Veinminer

Sneak, mine one ore, and the whole vein comes out.

A lightweight vanilla data pack for Minecraft Java 26.2 and 26.3. It runs on the server only, so players join with an unmodified game. It also comes as a mod (Fabric, Quilt, NeoForge, Forge) and a server plugin (Paper, Purpur, Spigot, Bukkit).

• The whole vein in one break, including ores that only touch at an edge or a corner. Stone and deepslate variants count as one vein.
• A chain reaction you can watch. The vein pops block by block, spreading out from the ore you hit, and every block throws its loot out in front of you.
• Real vanilla drops. Fortune, Silk Touch and XP work exactly as in vanilla, on every block of the vein.
• Fair. Each ore still needs the right pickaxe, every extra block costs durability (Unbreaking applies), and a vein never breaks your pickaxe.
• Only ores. It never chain-breaks stone, logs or your builds.
• Everyone chooses. Any player can turn it off or on for themselves with /trigger veinminer.

1. Hold a pickaxe.
2. Sneak.
3. Mine an ore.

Works on every vanilla ore: coal, copper, iron, lapis, gold, redstone, diamond, emerald, nether gold, quartz and ancient debris.

Operators open a clickable menu with /function veinminer:settings. It sets the maximum vein size (64 by default), whether sneaking is needed, where drops land, the animation, durability use, diagonal connections and which ores count.

Enchanted Veinminer turns veinmining into a pickaxe enchantment you have to find first. Making your own add-on? See the add-on API.

• Data pack: put the .zip in your world's datapacks folder and run /reload. Don't unzip it.
• Mod: put the -fabric.jar (Fabric or Quilt, needs Fabric API) or the -forge.jar (Forge or NeoForge) in mods.
• Plugin: put the -plugin.jar in plugins and restart the server.

Use only one of the three. To remove Veinminer cleanly, run /function veinminer:uninstall first.

Veinminer is free. If it saves you some time, a coffee helps fund the next update.

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• You can use Veinminer on any server, including monetized ones, include it in modpacks that credit Profet and link here, feature it in videos and modify it for your own world or server.
• Please don't re-upload it or a modified version, sell it, or present it as your own.

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