Axe To The Max!

Axe To The Max is a tree-chopper mod for Minecraft Forge 1.20.1 that brings smart, fair, and fully configurable vein-chopping to your game. Works on every tree, including modded ones (probably, it's still work-in-progress), with full multiplayer support and per-player settings.

FEATURES ARE STILL WIP, SOME OF THEM DO NOT WORK PERFECTLY!

How It Works

Hold Sneak + break any log and the entire tree comes down at once.

The chopper uses a BFS flood-fill through #minecraft:logs, meaning it works on every vanilla and modded tree without any extra configuration.

Player-Placed Log Protection

Logs you place yourself are permanently tagged as player-placed. The chopper will never vein-chop through them.

This works globally in multiplayer. If player 1 placed the log, player 2 can't bypass it either.

Fairness Settings

Two optional fairness mechanics keep the mod balanced on survival servers:

Durability Per Log - the axe loses 1 durability per log chopped, not just 1 total. A 14-log tree costs 14 durability, same as breaking manually.

Break Time Per Log - chopping takes as long as it would to break each log manually with your current axe tier. A wooden axe on a 14-log tree takes 14× the normal break time. Switching to iron speeds it up proportionally.

float RequiredTicks = LogCount / BreakSpeed * 20f;
if (ElapsedTicks < RequiredTicks) event.setCanceled(true);

Trying to break a log halfway and then shift to trigger the chopper won't work, the timer starts from your very first hit.

Per-Player Config

Run /config to open the settings screen in-game. Every setting is saved per-player and persists across restarts and sessions.

All Config Options

General

Gameplay

Fairness

Multiplayer

• All data stored server-side via SavedData, no client mod required for servers
• Player-placed log tags are shared globally across all players
• Config syncs to client on login and on every save
• No race conditions, all block operations run on the server thread

Compatibility

All vanilla trees
Modded trees using #minecraft:logs and #minecraft:leaves (nearly universal)
Dead trees with no leaves
Multiplayer servers

Forge | Client + Server