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Excavation is the ability in McMMO related to using a shovel to dig anything on the soil chart, including exotic materials like Soul Sand. High-level Excavators can produce diamonds from dirt easily. (Like most McMMO abilities, it will only work if McMMO drops can spawn on the blocks, and not if they are funnelled into the player's inventory like with some plugins.)


Abilities[]

EXCAVATION HAS NEW ABILITIES. LIST THEM HERE!

Giga Drill Breaker[1][]

Giga Drill Breaker is an ability with a cooldown tied to Excavation skill. While active, the ability triples your chance of finding treasures as well as experienced gained and enables instant break on Excavation materials.

Archaeology[1][]

The higher your Excavation skill is, the more treasures that can be found. In addition, each type of Excavation compatible material has its own unique list of treasures* meaning you will find different treasures in Dirt than you would in Gravel.

*Note: Excavation drops are completely customizable, so results vary server to server.

Increasing skill level[]

You level up by digging materials that are mined faster with a shovel.

Scouring the entire surface, or at least large hills, is the fastest way to level Excavation.

(This method no longer works) Another good way is to stock up on shovels and make a trapped snowman. This will allow you to dig the snow underneath it which is constantly refreshed. As the snow is fast to break, it will wear out your tools very quickly, but it will also help you to level very quickly in the comfort of your own home without having to worry about finding stuff to excavate. Keep an iron block nearby and use an iron shovel to clear the snow. When you are running low on durability, just repair the shovel and keep on digging. This method trains up Excavation and Repair at the same time. Stone can also be used at the cost of maintanance and XP. With the right scripting tools and settings, this can be automated as a client-side bot. It can also be automated with dispensers and a timer, and shovels can be gained through a mob grinder if you're lucky, or in the newest update of Minecraft, automatically crafted from iron ore, coal, and wood through hoppers and recipe selection.

You can also use Giga Drill Breaker in bursts to speed up digging, at the expense of extra durability wear on your shovel. To counteract this, use diamond shovels. Past level 350, it is more common than not to get at least 1 diamond from a single Giga Drill Breaker, allowing you to repair the shovel whenever durability starts to drop.

Drops Block Skill Req. XP Rewarded Chance

Dirt Dirt

Grass Grass

0 40 10000100%.00
Dirt Dirt

Mycelium Mycelium

0 40 10000100%.00

Dirt Dirt

Dirt Dirt

0 40 10000100%.00

Snowball Snowball

Snow Block

0 20 10000100%.00

Gravel Gravel

Gravel Gravel

0 40 09000090%.00

Flint Flint

Gravel Gravel

0 40 01000010%.00

Sand Sand

Sand Sand

0 40 10000100%.00

SoulSand Soul Sand

SoulSand Soul Sand

0 40 10000100%.00

Clay Clay (x4)

ClayBlock Clay Block

0 40 10000100%.00

Map Empty Map

ClayBlock Clay Block

25 200 00200002%.00

GlowstoneDustGlowstone Dust

Grass Grass

25 80 00500005%.00
GlowstoneDustGlowstone Dust Mycelium Mycelium 25 80 00500005%.00
GlowstoneDustGlowstone Dust Podzol ??? ??? ???

GlowstoneDustGlowstone Dust

Dirt Dirt

25 80 00500005%.00

GlowstoneDustGlowstone Dust

Sand Sand

25 80 00500005%.00

Gunpowder Gunpowder

Gravel Gravel

75 30 01000010%.00

Slimeball Slimeball

ClayBlock Clay block

150 10 00100001%.00
Bone Bone

Gravel Gravel

200 30 01000010%.00

Egg Egg

Grass Grass

250 100 00100001%.00

GoldDisc Music Disc (13)

Stoneshovel Any

250 3000 00005000.05%

Apple Apple

Grass Grass

250 100 00010000.1%0

Apple Apple

Mycelium Mycelium

250 100 00010000.1%0

SoulSand Soul Sand

Sand Sand

650 80 00050000.5%0

Cobweb Spider web

ClayBlock Clay block

750 150 00500005%.00

Cake Cake

StoneshovelAny

750 3000 00005000.05%

Netherrack Netherrack

Gravel Gravel

850 3000 00050000.5%0

Nether Quartz Nether Quartz

StoneshovelAny 850 3000 0.5%
Block Average XP/block
Dirt 80.33
Gravel 95.account6for \4
*Calculated with assuming you can receive every drop and your excavation level is over 900. XP/block can vary between servers as it's configurable by server admins.

Leveling Table (Theoretical Time)[]

Level

Total Blocks

Total XP

Total Time (seconds)

1

107.5

4300

10

695

27800

500

25

1970

78800

900

50

4290

171600

1400

75

7500

300000

1900

100

11422.5

456900

3000

150

21392.5

855700

3500

175

27445

1097800

9300

250

49860

1994400

16300

350

80537.5

3221500

28100

500

149355

5974200

36100

650

187812.5

7512500

45600

750

224747.5

8989900

78886

850

293855

15260000

64100

1000

350245

19731200

71900

This table does not account for earning bonus items or dirt, or for breaking blocks besides dirt for more XP or different drops. Times may also vary based on the player's focus and efficiency at aiming and mining new blocks continuously, what enchants are used, , on tick lag, block lag, and latency, the player's skill level, and whether or not Giga Drill Breaker is in use continuously.

*It's calculated without receiving drops other than dirt from it. Times may vary depending on the shovel used or other variables, such as accuracy. These variables can be negated using client-side bots.

Trivia[]

  • The 'Giga Drill Breaker' ability is a reference to the move 'Giga Drill Breaker' from the anime "Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann".
    • The original name of the move was "Giga Drill Break" but "Giga Drill Breaker" stuck with the public due to Japanese pronunciation of English. It also was not used to harvest materials, instead being relegated to combat.
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