Excavating Enchant: 3x3 Mining!

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Enchant for pickaxes allowing them to mine 3x3x3 areas, taking into account enchants and durability. Helps with mass resource gathering on big survival worlds!

A lot of datapacks add this idea, as well as mods, and I wanted to implement it in an optimized plugin form, with the recent release of Paper API's https://docs.papermc.io/paper/dev/lifecycle/datapacks/

To repeat, as of latest updates, this plugin now requires PaperMC. If you've been running a survival server, you should have switched to PaperMC/Purpur/any other fork of it ALREADY, to improve your server performance. You should NOT be running Spigot or a Vanilla server in 2026.

This was created for use on my forever world, called "derex smp". Check it out in action, server ip: mc.longhorns.dev

Features

• New enchant: Excavating
• Put it on a pickaxe to mine 3x3 areas! It will apply all enchants/durability effects
• Excavating enchant also works with Shovel tools!
• Compatibility with CoreProtect and (hopefully) any other logging plugins y'all cook up
• Sneak to toggle excavating

Planned Improvements

• Different levels, so players can choose between how much of a radius they want to mine (initially 3x3, then 3x3x3)

Demo

❤️ Credits:

Developed by DerexXD, inspired by SushiWaUmai and the Explosive Pickaxe from Slimefun (@TheBusyBiscuit), and due to popular request by players 1bmm and Ky_dotL who used these tools a lot to make impressive tunnel networks on our COVID server 5 years ago.

Thanks to Miraculixx (Veinminer dev) for teaching me the PaperMC API relating to Datapacks.

Enchantment name chosen via a vote on our Discord. Members who voted: nebu1a1, drhyde1093, tanyk, negativepokemon, JellyCatYum, AstroLord_X, kell0oggs, D34DP1X3L, amythestycat, dirkwh, evelyn_lu2pi, stackofnoteblocks, lxvsol, steampunk_sam, ansere, mrnobody1166, a_dionaea, jjacquess, NormalExisting, sunrise44, luke24z, jack7162, ooofboiz, lem0n2., pochochen, ppercee, pochotwin

This was created for use on my forever world, called "derex smp", and now I am sharing it with the world. The server is named after the COVID-era derex smp [sic], a Minecraft survival multiplayer server that ran from summer 2020 to early 2022, filled with lore, drama, and memories.