Fake bedrock

Bedrock blocks that normally cannot be mined become breakable. Mining one takes a fixed 15 seconds, and the speed is set so that the task is achievable without a tool. Bare hands work too, so a pickaxe is not needed. The change applies to the Overworld, the Nether and the End alike, which lets players tunnel through the Nether roof or carve a route down through the lowest layers.

The mod does not add new blocks or items. It only changes how existing bedrock behaves, using Forge events to alter the block's properties and to handle break events so that mining stays smooth. The author describes it as a simple utility that does one thing and avoids extra content. It is marked as having minimal impact on performance and works alongside the Flat Bedrock mod for a cleaner underground. Other mods that also change bedrock behavior are compatible in the author's notes.

Fake bedrock is published for Forge only, with files for 1.20 – 1.20.6 across seven release versions. The latest file is 1.0.0 for 1.20.6, released 2026-06-20. Installation covers the server and each player's game. The code is under the MIT License, and the project is not open source.