Mine Glowstone With Pickaxes
by DeadVoxelx
Mine Glowstone With Pickaxes is a small Forge utility that lets pickaxes break Glowstone blocks faster than before.
What it does
Breaking Glowstone with a pickaxe takes less time under this mod, and the author describes it as a return to earlier behavior. Glowstone mined this way always drops four Glowstone Dust, even without Silk Touch. The change applies on the server, so players join without installing anything.
Key features
Faster pickaxe mining
Pickaxes break Glowstone blocks more quickly, so collecting light sources takes less time.
Glowstone Dust drops
Mined Glowstone drops four Glowstone Dust without needing Silk Touch.
Single Forge build
Files exist for Forge 1.20.1 only, with 1.0.0 as the latest file released on 2026-01-17.
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Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
Questions
Does Mine Glowstone With Pickaxes need to be installed on the client?
Which Minecraft version does the mod support?
Does Glowstone still give its usual drop?
In the catalog
Mine Glowstone With Pickaxes is one of 36,990 Utility mods on ModsFinder, and one of 14,575 Utility mods for Forge. 34,764 mods support Minecraft 1.20.1.
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What the author says
This is a very small, simple mod that lets you mine Glowstone faster using a pickaxe. Glowstone could be mined with a pickaxe back in Beta 1.7.3, and it was honestly quite a dumb decision of them to change that, as its super convenient being able to mine Glowstone faster with a pickaxe. Also, as a little extra…
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/mine-glowstone-with-pickaxes
- Owner
- DeadVoxelx
- Published
- 2026-01-17
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2026-01-17
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15