Modding Help How do you increase the range of a mining tool?

Is it possible to change how far away a pickaxe can mine in the .miningtool file? Is there an exposed LUA script that dictates how mining tools behave? Just curious, the only other person asking this never received a response.

 

Well now I want to take a look at it and see myself!

 

Bump, I think it's fair after just short of a week, I really am curious and knowing would help immensely in a mod I'm making.

 

It seems there is no lua for mining tools, at least directly... but it seems that it's completely fixed range... perhaps.

Code:

{
  "itemName" : "copperpickaxe",
  "price" : 50,
  "category" : "Tool",
  "inventoryIcon" : "copperpickaxeicon.png",
  "maxStack" : 1,
  "rarity" : "Common",
  "tooltipKind" : "tool",
  "description" : "This tool won't last long, but I'll be able to dig pretty fast with it.",
  "shortdescription" : "Copper Pickaxe",
  "largeImage" : "copperpickaxebig.png",
  "image" : "copperpickaxe.png",
  "handPosition" : [-3, -4],
  "fireTime" : 0.3,
  "swingStart" : -40,
  "swingFinish" : 60,
  "blockRadius" : 3,
  "altBlockRadius" : 1,
  "twoHanded" : true,
  "strikeSounds" : [ "/sfx/tools/pickaxe_hit.ogg" ],
  "breakSound" : "/sfx/tools/pickaxe_break.ogg",
  "durability" : 200,
  "durabilityPerUse" : 1,
  "tileDamage" : 1.5,
  "harvestLevel" : 99,
  "tileDamageBlunted" : 0.6
}

Code:

{
  "itemName" : "superfishaxe",
  "price" : 0,
  "inventoryIcon" : "fishicon.png",
  "maxStack" : 1,
  "rarity" : "Legendary",
  "description" : "One step below a sharknado.",
  "shortdescription" : "Fishaxe",
  "tooltipKind" : "tool",
  "largeImage" : "diamondpickaxebig.png",

  "image" : "fish.png",
  "handPosition" : [-4, -4],
  "fireTime" : 0.01,
  "swingStart" : -40,
  "swingFinish" : 60,
  "blockRadius" : 7,
  "altBlockRadius" : 1,
  "tileDamageType" : "blockish",
  "tileDamage" : 10.0,
  "tileDamageBlunted" : 1.0,
  "harvestLevel" : 0,
  "twoHanded" : true,
  "strikeSounds" : [ "/sfx/tools/pickaxe_hit.ogg" ],
  "durability" : 10000000000000
}

Seems something about the fishaxe makes its range super ridiculous.

 

I think you're asking how far away you can mine blocks? Like if you wanna be able to stand on 1 side of a room and mine a table 50 away.

I'm pretty sure this makes it so you can mine stuff 70 blocks away from you
[{"op":"replace","path":"/initialBeamGunRadius","value":70}]