Normally, stone, deepslate, and netherrack are solid blocks. But an X-ray pack replaces their texture files with a tiny, almost invisible pattern (or full transparency). Your GPU looks at that file and says, "Oh, this block is invisible," and draws the ores behind it instead.
Let’s be real: strip mining is boring. Spending forty minutes digging a 2x1 tunnel at Y=11 only to find a single vein of coal can make anyone want to cheat. xray 1.16.5 texture pack
The result? You walk through a cave and see diamonds glowing from 50 blocks away, while everything else is a ghost. Because 1.16.5 is a specific fork (post-Nether update, pre-Caves & Cliffs), not every modern pack works. Here are the three most reliable ones: Normally, stone, deepslate, and netherrack are solid blocks
On pure vanilla or Spigot servers running anti-cheat plugins (like AntiXray or Paper), most texture packs will fail. The server sends "fake" ore data to your client. You might look at a wall, see diamonds, mine it, and get... cobblestone. Let’s be real: strip mining is boring