Mining Tiers
Bedrock Reimagined extends the vanilla tool progression with seven custom tiers. Many blocks, including new ores and some vanilla blocks, require a specific tool tier or better. If your tool is too weak, the game shows an action bar warning and puts the block back so you don't lose it.
How Mining Tiers Work
Every pickaxe (and other tools that mine) belongs to a tier. Gated blocks list a set of tiers that can harvest them properly. Using a tool in that list gives you drops and XP as normal. Using a weaker tool lets you break the block but gives you nothing.
- Tiers apply to pickaxes for ores and to axes or shovels for wood and soil-type blocks
- A block's required tier is listed on its wiki page when it has one
- Vanilla tiers still work everywhere they did before
- The custom tiers slot into the progression alongside the vanilla ones, not as a replacement
Tier Progression
Tiers go from weakest to strongest. Vanilla tiers cover the early and mid game, and the custom tiers fill in late and end-game progression.
Wooden: crafted from planks, the starter tier. Mines wood, leaves, and dirt.
Stone: crafted from cobblestone, mines iron-tier blocks such as iron ore and coal.
Gold: fast but fragile, limited use. Covers the same range as Stone.
Copper: a mid-game alternative from copper ingots. Mines iron blocks, anvils, cauldrons, and other iron-themed utility blocks.
Iron: standard mid-game tier. Mines emerald ore and the Steel block set.
Steel: the first custom tier, smelted in the Forge. Mines diamond ore, runestones, deepslate variants, and rose quartz ore.
Diamond: long-standing vanilla late-game tier. Mines obsidian and Crystalline Canyons blocks such as glintrock, crystalline ore, and sulfur ore.
Emerald: custom tier crafted from emeralds. Covers the same range as Diamond.
Obsidian: late-game custom tier. Mines basic Nether blocks such as netherrack, basalt, blackstone, quartz, and ancient debris.
Crystalline: crafted from crystalline ingots. Mines meteorite debris and meteor blocks.
Meteorite: crafted from fallen meteorite material. Covers the same range as Crystalline.
Netherite: vanilla top-tier upgrade. Mines brimstone blocks and the brimstone-zone ores (cobalt, rose quartz, gold, quartz).
Cobalt: crafted from Nether-exclusive cobalt. Mines End-dimension blocks such as end stone, purpur, chorus, and dragonite ore.
Dragonite: crafted from End-dimension dragonite, the strongest tier. Mines everything in the game.
What Happens If Your Tool Is Too Weak
The game stops you right away. If you try to break a tier-gated block with a tool that is too weak, an action bar message appears telling you which tier is required, any items that would have dropped are removed, and the block is placed back a moment later so you don't lose it from the world.
- An action bar warning appears, for example: You need a Steel tier or higher tool!
- Any items that dropped on the attempt are removed
- The block is restored in place a moment after you break it
- You get no experience from the attempt
- Come back with a tool at the listed tier or better and the block will break and drop normally
Finding a Block's Required Tier
In-game, the Bedrock Reimagined WAILA (What Am I Looking At) display at the top of the screen shows the required mining tier for any block you're looking at, so you can check before mining. The wiki also lists the tier on each block's page.
- Look at a block in-game; the WAILA banner at the top shows its required mining tier
- On the wiki, open a block's page and check the Properties section for a Mining Tier field
- The listed tier is the weakest one that works; anything stronger in the progression also works
- Blocks without a listed Mining Tier follow vanilla rules