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McRPG Skill - Excavation

This skill will give you access to various abilities and buffs when digging in the dirt!

How To Increase Your Excavation Level?

Dig certain blocks with a shovel (dirt, grass, mycelium, podzol, gravel, sand, red sand, coarse dirt, soul sand and clay).

What is the Excavation Skills Default Ability?

Extraction.

This gives you a chance to receive double drops when digging the above listed blocks.
As your Excavation level increases so does the chances of this triggering.

Unlockable Excavation Passive Abilities

These abilities just need to be in your active loudout for their effects to be active.

Buried Treasure.

This gives you a chance of digging up treasure while you play in the dirt.

What Excavation Level does Tier 1 Unlock?: 100

As the Tier of this ability increases, the range of items you can dig up increases.
Each item can only be dug up out of certain blocks which won’t be listed here - figure them out! The chances are dependant on a few things so they won’t be listed in the table below in detail.

Tier Items You Can Dig Up Excavation Level Required To Upgrade (plus 1 Ability Point)
1 - Common Items: Gunpowder, Rotten Flesh and Bonemeal  
2 - Common Item
- Uncommon Items: Iron Nuggets, Gold Nuggets and Bones
175
3 - Common Item
- Uncommon Items
- Rare Items: Prismarine Shards, Prismarine Crystals, Slime Balls and Glowstone Dust
300
4 - Common Item
- Uncommon Items (Increased Chance)
- Rare Items (Increased Chance)
450
5 - Common Item
- Uncommon Items (Increased Chance)
- Rare Items (Increased Chance)
- Legendary Items: Diamonds and Emeralds
650

Larger Spade.

This gives you a chance of digging in an area rather than 1 block at at time.

What Excavation Level does Tier 1 Unlock?: 250

As the Tier of this ability increases, so does the chance of area digging as well as the radius.

Tier Trigger Chance Radius Excavation Level Required To Upgrade (plus 1 Ability Point)
1 10% 1  
2 15% 1 275
3 20% 1 425
4 20% 2 575
5 25% 2 700

Mana Deposit.

This gives you a chance of receiving XP boosts for other skills while you’re digging.

What Excavation Level does Tier 1 Unlock?: 300

As the Tier of this ability increases, so does the chance of receiving the XP boost and how much you can potentially receive.

Tier Trigger Chance XP Gains Excavation Level Required To Upgrade (plus 1 Ability Point)
1 2% 5-10  
2 3% 5-15 400
3 4% 5-20 550
4 5% 10-25 700
5 7.5% 15-30 850

Unlockable Excavation Active Abilities

These abilities need to be in your active loudout, and to be activated to be used. Each active ability has a cooldown between uses, and only one active ability per skill can be in your loudout at the same time.

Hand Digging.

When activated it allows you to insta-break some blocks with your hands for a short while.

How to Activate? - Right click with an empty hand, then start breaking blocks.
What Excavation Level does Tier 1 Unlock?: 300
What is this Abilities Cooldown?: 180 Seconds

As the Tier of this ability increases, so does the duration it stays active.

Tier Active Duration Excavation Level Required To Upgrade (plus 1 Ability Point)
1 4 Seconds  
2 5 Seconds 375
3 6 Seconds 450
4 8 Seconds 600
5 10 Seconds 750

Frenzy Dig.

When activated it grants a brief burst of Haste and an increased chance for double drops.

How to Activate? - Right click with a shovel to ready, then break some dirt-related block.
What Excavation Level does Tier 1 Unlock?: 200
What is this Abilities Cooldown?: 180 Seconds

As the Tier of this ability increases, so does the duration of the ability and the increased chances for double drops!

Tier Active Duration Double Drop Chance Increase Excavation Level Required To Upgrade (plus 1 Ability Point)
1 3 Seconds 5%  
2 3 Seconds 7.5% 300
3 5 Seconds 10% 450
4 5 Seconds 15% 600
5 8 Seconds 20% 800

Pan’s Shrine.

You can build and use a shrine to sacrifice diamonds to, which if activated will turn surrounding dirt/coarse dirt/grass into Mycelium, Podzol, Clay or potentially ore blocks.

How to Activate? - Build a shrine of emerald blocks surrounding a block of water. Throw in a diamond.
What Excavation Level does Tier 1 Unlock?: 350
What is this Abilities Cooldown?: 1 Hour.

As the Tier of this ability increases, so does the radius of blocks changed, chances of better blocks and more blocks are able to appear in place of the transformed dirt/coarse dirt/grass!

Tier X/Z Radius Y Radius Blocks That Can Appear Excavation Level Required To Upgrade (plus 1 Ability Point)
1 2 1 Mycelium, Podzol, Clay, Iron Ore and Redstone Ore  
2 3 1 All of the above plus Lapis Ore and Gold Ore 575
3 4 1 All of the above plus Nether Quartz Ore 650
4 5 2 All of the above plus Diamond Ore 825
5 6 2 All of the above plus Emerald Ore 1000