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Hi there. Many of you have seen me around, but not too familiar with me. Anyways, one of my interests is coding, and while I mainly make vanilla mods, I have a moderate interest in plugins, as well. One that I believe would make gameplay more fun on Meepcraft is called the vein miner plugin.

Basically, what this does is the user sneaks while breaking a block. In any case, the basics of VeinMiner is the ability to mine an entire vein of ores when you are shifting with a tool in hand, and you break the ore. It breaks the entire vein when only needing to break one ore. As simple as that. It uses the same amount of durability on your tools as if you broke it by hand, and enchantments like silk or fortune still retain their effects. The other thing that keeps the plugin balanced is admins can individually enable blocks with one command.

While this is nice and all, there's something even better. The plugin is already created and free to use. I take no credit for making it.
Overview Page: VeinMiner
Source Code: 2008Choco / VeinMiner — Bitbucket
Thanks for reading! - MasterofBoom

 

On meep This should be disabled in towny since an ore vein can extend past a plot you have permissions to edit
This this would be an excellent rank perk imo
Elite?

 

2 hours for diamond is a drastic difference from reality. One thing I do with my (annoying ) brother is start vanilla worlds, and see how fast we can get stuff. Most times, we can start with nothing and have solid iron for both of us by the end of day one (10 minutes), and solid diamond for both of us by day 3 (without beds, 50-60 minutes). It's even faster to get stuff on Meep. Quests take 15-20 minutes, so I can buy a good pickaxe, and start with tools/food. So, it's probably closer to 30 minutes that way, or I can take 1 trip on the airship and get multiple sets in 3 minutes. Or what about supplydrop? Diamonds are literally worth 120-150 Meebles. Depending on what is enabled, vein miner can apply to any block, so switching to woodcutting: just use it on a tree instead. Everything is certainly not available with or without this. It doesn't apply to any block admins choose not to include.

 

I vote perk for elite or exl, either via any pick and holding shift or possibly a command that would add a lore to the pickaxe
So like how the supermod rank allows you to use the //thru compass but no other rank can do that, or maybe similar to how the /fix lore was implemented where you would have the ore vein lore added to the pick but once a lower rank picked it up the lore was removed and then it was just a normal pick

 

I've used it quite a bit, and it isn't overpowered when mining. Veins normally consist of a maximum of eight blocks, so it's just faster. And, it's more risky, because there are times where there's lava right beneath the ores that you can't see. Another thing to point out is the plugin has a command to toggle it whenever you want to.

The level of difficulty right now isn't the issue that's present, but it's not very much fun to sit and mine for hours on end hoping to afford a new pickaxe. Quite the contrary, resets only work if you can keep people interested. If it mined out enormous tunnels automatically, yea, it'd be too easy, but it only breaks more veins. Most new players don't stay for a lot of reasons, and one of those is you need to play for hours upon hours to even get the most basic of materials. It should be fun to come on and play. So yes, this makes things slightly easier, but only in time saving, not giving things away or something of the sort.

It's supposed to make work less tedious and time consuming, so more players can spend less time grinding and more time having fun.

No, all pickaxes still function according to their vanilla mechanics. So it can break diamond ore with a stone package, but instead you've lost the entire vein instead of one ore.

 

The plugin attaches it to a tool type, which admins have the ability to set. Like all pickaxes can get vein miner from diamonds, but shovels won't. It should be easily possible to implement as a rank perk, and Exclusive+ sounds balanced. There are certainly a lot of premiums running around who could upgrade.

If I'm not mistaken, it still would be counted by plot permissions, because it tricks the game into thinking you broke each by hand. I haven't tested this, so I can't say for certain.

 

Or Exclusive? I feel like Exclusive doesn't really have that many great perks atm. just my two cents, plz dont hurt me