Simple Ore Vein Miner

Simple Ore Vein Miner is a lightweight Fabric mod that lets players toggle ore vein mining on and off with a hotkey.

When enabled, mining one ore block with a pickaxe will automatically mine connected ore blocks of the same type. When disabled, mining works normally.

Features

• Toggle vein mining with the V key
• Mines connected ore blocks of the same type
• Supports vanilla ores and deepslate ore variants
• Requires a pickaxe
• Works in singleplayer
• Works on multiplayer servers when installed on both client and server
• Includes a 64-block safety limit to help prevent lag
• Lightweight and simple to use

How to use

1. Install Fabric Loader for your Minecraft version
2. Install Fabric API
3. Put Simple Ore Vein Miner in your mods folder
4. Launch Minecraft
5. Press V to turn vein mining on or off
6. Mine an ore block with a pickaxe

Supported ores

• Coal Ore
• Iron Ore
• Copper Ore
• Gold Ore
• Redstone Ore
• Emerald Ore
• Lapis Ore
• Diamond Ore
• Nether Gold Ore
• Nether Quartz Ore
• Ancient Debris
• All vanilla deepslate ore variants

Multiplayer

For multiplayer servers, this mod should be installed on both the client and the server.

The client handles the hotkey toggle, and the server handles the actual vein mining.

Supported versions

Available versions currently include:

• Minecraft 1.21.4
• Minecraft 1.21.11
• Minecraft 26.1.x

Make sure to download the correct file for your Minecraft version.

Requirements

• Fabric Loader
• Fabric API
• Java 21 for Minecraft 1.21.x versions
• Java 25 for Minecraft 26.1.x versions

Future plans

Possible future updates may include:

• Configurable max vein size
• Toggleable actionbar messages
• Modded ore support
• Custom keybind options
• Ore blacklist/whitelist config