Bedrock Chunkbreaker

Quickstart

1. Join any world — the recipe is unlocked automatically.
2. Craft the Bedrock Chunkbreaker (see recipe below).
3. Hold it in your hand and either left-click to mine any block or right-click any block surface.
4. Watch the entire 16×16 chunk column instantly hollow out from bedrock to the sky.

Overview

The Bedrock Chunkbreaker is a single, supremely powerful pickaxe. One activation wipes every non-bedrock block in the full chunk column you are standing in — from the very bottom of the world all the way to build height — leaving a clean, open pit in seconds. Bedrock layers are never touched, so the floor of the world remains intact.

What It Adds

A single item: the Bedrock Chunkbreaker. It is a Netherite-tier pickaxe, found in the Tools & Utilities creative tab, and it stacks to 1.

How To Use

There are two ways to trigger the chunk-clearing effect:

The destruction covers the full 16×16 chunk column aligned to chunk boundaries (not centered on you), spanning every Y level the world supports. Air blocks and bedrock are skipped; everything else is removed instantly with no drops.

Abilities And Mechanics

• Chunk-aligned clearing: The affected area is always the full 16×16 chunk the targeted block belongs to, regardless of where inside that chunk you click.
• Bedrock preserved: Bedrock at any Y level is never removed.
• World-height aware: The sweep respects the world's actual minimum and maximum Y values, so it works correctly in the Nether, the End, and custom dimensions alike.
• Durability consumption: In Survival mode, each right-click use costs 1 durability point. Mining a block costs durability through the normal tool-use system. In Creative mode, no durability is consumed.
• Netherite-tier stats: The Chunkbreaker inherits Netherite pickaxe mining speed, attack damage, and enchantability. It can be enchanted and repaired as a Netherite tool.

Crafting And Obtaining

The recipe is automatically granted when you first join a world, so you never need to discover it. Craft it at a crafting table:

The recipe requires 8 Diamond Blocks, a Diamond Pickaxe, and a Nether Star — reflecting the enormous power of the tool.

Progression And Strategy

• Preparation: Gather the materials before you need the tool. The Nether Star requires defeating the Wither, making this a late-game item.
• Mining applications: Use it to instantly excavate a full chunk for large base builds, strip-mining, or clearing space for mega-structures — what would take hours by hand happens in an instant.
• Durability management: In Survival, prefer left-click mining over right-click when you want to mine a specific block anyway, since the durability cost is the same but you also collect that block. Reserve right-click for situations where you just want the column cleared quickly.
• Be careful where you point: The effect triggers on the chunk you target, not the chunk you stand in. Make sure you are not accidentally clearing an adjacent chunk containing your builds or resources.
• Creative use: In Creative mode there is no durability cost, making it ideal for rapid terrain sculpting and large-scale world editing.