Super Pickaxe Mod

The pickaxe logic breaks a cube of blocks around the target, three across, three high and three deep, rather than one block at a time. The tool keeps the durability and mining level of a diamond pickaxe, and a bright green texture sets it apart in the inventory. Each 3x3x3 mining action is handled by the pickaxe's own logic rather than a separate command.

The crafting recipe uses one cobblestone, one stone and one smooth stone above two sticks, and the cost of the tool rises with the size of the mining area it covers. Mining can also yield torches, with one torch per 18 blocks mined. Client and server both need the mod, so players on a server that runs it need it too. The code is under the GNU General Public License v3.0 or later and is open source, and source code, an issue tracker and a wiki are linked from the project.

The mod is published for Forge only, across six game versions 1.20.1 – 1.20.6, and version 1.0 for 1.20.6 is the latest file. It requires Java 17, and the first launch can take several minutes while the required libraries are fetched.