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Tired of endless terraforming in Minecraft? Use an excavator!
This mod adds excavators that function like shovels but in a 3x3 area which greatly simplifies terraforming and digging in the middle and late stages of the game.
How It Works
To obtain an excavator, you must first find a new smithing template to upgrade your shovel. It can be found in villages: most often in the weaponsmiths, toolsmiths, and armorers houses, less often in regular houses.
Using a smithing template and a block of appropriate material on a smithing table, you can upgrade your shovel to a brand new excavator.

FAQ
Q: Will you port Simplest Excavators to Fabric?\ A: No, we usually only use Neoforge
Q: Will you back-port Simplest Excavators to X version?\ A: No, we don't usually back-port
All Versions
+ Add Version- Added:**
- Copper excavator
- Changed:**
- Excavator texture was overhauled
- Stone excavator can be upgraded to either copper or straight to iron, iron excavator can be upgraded straight to diamond
- Added:**
- Excavators can now create paths in a 3x3 radius or 1x1 when sneaking (crouching), like a shovel.
- Added:**
- Iron/golden excavator smelting/blasting in nuggets recipes;
- Wooden excavator now can be used as fuel.
- Changed:**
- Stone excavator craft.
- Removed:**
- Dependency on Simplest Compression.
- Added:**
- Smithing Template (Excavator Upgrade);
- Smithing Templates (Excavator Upgrade) can be found in villages, more often in weaponsmith, toolsmith & armorer houses, less often in regular houses;
- Smithing Templates (Excavator Upgrade) can be purchased from wandering trader;
- Smithing Template (Excavator Upgrade) can be duplicated using craft, similar to vanilla;
- Excavator will now only destroy one block at a time while sneaked (crouched), as if you were using a regular shovel;
- Ported on 1.21.1.
- Changed:**
- Excavators are now crafted using Smithing Templates (Excavator Upgrade) on the smithing table, similar to crafting netherite gear in vanilla.
- Fixed:**
- Iron and golden excavators can now be smelted into 1 matching nugget;
- The wooden excavator can now be used as fuel for the furnace.
- Removed:**
- Dependency on [Simplest Compression](https://modrinth.com/mod/simplest-compression).
- Changed:**
- All excavators stats
- All excavators moved to vanilla creative tab - Tools and Utilities
- Fixed:**
- Netherite excavator hadn't fire resistance
- Changed:**
- Mod description
- Fixed:**
- Eng lang
- Fixed:**
- Dupe of excavators
- Changed:**
- Craft of Stone Excavator
- Mod now requires Simplest Compression to be installed on the client to work
- Added:**
- Excavator's tags.
- Fixed:**
- Ru Lang.
- Added:**
- All Excavators.
- All Tags.
- Ru and Eng translations