I'm trying for a long time to find a fabric mod that adds the quark iron rod feature. but instead of crafting an iron rod it would just be the regular end rod. When you push the end rod into a movable block it breaks it.

cool idea

Mainly cool because it invalidates somehow TNT duping.

broken stone should be stone, or cobblestone? coal or should broke into coal ore, or coal pieces?

I don't think it should, I don't know how easy it is to implement it though

It would act like a regular pickaxe, stone drops cobblestone and coal would drop coal pieces.

It would act like a regular pickaxe, stone drops cobblestone and coal would drop coal pieces

Would ores being broken by this drop XP (as if broken by a player)? Note that both player mining an ore and /fill ... air destroy both drop XP for any ores broken.

Relates to/duplicates the old gnembon/carpet-extra#54. Though this has more progress.

out of curiosity, is there a reason to prefer this over allowing dispensers to use tools?

since it feels to me that would be the preferable solution to fully automate many farms in a more minecrafty way without using tnt

it could also take into account enchantments making the, should it drop stone or cobble, discussion obsolete.

and combined with movableBlockEntities it would also allow you to build machines that clear out big areas without tnt duping

it may even take the time it would need to break the block by hand (forcing you to power the dispenser through the entire breaking process) but i haven't done enough server side minecraft modding to know if that is possible if you also want to play the "breaking animation" meaning maybe instant would be preferable ether way.

the only disadvantage i see is that it would be the harder feature to implement

I mean i think with end rods it would be more of a end game only feature. With dispensers I don't really know, because pickaxes have different tiers that breaks blocks faster, but with dispensers it would probably be instant. And imagine you put a diamond pickaxe capable of breaking obsidian in a dispenser, It would break it instantly? I think with end rods it would be its own thing and it has its own limitations, like the fact that can only break movable objects and so. But thats only my take and I know absolutely nothing about how to program this lol