⛰ Workhand Tools

Upgraded pickaxes, shovels, axes, and hoes across 3 materials and 4 grades, unlocking 3×3 to 5×5 area mining. Kennestroyer ultimate tools with 5 modes. Durability, speed, and enchants always match vanilla.

✨ Overview

Workhand Tools adds a full line of upgraded tools — 12 pickaxes and 12 shovels across Stone, Iron, and Diamond materials — with 4 progressive grades per material. Each grade unlocks larger mining areas, from basic 3×3 flat excavation to professional 5×5×5 cubic mining. All tools match their vanilla equivalents in durability, mining speed, enchantability, and combat stats. Advanced and Professional grades feature a Cubic / Flat mode toggle (right-click), and a real-time area preview highlight shows exactly which blocks will be affected. Hold Shift at any time for vanilla single-block behavior. 10 languages supported: English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Italian, and Korean. In-game Guide Book (via Vellumli): craftable (book + iron ingot + diamond) or auto-given on first join. Documents every tool with controls, mechanics, and crafting recipes.

🔧 Tools

Area Mining Progression

📋 Full Item Catalog — Durability & Purpose

Pickaxes & Shovels (24)

	Name	Material	Durability	Purpose
	Stone Workhand Pickaxe	Stone	655	Area mining 3×3×1 (single layer)
	Stone Workhand Advanced Pickaxe	Stone	655	Area mining 3×3×3 cubic / 3×3×1 flat (right-click toggles mode)
	Stone Workhand Expert Pickaxe	Stone	655	Area mining 5×5×1 (single layer)
	Stone Workhand Professional Pickaxe	Stone	655	Area mining 5×5×5 cubic / 5×5×1 flat (right-click toggles mode)
	Iron Workhand Pickaxe	Iron	1250	Area mining 3×3×1 (single layer)
	Iron Workhand Advanced Pickaxe	Iron	1250	Area mining 3×3×3 cubic / 3×3×1 flat (right-click toggles mode)
	Iron Workhand Expert Pickaxe	Iron	1250	Area mining 5×5×1 (single layer)
	Iron Workhand Professional Pickaxe	Iron	1250	Area mining 5×5×5 cubic / 5×5×1 flat (right-click toggles mode)
	Diamond Workhand Pickaxe	Diamond	7805	Area mining 3×3×1 (single layer)
	Diamond Workhand Advanced Pickaxe	Diamond	7805	Area mining 3×3×3 cubic / 3×3×1 flat (right-click toggles mode)
	Diamond Workhand Expert Pickaxe	Diamond	7805	Area mining 5×5×1 (single layer)
	Diamond Workhand Professional Pickaxe	Diamond	7805	Area mining 5×5×5 cubic / 5×5×1 flat (right-click toggles mode)
	Stone Workhand Shovel	Stone	655	Area digging 3×3×1 (single layer)
	Stone Workhand Advanced Shovel	Stone	655	Area digging 3×3×3 cubic / 3×3×1 flat (right-click toggles mode)
	Stone Workhand Expert Shovel	Stone	655	Area digging 5×5×1 (single layer)
	Stone Workhand Professional Shovel	Stone	655	Area digging 5×5×5 cubic / 5×5×1 flat (right-click toggles mode)
	Iron Workhand Shovel	Iron	1250	Area digging 3×3×1 (single layer)
	Iron Workhand Advanced Shovel	Iron	1250	Area digging 3×3×3 cubic / 3×3×1 flat (right-click toggles mode)
	Iron Workhand Expert Shovel	Iron	1250	Area digging 5×5×1 (single layer)
	Iron Workhand Professional Shovel	Iron	1250	Area digging 5×5×5 cubic / 5×5×1 flat (right-click toggles mode)
	Diamond Workhand Shovel	Diamond	7805	Area digging 3×3×1 (single layer)
	Diamond Workhand Advanced Shovel	Diamond	7805	Area digging 3×3×3 cubic / 3×3×1 flat (right-click toggles mode)
	Diamond Workhand Expert Shovel	Diamond	7805	Area digging 5×5×1 (single layer)
	Diamond Workhand Professional Shovel	Diamond	7805	Area digging 5×5×5 cubic / 5×5×1 flat (right-click toggles mode)

Kennestroyer Ultimate Tools (2)

