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Have you ever thought to yourself, “Gee, I sure love mining with pickaxes, but these things kind of look like foam toys”?<\/p>\n

I did, so I made this resource pack in order to resolve that issue.
\nWithout changing the actual textures, I have altered the shape of both vanilla and many modded pickaxes in order to make them more closely resemble actual pickaxes. They have a wider angle and shallower curve.<\/p>\n

\nList of supported mods<\/summary>\n

– Advanced Netherite
\n– Alex’s Mobs
\n– Applied Energistics 2
\n– Blue Skies
\n– Botania
\n– Biomes You’ll Go
\n– Create Alloyed
\n– Create Stuff & Additions
\n– Cyclic
\n– Deeper & Darker
\n– Eidolon: Repraised
\n– Embers Rekindled
\n– Enigmatic Legacy
\n– Ice and Fire
\n– Immersive Engineering
\n– Mekanism Tools
\n– Mythic Metals
\n– Mythic Upgrades
\n– Nourished Nether
\n– Occultism
\n– ProjectE
\n– Silent’s Gear
\n– Simplest Copper Gear
\n– Simplest Emerald Gear
\n– Spirit
\n– Tetra
\n– Tool’s Complement
\n– Twilight Forest
\n– Undergarden
\n– Upgraded Netherite
\n– Upgraded Netherite: Ultimate
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curseforge<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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