Timber Vein Harvest

Quickstart

No crafting or setup required. Install the mod and load into a Survival world. To try tree felling: hold Sneak (default: Shift) and mine any log block—the entire connected tree, including all attached logs and nearby leaves, will collapse and drop items automatically. To try vein mining: mine any ore block without sneaking—all touching ore blocks of the same type will break and drop at once.

Overview

Timber Vein Harvest is a quality-of-life mod that removes repetitive block-breaking from two of Survival's most common tasks: chopping trees and mining ore veins. Everything works through your normal mining controls with no menus, commands, or special tools needed. It functions in both singleplayer and multiplayer.

What It Adds

The mod adds two passive harvesting behaviors to standard block breaking:

• Tree Felling – Sneak-mining a log breaks the entire connected tree.
• Vein Mining – Mining any ore block automatically breaks the entire connected vein.

No new items, blocks, or UI elements are added.

How To Use

Tree Felling

1. Equip any tool (or your fist).
2. Hold Sneak while breaking a log block that is part of a tree.
3. Every connected log and every nearby leaf block spreads outward and breaks, all dropping their normal loot as if broken individually.

• Works on any block tagged as a log (all vanilla wood types and more).
• Up to 384 tree blocks can be felled in a single action.
• If you break a log without sneaking, only that single block breaks—useful for trimming or collecting single logs.

Ore Vein Mining

1. Mine any ore block normally (no sneaking required).
2. All directly touching blocks of the same ore type break simultaneously, each dropping their normal loot.

• Detects ore blocks by their ore type, so Deepslate Iron Ore and Iron Ore are treated as the same family and will vein-mine together if touching.
• Works for all vanilla ores and any modded ore whose block name ends in _ore.
• Up to 128 ore blocks can be mined in a single action.
• Fortune and Silk Touch enchantments apply normally since drops are handled by the game's standard break logic.

Abilities And Mechanics

Ore family matching: Deepslate variants of an ore (e.g. deepslate_gold_ore) are grouped with their stone counterparts (gold_ore). A vein that contains both regular and deepslate versions of the same ore will be mined together if the blocks are connected.

No double-triggering: The mod tracks when it is already breaking extra blocks and will not recursively trigger itself, keeping behavior predictable.

Progression And Strategy

• Early game: Vein mining makes gathering coal, iron, and copper much faster, letting you fill your inventory with a single vein strike.
• Mid game: Diamond and gold veins in both stone and deepslate layers are mined in one action, saving significant time.
• Tree farms: Sneak-chop a single log at the base of a tall tree to harvest the entire trunk and canopy instantly. Works especially well on densely packed forests or planted tree farms.
• Control: Because tree felling requires sneaking, you retain full control—break logs without sneaking when you only want one block (e.g. building or trimming).