Harder Branch Mining

This mod significantly complicates the mining process in Minecraft, making the traditional branch mining method more challenging and energy-consuming. Instead, players are encouraged to explore caves and natural underground formations.

Main Features

The modification allows fine-tuning of resource extraction difficulty through several parameters:

• Horizontal difficulty - regulates how hard it is to dig at certain depths
• Vertical difficulty - controls the difficulty of digging downward
• Difficulty start depth - sets the level from which mining becomes slower and more exhausting
• Individual settings - parameters can be configured for each tool, item, and dimension separately

Default Settings

The mod is ready to use immediately after installation with reasonable default settings and support for other popular mods. Typically, difficulty begins to increase at depth 48 and reaches maximum at level 5, while ore blocks remain easy to mine.

Tool Configuration

Tool configuration is a string separated by semicolons. For example: minecraft:diamond_pickaxe,minecraft:overworld,48,1.2 means that a diamond pickaxe in the overworld starting from height Y=48 will mine 20% slower.

In versions before 1.18.1, the tool modifier additionally slows mining speed, while in newer versions it represents a percentage slowdown.

Exhaustion System

Exhaustion is configured for each tool type and dimension separately and does not apply to "soft" items with hardness of 1 or less (torches, rails, dirt, etc.).

Exhaustion Types

Proportional exhaustion (default) - the deeper the player digs, the more food they consume. For example, with a wooden tool at depth Y=12, up to 2.74 additional food units may be consumed.

Fixed exhaustion - digging below a certain depth slows by a fixed amount and requires constant additional food consumption.

No exhaustion - only mining slowdown without additional food consumption.

Speed Modifiers

Digging speed modifier - slows mining depending on depth, from 1.0 (no change) to 11.0 (very slow).

Downward digging modifier - additionally slows mining of blocks below the player's feet.

Features

• Ore blocks use standard speed and exhaustion by default
• Exception lists can be created for specific blocks
• Three debugging levels available for modpack development
• Configuration commands supported for operators

The mod is fully compatible with modpack creation and server use.