Simple Gems, Metals and more

Welcome to Jo’s Simple Gems & Metals Mod!

Looking to spice up your vanilla Minecraft world? You’re in the right place.
This vanilla-friendly mod adds 14+ new materials (and growing!) with unique recipes, uses, and progression — perfect for solo adventures or SMPs.

What's Inside? New Materials and What They Do

Here’s a breakdown of all materials, how to get them, and what you can do with them:

🟤 Bronze

• Crafting: Tin + Copper in a crafting table.

• Strength: Tools and armor are slightly stronger than iron.

⚙️ Steel

• Crafting: Combine coal, iron, and a diamond.

• Upgrade Path: Use the smithing table to upgrade iron gear to steel.

• Strength: Armor is a bit weaker than diamond, but tools outperform diamond.

🪙 Tin

• Use: Decorative block and used for crafting bronze.

• Ore Location: Commonly found in caves.

🔵 Cobalt

• Use:

  • Craft soul lanterns, soul torches, etc.

  • Essential for crafting titanium.

• Strength: Slightly weaker than diamond.

• Ore Location: Rarely found in caves.

🟣 Titanium

• Crafting: Combine titanium shards, cobalt, and uranium.

• Strength: Gear that rivals netherite.

• Ore Location: Super Rare cave spawn.

☢️ Uranium

• Use:

  • Craft uranium glass blastproof and drops itself when mined.

  • Ingredient for titanium, vibranium, and darkmetal.

• Ore Location: Rare cave spawn.

❤️ Ruby

• Use:

  • Decorative block.

  • Ingredient for vibranium and opal.

• Ore Location: Found in the Nether.

⚫ Darkmetal (formerly Enderite)

• Crafting: Combine ruby, uranium, and darkmetal shards.

• Upgrade Path: Use smithing table to upgrade netherite gear to darkmetal.

• Strength: stronger than netherite.

• Ore Location: rarely, found in The End.

💠 Vibranium

• Crafting: Ruby + Uranium → Vibranium Dust, smelt to get ingots.

• Strength: Similar to netherite gear.

💎 Opal

• Crafting: 4 Rocky Opal + 1 Ruby. then smithing table with titanium

• Strength: Slightly weaker than darkmetal.

• Ore Location: Rarely found in The End.

⚫ Black Opal

• Crafting: 4 Rocky Opal + 1 Amethyst Shard. then smithing table with vibranium

• Strength: Slightly weaker than darkmetal.

• Ore Location: Rarely found in The End.

🌌 Voidsteel

• Crafting: Combine infused opal, and darkmetal.

• Upgrade Path: Smithing table to upgrade darkmetal gear.

• Strength: The strongest material in the game — period.

🔥 The Two Fire Metals

• Crafting: Blast for Crimsonite, smoke for Solarium

• Use: Needed to craft Voidsteel and the Fire Metal Bow and shield.

• Ore Location: Found rarely in Crimson Forests in the Nether.

✨ New Additions

🧿 Aetherium Pearls

• Use: Craft into Blessed Aetherium Pearls.

• Effect: Used to buff yourself (potion effects, etc.).

🔥 Blast Furnace Support

• You can now smelt all new ores in a blast furnace — requested by player

⚙️ Gameplay Balance & Notes

• All materials (except for maybe the ultra-rare Voidsteel) are balanced to keep that good ol’ vanilla challenge.

• Perfect for survival, SMPs, or even modded adventures.

• Designed with fun and exploration in mind

📢 Feedback Welcome!

Have an idea? Found a bug? Want to suggest a new gem, ore, or armor set?
Leave a comment — I’d love to hear your thoughts!