Mining Areas and Controls

Cycling modes

Right-click while holding an infused pickaxe — the vanilla Use Item control — to cycle through its three mining areas:

1x1 → 1x3 → 3x3 → 1x1

Interacting with a door, chest, or any other usable block still takes priority over cycling, exactly like vanilla's own right-click behavior.

Changing mode shows the new area on the action bar (Mining area: 1x3) with a brief amethyst chime — never a chat message.

The tooltip on an infused pickaxe only ever shows its current dimensions.

1x1 draws nothing extra — that's vanilla's own block-targeting box, untouched.

1x3 gets the amethyst preview outline, with the active area shown in the action bar.

Same outline in 3x3, now covering the full plane.

Precision override

Holding sneak while mining always forces a single-block break, regardless of which mode is active. There's no need to cycle back to 1x1 for a precise break — just sneak.

Geometry

The extra blocks are oriented relative to the face you hit, not a fixed world axis:

• A wall hit produces a vertical 1x3 line.
• A floor or ceiling hit aligns 1x3 with the direction you're facing.
• 3x3 is always the plane perpendicular to the face you hit.

Safety rules

Every secondary block broken by the infusion is subject to the exact same checks a normal, single swing would apply:

• Normal drops, experience, and durability cost
• Protection and unharvestable blocks are respected — never broken
• Block entities and blacklisted blocks are skipped
• Harder blocks that your tool can't normally break are skipped
• The pickaxe won't expand through shovel-only blocks
• Expansion stops immediately if the tool breaks or is swapped mid-swing

Multiplayer

The server is the only source of truth for what actually breaks — client prediction never breaks a block by itself, and normal server permissions still apply to every extra block. Each player keeps an independent mode; switching yours never affects anyone else's.