StoneDrop

StoneDrop makes plain stone worth mining. Every stone, deepslate, andesite, diorite, granite or tuff block you break has a configurable chance to drop real ores — and every block you break earns Mining XP that levels you up, raises your drop chances, and buys permanent upgrades.

Everything runs server-side. Players join with a vanilla client and get the full experience: no client mod, no resource pack, no config sync.

Features

⛏️ Ore drops from ordinary stone

Break stone and get coal, raw copper, raw iron, raw gold, redstone, lapis, diamonds and emeralds — with fully configurable chances, amounts and requirements. Defaults are tuned to feel rewarding without breaking progression.

📈 Mining XP and levels

Every block mined grants Mining XP, and rarer drops grant more. Each level increases all your drop chances (+2% per level by default), so a dedicated miner is measurably better at mining.

Progress is shown in a green boss bar and a minimal action bar popup on each mined block — both toggleable per player.

🛒 Upgrade shop

Spend Mining XP on permanent upgrades, each of which can be toggled on and off at any time:

Upgrade	Effect	Cost
Telekinesis	Drops go straight into your inventory	10,000 XP
Auto-Smelt	Raw copper, iron and gold arrive as ingots	25,000 XP
Haste Boost	Permanent Haste I / II while holding a pickaxe	40,000 / 100,000 XP
Double Drop	10% / 20% / 30% chance to double a drop	15,000 / 35,000 / 70,000 XP
Double XP	+50% / +100% / +200% experience orbs from drops	20,000 / 50,000 / 120,000 XP

Upgrades are paid for out of your total Mining XP, which means buying one costs you levels — and with them, part of your drop chance bonus. That trade-off is deliberate: you choose between raw drop rates and permanent quality-of-life power, and you mine your way back up.

🎛️ The `/drop` GUI

One command opens a read-only chest menu showing every configured drop with its base chance, your chance at your current level, the exact Fortune scaling, the required pickaxe tier and its on/off state. Click any item to toggle that drop for yourself, or flip them all at once — handy when you're after a specific resource.

⚒️ Real Fortune and tier support

Each drop declares how Fortune treats it — scaling the amount, scaling the chance, or ignoring it entirely — and which pickaxe tier is required to obtain it. Tier detection also works with modded pickaxes through a capability-based fallback, so custom tools are ranked correctly even without vanilla tags.

Silk Touch suppresses the extra drops by default (configurable).

⚙️ Configurable, per world

The config lives in your world folder (<world>/config/stonedrop.json) and player data alongside it, so every world keeps its own balance and progression. Admins can reload with /drop reload (permission level 2).

You can add any item to the drop table, change the list of source blocks, tune the XP curve and the per-level bonus, or set replace_default_drops to make stone drop only your custom loot instead of cobblestone.

Commands

Command	Permission	Description
`/drop`	everyone	Opens the drops GUI, profile and upgrade shop
`/drop reload`	level 2	Reloads the configuration from disk

Installation

Install Fabric Loader 0.16.0+ and Fabric API
Drop the jar into your mods folder
Start the server — the config file generates on first world load

Required on the server only. Installing it client-side in singleplayer works just as well (singleplayer runs an internal server).

Configuration example

{
  "replace_default_drops": false,
  "disable_with_silk_touch": true,
  "chance_bonus_per_level": 0.02,
  "xp_per_block": 1,
  "xp_base_required": 250,
  "xp_extra_per_level": 150,
  "source_blocks": [
    "minecraft:stone",
    "minecraft:deepslate",
    "minecraft:andesite",
    "minecraft:diorite",
    "minecraft:granite",
    "minecraft:tuff"
  ],
  "drops": [
    {
      "item": "minecraft:diamond",
      "chance": 0.005,
      "min_amount": 1,
      "max_amount": 1,
      "fortune_multiplier": "amount",
      "required_tier": "iron",
      "min_exp": 3,
      "max_exp": 7,
      "mining_xp": 60
    }
  ]
}

Field	Meaning
`chance`	Roll chance per broken block (`0.005` = 0.5%)
`fortune_multiplier`	`"amount"`, `"chance"` or `"none"`
`required_tier`	`"none"`, `"wood"`, `"stone"`, `"iron"`, `"diamond"`, `"netherite"`
`min_exp` / `max_exp`	Vanilla experience orbs dropped
`mining_xp`	StoneDrop Mining XP awarded per item

Compatibility

Minecraft: 1.21 – 1.21.1 and 1.21.9 – 1.21.11
Loader: Fabric (Loader 0.16.0+)
Dependencies: Fabric API
Side: server-side (clients need nothing)
Works with modded pickaxes: tool tiers are detected from what a tool can actually mine, so custom materials and missing tags are handled correctly

Support

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Stone Drop

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