Ore Harvester Mod FAQ

Crouch (hold sneak) and break one ore block in the cluster with your pickaxe. The entire connected cluster will break at once and all drops will appear at the block you mined.

Make sure you're actually holding the sneak key while you break the block, and that the other ores are connected to the one you're mining. Ores separated by stone, dirt, or other non-ore blocks won't chain.

Yes, crouching is what activates the chain-mining behavior. If you mine an ore normally without sneaking, only that single block breaks.

Any ore that generates in clusters, including coal, iron, gold, diamond, redstone, lapis, emerald, copper, and modded ores that use similar cluster generation. The mod chains blocks of the same ore type together.

In most cases yes, as long as the modded ore is registered like a normal ore block and generates in clusters. Some modded ores with special block properties may not chain correctly.

All drops from every block in the cluster are placed at the location of the block you originally broke. You don't need to chase items around the cluster.

Yes, Fortune applies to each block in the cluster individually, so you get the full benefit of your enchantment on every ore broken. This makes chain-mining with Fortune very efficient for rare ores.

Yes, Silk Touch applies to every block in the cluster, so you'll receive the ore blocks themselves instead of raw drops. This is useful for collecting ores for decoration or storage.

Yes, diagonally connected ore blocks are included in the chain as long as they're visible through an air block. Ores hidden behind solid blocks won't be broken.

Chain-mining a single cluster is lightweight and shouldn't cause noticeable lag. Performance can drop only if you somehow trigger very large chains, which is rare with normal ore generation.