Mining Laser

The Mining Laser is a powerful mining tool as well as a ranged weapon with multiple firing modes for various purposes.

To change the firing mode hold down "M" and right click. The different modes include Mining, Low Focus, Long Range, Scatter, Explosive, Horizontal and Super Heat.

The Mining Laser stores 200,000 EU and can only be charged from a LapPack, MFE Unit, MFS Unit, or Charging Bench (Mk II or Mk III).

As a weapon, it can be used to set mobs and players on fire. It will also set fire to wood.

In the Nether, the Mining Laser can be used to mine Nether Ores without causing Zombie Pigmen to become aggressive. It can also be used to deflect incoming Ghast fireballs.

When shooting a mob that drops food (i.e. pig, cow, chicken, etc.) the mob drops the cooked version (for instance, raw porkchop becomes cooked porkchop and raw beef becomes steak).

When using the Mining Laser, there is a 1 in 30 (3%) chance that the block destroyed will not drop as an entity.

Super Heat mode will automatically smelt ores into the ingots - for instance, iron ore will drop an iron ingot.

NOTE: The Mining Laser bypasses all protection on servers.

Modes of Operation (Hold M and Right Click to change modes)
Note: In v1.64 the mining laser will sometimes not fire in horizontal mode. Changing to a different mode and back restores it's function.

Super-Heat mode was added in 1.90.

If a super-heat laser is fired at a sand or cobblestone block, the block will be replaced with a glass/smoothstone block instead of dropping sand/cobblestone. Doing so immediately terminates the beam.

When a super-heat laser is fired at a block such as smoothstone, where the 'normal' drop can be smelted into the block itself, the block will be dropped as if mined with a silk touch-enchanted tool.

When a super-heat laser is fired at a clay block, 4 brick items will be dropped.

No mode (including Explosive) can be used to break obsidian.

Endermen
The mining laser seems to be the only "projectile weapon" (other than Archangle's Smite) that can hit Endermen. The Long-Range mode will kill an endermen in 2 shots (provided you wait long enough [two burns] for the Enderman's damage immunity to wear off).

While they will usually port away when using the low-focus mode, holding the fire on them for 9 seconds will kill them (if you can survive their hits that long).

Video Tutorial
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