The following metals can be mined in the Overworld.

Zinc

Hardness: *

Durability: *

Enchantibility: *

Zinc is worthless on its own and is not even strong enough to forge into tools, but can be used to make the metal alloy brass by combining it with copper.

Tin

Hardness: ***

Durability: *

Enchantibility: **

Tin is an extremely soft metal that is not very useful by itself, but can be combined with copper to make bronze, a metal alloy as hard as iron.

Copper

Hardness: ****

Durability: ****

Enchantibility: *****

Copper is soft, easy to work, and fairly abundant. It is needed to make bronze and brass metal alloys.

Silver

Hardness: *****

Durability: ****

Enchantibility: ******

Silver is a soft, shiney metal that is valued for both is beauty and its alchemical uses.

Lead

Hardness: *

Durability: *

Enchantibility: *

Lead is a very soft metal that is best known for being very heavy and somewhat toxic. Lead tools are fragile, but can dish out a lot of damage when used as weapons.

Nickel

Hardness: ****

Durability: ****

Enchantibility: *******

This metal is as soft as copper, but it has alchemical properties and forms the metal alloy Invar when mixed with iron.

Mercury

Hardness: --

Durability: --

Enchantibility: --

Mercury metal is a liquid, so it cannot be used like other metals. However, it is an essential ingredient for making the fantasy metal Mithril.

The following metals cannot be mined. Instead, they are crafted from other metals.

Brass

Hardness: ***

Durability: ***

Enchantibility: *****

This alloy of copper and zinc (2:1 ratio) is soft, but has a beautiful golden color.

Bronze

Hardness: ********

Durability: ****

Enchantibility: ****

This alloy of copper and tin (3:1 ratio) is as hard as iron, but not quite as durable.

Steel

Hardness: ********

Durability: ***************

Enchantibility: **

This alloy of iron and carbon (8:1 ratio) is as hard as iron and much more durable.

Invar

Hardness: *********

Durability: **********

Enchantibility: ***

This alloy of iron and nickel (2:1 ratio) is slightly harder than steel, but somewhat less durable.

Electrum

Hardness: *****

Durability: ****

Enchantibility: **********

This alloy of silver and gold (1:1 ratio) can be enchanted like gold, but is a little more durable.

The following metals are magical and unnatural. You must travel to other dimensions (the Nether and the End) to find them.

Cold-Iron

Hardness: *******

Durability: *******

Enchantibility: *******

Cold-Iron is a magical metal that is nearly as strong as iron. Tools made from Cold-Iron are extra effective against denizens of the Nether and any other creature that is immune to fire.

Adamantine

Hardness: ************

Durability: Too high to count!

Enchantibility: 0

Adamantine is a rare magical metal that is stronger than diamonds! Armor made from Adamantine make you practically invulnerable. Tools made from adamantine are extra effective against monsters that have more than 10 hearts of health.

Aquarium

Hardness: ****

Durability: **********

Enchantibility: **********

Aquarium is a magical alloy of copper, zinc, and prismarine crystals (2:1:3 ratio). Aquarium weapons are extra effective against aquatic creatures and wearing a full suit of aquarium armor will allow you to breathe underwater and provides extra protection while submerged in water.

Mithril

Hardness: *********

Durability: *********

Enchantibility: *********

Harder than steel and stronger than iron, Mithril is a magical alloy of silver, mercury, and cold-iron (2:1:1 ratio). Mithral weapons are extra effective against undead.

Star-Steel

Hardness: **********

Durability: *************************

Enchantibility: ************

Star-Steel is a mysterious material that can only be found in the Ender dimension. It defies standard physics and pushes the limits of the mind. Armor made from Star Steel reduces the weight of the wearer, allowing the wearer to jump higher and fall slower. Star-Steel tools slowly repair themselves while held.

Wood

Hardness: **

Durability: **

Enchantibility: ******

Stone

Hardness: *****

Durability: ****

Enchantibility: **

Iron

Hardness: ********

Durability: ********

Enchantibility: ****

Gold

Hardness: *

Durability: *

Enchantibility: **********

Diamond

Hardness: **********

Durability: ***************

Enchantibility: ****

Using the Crack Hammer to crush a block of copper ore into two piles of powdered copper:

Using the Crack Hammer to crush a non-block items:

The basic format of the ore-spawn.json file is this:

 { "dimensions":[ { "dimension":0, "ores":[ { "blockID":"minecraft:emerald_ore", "size":1, "variation":0, "frequency":8, "minHeight":4, "maxHeight":32, "biomes":["Extreme Hills Edge","Extreme Hills"] } ] } ] } 