	Name	Material	Durability	Purpose
	Kennestroyer Pickaxe	Kennestroyer	50,000	5 modes (right-click cycles): Disabled / 3×3×1 / 3×3×3 / 5×5×1 / 5×5×5 + Vein Mining (auto-mines up to 128 connected ores)
	Kennestroyer Shovel	Kennestroyer	50,000	5 modes (right-click cycles): Disabled / 3×3×1 / 3×3×3 / 5×5×1 / 5×5×5

Improved Pickaxes — Vein Mining (4)

	Name	Material	Durability	Purpose
	Iron Workhand Advanced Improved Pickaxe	Improved Iron	3750	3×3×3/3×3×1 area mining + vein mining: breaking an ore chain-breaks all connected blocks of the same ore (up to 128)
	Iron Workhand Professional Improved Pickaxe	Improved Iron	3750	5×5×5/5×5×1 area mining + vein mining
	Diamond Workhand Advanced Improved Pickaxe	Improved Diamond	23415	3×3×3/3×3×1 area mining + vein mining
	Diamond Workhand Professional Improved Pickaxe	Improved Diamond	23415	5×5×5/5×5×1 area mining + vein mining

Workhand Axes — Tree Felling (2)

	Name	Material	Durability	Purpose
	Iron Workhand Axe	Improved Iron	3750	Toggleable tree felling (right-click cycles Disabled / Simple / Compound): breaking a log fells the whole connected tree (up to 256 blocks)
	Diamond Workhand Axe	Improved Diamond	23415	Toggleable tree felling (right-click cycles Disabled / Simple / Compound)

Workhand Hoes — Crop Harvesting (2)

	Name	Material	Durability	Purpose
	Iron Workhand Hoe	Improved Iron	3750	Right-click toggles Till / Harvest mode. Till: single block. Harvest: 3×3 area harvest & replant of mature crops/cocoa/nether wart
	Diamond Workhand Hoe	Improved Diamond	23415	Right-click toggles Till / Harvest mode. Till: single block. Harvest: 5×5 area harvest & replant of mature crops/cocoa/nether wart

Utility Items (2)

	Name	Material	Durability	Purpose
	Robust Stick	—	No durability (ingredient)	Crafting ingredient for Expert and Professional grade tools (3-4)
	Tape Measure	—	No durability (unbreakable)	Measures the area between two points: right-click sets the start, right-click again sets the end and draws a box with X/Y/Z lengths. Shift+right-click undoes the last measurement

📖 Chunk Anchor & Anchor Tome — Forced Chunk Loading

A pedestal-and-tome pair, separate from the tool line, that keeps a chunk permanently loaded — no player needed nearby.

	Name	Type	Purpose
	Chunk Anchor	Block	Placed on the ground. Right-click with an Anchor Tome to insert it and force-load the chunk it stands in, the same mechanism behind vanilla's /forceload. Right-click empty-handed (or sneaking) to extract the tome and release the chunk. Breaking it with a tome inserted drops both items and releases the chunk immediately
	Anchor Tome	Item	Inserted into a Chunk Anchor, keeps its chunk force-loaded permanently with no fuel or cost. Floats open above the pedestal, spinning and turning pages, with green particles orbiting around it

The chunk being force-loaded is outlined at its four vertical corners while a tome is inserted — configurable to show always, only while sneaking and looking at the anchor, or only when nearby. The Chunk Anchor's block model/texture and the Anchor Tome's item texture are adapted, with permission, from klikli-dev's Occultism mod.

📋 Requirements

📦 Available Versions

🙏 Credits & License

Workhand Tools is an original mod by Stalking Dragons — not a port or fork. The mod as a whole is All Rights Reserved. Some parts come from other projects and keep their own terms — see the LICENSE file:

• The Tape Measure tool (wireframe-box math, length-label placement) and its tape_measure.png texture are adapted from Measurements by Mrbysco (MIT); that class in turn credits BlockMeter.
• The Chunk Anchor block model/texture and the Anchor Tome item texture are adapted, with permission, from Occultism by klikli-dev (originally otherstone_pedestal and book_of_binding_djinni). Not affiliated with or endorsed by klikli-dev.
• The in-game guide book is delivered through Vellumli (required dependency), licensed separately.

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