Better Mining

Better Mining

Craft a core, install it in your pickaxe, and choose how that pickaxe mines. Each pickaxe has one slot, so every core is a real choice.

Cores

Explosive Core

• Mining has a chance to cause a small explosion that breaks nearby blocks and drops their items.

• Mining ores charges an ability. When the HUD pulses, press the ability key (Q by default), and the next block you mine causes a blast twice as large.

Excavation Core

• Mines an area on every break. The area grows with your pickaxe's level.

• Crouch to mine a single block.

| Rock quality | Vanilla pickaxes | Area |

|---|---|---|

| 3 | Iron | 2x2 |

| 4 | Cobalt, Thorium | 3x3 |

| 5 | Adamantite | 4x4 |

| 6 | Mithril, Onyxium | 5x5 |

Crafting

Both cores are crafted at a level 2 Workbench.

• Explosive Core: 6 Thorium Bars, 10 Fire Essence, 2 Medium Leather

• Excavation Core: 6 Cobalt Bars, 10 Void Essence, 2 Heavy Leather

Hold a core and right-click to choose which pickaxe receives it. Replacing a core returns the old one to you, and resets that pickaxe's charge.

Balance

• Extra blocks use your pickaxe's durability.

• Effects only break rock, soil, and ore that your pickaxe could mine by itself. They skip bedrock, chests, doors, benches, furniture, and decoration, as well as the block holding up a chest.

• Charge and installed cores are saved in the pickaxe.

• In creative mode, the ability is always charged.

Pickaxes from other mods

Better Mining reads each tool's stats, so modded pickaxes should work with no setup. This is a beta and has not been tested with many mods yet. If a pickaxe is not detected, add its item ID to AllowedPickaxes, and please tell me about it in the comments

Config

Server owners can change these in mods/BetterMining_BetterMining/BetterMining.json:

| Setting | Default | What it does |

|---|---|---|

| RequireCore | true | When false, a pickaxe with an empty slot acts as Explosive |

| MinRockQuality | 3 | Lowest rock quality counted as a pickaxe |

| AllowedPickaxes | [] | Extra item IDs to treat as pickaxes |

| BreakableGatherTypes | Rocks, VolcanicRocks, Soils | What effects can break, along with all ores |

| ExplosionChance | 0.1 | Chance per mined block |

| ExplosionRadius | 1 | Blast radius; the ability doubles it |

| MaxCharge | 100 | Charge needed for the ability |

| ChargePerOre | 2 | Charge gained per ore |

| ExcavationSizes | [2, 3, 4, 5] | Area size by pickaxe level |

| DurabilityHitsPerExtraBlock | 4 | Mining hits of durability each extra block costs |

Updating from 1.0.1

Your config values are kept. With the default settings, pickaxes need a core to use their abilities. To keep the old behavior, set RequireCore to false.

Requires Hytale server 0.7.x.