worth it just for the feeling when you auto mine that massive ore vein

why is this mod labelled as audio and visual tweaks

For those following comments, me and CrazyContraption solved the problem. OE was working fine. QoL Compendium was running it's own version of VeinMiner with it's own whitelist, on top of OE and overriding my changes in a separate list. Disabled that, and everything works as intended...

Hi, yes this is actually on the roadmap of ideas for the mod, with a similar mode that combines the "toughness" or health of all adjacent blocks, and managing to mine one will mine the whole thing.

Both of these features would require a revamp of the system the mod uses to find neighbours. Currently, it is procedural, meaning it looks as it goes, so as to not overwhelm the system. For any other configuration, it would have to index the entire patch, sort it, and then operate on it. This is far less performant on larger excavations.

This being said, it's still a goal of ours, but other things are ahead of it at this time - unfortunately. Thanks for your suggestion - we'll be sure to see it through for you.

Would it be possible to add an alternate and (slightly) less cheaty mode for vein mining?

The way it would work would be similar to fluid pumps from the buildcraft mod for minecraft, where when you mine it would search for the furthest valid block and then mine it instead of the block you had mined.

Can you send me your configuration file via Discord? Seems like there's some deeper issues going on here. Your copy of the mod may have generated a corrupted config.

I've had other issues, since my last post, like the game is just using the default OE settings, and not checking the blacklist/whitelist... it ignores my attempts to stop excavating Breakable Ice (they spawn in such large amount that the excavation lags and runs slow)... and now I see it's failing to recognize Spirit Mod: Cryolite Ore (and I didn't even add that to the whitelist, it auto-generated on mod setup)...

I can't seem to get the mod to stop excavating Obsidian, for the life of me... I've fiddled with the settings, added to blacklist, used the hotkeys... I even used the whitelist hotkey to doublecheck the block name, and it said I had to click twice because it was on the single player server blacklist, to override... then I unwhitelisted and re-added to the blacklist, and it keeps excavating all the obsidian i make with infinite water buckets...

Ahahaha! No worries friend, I just had deep concern for your poor gamestate if you were running a 2 year outdated mod! All this being said, I'm re-opening an investigation into OE and TO to see if it can be resolved sooner.

Hahaha I think Crazy will breathe a sigh of relief that you weren't somehow able to run the old version of Veinminer, and based on your discussion it seems to be just Terraria Overhaul and OE clashing since they only have issues when both are enabled XD

As for the English: I don't think you need to apologise at all if English isn't your first language - confusions happen between English speakers constantly as it is =)

Oh oh oh my fault to make you confused I'm so sorry! I was using only this Ore Excavator all the time! What I mentioned that "switching off" means using the hotkey of OE to turn it on and off. And because "Veinminer" seems to be the old name of this mod I thought it a particular word that only used for this Ore Excavator mod! I must apologize for this misunderstanding! Maybe I need to learn more English now...

The fact that you're mentioning your veinminer and OE as separate things to be able to switch them off and on independently.... Are you perhaps using BAM? you mentioning "switching off" veinminer and I know that BAM has that feature - when its on, its running all the time etc so you can turn it off using a hotkey...

Crazy - I did see on the workshop that a new "vein miner" by nil popped up recently, not sure if the space in the name adds enough variation to be considered fair-play, but just in case you missed it =P

Veinminer is the title held by the Pre-1.4 versions of this mod. How you're even using that mod is beyond me. If you are, you're likely using a copycat mod that is using the name without permission. We have spoken with the original developer Nanobotz, and agreed that the name should remain its own identity.

There are known issues will Terraria overhaul, and OE. We have submitted a report, but they have not done anything as of yet to fix their hooks that cause issues.

As for block swapping - it is the item you're holding. However, it uses a separate whitelist than the excavation list. Excavations use tiles/walls which you can add by hovering over the tile/wall in the world and using the whitelist keys. Blockswaps and similar activities require you to whitelist the literal item. Hover over the item in your inventory, and use the whitelist keys.

I... dont know why you would be using BOTH Veinminer and OE... I can only assume that using two different mods to do the same thing, especially as intricate as these mods are, would lead to instability... Crazy will know more, but I think youre going to have to pick one or the other =/

Sorry to disturb again and again but I come to consider that the crash problem seems come from destroying natural generated vines in underground jungle with Veinminer turned on (of course with both OE and Terraria Overhaul enabled). I've tried once destroying the vines and some thorns just with the aura of Tesla potion and after a while the game crashed as well. Then I did "survived" a long time by switching off Veinminer between mining, and Veinmining ores standing still with summons off. I hope these can help.

IT WOULD REALLY HELP IF YOU MADE IT JUST MADE IT EXCAVATE INTO THE BLOCK YOU'R HOLDING.

(Sorry I got really angry about this.)

I was trying to figue out how to blockswap platforms with other blocks for an hour.

HOW DO I BLOCKSWAP PLATFOR TO OTHER BLOCKS!?!??!?!?!?

(I watched a few videos and they don't mention them, and I can't find it in the settings.)

I really am enjoying this mod its very satisfying to mine the ores and it saves time which I like. But there is a prompt under items I want to figure out how to remove.

