Mining Plus

A treasure enchantment that mines a 3x3 at once — and charges you fairly for it.

Mining Plus adds one new enchantment for pickaxes, axes, shovels and hoes. Break a block and the eight around it go with it, in the plane you're facing: flat when you're looking up or down, upright when you're facing a wall.

It's built to feel like it was always part of the game. Every block is checked against the same rules vanilla uses, and drops come from each block's own loot table with your tool passed in — so Fortune multiplies ore, Silk Touch keeps blocks whole, and ore XP matches what nine hand-mined blocks would have given.

Features

• 3x3 area mining on pickaxes, axes, shovels and hoes
• Sneak to switch it off and mine a single block normally
• Fortune and Silk Touch work properly — drops come from the real loot table, not a hardcoded item list
• Correct tool and tier enforced — a stone pickaxe still can't harvest diamond, and a shovel won't chew through stone
• Vanilla ore XP, and none at all with Silk Touch
• Hoe right-click tills a 3x3; shovel right-click paths a 3x3. Rooted dirt still gives up its hanging roots
• Protected blocks are left alone — bedrock, spawners, trial spawners, vaults, portals, budding amethyst, and every container from chests to shulker boxes

Durability

One point of wear per extra block, so a 3x3 costs exactly what mining all nine blocks by hand would have cost. No hidden tax, no free lunch.

Unbreaking keeps its normal level/(level+1) chance to skip each point. Unbreakable tools and Creative mode are exempt.

How to get it

Mining Plus is a treasure enchantment, so it never appears at the enchanting table. You'll find it as an enchanted book in:

Librarians also trade it, at double the usual book price. Anvil cost is 8.

Requirements

• Minecraft Java 26.2
• No mods and no resource pack — this is a data pack, nothing else
• Works in singleplayer and on servers; each player is tracked independently

Compatibility

This pack overwrites four vanilla chest loot tables (ancient city, buried treasure, desert pyramid, jungle temple) to add the book. It will conflict with other packs that edit those same four tables — whichever loads last wins.

Don't run this alongside Mining Plus (Extra). They register separate enchantments, so a tool carrying both would break the area twice. Pick one.

Optional add-on

Mining Plus: Unbound removes the limits — bedrock, portal frames, spawners and entities all break too. Install it on top of this pack and load it last.

The Mining Plus series

Three packs, built to slot together. Pick one base pack, then stack Unbound on top if you want the rules gone.

Mining Plus (this pack)

The original. One treasure enchantment that breaks a 3x3 in the plane you're facing, for pickaxes, axes, shovels and hoes. Fortune and Silk Touch work properly because drops come from each block's real loot table, ore XP matches vanilla, and durability costs exactly what mining all nine blocks by hand would have cost. Sneak to mine a single block. Hoes till a 3x3 and shovels path a 3x3 on right-click.

Mining Plus (Extra)

The bigger sibling, and a straight replacement for the original — its level I is identical to the whole of Mining Plus. Three levels: 3x3, 5x5 and 7x7, up to 49 blocks in one swing. Durability is priced by distance, so the inner ring costs 1 point per block, the middle 2 and the outer 3 — a 7x7 costs 113, meaning a diamond pickaxe manages about ten swings. Higher levels are genuinely rarer: chest books are weighted 6 : 3 : 1, and each level is a separate librarian trade gated behind villager rank, with level III locked to Expert.

Mining Plus: Unbound

The add-on that removes the limits. Bedrock, portal frames, spawners, command blocks and any entity in the way all break too, and blocks that normally drop nothing drop themselves. Needs one of the base packs underneath it, loaded first. Containers stay protected and tier rules still apply, so obsidian keeps wanting a diamond pickaxe.

Yes you are allowed to add it to your Modpack