Amethyst Pickaxe

Quickstart

Craft the Amethyst Pickaxe at a crafting table with 3 amethyst shards and 2 sticks:

Equip it and mine normally. Each block you break also breaks up to 8 nearby blocks in a 3×3 slice, and a chime sounds when a block is mined. Try aiming at a wall to open a wider tunnel—but check the surrounding blocks first, since the effect can break different block types together.

Overview

The Amethyst Pickaxe is a high-durability mining tool with area mining. Its mining slice is perpendicular to the direction you’re looking: looking mostly horizontally creates a vertical slice, while looking mostly up or down creates a horizontal one.

Abilities And Mechanics

• Area mining: Breaking a block also breaks the other non-air blocks in the surrounding 3×3 slice. Bedrock is not affected.
• Mining speeds: It is configured for fast mining of many stone types, ores, obsidian, Nether blocks, and prismarine. Amethyst blocks, budding amethyst, and amethyst clusters have a slightly lower configured speed.
• Durability: It has 10,000 durability and is enchantable as a pickaxe.
• Mining sound: Breaking a block with it plays a chime.

Progression And Strategy

Use the pickaxe to clear tunnels and mine groups of blocks quickly. Aim carefully near valuable or delicate blocks: area mining can break neighboring blocks even when they’re a different type.