Vein Mining

Mine entire ore deposits, including buried parts, on your own or together with friends.

• Hold Left Alt while aiming at ore with a pickaxe equipped to start mining.
• Double-tap Alt to keep mining automatically. Press Alt again to stop.
• Work together on the same deposit with a shared progress bar.
• Pause, repair your pickaxe and continue without losing progress.
• Mine normally whenever you want—ordinary hits also reduce the remaining work.
• When the bar is full, the remaining deposit breaks and drops its resources.

Supports copper, tin, iron scrap piles, silver, flametal and other supported deposits.

Mining speed: Adjustable from 1–10, default 3. In multiplayer, the server controls this setting. More miners speed up the job, with reduced bonuses for larger groups.

Requirements: BepInEx and Jötunn. Install Vein Mining on both the server and all players' clients. No other mining mod is required.

Tested with Valheim 1.0.16. This is an early release; testing with separate clients on a dedicated server is still ongoing.

0.3.4 - Clearer package description

• Shortened the English package description and README.
• Requires only BepInEx and Jotunn; Smoothbrain Mining is not installed as a dependency.
• Mining behavior and approved leather HUD unchanged.

0.3.3 - Approved leather design

• Before publication: removed Smoothbrain Mining from package dependencies. Only BepInEx and Jotunn are required; existing optional compatibility code remains.

• Embedded the approved stitched leather background with bronze corner studs.

• Live title, percentage and golden progress fill over the artwork.

• Footer reduced to multiplier and active miner count, such as 3× · 3 miners; removed Co-op, Ore and Auto labels.

• Mining behavior, cooperative curve and default factor 3 unchanged.

0.3.2 - Compact native HUD

• Default ore factor reduced to 3; adjustable range remains 1–10.
• Replaced rotated IMGUI decoration with a compact Canvas panel using native Valheim fonts and panel sprites.
• Ore multiplier is always visible; cooperative multiplier appears for multiple miners.
• No changes to resource drops or the cooperative curve.

0.3.1 - Nordic mining HUD

• Carved timber, iron straps, interlaced bronze trim and a pickaxe/ore emblem.
• Simplified activity: 1 miner alone; 2 miners · 2× or 3 miners · 2.5× together.
• Removed the redundant solo team multiplier, player-name list and ore-speed setting from the HUD.
• Mining balance and server logic unchanged.

0.3.0 - Multiplayer ore mining

• One visible Ore Mining Multiplayer setting for all supported deposits: default 5, range 1–10; server authoritative.
• Fixed cooperative curve: 1 / 2 / 2.5 / 3 times solo for 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 active miners, then +0.5 per extra miner.
• Bronze-framed HUD with active miner names, team speed and ore speed.
• Original generated pickaxe-and-veined-rock download icon.
• Legacy input, prefab and distance settings hidden; saved progress format preserved.

0.2.2 - Default copper speed

• New configurations default CopperWorkMultiplier to 5. Existing saved settings are retained.
• No changes to loot, input handling or per-hit durability.

0.2.1 - Copper speed and double-tap

• Copper ore deposits receive 1.5 times shared work per hit by default. The server can adjust CopperWorkMultiplier; 1 disables it.
• Loot and per-hit durability remain native. Fewer hits also means less total durability loss and fewer per-hit skill awards.
• Double-tap Alt within 0.35 seconds to keep mining automatically; press Alt again to stop. Holding and releasing still works.
• Added checks for copper-only scaling and exactly one native loot roll per surviving fragment across ordinary mining and shared completion.

0.2.0 - Vein Mining

• Renamed the displayed mod and package to Vein Mining. Existing saved progress and configuration identity are preserved.
• Ordinary pickaxe hits can damage active or paused deposits and release resources normally.
• Native damage and destroyed parts reduce remaining shared work, without crediting the same damage twice.
• Intact-shell transitions migrate saved work to the fragmented deposit.
• Hold Left Alt and English text remain unchanged.

0.1.1

• Hold Left Alt to mine; release it to pause with progress retained.
• Press and hold again to resume. G is no longer used.
• Losing window focus stops automatic mining.
• Added HoldKey, replacing ToggleKey.
• All plugin messages, progress-bar text and documentation are in English.

0.1.0 - first experimental build

• Automatic native pickaxe swings, originally toggled with G.
• Server-held progress per deposit, stored in ZDOs.
• Buried parts and intact shells that transition into MineRock5 fragments.
• Native durability and stamina use; pause, repair and resume.
• Smoothbrain damage, XP and resource bonuses without Explosive Mining during shared jobs.
• Resource release through native destruction at completion.
• Runtime prefab audit, Jotunn version checks and automated tests.

Acceptance testing with a dedicated server and separate clients remains outstanding.