| Infiniminer v1.5's pickaxe takes out a dirt, ore, gold, or diamond block with each successful use and can't dig rock at all. In Minecraft today, by the Minecraft Wiki's account, breaking a block takes time set by its hardness and the tool held, stone and metal blocks yield nothing without a pickaxe, and a few blocks such as bedrock can't be broken in Survival. | Speedlead | Wiki |
| Today many blocks can be harvested by hand, but stone and metal blocks yield nothing without a pickaxe, and harder ones such as iron ore and obsidian need a pickaxe of a higher tier. A block's base breaking time is its hardness times 1.5 when the held tool can harvest it, and times 5 when it can't; a fitting tool then divides the time by its speed: 2 for wood, 4 for stone, 6 for iron, 8 for diamond. | leadSpeedSpeed, tool speed table | Wiki |
| The Minecraft Wiki's breaking-time table gives stone (hardness 1.5) 7.5 seconds by hand, with nothing dropped, and 1.15 seconds with a wooden pickaxe; iron ore (hardness 3) 15 seconds by hand, 7.5 with a wooden pickaxe, which also drops nothing, and 1.15 with a stone one; and obsidian (hardness 50) about 250 seconds by hand and 9.4 with a diamond pickaxe. | Breaking time table, header and legend | Wiki |