Speedmine -

: Essential for "highway building" and tunneling thousands of blocks in minutes.

: Sending "block break" data to the server faster than the animation allows. SpeedMine

As SpeedMine became more common, server administrators deployed "Anti-Cheat" plugins like to detect unnatural mining speeds. This led to a "cat-and-mouse" game where client developers added features like: : Essential for "highway building" and tunneling thousands

In the early days of Minecraft, "instant mining" was a rare achievement reached only with a Diamond Pickaxe and a Haste II beacon. For the competitive multiplayer scene, however, waiting for blocks to break was a bottleneck. The Rise of SpeedMine SpeedMine

: Eliminating the standard 6-tick (0.3 second) delay between breaking one block and the next.