Reworked Golden Tools

Golden tools break several blocks in one action. Pickaxes and shovels work on a 3x3 area, axes fell an entire tree in one swing and speed up leaf decay, and hoes till farmland and harvest grown crops across a 3x3 area. Crouching makes a golden tool behave like its vanilla version and break one block at a time. Multi-block breaking is slower per block, so the extra reach costs time.

The changes are meant for mid and late game, where the reworked golden tools act as temporary alternatives to stronger gear. The mod works with vanilla enchantments, and a data pack exists for multiplayer servers, where the behavior can be adjusted through a config menu opened with the command /golden tools:config. Defaults include a log limit of 160 for the axe and a leaf decay speed-up of 23x.

The server needs the mod, while players may add it for the config screen, so installing it on the client is optional. Files are published for Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt, with 1.1.2 as the latest build, which targets 1.21.4. Builds cover 1.20.4 – 1.21.4, and the mod is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 4.0 license, so it is not open source.