Variables

dimensions: Array of JSON objects that each describe ore spawns for that dimension

dimension: Which dimension you want the following ores to spawn in. If you set the dimension to + instead of a specific number, then the ore settings will apply to all dimensions not already covered by this config file.

ores: An array of ore spawn objects

blockID: This is the identifier for the block, in the format of mod-ID:block-name where mod-ID is the ID of the mod (minecraft is the ID for vanilla minecraft blocks) and the block-name is the name of a block. Basically, the blockID is the text that you would use in the the /give command,

size: This is the number of ore blocks per deposit.

variation: This is how much to randomly vary the number of blocks when spawning an ore deposit.

frequency: This is the maximum number of deposits to spawn per chunk. If this number is less than one, then this is the fraction of chunks that have a spawn deposit in it (e.g. "frequency":0.1 will cause 1 ore deposite per every 10 chunks). Note that if you set the maxHeight to a number greator than 64, then the actualy number of ore deposits per chunk will be fewer than the frequency value because some of the deposits will have spawned in the air above ground.

minHeight: This is the lowest Y-coordinate that the ore is allowed to spawn at.

maxHeight: This is the highest Y-coordinate that the ore is allowed to spawn at.

biomes: (optional) Array of biomes (by name) where this ore is allowed to spawn. You can specify an empty array [] or simply leave off this variable if you want the ore to spawn in all biomes.

Here's what the default Minecraft ore spawning behavior looks like as an ore-spawn JSON:

 { "dimensions":[ { "dimension":0, "ores":[ { "blockID":"minecraft:coal_ore", "size":25, "variation":12, "frequency":20, "minHeight":0, "maxHeight":128, "biomes":[] }, { "blockID":"minecraft:iron_ore", "size":8, "variation":4, "frequency":20, "minHeight":0, "maxHeight":64, "biomes":[] }, { "blockID":"minecraft:gold_ore", "size":8, "variation":2, "frequency":2, "minHeight":0, "maxHeight":32, "biomes":[] }, { "blockID":"minecraft:diamond_ore", "size":6, "variation":3, "frequency":1, "minHeight":0, "maxHeight":16, "biomes":[] }, { "blockID":"minecraft:redstone_ore", "size":6, "variation":3, "frequency":8, "minHeight":0, "maxHeight":16, "biomes":[] }, { "blockID":"minecraft:lapis_ore", "size":5, "variation":2, "frequency":1, "minHeight":0, "maxHeight":32, "biomes":[] }, { "blockID":"minecraft:emerald_ore", "size":1, "variation":0, "frequency":8, "minHeight":4, "maxHeight":32, "biomes":["Extreme Hills Edge","Extreme Hills"] }, { "blockID":"minecraft:dirt", "size":112, "variation":50, "frequency":10, "minHeight":0, "maxHeight":255, "biomes":[] }, { "blockID":"minecraft:gravel", "size":112, "variation":50, "frequency":8, "minHeight":0, "maxHeight":255, "biomes":[] }, { "__comment":"granite", "blockID":"minecraft:stone", "blockMeta":1, "size":112, "variation":50, "frequency":10, "minHeight":0, "maxHeight":255, "biomes":[] }, { "__comment":"diorite", "blockID":"minecraft:stone", "blockMeta":3, "size":112, "variation":50, "frequency":10, "minHeight":0, "maxHeight":255, "biomes":[] }, { "__comment":"andesite", "blockID":"minecraft:stone", "blockMeta":5, "size":112, "variation":50, "frequency":10, "minHeight":0, "maxHeight":255, "biomes":[] }, ] }, { "dimension":-1, "ores":[ { "blockID":"minecraft:quartz_ore", "size":15, "variation":4, "frequency":7, "minHeight":0, "maxHeight":128, "biomes":[] } ] } ] } 

Note that if you want to use orespawn .json config files to spawn ores from other mods or vanilla Minecraft, you need to disable ore spawning for the other mod in question or the ores will be generated twice (vanilla Minecraft ore generation can be disabled by setting the config option disable_standard_ore_generation=true).

@Mod annotation

To make your mod wait for Base Metals to finish loading before you use the items from Base Metals, you need to add the dependencies parameter to your @Mod definition. For example:

 @Mod(modid = "moremetals", name="More Metals!", version = "1.2.3", dependencies = "required-after:basemetals") 

Adding new crack hammer recipes

Here's an example of how to add new recipes for the crack hammer and other such crushers. This example uses recipes that are already added by Base Metals. Note that the first two are recipes that use the OreDictionary and the third recipe refers to a specific block.