The [OE] lines underneath items when I hover over them. I don't really want it there at all.
The line is

[OE] Press 'Keybind' over item to whitelist!

Thanks

Thanks friend, I'll have a look and see if there's potential for an IOOR Excaption there. Did it specify an OE class and/or line number? Usually at the top or bottom of the stacktrace blob.

The game seems always crash after a small amount of chlorophyte ore veinmined. And the client log seems either extract nothing or written "System.IndexOutOfRangeException: Index was outside the bounds of the array." followed by a lot of "at xxxxxxx" at the end.

Personally, i like to make the early game less tedious by making it harder. More specifically, the notraps seed.
Personally, i find it more satisfying to hand-mine ore, but i guess i'm just weird like that.

;)

Well said Crazy =)

As for game crashes with torches - we are aware and are investigating the cause. Unfortunately, it seems as though the game crashes before logs can be extracted, making the issue hard to reproduce, and locate a root cause. Apologies in the meantime!

All this to say; Most folks want to spend as little time doing something they've done 700 times before because they value their time, and want to move on to newer exciting things that keep better pace with the flow that modded worlds typically provide. If this doesn't mesh well with your particular play-style which may unfortunately be in the minority, you don't have to make use of the mod - even if your friends want to. Just don't bind a key, and turn off tool-tips!

This being said, we've tried our best to maintain what the original mod promised, as well as adding newer features to help with other mundane game-play loops to make them more engaging and enticing in modded runs, such as painting, replacing, planting, hoiking, etc. allowing you to experiment more!

If you have other suggestions for what we can improve - I'm specifically all ears!

Mining ore specifically is not considered to be an engaging stretch of game-play for most folks by any definition, myself included. It pads out vanilla game-play with really nice pacing and a tangible reward systems (woo ore). However, in modded play-throughs where costs are usually inflated due to extra items needed (say Magic Storage containers), combined with the hectic scenarios that modded runs typically provides that increase the risks of cave delving... It becomes cumbersome to even the slightest of adept players rather quickly, and breaks down barriers for newer players.

Attempting to veinmine a wall with a torch on it (as in starting the break on the wall with a torch on it) crashes the game

That..... has to be the most backhanded endorsement of a mod I think I've ever seen

Cheers for brightening my day TheDiscoFox

As for your unspoken question, I can only speak from my opinion: it removes a tedium that exists after 1000 hours of playing Terraria - theres so much clicking that using OE gives my finger a bit of a rest, and over long play sessions those little breaks really add up. I CAN play without OE, but I quickly find that I get over it MUCH quicker and so OE, for me, keeps me in the game and having fun for longer =)

I don't understand this mod. Idk why so many ppl use this. I can understand this mod existing, but i don't understand why so many ppl love this mod. I don't get why so many people consider mining out an vein of ore to be so annoying that they want to skip it. I can understand wanting to make mining faster, but ore collection is only a small part of the blocks you will mine in a playthrough and usually doesn't take very long compared to digging through caves or making a hellevator.
Anyway, after looking at this, it does have some other useful auto-doing-stuff features, so i think i will use this.
If you want to use this for the ore mining, okay, you can do that, but i don't get why. I understand people using veinminer, but i don't understand why _so many_ people use it.

I'm not able to auto-mine tungsten, but it worked for topaz. Does anyone know why? Thanks!

Help Needed!
Swapping blocks not working unless I check the option "Whitelist all items" under "Player Settings - Swapping".
Already whitelisted blocks manually.

Not a terrible idea, I'll implement accordingly

It would be great if the keybind was updated to have chain place (like excavate/chainplace) to let the player know that they could chain place

this is a SIGMA MOD

Phenomenal quality control on this mod.
I saw in a youtube video that I should set my keybind to Left Click, and the mod actually stopped me and sent me a message that Right Click would be better.
Probably saved me from mining the floor under me and falling to my death lmao

how i can mine dungeon tiles?

thank you kind man
+rep for you

ta wena la wea

There is an option to disable tooltips in the player configs of the mod. This will globally disable all tooltips the mod adds to any items of any sort, denoted by the `OreExcavator.ClientConfig.showItemTooltips` variable.

Would also like a setting to disable tooltip on items..

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how do you remove the tooltips for items that say "missing keybind?" it's visually annoying and i would never need a keybind for random items that have nothing to do with mining

yea, obviously just have it as a feature to what's already there if possible. idk how the coding would work but i thought it would be a fun way to make mining a little less boring but also keep that dopamine rush when you hit the random veinmine

I actually really like that idea. We were also thinking of a required modifier system. Perhaps we can integrate both at the same time.

I think a feature to have it so you dont have to hold down a button to auto mine, but rather a random percent chance to auto mine could be a nice in-between. just a suggestion

Does anyone know if I can configure this to always vein mine all ore but never normal blocks, but then have it also vein mine normal blocks when I hold the modifier key? I tried a few configurations but I couldnt get it right

@Fichek
As far as I'm aware this mod doesn't blacklist items from being used in crafting - I think you might have a mod compatibility issue

The mod blacklists iron bars and you can't use them in crafting. Instead of being QoL it made me waste a few hours with no result and I just gave up on it. Best to play without it.

Hi, chain - platforms worked but after setting to default key stopped working, mining works, but chain platforms for boss arena no