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Simple Excavators

This addon adds excavators that mine in a 3x3x1 area, designed to be balanced and true to the Vanilla Minecraft experience.
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Description

This addon introduces excavators that enhance your digging experience by breaking blocks in a 3x3x1 area. Whether you're flattening terrain, clearing out large amounts of dirt, or working on underground builds, these tools have been created to fit perfectly into Vanilla Minecraft. Perfect for players looking to speed up their excavation tasks without sacrificing the authentic feel of the game!

 

Features

The excavators will break a 3x3x1 area depending on which side you break the central block. In addition, you can create paths in the same 3x3x1 area by using the excavator on a block that can create paths (grass, dirt, podzol, etc.).

  • Stone Excavator (330 durability)
  • Copper Hammer (474 durability)
  • Golden Excavator (79 durability)
  • Iron Excavator (624 durability)
  • Diamond Excavator (2601 durability)
  • Netherite Excavator (3385 durability)

Enchantments

Excavators are functional with all vanilla shovel enchantments.

Unbreaking

Breaking a 3x3x1 area will check block by block if Unbreaking enchantment is applied. This means that a normal excavator spends 9 durability points when breaking a complete 3x3x1 area. By having this enchantment, breaking the same area would spend 4 durability points (randomly).

(Durability loss depends on how many blocks are digged in the 3x3x1 area)

Silk Touch

When the area is broken, all blocks will be affected by the enchantment.

Fortune

When the area is broken, all blocks will be affected by the enchantment.


Recipes

Stone Excavator

Copper Excavator

Iron Excavator

Golden Excavator

Diamond Excavator

Netherite Excavator


Known Issues

  • When holding the mining button and change direction with the excavator, it will take the previous direction (To change direction just release the button and tap again in the other direction).

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