Artwork note: The logo and banner are AI-generated promotional illustrations, not in-game screenshots. Their stylized drill artwork does not represent an additional 3D item model.
DeepMine Tech is a Minecraft NeoForge mod focused on underground exploration, large-scale excavation, ore discovery, cave lighting, lava control, item collection, and safer vertical movement.
Instead of simply adding stronger mining tools, DeepMine Tech introduces seven specialized dark-tech mining utilities, each designed to solve a specific problem encountered while working underground.
Carve enormous tunnels while leaving ores behind. Scan through walls for valuable deposits. Illuminate unexplored caves. Neutralize dangerous lava pockets. Collect nearby drops automatically. Remove unwanted dirt and gravel. Deploy emergency climbing structures when you need a way back up.
The Void Tunneler is the main excavation tool of DeepMine Tech.
Right-click to clear a massive:
20×20×50 block volume
The tunnel is created directly ahead of your view and supports all six directions:
North
South
East
West
Up
Down
But the Void Tunneler is not designed to blindly destroy everything in its path.
Its purpose is simple:
The Tunneler removes only an explicit whitelist of underground filler blocks.
Supported blocks include:
Stone
Deepslate
Granite
Diorite
Andesite
Tuff
Calcite
Dripstone
Cobblestone
Cobbled Deepslate
Gravel
Sand
Red Sand
Netherrack
Basalt
Smooth Basalt
End Stone
Plain Terracotta
Removed filler blocks produce no mining loot and no XP.
The Void Tunneler is specifically designed to expose valuable resources instead of destroying them.
It preserves:
Tagged ores
Ancient Debris
Dirt and Grass
Trees
Crops
Fluids
Chests
Spawners
Other block entities
Bedrock
Portals
Other protected blocks
The drill does not automatically collect ores.
Instead, ores remain floating and exposed inside the excavated tunnel so you can mine them separately.
This makes the Void Tunneler useful for quickly opening huge underground areas without sacrificing the resources hidden inside them.
The Void Tunneler is powerful, but it is not unlimited.
Cooldown: 15 seconds
Uses: 10
It can be repaired in an anvil using:
Echo Shards
Netherite Ingots
Obsidian removal is also supported as an optional feature.
Obsidian destruction is disabled by default.
The Seismic Ore Scanner is designed for locating valuable resources hidden behind cave walls.
Activate it to send out a sonar-like scanning pulse.
The scanner searches within a:
16-block spherical radius
Detected ores receive visible cyan outlines for 5 seconds.
Default targets include:
💎 Diamond
🟢 Emerald
🟡 Gold
🔵 Lapis
Ancient Debris
Supported common ore tags can also allow compatible modded ores to be detected.
Highlights are visible only to the player who activated the scanner.
Cooldown: 30 seconds
Exploring enormous caves often means constantly placing torches.
The Cave Flare Launcher provides another solution.
Fire a glowing flare toward:
Cave walls
Floors
Ceilings
When the flare successfully impacts a valid surface, it anchors itself there for:
60 seconds
The impact also creates a:
Permanent level-15 light block
in adjacent air.
This means the visible flare eventually disappears, while the illumination remains.
Cooldown: 1 second
Ammunition: None required
The Dissolution Gel is designed for terrain that the Void Tunneler intentionally avoids.
Throw the bottle to dissolve selected soft materials inside a:
5×5×5 area
The gel removes:
Dirt variants
Sand
Red Sand
Gravel
Stone and ores remain intact.
Removed material produces no mining drops.
Consumable: Yes
Throw cooldown: 0.5 seconds
Unlike the nature-preserving Void Tunneler, this tool is specifically intended to remove dirt and granular material.
Lava pockets can quickly turn a mining operation into a disaster.
The Lava Neutralizer Sponge allows you to solidify nearby lava without affecting water.
Right-click lava or nearby terrain to scan a:
7×7×7 area
Lava is converted depending on its state:
Lava Source → Obsidian
Flowing Lava → Basalt
Water remains completely untouched.
The Lava Neutralizer Sponge has:
16 uses
1-second cooldown
If no lava is found, or placement is denied, a use is not consumed.
The Miner's Magnetic Ring helps collect dropped items while mining large areas.
Hold the ring and use:
Shift + Right Click
to toggle its magnetic field.
Once enabled, the ring works while located in:
Main hand
Off hand
Main inventory
Nearby dropped items within a:
12-block radius
are pulled toward the player.
The enabled state is saved individually for each ring.
When toggled, the ring provides:
Action-bar feedback
Enchantment-style glint
Particles
Multiple rings do not multiply the magnetic effect.
