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Excavation3D

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Excavation3D

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Area mining with your normal pickaxes, shovels and axes: tunnels, floors, stairs or custom 3D (Editor) Shapes with preview, quick wheel and bundled drops.

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Excavation 3D

Area mining for the tools you already have: give any pickaxe, shovel or axe a shape and mine a whole tunnel, floor or staircase with one swing. No new item, no recipe.

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Features

  • Works with normal tools - vanilla and modded pickaxes, shovels and axes.
  • Ready-made shapes: Tunnel 1×2, Tunnel 3×3, Floor 5×5, Stairs.
  • Shape editor (tap KEY): Box, Plus, Stairs, Corridor and Custom shapes, 3D preview, click blocks to add/remove, Undo/Redo, Reset, Rotate/Mirror.
  • Favorites: save, load, edit and delete your own shapes.
  • Quick wheel (hold KEY): switch shape or turn it off instantly.
  • World preview: an outline shows exactly what the next swing mines.
  • Bundled drops: straight into your inventory, as one pile at the start block, or vanilla - your choice.
  • Fair mining: only blocks the tool is meant for; Fortune, Silk Touch, durability and protection work as normal. Hold Shift for a single block.
  • Server-friendly: size limits and per-tick budgets in the server config; drop mode can be forced.
  • Custom key bindings: every key can be changed under Controls → Excavation 3D, plus optional keys for toggle shape, next/previous favorite, favorite 1-5, world preview and drop mode.
  • Bundled drops: Inventory (default), Pile at start or Vanilla - switch in the editor or with a key.

Requirements

Minecraft 1.21.1 · NeoForge 21.1.229+ · install on client and server.

Issues: GitHub