Mining Speed

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 an decrease of the base breaking time.

It is not known to have a cap. It can be increased with the efficiency enchant, certain pickaxes, and several armor sets.

Increasing Mining Speed
Players can increase their Mining Speed by:


 * Holding a pickaxe
 * Having the Efficiency Enchant
 * Wearing certain armor
 * Upgrading mining speed level in HotM

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 gives extra esthetic 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 ghostblocks, as they are a result of a de-sync between the server and client. A re-sync hasn't been introduced with the update, resulting in no changes regarding the ghostblocks.

Achieving Maximum Mining Speed
To achieve maximum mining speed, the player must first use a full set of Sorrow Armor and use a Titanium Drill DR-X555 with the Fleet reforge and Efficiency 5. This increases it by 1510 Mining Speed. Players must also max out the Heart of the Mountain for additional mining speed.