Normal Minecraft mechanics still apply, including:
Pickup delays
Item ownership rules
Terrain collision
Sometimes the biggest problem underground isn't getting deeper.
It's getting back out.
The Deployable Rescue Pillar creates an emergency vertical climbing structure.
Right-click the top of a sturdy floor to deploy a:
1×1 column of climbable metal frames
The structure can extend up to:
25 blocks high
Deployment automatically stops when it reaches:
An obstacle
A blocked position
The world height limit
The pillar does not drill through ceilings.
Walk into the hollow center of the deployed frames.
Then:
Hold Jump → Climb upward
Hold Shift → Stay in place
The individual Rescue Frame block can also be placed separately and recovered using a suitable pickaxe.
Consumable: Yes
Cooldown: 1 second
The Void Tunneler requires several valuable late-game materials.
| Echo Shard | Netherite Ingot | Echo Shard |
| Amethyst Block | Nether Star | Amethyst Block |
| Echo Shard | Netherite Ingot | Echo Shard |
All DeepMine Tech utilities have crafting recipes and recipe-book unlocks.
DeepMine Tech currently includes:
⚫ Void Tunneler
📡 Seismic Ore Scanner
🔦 Cave Flare Launcher
🧪 Dissolution Gel
🌋 Lava Neutralizer Sponge
🧲 Miner's Magnetic Ring
🪜 Deployable Rescue Pillar
Massive 20×20×50 tunnel excavation
Ore-preserving excavation system
Explicit underground filler whitelist
Modded ore-tag support
16-block ore scanning
Temporary ore highlighting
Permanent cave illumination
Dirt and gravel dissolution
Lava solidification
Magnetic item collection
Deployable climbing structures
Repairable mining equipment
Cooldowns and durability balancing
Dedicated DeepMine Tech creative tab
English item descriptions
Polish item descriptions
Server configuration options
Player-placement protection system
DeepMine Tech includes server-side options for controlling how the Void Tunneler interacts with the world.
Server settings allow you to:
Enable or disable Obsidian removal
Exclude Cobblestone
Exclude Cobbled Deepslate
Exclude Plain Terracotta
Preserve recorded player placements
New player-placed blocks can be tracked across world restarts.
This helps reduce the risk of the Void Tunneler destroying player-built structures.
However, there are technical limitations.
Blocks placed before DeepMine Tech was installed, moved by other mechanics, or created using world-editing tools cannot always be reliably identified as player structures.
For important builds, using an area-claiming mod is recommended.
Claim mods must handle the relevant block break/place events for protection to work correctly.
Universal claim-mod compatibility is not guaranteed.
The Void Tunneler modifies a very large number of blocks instantly.
Because of this, creating large tunnels can cause a brief server tick spike, even though destroyed filler blocks do not generate mining drops.
Nature blocks may also remain floating when surrounding underground filler is removed.
Later Minecraft world updates may cause those blocks to follow their normal support or physics rules.
DeepMine Tech uses a dark underground technology aesthetic centered around powerful specialized mining equipment.
The mod is designed to fit particularly well in:
Deep mining operations
Underground bases
Large cave systems
Industrial builds
Technology modpacks
Late-game mining setups
Large excavation projects
Nether mining operations
Resource hunting expeditions
All tools are grouped together inside the dedicated:
DeepMine Tech Creative Tab
Minecraft: 1.21.1
Mod Loader: NeoForge 21.1.252 or compatible newer 21.1 build
Java: 21
Required additional mods: None
Sides: Client + Server
Place:
deepminetech-1.1.0.jar
inside your Minecraft:
mods
folder.
Remove older DeepMine Tech JARs before upgrading.
This build targets NeoForge for Minecraft 1.21.1.
It is not a Fabric, Forge, or Minecraft 26.x build.
DeepMine Tech 1.1.0 has passed:
Java compilation
Focused logic checks
Resource checks
Full in-game client and multiplayer playtesting remains pending.
Because of this, version 1.1.0 is currently considered a beta build.
If you encounter a problem, please include as much information as possible.
Useful information includes:
DeepMine Tech version
Minecraft version
NeoForge version
Steps to reproduce the issue
Other relevant installed mods
Crash report
Relevant log excerpt
Reports involving multiplayer behavior, block protection, unusual mod interactions, scanning problems, or excavation issues are especially useful.
The DeepMine Tech logo and banner use AI-generated promotional artwork.
These images are illustrations used for presentation and are not in-game screenshots.
The stylized drill shown in promotional artwork does not represent an additional 3D item model included with the mod.
DeepMine Tech currently includes:
English 🇬🇧
Polish 🇵🇱
MIT License
Modpack inclusion is allowed under the license.
Dig deeper. Find more. Control the underground.
