⛏️ Simple Quarries Plus

A feature-rich Fabric quarry mod that automates vertical mining using fuel and pickaxes. Mine entire shafts automatically with configurable area sizes and full Fortune/Silk Touch support.

✨ Features

Core Functionality

• Automated Mining: Place a quarry and watch it excavate a vertical shaft straight down
• Tool-Based Mining: Insert any pickaxe - the quarry uses its mining speed, enchantments, and durability
• Fuel System: Power your quarry with any standard furnace fuel (coal, lava buckets, wood, etc.)
• Smart Block Selection: Automatically skips air, bedrock, and other quarries
• Large Inventory: 24-slot output storage with automatic item collection
• Enchantment Support: Full compatibility with Fortune, Silk Touch, Efficiency, and Unbreaking

Upgrade System

• Expandable Mining Area: Start with 5×5, upgrade to a maximum of 15×15
• Quarry Upgrade Templates: Found in dungeon chests, bastions, end cities, and more
• Persistent Upgrades: Upgraded quarries keep their level when broken and replaced
• Simple Upgrading: Craft quarry + upgrade template to add +2 blocks to mining width

⚙️ Automation Support

• Hopper Compatible: Extract items from bottom, insert fuel from top, insert pickaxes from sides
• Comparator Support: Outputs redstone signal based on inventory fullness
• Item Overflow Protection: Extra items drop above the quarry if inventory is full

📖 How to Use

Basic Setup

1. Craft a Quarry block and place it where you want to mine
2. Right-click to open the quarry interface
3. Insert a pickaxe in the top-left slot
4. Add fuel to the slot below the pickaxe
5. The quarry will begin mining and storing blocks in the output grid

Quarry Crafting

Mining Mechanics

• The quarry mines in a square area centered on itself, going straight down
• Mining speed depends on pickaxe type:
  • Golden pickaxes are fastest
  • Netherite and diamond are very efficient
  • Efficiency enchantment significantly increases speed
• Durability is consumed per block mined (reduced by Unbreaking)
• Fuel is consumed per block mined - different fuels mine different amounts of blocks

⚡ Fuel Efficiency

Here's how many blocks different fuels can mine:

• Lava Bucket: 100 blocks
• Coal Block: 80 blocks
• Dried Kelp Block: 20 blocks
• Blaze Rod: 12 blocks
• Coal/Charcoal: 8 blocks each
• Wood/Planks: 2 blocks per item
• Sticks/Bamboo: 1 block each

📦 Upgrading Your Quarry

1. Find a Quarry Upgrade Template in loot chests:

   • Bastions (30% chance - best source)
   • Stronghold libraries and corridors (20% chance)
   • Abandoned mineshafts (10% chance)
   • Nether fortresses (10% chance)
   • End cities (8% chance)
   • Desert pyramids (5% chance)
   • Dungeons and ruined portals (3% chance)

2. Place your Quarry block and one Upgrade Template in a crafting grid (shapeless)

3. Each upgrade increases mining width by 2 blocks

Upgrade Progression:

• Level 0: 5×5 (25 blocks per layer)
• Level 1: 7×7 (49 blocks per layer)
• Level 2: 9×9 (81 blocks per layer)
• Level 3: 11×11 (121 blocks per layer)
• Level 4: 13×13 (169 blocks per layer)
• Level 5 (Max): 15×15 (225 blocks per layer)

⚙️ Automation Tips

• Input fuel automatically: Place a hopper on top pointing into the quarry
• Extract items automatically: Place a hopper underneath or use item pipes/ducts
• Insert pickaxes: Use hoppers on the sides for automatic pickaxe feeding
• Monitor fullness: Connect a comparator to detect when output inventory is full

💡 Tips

• Use Unbreaking III pickaxes to significantly reduce pickaxe consumption
• Fortune III works perfectly - get extra diamonds, coal, redstone, etc.
• Silk Touch is supported - collect grass blocks, stone, ores as-is
• Efficiency V dramatically increases mining speed
• Keep the quarry chunk-loaded for continuous operation while you're away
• Upgrade to 15×15 for maximum efficiency - it mines 9x more blocks per layer than the base quarry