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Vein Mining
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Vein Mining
Switch: F1 → 0 - Sub-mods → Vein Mining (on by default).
Hold Left Alt while mining an ore deposit with your pickaxe. When the piece you are mining breaks, the rest of the deposit breaks with it, and everything it drops lands at your feet.
Features
- Works on copper, tin, iron, silver, obsidian, black marble and other ore deposits (or on every rock, if you like).
- Pickaxe XP for the whole deposit, as if you had mined every piece yourself (with an XP multiplier).
- Your pickaxe only wears down for the hits you made; optionally for the whole deposit.
- Works with mods that change rock drops (Star Level System, Epic Loot mining effects, ...): every extra piece is broken by an ordinary hit through the game's own code, so their changes apply. Changes no game code.
- Two ways to trigger it: when the first piece breaks (default), or on your first hit.
- Quiet: no hit sound or damage number for every piece, just the break effects. Optional message "Vein mined: 23 pieces".
- Configurable key and controller button (default: press the left stick), or always on.
Notes
- Only the player who mines needs the mod. "Drops near you" and the quiet effects work on deposits your game looks after: when you play alone or host, or when you were the first player near the deposit.
Settings (F1)
In F1 these are under Vein Mining - ..., below the switches.
1 - Vein mining
| Setting | Default | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Enabled | on | Turn vein mining on or off. |
| Key | LeftAlt | Hold this key while mining with a pickaxe to mine the whole deposit. |
| Controller button | JoyLStick | Hold this controller button while mining to mine the whole deposit (JoyLStick = press the left stick). None = keyboard only. (options: None, JoyLStick, JoyRStick, JoyLBumper, JoyRBumper, JoyLTrigger, JoyRTrigger, JoyDPadUp, JoyDPadDown, JoyDPadLeft, JoyDPadRight, JoyButtonX, JoyButtonY) |
| Always on | off | Mine whole deposits without holding the key. |
| When the deposit breaks | WhenFirstPieceBreaks | WhenFirstPieceBreaks: mine one piece as usual, and when it breaks the rest of the deposit breaks with it. OnFirstHit: the whole deposit breaks on your first hit. (options: WhenFirstPieceBreaks, OnFirstHit) |
| Works on | OreDepositsOnly | OreDepositsOnly: copper, tin, iron, silver, obsidian, black marble and other ore deposits. AllRocks: every rock you can mine with a pickaxe, big stones too. (options: OreDepositsOnly, AllRocks) |
| Also counts as ore | Obsidian, SoftTissue, BlackMarble | Item names (comma separated) that make a rock an ore deposit. Items with "Ore" or "Scrap" in their name always count. |
| Max pieces | 200 | Most extra pieces that break at once. (range 1 to 1000) |
| Max distance (m) | 30 | Only pieces up to this many meters from the piece you hit break with it. (range 1 to 100) |
2 - Skill and durability
| Setting | Default | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| XP for the whole deposit | on | Get Pickaxe XP for every piece, as if you had mined each one yourself. Off = XP only for the hits you made. |
| XP multiplier | 1 | Multiplies the XP for the extra pieces: 1 = the same as mining them by hand. (range 0 to 5) |
| Durability for the whole deposit | off | Your pickaxe wears down as if you had mined every piece yourself. Off = only the hits you made wear it down. |
3 - Drops and effects
| Setting | Default | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Drops near you | on | Everything the deposit drops lands at your feet instead of all over the deposit. Works on deposits your game looks after: when you play alone or host, or when you were the first player near the deposit. |
| Hit effects for every piece | off | Hit sounds and damage numbers for every extra piece. Off = only the break effects, quieter and smoother (on deposits your game looks after, as above). |
| Show message | on | Show "Vein mined: 23 pieces" in the top left corner. |
