Incremental Mining

Block harvesting now depends on repeated swings. Each swing deals block damage, and after a few hits the block breaks. The amount of damage depends on the tool tier, so a wooden tool, a stone tool and an iron tool each remove a different share per swing. Buffs such as Efficiency and Haste raise the damage a swing deals, so the same tool breaks blocks faster with the right effects.

The swing animation of the player is synced with the swing of the tool, and the default timing is a bit slower than vanilla while the arm movement still takes about the same time. Sound effects can be customized for specific block types. Several settings control the feel: the mod can be enabled or disabled to compare with vanilla, the swing interval sets the number of ticks between swings, the damage multiplier changes the damage per swing, and foliage can still be broken instantly through a separate option.

The mod runs on NeoForge for 1.21.1 and is needed on both the client and the server. It is released under the MIT License and is not open source.