chain-mining

Chain-mining is a Fabric mod that lets a player break one block and have every connected block of the same kind mined at once, covering ore veins, log clusters and similar groups. It also works with leaves, ores and logs, and the tool used is only charged a single point of durability per chain, regardless of how many blocks are broken. A preview shows white particle outlines of the blocks that will be mined before the break happens, so the player knows what will be taken.

The mod has a settings interface with a tab-based layout, a left-side navigation column and a right-side content area. A block blacklist can exclude specific blocks, and its entries take priority over the whitelist. A tool blacklist stops selected tools from triggering chain mining, and its editor lists only pickaxes, axes, shovels, hoes, swords and shears. Drops go directly into the player's inventory, with any overflow dropped at the player's feet, and the search fields in the editors accept both Chinese and English input.

Chain-mining is released for 1.21.1 only, as a Fabric build with the 1.1.0 file dated 2026-01-08. It is published under the Apache License 2.0, and the code is not open source. Either side can run it, and neither needs it, so it works on a client alone, a server alone or both.