Dowsing Rod- Define Cubugu

Players craft a dowsing rod and right-click to scan the area around them. The rod reports how close the nearest target is, pinging like sonar with a short rising sequence before the result lands, and a crystal eye changes color with signal strength as the player gets closer. Hot-and-cold readings tighten as the player moves, but the scan never reveals the exact spot, so digging stays with the player. Targets are chosen from a radial wheel opened by holding G, covering diamond, iron, gold, quartz and lapis, and calibration by sneaking and right-clicking a block tunes the rod.

The rod comes in three tiers: copper with a 16-block range, diamond with 24 blocks, and netherite with 32 blocks, which is fire-proof. A netherite rod can track two ores at once, and custom enchantments Farsight and Echo extend range and speed up scans. The mod is an alternative to X-ray viewing, and it runs on client and server. Fabric API is required. Files are published for Fabric only, for 26.1.2, with 1.1.0 as the latest file dated 2026-07-07. The code is released under CC0 1.0 Universal, so the mod is not open source.