Without Haste, what Efficiency level does a Pickaxe need to insta-mine Stone?

Without Haste, what Efficiency level does a Pickaxe need to insta-mine Stone? - People Digging Using Shovel and Pickaxe

I am playing on a server that sells Efficiency 8 and Efficiency 10 Pickaxes, which ones out of the two can insta-mine stone and what other harder blocks can they insta-mine?

The server is a Java Edition Server.



Best Answer

I found this website, which has a table about which tools can instant mine which blocks.

It seems an efficiency 5 diamond pickaxe will be able to instant-mine stone if you have haste 2.

It's hard to say which pickaxes other than diamond will be able to instant mine stone, but it seems your pickaxe's "speed" will need to be greater than 45 to instant mine stone.

Efficiency: additional (1+level2) when using the proper tool

This means an Efficiency 6 Diamond, Netherite or gold pickaxe should work. Efficiency 7 should be enough for any pickaxe to break stone.

So to answer your question: Both should be able to instant mine stone.

As for other blocks, that depends on which material the pickaxe is made out of. Take a look at the table on this page. The total speed needs to be at least 30 times the block hardness.




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Can you insta mine stone with haste 2?

As many of you will know, if you have efficiency 5 on a diamond pickaxe and you have a haste 2 effect, you will be able to instantly mine stone (and other materials).

How fast does Efficiency 5 mine stone?

So, with an Efficiency V diamond pickaxe and nothing else, you would break the first stone block in 0.05 seconds, and the rest of them at a rate of one each 0.35 seconds.

Can you instant mine stone?

Each Pickaxe takes a certain time to break Stone and other Stone-related blocks, this is known as the mining speed. Wooden Pickaxes, having the slowest mining speed, followed by Stone, then Iron, Diamond, then Netherite, and Golden Pickaxes having the fastest mining speed.



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Answer 2

I'll answer

what other, harder blocks can they insta-mine?

Given pinckerman's answer, we have

Since you're asking for level 8 and 10 you get:

  • Efficiency VIII gives 65
  • Efficiency X gives 101

plus the value given by the material (8 for diamond, 9 for netherite).

Blocks can be insta-mined if the value above (e.g. 110 for an Efficiency X netherite pickaxe) is larger than 30 times the hardness value of the block:

If the tool and enchantments immediately equal or exceeds the hardness times 30, the block breaks with no delay

so (assuming a netherite pickaxe) with Eff X, you'll insta-mine blocks with hardness lower than 110/30 = 3.6666
with Eff VIII instead you'll insta-mine blocks with an hardness lower than 74/30 = 2.4666

Hardness values are listed here. Please do note that you also have to check if the block is optimally broken by a pickaxe, e.g. a wooden door with hardness 3 won't be insta-mined, as you need an axe, not a pickaxe.

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