Faithful Vein Miner
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Hold Sneak and break one ore to mine the whole vein — with the exact vanilla drops, XP, enchantment effects and durability. Understands modded ores via c:ores, fells trees too.
Break one ore, mine the whole vein — with the exact drops, experience and durability you'd get breaking each block by hand.
Faithful Vein Miner clears the entire connected vein in a single break. What sets it apart is how: instead of guessing your loot, it re-runs the game's own block-breaking on every block, with the tool in your hand. Nothing is estimated, and nothing is faked.
The difference
Most vein miners calculate drops and experience themselves — which is exactly where they slip up. Faithful Vein Miner doesn't calculate anything; it lets the game do it.
| Typical vein miner | Faithful Vein Miner | |
|---|---|---|
| Drops | Recalculated, often off | Real drops from your tool |
| Fortune / Silk Touch | Frequently ignored | Applied exactly as vanilla |
| Experience | A guessed number | The ore's true XP |
| Modded ores | Hit or miss | Detected via the c:ores tag |
| Tool durability | Usually unhandled | Spent for real, with protection |
What it does
- Recognises modded ores on its own. Detection uses the shared
c:orestag that nearly every modded ore already carries, so packs like All the Mods 10 work with zero setup. A regex fallback in the config covers the rare untagged ore. - Treats ore variants as one vein. Iron ore and deepslate iron ore come out together.
- Fells trees, too. Break a log while sneaking and the connected logs come down. Leaves are left to decay on their own.
- Protects your tool. It stops before the pickaxe or axe would break, keeping a durability buffer.
- Stays out of the way. No new keybind, no HUD — just hold Sneak.
How to use
Hold Sneak and break an ore or a log. The vein or tree comes with it. That's the whole thing.
Configuration
A config file is generated at config/faithfulveinminer-common.toml on first launch.
| Setting | Default | What it does |
|---|---|---|
maxBlocks |
64 |
Blocks broken per ore vein |
maxRadius |
16 |
How far a vein can reach |
matchMode |
ORE_TAG_GROUP |
How ores are grouped: SAME_BLOCK, ORE_TAG_GROUP or ANY_ORE |
protectTool |
true |
Stop before the tool breaks |
toolDurabilityBuffer |
1 |
Durability to keep in reserve (raise for multi-block tools) |
dropToInventory |
false |
Send drops straight to your inventory |
trees.enabled |
true |
Fell whole trees |
oreTags / logTags |
c:ores / minecraft:logs |
Add tags if a pack ore or tree is ever missed |
Compatibility
Built for Minecraft 1.21.1 on NeoForge. Works in single-player and on servers — a dedicated server only needs the mod installed server-side.
Good to know: run only one vein miner at a time. If a second one reacts to the same break, you'll get doubled drops and it can still snap your tool, since it isn't checking durability the way this one does.
The Faithful Vein Miner Team
