Whenever breaking blocks with tools the bright white breaking overlay appears over entire screen

Excuse me? I (quite obviously) do not see this.

• Screenshot?
• What mods and versions are you using?
• Are you using optifine?

I highly doubt this is anything to do with No Tree Punching because I don't touch anything to do with rendering.

You're right, upon testing with other mods I to have the same issue so i'm guessing that optifine is most likely my problem. Sorry to bring up an issue that didnt have to do with the mod, i will have to figure out if i can turn off some setting or something to fix it

No worries. It sounds like it's probably optifine doing a thing. It does that sometimes...