Auto-tool

The server auto-swaps to the best tool in your inventory when you mine or attack.

When you swing at a block, the server checks your inventory for the best tool for that block and uses it automatically — without you manually switching.

Mine a stone block holding a sword? The server uses your pickaxe (if you have one). Punch a tree holding a pickaxe? The server uses your axe. Attack a zombie? Server uses your sword.

You stay focused on the play. The tool-swap happens silently.

How it works

The system watches what you're about to break or hit, picks the most appropriate tool from your inventory, and applies its breaking/attack stats. Result: you see vanilla swing, but the underlying calculation uses the optimal tool.

It's on for everyone by default — there's nothing to set up. Just carry the tools you'd want used.

What this pairs well with

Enchanted tools

A Fortune pickaxe, a Silk Touch axe, a Sharpness sword — auto-tool picks the right one for the right action. You always benefit from the right enchant without scrolling your hotbar.

Tree felling

When you start chopping a tree, auto-tool gets your axe in hand for the felling. Your hands are still on whatever you were holding visually, but the swing comes from the axe. See Tree felling.

Sorter runs

Long mining sessions feed your linked chest sorter. Auto-tool keeps the right pick on the right block the whole way down.

Limitations

Damage/durability still applies normally — the tool actually used loses durability
Items the server doesn't recognize as tools are skipped — usually fine, edge cases possible
Bedrock vs Java — both editions get the auto-tool behavior; same UX

Durability strategy

Because the best tool wins, your fanciest gear takes the wear. If you want to preserve a prized pickaxe, leave it in your ender chest or base storage instead of carrying it — auto-tool can only pick from what's on you.

Why this is QoL not cheating

Auto-tool doesn't add stats — it just removes the manual swap step. The same tools, the same enchants, the same outcomes. You're just not pausing every 5 seconds to scroll your hotbar.

Vanilla itself has the "tool affinity" mechanic where wrong tool = penalty. Auto-tool just always picks the right one.