Pick Climber
Pick Climber turns compatible pickaxes into climbing tools for vertical exploration and traversal. Anchor yourself to walls, jump between climbing points, brake dangerous falls, descend across unstable surfaces, and swing beneath ceilings.
Movement, collision checks, durability costs, cooldowns, and anchor positions are validated by the server, making the mechanics suitable for both singleplayer and multiplayer.
Features
- Anchor compatible pickaxes into walls and move between climbing points.
- Perform wall jumps and directional releases.
- Gradually brake dangerous falls instead of stopping instantly.
- Move diagonally while braking or sliding down a surface.
- Use two pickaxes to brake faster, with durability applied to both tools.
- Descend across gravel, sand, powdered concrete, and snow.
- Swing beneath ceilings and release with accumulated momentum.
- Transfer an active anchor between hands with the vanilla swap key.
- Keep one hand free for mining, placing blocks, attacking, or using items.
- Receive a colored anchor indicator showing whether a target is stable, unstable, obstructed, unavailable, or out of range.
- Extend tool and surface compatibility through data-driven tags.
Enchantments
Pick Climber I–III
Improves climbing launches and wall jumps, allowing progressively greater vertical reach.
Sturdy Latch I
Turns unstable surfaces into firm anchor points and reduces their extended recovery cooldown.
Strong Grip I
Allows pickaxes to anchor beneath ceilings, enabling suspended movement and momentum-based swinging.
Strong Grip and Pick Climber are mutually exclusive specializations.
Requirements
- Minecraft 1.21.1
- NeoForge 21.1.235 or newer
- Java 21
- Installation on both the client and server
No additional mods or libraries are required.
Tool compatibility
Pick Climber supports Minecraft pickaxes and compatible tools included through the pickclimber:climbing_tools item tag.
The wooden pickaxe is excluded by default. Modpack and datapack authors can extend or restrict tool support through the provided tags.
Compatibility has been manually verified with tools from Eternal Starlight and Twilight Forest.
Bug reports
Bug reports and reproducible compatibility problems can be sent to:
Please include the Minecraft version, NeoForge version, installed mods, and the relevant log when possible.
License and redistribution
Pick Climber is distributed under All Rights Reserved.
Do not reupload or redistribute the mod outside its official CurseForge and Modrinth project pages without explicit permission from the author.
