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Minecraft: Java Edition
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Special Pickaxe Miner
Special Pickaxe Miner is a Minecraft Paper server plugin that adds custom netherite tools for area mining, digging, and farming. It lets server owners give players special pickaxes, shovels, and hoes that work in sizes from 1x1 all the way up to 10x10.
This plugin is made for servers that want powerful custom tools without requiring players to install any client-side mods. It works completely server-side on Paper and is designed to support both Java Edition players and Bedrock Edition players using Geyser/Floodgate.
What does this plugin do?
Special Pickaxe Miner adds custom netherite tools with different area sizes.
You can give players:
- Special pickaxes for area mining stone, ores, deepslate, netherrack, and similar blocks
- Special shovels for area digging dirt, sand, gravel, clay, mud, snow, and similar blocks
- Special hoes for area tilling/farming dirt, grass blocks, paths, coarse dirt, and similar farm blocks
Supported tool sizes:
- 1x1
- 2x2
- 3x3
- 4x4
- 5x5
- 6x6
- 7x7
- 8x8
- 9x9
- 10x10
The tools are useful for mining tunnels, clearing stone, digging large areas, building farms, preparing farmland, gathering resources, prison servers, survival SMP servers, economy servers, and custom Minecraft servers.
Features
- Custom netherite pickaxes
- Custom netherite shovels
- Custom netherite hoes
- 1x1 through 10x10 area tools
- Pickaxes for mining stone/ore-type blocks
- Shovels for digging dirt/sand/gravel-type blocks
- Hoes for tilling farmland in large areas
- Server-side only
- Works with PaperMC
- Works with Java Edition players
- Works with Bedrock Edition players through Geyser/Floodgate
- No client-side mods required
- No resource pack required
- Custom tool names
- Custom lore
- Permission support
- Configurable settings
- Configurable block allow-lists and blacklists
- Configurable max blocks per use
- Anti-lag safety for large tools like 9x9 and 10x10
- In-game
/spm settingsGUI - Clean settings categories for pickaxes, shovels, hoes, allowed sizes, effects, and limits
- Useful for SMP, survival, prison, economy, mining, digging, and farming servers
Tools
Pickaxes
Pickaxes are used for area mining.
Good for:
- Stone
- Cobblestone
- Deepslate
- Ores
- Netherrack
- End Stone
- Tuff
- Granite
- Diorite
- Andesite
Example:
/givepickaxe @s 10x10
Shovels
Shovels are used for area digging.
Good for:
- Dirt
- Grass Block
- Sand
- Red Sand
- Gravel
- Clay
- Mud
- Soul Sand
- Soul Soil
- Snow
- Snow Block
Example:
/giveshovel @s 10x10
Hoes
Hoes are used for area tilling and farming.
Good for:
- Dirt
- Grass Block
- Dirt Path
- Coarse Dirt
- Rooted Dirt
Hoes till the land instead of destroying blocks.
Example:
/givehoe @s 5x5
Commands
Main pickaxe command:
/givepickaxe <player> <size>
Main shovel command:
/giveshovel <player> <size>
Main hoe command:
/givehoe <player> <size>
Main admin command:
/spm
Examples:
/givepickaxe @s 1x1
/givepickaxe @s 3x3
/givepickaxe @s 5x5
/givepickaxe @s 9x9
/givepickaxe @s 10x10
/giveshovel @s 3x3
/giveshovel @s 5x5
/giveshovel @s 10x10
/givehoe @s 3x3
/givehoe @s 5x5
/givehoe @s 10x10
You can also use the /spm give command:
/spm give @s pickaxe 10x10
/spm give @s shovel 10x10
/spm give @s hoe 10x10
For backwards compatibility, this gives a pickaxe by default:
/spm give @s 9x9
Open the settings GUI:
/spm settings
For Bedrock players using Geyser or Floodgate, use the exact player name shown on your server.
Examples:
/givepickaxe .BedrockName 9x9
/giveshovel .BedrockName 10x10
/givehoe .BedrockName 5x5
or:
/givepickaxe *BedrockName 9x9
/giveshovel *BedrockName 10x10
/givehoe *BedrockName 5x5
The Bedrock name prefix depends on your Floodgate configuration.
Permissions
specialpickaxe.give
Allows a player to use the main give commands.
specialpickaxe.use
Allows a player to use special tool effects.
specialpickaxe.give.pickaxe
Allows giving special pickaxes.
specialpickaxe.give.shovel
Allows giving special shovels.
specialpickaxe.give.hoe
Allows giving special hoes.
specialpickaxe.use.pickaxe
Allows using special pickaxe area mining.
specialpickaxe.use.shovel
Allows using special shovel area digging.
specialpickaxe.use.hoe
Allows using special hoe area tilling.
Size permissions:
specialpickaxe.size.1x1
specialpickaxe.size.2x2
specialpickaxe.size.3x3
specialpickaxe.size.4x4
specialpickaxe.size.5x5
specialpickaxe.size.6x6
specialpickaxe.size.7x7
specialpickaxe.size.8x8
specialpickaxe.size.9x9
specialpickaxe.size.10x10
Settings/admin permissions:
specialpickaxe.settings
specialpickaxe.reload
OP players should normally have permission automatically.
Settings GUI
Special Pickaxe Miner includes an in-game admin settings GUI.
Open it with:
/spm settings
The settings menu includes categories for:
- Pickaxe Settings
- Shovel Settings
- Hoe Settings
- Area Tools
- Allowed Sizes
- Effects
- Limits
- Save
- Reload
This lets server owners control the plugin without only editing config files manually.
Geyser and Floodgate Support
Special Pickaxe Miner works with servers that use GeyserMC and Floodgate. Bedrock players can use the special pickaxes, shovels, and hoes because the plugin uses normal Paper server-side behavior.
Players do not need to install anything on their device. The plugin runs only on the server.
This makes it useful for Java and Bedrock crossplay servers.
Installation
- Download the plugin jar file.
- Put the jar file into your Paper server’s
pluginsfolder. - Restart the server.
- Give yourself OP or the required permissions.
- Use
/spm settingsto check the settings. - Use
/givepickaxe @s 10x10,/giveshovel @s 10x10, and/givehoe @s 10x10to test the plugin.
Do not use /reload on production servers. A full restart is recommended.
Example Setup
After installing the plugin, run:
/givepickaxe @s 3x3
/givepickaxe @s 10x10
/giveshovel @s 3x3
/giveshovel @s 10x10
/givehoe @s 3x3
/givehoe @s 10x10
Then test each tool in a safe area before using it near important builds.
Good For
Special Pickaxe Miner is good for:
- Paper servers
- Minecraft SMP servers
- Survival servers
- Prison servers
- Mining servers
- Digging servers
- Farming servers
- Economy servers
- Custom tool servers
- Java and Bedrock crossplay servers
- GeyserMC servers
- Floodgate servers
- Servers that want 3x3 mining
- Servers that want 5x5 mining
- Servers that want 9x9 mining
- Servers that want 10x10 mining
- Servers that want 10x10 digging
- Servers that want area farming tools
- Servers that want custom netherite pickaxes
- Servers that want custom netherite shovels
- Servers that want custom netherite hoes
- Servers that want area tools without client mods
Important Notes
This plugin is server-side only. Players do not need Forge, Fabric, Quilt, NeoForge, mods, or resource packs.
Just install it on your Paper server, restart, and use the commands to give yourself special tools.
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