Mining Laser is a Tier 3 electric tool from Industrial Craft 2 that fires energy beams instead of swinging a pickaxe. The internal storage holds 300,000 EU (EU is the energy unit of Industrial Craft 2), and one full charge is enough for 160 shots in the standard Mining mode. The recipe on the crafting grid combines two Redstone Dust, four Alloy, one Energy Crystal and one Advanced Circuit. The eight firing modes of Mining Laser cover everything from precise tunneling to area clearing: Low-Focus spends only 100 EU per shot and mines faster than a Diamond Drill at half the energy cost, Long-Range burns through 27 blocks of stone per beam, and Super-Heat smelts blocks on impact, so iron ore drops an iron ingot right away. Mining Laser switches modes when the player holds the mode key (M by default) and right-clicks. Blocks destroyed by the beam drop their items, except glass and leaves; machines of the mod drop as a Machine Block, and a small chance remains that a block is vaporized without a drop.

Mining Laser doubles as a weapon: the Long-Range beam deals 10 hearts of damage per shot, Explosive mode detonates the impact point for up to 168 hearts, and Scatter sweeps a 5x5 wall of 25 beams. Charging works only in an MFE or an MFSU — the dedicated energy storage units of Industrial Craft 2 — or instantly from a worn Energypack the moment the mode is switched or a shot is fired. A practical routine: Low-Focus for everyday digging at 2,000 shots per charge, Super-Heat for ore veins because smelted drops skip the furnace step, Long-Range for distant targets. Super-Heat also turns sand into glass and cobblestone into smooth stone without dropping an item, and clay drops four bricks at once. Build Mining Laser once Energy Crystal production is running, keep Explosive mode away from finished bases, and try the Like a Boss achievement, which rewards killing the Ender Dragon with the Mining Laser.