Crafting the Infusion

The recipe

Place a pickaxe in the center of a 3x3 crafting grid and surround it with four amethyst shards — one above, below, left and right (a cross). Corner placements don't count; the recipe is shapeless within that cross, but strict about the pattern.

    · [A] ·
   [A][P][A]     → infused pickaxe
    · [A] ·

Any pickaxe tagged #minecraft:pickaxes qualifies, including well-behaved third-party pickaxes from other mods — not just the vanilla five.

What survives

The output is the same pickaxe, not a new item:

• Custom name
• Enchantments
• Damage (durability used)
• Any other unrelated components (e.g. custom model data)

An already-infused pickaxe won't match the recipe again — infusion happens once.

What it isn't

The infusion carries no glint and takes no enchantment slot, so it behaves like a permanent property of the tool rather than an enchantment:

• Survives a grindstone (which strips vanilla enchantments, but not this)
• Survives diamond-to-netherite smithing, mode included

New pickaxe default

A freshly infused pickaxe starts in 1x3 mode. See Mining Areas and Controls for how to cycle modes.