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.
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.
Enter the .
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.
If you are playing on , you have likely heard the rumors. Can you really see through stone? Will it work on servers? And most importantly—will you get banned?