirt) Every given block of material gives a specific amount of resource regardless of how hard or soft you hit it or how fast or slow you harvest it.

If a block of iron has 1000 hp and gives, for example, 100 iron, You will get 100 iron per block regardless of whether you do it in 1000 hits of 1, or 1 hit of 1000, or anything in between. You will get exactly the same material per block mined with a pickaxe or with an augur.

You might get more material harvest per period of time with one tool over another, as explained above; But the material per block harvested is identical with the appropriate tool type.