Crackt

Crackt changes how veins are mined. Approaching an ore and breaking it turns the vein into a single chunk block, and every break removes part of it, so the chunk gets visibly smaller until it falls apart. Exceptionally large veins can take up to 24 breaks, and the chunk scales up to 128 ores. The aim is to let players clear a whole vein without the feeling of a cheat that breaks the game.

Multiple players can contribute to the same chunk, and each hit adds to shared progress. There is no time limit, and progress is saved when a player logs out, so mining can be finished later. Holding Shift while breaking the chunk mines single ores instead and returns any ores already destroyed.

Enchantments and durability are applied to each hit as if the player had mined the entire chunk by hand, which keeps the mining balanced. Crackt runs on client and server, so the server and every player need it. It is published for Fabric only, across nine release versions 1.20.1 – 26.3, and the code is open source under the MIT License. Jade is an optional dependency that can show the block under the crosshair.