Profet's Veinminer
Mining in Minecraft has a rhythm: swing, collect, move, repeat. It is calming for the first hundred blocks and tedious by the thousandth. Profet's Veinminer changes that rhythm without changing the game underneath it. Sneak, break a single ore, and the entire vein comes apart in front of you, block by block, each one dropping its loot just like vanilla.
What Profet's Veinminer Actually Does
This is a lightweight vanilla data pack at heart, and it is built to stay out of the way until you ask for it. Hold a pickaxe, sneak, and mine one ore. The vein pops outward from the block you hit, spreading through connected ores in a visible chain reaction. Every block throws its loot out in front of you, and every drop is a real vanilla drop. Fortune, Silk Touch, and XP behave exactly as they would if you had mined each block by hand.
The connection logic is smarter than a simple cube check. Ores that only touch at an edge or a corner still count as one vein, and stone and deepslate variants of the same ore are treated as a single vein rather than two. It works on every vanilla ore: coal, copper, iron, lapis, gold, redstone, diamond, emerald, nether gold, quartz, and ancient debris.
Fair by Design, Not Just Convenient
Plenty of vein mining tools feel like cheating. This one does not. Each ore still requires the correct pickaxe, so you cannot skip progression with a wooden tool. Every extra block costs durability, and Unbreaking applies normally, but a vein will never break your pickaxe outright. And it only ever targets ores. Stone, logs, and your builds are completely safe from accidental chain breaks.
Players also stay in control. Anyone on the server can toggle the feature for themselves with /trigger veinminer, so nobody is forced into a playstyle they did not choose.
Supported Versions and Loaders
Profet's Veinminer for Minecraft is available for Java Edition 26.2 and 26.3, and it ships in three forms so you can match your setup. The data pack runs server-side only, meaning players join with a completely unmodified game. There is also a mod build for Fabric, Quilt, NeoForge, and Forge, plus a server plugin for Paper, Purpur, Spigot, and Bukkit. Use only one of the three on any given world.
If you would rather skip manual file juggling, the foxygame.net launcher carries Profet's Veinminer in its built-in add-on catalog, so a single click installs the right build for your exact game version and keeps it updated automatically.
How to Install Profet's Veinminer
The install process depends on which version you pick, and each one is quick.
- Data pack: Drop the .zip straight into your world's datapacks folder and run /reload. Do not unzip it.
- Mod: Grab the mod build for Fabric, Quilt, NeoForge, or Forge and place it in your mods folder.
- Plugin: Server owners can find the plugin builds on Modrinth and install them like any other Paper or Spigot plugin.
If you ever want to remove it cleanly, run /function veinminer:uninstall first. That clears its data so nothing is left behind in your world.
Settings and the Enchanted Variant
Operators get a clickable configuration menu through /function veinminer:settings. From there you can set the maximum vein size (64 by default), decide whether sneaking is required, choose where drops land, toggle the animation, control durability use, allow diagonal connections, and pick exactly which ores count. There is also an Enchanted Veinminer mode that turns the whole feature into a pickaxe enchantment you have to find before you can use it, which is a great fit for survival servers that want the convenience gated behind exploration.
If you are building your own add-on, an add-on API is available, so the system can be extended rather than replaced.
The Verdict
Profet's Veinminer solves one specific annoyance and solves it well. It respects vanilla rules, keeps durability and tool requirements intact, and gives every player a personal on-off switch. Whether you run a small survival world or a busy public server, it is a small download that saves a remarkable amount of time. Grab it, run /reload or drop it in your mods folder, and watch your next diamond vein come apart in one satisfying swing.