Mining Speed

is one of the player statistics. It is a measure of the block-breaking time.

Any item that increases mining speed by a base value (such as +40) can be thought of as a decrease of the base breaking time.

It is not known to have a cap. It can be increased as explained below.

Mining Speed does not affect private islands and dungeons. These places use the vanilla mining speed (like before the 0.11 Dwarven Mines Update).

Increasing Mining Speed
Players can increase their Mining Speed from the following methods


 * Holding a Pickaxe or Drill, which grants base Mining Speed
 * Using the Efficiency Enchantment, granting up to +110 Mining Speed (or +130 on a Stonk)
 * Using a Mining Speed increasing Reforge, such as Fleet
 * Wearing Mining Gears that have status
 * Upgrading the Level 1 Perk "Mining Speed" in the Heart of the Mountain, granting +20 Mining Speed per Level

Mining Fatigue Effect
Players are given the Mining Fatigue Effect while in public islands (not private islands and dungeons) to remove the vanilla mining behavior (client-side mining animations) and let the server handle the animations itself. It does not slow down or remove Mining Speed, but is in fact necessary for the Mining Speed implementation.

It also provides additional aesthetic benefits:


 * No breaking/mining animation (except for the swinging) for blocks that cannot be broken
 * No ghost blocks due to mining blocks
 * No block rollbacks
 * Mining animation synced up with the server's speed (server's TPS)
 * Blocks don't turn into air before getting replaced by bedrock (or another block)

This however didn't change known Bugs with ghost blocks in private islands and dungeons, as there is no Mining Fatigue Effect in these places.

Achieving Maximum Mining Speed
To achieve maximum mining speed, the player must first use a full set of Sorrow Armor and use a recombobulated Titanium Drill DR-X555 with the Fleet reforge and Efficiency 5, as well as having the Haste 4 Effect active. Players must also max out the Mining Speed, Mining Madness, Sky Mall, Front Loaded, Precision Mining, and Crystallized Heart of the Mountain perks for additional mining speed. This setup gives a total of 4309.5 for the first 1000 ores of the day while the Sky Mall perk has chosen 100 Mining Speed and while aiming at the ore.