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:ores tag 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.