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Minecraft mod that enhances vanilla progression by overriding vanilla ore generation, adding new tools and even new mobs

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ORES HARD TO FIND

A Vanilla+ Ore Progression Overhaul

"Every ore tells a story. Some hide, some fight back—and the rarest demand courage to uncover." -  DeepSeek about my mod, 2025

⛏️ Guide and Features

COPPER

Copper Armor and Tools

Tools & Armor:

  • Full tier with dynamic oxidation textures.
  • Armor slowly degrades when worn.

Progression:

  • Iron ore now requires a copper pickaxe to mine.
  • Don't forget to make a Brush - you might need it.

 

GOLD

 

Generation:

  • No vanilla gold ore (except Nether).
  • Now found in brushable variants: gold-infused sand, gravel, clay near rivers/lakes.

MAGNETITE (new!)

 

Generation:

  • Brushable suspicious gravel and sand with blue-gray particles.
  • Can be foun near water or in gravel mountains

Usages:

  • Craft magnetometers.
  • Make charged magnets (with lightning).

 

Your first Magnetometer

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Magnetometer is a new tool that helps you navigate in caves. When used, it emits a beam of particles pointing in the direction of the nearest ore. But dont trust it too much: the precision of the beam dergrades rapidly with distance.

Magnetometers are divided into three tiers: copper, iron and netherite.

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IRON

Generation:

  • Only in rare deepslate veins.

Progression:

  • Can be found with copper magnetometer
  • Requires copper pickaxe for mining

New Mechanic:

  • Suspicious Iron Ore:
    • Identical to vanilla ore but transforms into an Iron Ore Golem when mined.
    • Defeat the golem for raw iron.
    • Silk Touch lets you collect it safely.

Making a Magnet

To craft a next tier Magnetometer you first need to obtain Charged Magnet.

Crafting recipe for Uncharged Magnet:

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When, place Lightning Rod on top of it, and go do some farming, or idk. Eventually, a lightning strike turns it into a Charged Magnet.

Also check Cleric's trades - he can provide you with a way to summon storm.

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Now you can craft an Iron Magnetometer!

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It works just like it's copper variant, but is more durable and also can detect Lapis Lazuli and Redstone.

LAPIS LAZULI

Generation:

  • Custom geodes (like amethysts).
  • Contains lapis-calcite ore clusters.

No Changes (for now):

  • Same enchanting uses (but harder to find).

REDSTONE

Generation:

  • Changed slightly. Still generates on the same level, but rearer and with redstone block as a core.

No Changes (and won't be):

  • Redstone is already has deep mechanics in vanilla

DIAMONDS

Generation:

  • Deep Dark exclusive as Shrieking Diamond Ore.

Mechanics:

  • Plays sound when activated by sculk sensor's vibrations, so they can de found even if completely buried.
  • Mines safely with Silk Touch.
  • Without it: shrieks like a sculk shrieker.
 
 

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