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Vein Miner
About
A mod to help mine veins of ores by mining blocks of the same type in a chain reaction, giving you the blocks at the end. It is inspired by Connected Destruction by Bspkrs.


More Spotlights:

It improves upon Connected Destruction by:

• Can be optionally be installed in the client for hotkey support
• Can have personal settings (that can be remembered using the client part of the mod
• Actually uses the tool to mine, so drops are correct
• Can change the settings in-game

Installation
To install (for those not using the Curse client, or if the client does not install it properly)

1. Install Minecraft Forge
2. Download file for the correct version of Minecraft
3. If in 1.5.x, place in the coremods folder. If on 1.6.x, place in the mods folder
4. Start Minecraft to test it works

Download

Using
To use Veinminer, you need to have Veinminer installed on the server (for single player games the client and the server are the same). You do not need to have Veinminer installed on the client, however it will provide reduced functionality to the clients that do not have it installed.

In order to get the most out of Veinminer, you should edit the VeinMiner.cfg config file. Add the ids of the blocks to the different block lists to that you wish to be able to mine using Veinminer. Add any tools that you want to be able to use to use with Veinminer. The IDs should be changed on the server.

The default config file has the vanilla ores added for the pickaxes, vanilla wood added for the vanilla axes and clay for the shovel.

VeinMiner has several modes, each of which determine when it is activated. Modes are specific to each player.

• 'Disabled': Don't activate at all. This is the default if you don't have the mod installed in the client.
• 'Auto': Activate when the keyboard shortcut (also called a keybind) is pressed in the client. The keyboard shortcut by default is '~`.
• 'Sneak': Activate while you are sneaking. This is the same option as provided by Connected Destruction. This is the default if you have the client.
• 'No Sneak': Activate while you are not sneaking.

The client setting in the config file allows you to choose what mode you go into when you join a game. To set the default mod to disabled, set the shortcut to an unused key.You can use the

/veinminer

command to change the mode that VeinMiner is in for you. This can be done with

/veinminer mode 

where is one of 'disable;, 'auto'; 'sneak'; or 'no_sneak'. You can use

/veinminer help enable

for help (i.e. info on this page).Using the default settings, an easy way to see VeinMiner working is to chop a tree (from vanilla) down using an axe (from vanilla).

Changelog
I don't like updating this post (every time I do something is messed up, so I have put the changelog on Github. Curseforge downloads have changes from the past version listed.

Licence / Permissions
This is licenced under the LGPL (which is an open source licence). So you are free to do anything with it so long as you keep the code open-source.This means that distribution as part of modpacks are allowed.

Donations
I would really love donations to help me pay for stuff.

Quote from XVPlaer

Cool, But does this work with Modded Items ? and will it cause a crash when mining something like Marble from Project Red or Underground Biomes Stone replacement ?

Quote from Razerock

I cant get it to work with the Dartcraft armor...

I did change the override to true but it still wont work, it works with any item im holding but not with the blank hand.

...

I did use ConnectedDestruction before but i didnt really like it o:
Hope i didnt forget anything so you can solve my problem

Quote from Razerock

It was 0.6 something... ill try the new version, but you should check out your curse thingy... its not showing the 0.7 version (http://puu.sh/4UEQ2.png)

Edit: Works fine! thanks!

Quote from Gencode

Works well, only issue I have is it appears somehow your mod changes the font ingame, while it does look nice, it does affect the readability of some mod gui's, like Thaumcraft's research table.
Also 0.7.2 gives this:

[SEVERE] [Forestry] portablejim.veinminer.VeinMiner failed validation. Halting runtime for security reasons. Please replace your mods with untampered versions from the official download sites.

Quote from thatsIch

Would be great if you could specifiy the blocks by the tile.name too, since the block IDs will "vanish" with 1.7 anyways. But great mod! thanks

Quote from AshZification

Is there currently an option in the configs to damage multiply when using this? (or can you add that option)

Quote from Kehaan

Is there a option to change the front text back to normal? Instead of the new one, when using this mod?

Thanks

Quote from Gencode

VeinMiner.0.7.3_MC1.6_fontfix - the fonts still aren't back to normal. Thanks.

Quote from LordTrollio

Awesome little mod! Thank you for the text fix. Can you tell me what the VeinMinerModSupport.jar does exactly?

Quote from alltech25

Hey Jim,
Can you please explain why when I sneak with sneaking mode on with 0.8 on 1.6.4, no ores are chained?
Thanks

• What tool are you using? What ID? Is it is the correct toollist?
• What ore are you trying to mine? What id? Is it in the correct blocklist?
• Can you successfully collect the block (or it's drops) with the tool?

Quote from PhilHibbs

Does it affect the mining laser from IC2? If I fire it on Long Range mode, will it dig out side-veins as it goes?