Cannot hold down Mine button to harvest multiple crops at once

The same problem occurs while mining with a shovel regardless of mined block type. At least on android version.

I experience this issue in 1.2 on an iPad. So it’s a bug in iOS as well.

I experience this issue on Android (7.0) with touch controls and Windows 10 with keyboard and mouse

Seems to be fixed for vines in 1.2. So if I hit a vine on a tree trunk with an axe, it breaks the vine and then keeps on hitting the trunk. As expected.

Still not working on grass and crops. With grass at least, it's a little strange - if you start by punching the dirt, then move the cursor up to the grass, it will mow through several plants in a row. Once you hit an upper block of a tall grass, the punching stops.

I saw something in the bugfixes that they tweaked the continuous breaking/punching animation if there were no target blocks in range. So you can't just stand there and punch the air. Maybe that is affecting punching crops and plants and things which have transparent blocks behind them?

This is happening to me with shovel trying to get sand. I need several hundred sand, I'm not about to do 1 block at a time 😑

For what it's worth, I don't have any issues with shovels on dirt, sand, or gravel in iOS or Xbox.

This also affected me earlier trying to mine end stone bricks, but not end stone.

Netherack with a pick too 😬

I have the same issue with sand / sandstone and dirt

This happens to me with my diamond pick axe trying to mine nether rack...works fine with an iron pick axe...A temporary fix for this, if you place a block you can mine normally and just keep holding, it will continue to mine everything behind it...but it does it at WARP speed (which is actually pretty cool LOL) (iOS 11)

Noticed on XBox have to press button every time to mine crops with hand does not continue when held

Guess what happens in1.2.1?

I found a temporary fix! Start holding down to break a block next to a crop (like dirt, or something that takes time to break), continue to hold to continuously mine as you move your targeted position over the crops. Now I'm breaking crops as fast as creative mode!

(This one done in the pocket version)^^^

Same issue with fishing.

Added: You can look at the sky too and begin punching the air, then move your punches down towards your crops. You'll clear them like it's creative mode. Just make sure you are beginning your punches aimed at anything other than instant break blocks.

Im just wondering, why the bug fix 1.2.1 didnt fix it. And tons of other bugs. Then this webpage seems useless.

...why the bug fix 1.2.1 didn't fix it

First, because this bug doesn't totally break the game. You can still get those blocks broken, just not as conveniently. You can even instamine using one of the workarounds mentioned above. Meanwhile, there are bugs that crash the game, lose or corrupt worlds, or make items in inventory disappear. Those bugs actually make the game unplayable, and they tend to motivate their victims to report the bug and upvote it more than this bug does. The devs look for high vote counts, among other criteria, because they're trying to help the most people they can as soon as they can.

Second, you said it yourself: There are tons of other bugs. Debugging is hard, especially when all you have to go on is what some non-programmer thought to mention. When most of us find a bug, we just describe what went wrong. What we should do Is try to find out when it doesn't happen as well, what conditions it depends on if any, because that's a really important clue! If a dev has the conditions, they can almost always find the bug. If they don't, which is most of the time, they have to be both smart and lucky. On a good day, a lucky dev might find and fix a whole 2 bugs. On a bad day, none at all. That's typical in the software industry. Obviously, if they have tons of bugs, it's going to take a lot of time and a lot of luck to fix them.

So don't think this web page is useless. They aren't ignoring these reports, they're just waiting for a luckier day, or a luckier dev. You gotta have faith that the devs do care and are doing the best they can with what we give them.

And don't forget to upvote the bugs that affect you, so the devs know which ones are affecting the most people.

Experienced this in Beta 1.2 builds, continued through 1.2 to 1.2.1

This affects TNT as well as crops. The most annoying is cane because you cannot harvest a field full quickly anymore because it is usually farmed at the second block therefore some of the tricks don't work.