 CrusherRecipeRegistry.addNewCrusherRecipe("stone", new ItemStack(Blocks.cobblestone,1)); CrusherRecipeRegistry.addNewCrusherRecipe("cobblestone", new ItemStack(Blocks.gravel,1)); CrusherRecipeRegistry.addNewCrusherRecipe(Blocks.gravel, new ItemStack(Blocks.sand,1)); 

Getting crack hammer recipes

For item stack as input:

 ItemStack itemstack = new ItemStack(...); ICrusherRecipe recipe = CrusherRecipeRegistry.getInstance().getRecipeForInputItem(itemstack); 

For blockstate as input:

 IBlockState blockstate = world.getBlockState(coordinate); if(blockstate == null || Item.getItemFromBlock(blockstate.getBlock()) == null)return null; // sanity check to exclude air blocks ICrusherRecipe recipe = CrusherRecipeRegistry.getInstance().getRecipeForInputItem(new ItemStack(blockstate.getBlock(),1,blockstate.getBlock().getMetaFromState(blockstate))); 

Reverse lookup (note that a null will be returned instead of an empty list if there are no recipes):

 ItemStack result = new ItemStack(...); List≤ICrusherRecipe≥ recipes = CrusherRecipeRegistry.getInstance().getRecipesForOutputItem(result); 

Q: Can use your mod in my modpack?

A: Yes. Remember to include a URL pointing either to this page or to github.com/cyanobacterium/BaseMetals so that other people know where the mod came from.

Q: Please can you back-port this mod to Minecraft 1.7.10?

A: No, I will not. I have no interest in modding older versions of Minecraft. However, you are welcome to fork the project from GitHub and back-port it yourself.

Q: What are all of the crack hammer recipes?

A: There are too many to list here, but you can use NEI to see them. For the most part, they are the same as crusher/pulverizer recipes from other popular mods.

Q: Why is it called a crack hammer? Why not call it a sledgehammer?

A: There are two reasons: First, if you go to a geology supply store and ask for a hammer for breaking rocks, they will direct you to either a type of pickaxe called a rock hammer or a type of sledgehammer called a crack hammer. Second, there are other mods (most notably Minefactory Reloaded) that add an item called a sledgehammer that does something completely different from the crack hammer in this mod and I didn't want people to confuse the two items. Think of the crack hammer as a portable rock crusher.

 import java.awt.image.BufferedImage;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.nio.file.Paths;
import java.util.logging.Level;
import java.util.logging.Logger;
import javax.imageio.ImageIO;
import javax.swing.JFileChooser;

/**
 *
 * @author DrCyano
 */
public class TextureReducer {

 /**
 * @param args the command line arguments
 */
 public static void main(String[] args) {
 final File[] inputFiles = askForFiles("Select 64x64 texture images",new File(System.getProperty("user.dir")));
 if(inputFiles == null || inputFiles.length == 0) return;
 final File outputDirX32 = askForFolder("Select output folder for 32x32 textures",inputFiles[0].getParentFile());
 final File outputDirX16 = askForFolder("Select output folder for 16x16 textures",inputFiles[0].getParentFile());
 
 for(File f : inputFiles){
 try{
 BufferedImage x64 = ImageIO.read(f);
 BufferedImage x32 = new BufferedImage(32,32,BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_ARGB);
 BufferedImage x16 = new BufferedImage(16,16,BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_ARGB);
 for(int x = 0; x < 32; x++){
 for(int y = 0; y < 32; y++){
 x32.setRGB(x, y, x64.getRGB(2*x, 2*y));
 }
 }
 for(int x = 0; x < 16; x++){
 for(int y = 0; y < 16; y++){
 x16.setRGB(x, y, x64.getRGB(4*x, 4*y));
 }
 }
 ImageIO.write(x32, "png", Paths.get(outputDirX32.getPath(),f.getName()).toFile());
 ImageIO.write(x16, "png", Paths.get(outputDirX16.getPath(),f.getName()).toFile());
 System.out.println("Shrank image file "+f);
 }catch(IOException ex){
 Logger.getLogger(TextureReducer.class.getName()).log(Level.SEVERE, "Failed to process image file "+f, ex);
 }
 }
 
 }

 public static File[] askForFiles(String title, File rootDir){
 JFileChooser jfc = new JFileChooser(rootDir);
 jfc.setDialogTitle(title);
 jfc.setMultiSelectionEnabled(true);
 int action = jfc.showOpenDialog(null);
 if(action == JFileChooser.CANCEL_OPTION) return null;
 return jfc.getSelectedFiles();
 }

 public static File askForFolder(String title, File rootDir){
 JFileChooser jfc = new JFileChooser(rootDir);
 jfc.setDialogTitle(title);
 jfc.setFileSelectionMode(JFileChooser.DIRECTORIES_ONLY);
 int action = jfc.showOpenDialog(null);
 if(action == JFileChooser.CANCEL_OPTION) return null;
 return jfc.getSelectedFile();
 }
}