Base Metals
Warning: As of Minecraft 1.9.4, Base Metals requires the mod MMD Ore Spawn to generate ores in your world.
Notice: Base Metals 2.5.0-beta5 and earlier for Minecraft 1.12 requires that you *disable* the Thermal Expansion Plugin in the config file to work with the latest versions of Thermal Expansion, this has been fixed in beta6.
This mod adds historically commonly used metals to Minecraft, specifically Silver, Copper, Tin, Lead, Zinc, Mercury, Nickel & Platinum. You will also craft a number of metal alloys in this mod and there's a new tool that lets you double your ore production: the Crack Hammer.
Fantasy metals have been added to the Nether and the End: Cold Iron, Mithril, Adamantine, and Star Steel
Talk to the devs on Discord: here
Base Metals API .jar files are available on the github page: https://github.com/cyanobacterium/BaseMetals/releases
Related Mods
Jriwanek's Modern Metals: http://minecraft.curseforge.com/projects/modern-metals
Jriwanek's Base Gems: http://minecraft.curseforge.com/projects/base-gems
Jriwanek's End Metals: http://minecraft.curseforge.com/projects/end-metals
KnoxHack's Nether Metals: http://minecraft.curseforge.com/projects/nether-metals
Trinsdar's Poor Metals: http://minecraft.curseforge.com/projects/poor-metals
Metals and Alloys
Natural Metals
Copper: Copper is soft, easy to work, and fairly abundant. It is needed to make bronze and brass metal alloys.
Silver: Silver is a soft, shiney metal that is valued for both is beauty and its alchemical uses.
Tin: Tin is an extremely soft metal that is not useful by itself, but can be combined with copper to make bronze, a metal alloy nearly as strong as iron.
Lead: 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.
Zinc: Like tin, zinc is worthless on its own, but can be used to make the metal ally brass.
Mercury: This toxic liquid metal has many alchemical uses. The Mirthril metal alloys requires mercury.
Nickel: This metal is as soft as copper, but it has alchemical properties, forms the invar metal alloy when mixed with iron and forms the cupronickel metal alloy when mixed with copper.
Platinum: Mostly decorative but can be used to make other equipment.
Metal Alloys
Metal alloys are made by crafting together the powdered forms of the required metals, and then smelting the resulting alloy blend in a furnace.
Cupronickel: alloy of copper and nickel (2:1 ratio)
Bronze: This alloy of copper and tin (3:1 ratio) is as hard as iron, but not quite as durable.
Brass: This alloy of copper and zinc (2:1 ratio) is soft, but has a beautiful golden color.
Steel: This alloy of iron and carbon (Coal dust or Charcoal Dust) (8:1 ratio) is as hard as iron and much more durable.
Invar: This alloy of iron and nickel (2:1 ratio) is harder than steel, but less durable.
Electrum: This alloy of silver and gold (1:1 ratio) can be enchanted like gold, but is slightly more durable.
Fantasy Metals
Aquarium: Aquarium is a magical alloy of copper, zinc, and prismarine crystals (2:1:3 ratio). Aquarium is highly enchantable and tools made of aquarium deal extra damage to aquatic mobs. Wearing a full suit of aquarium armor allows you to breath under water.
Cold-Iron (found in the Nether): Cold-Iron is a magical metal that is as strong as iron. Tools made from Cold Iron are extra effective against denizens of the Nether and any creature that is immune to fire.
Adamantine (found in the Nether): Adamantine is a rare magical metal that is as strong as diamond, maybe even stronger. Armor made from Adamantine grants resistance to damage and tools made from adamantine are extra effective against monsters that have more than 10 hearts of health.
Mithril: Mithril is an alloy of alloy of silver, mercury, and cold-iron (2:1:1 ratio). It is as strong as steel and Mithral weapons are extra effective against undead.
Star-Steel (found in the End): 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.
Crack Hammer
Also known as a sledgehammer, this tool is designed for pulverizing rocks. Using this tool on ores will cause them to drop powdered metal instead of the standard ore block. Use can then use the powdered metals to make metal alloy mixes or just smelt the powder into ingots. You can crush items by dropping them on the ground and then right-clicking on the ground beneath the items.
Requirements
This mod requires that you install Minecraft Forge version 1.8-11.14.0.1281 or later (earlier versions of Forge for Minecraft 1.8 may work, but no guarantees).
Installing
After you have successfully installed Forge, simply place the file basemetals-#.#.#.jar in your mods folder. You can get the basemetals-#.#.jar file from the Releases tab of this repository page.
NEI
The Crack Hammer recipes from this mod will appear in NEI if you have NEI installed. Hooray!
Mod API
Check the developer releases to download the files basemetals-#.#.#-dev.jar, basemetals-#.#.#-src.jar, basemetals-#.#.#-javadoc.jar. In your Eclipse project (and build.gradle file), add basemetals-#.#.#-dev.jar as a library dependency. All items and blocks can be conveniently accessed via classes in the cyano.basemetals.init package. New recipes for the Crack Hammer can be added via the cyano.basemetals.registry.CrusherRecipeRegistry class.
Q&A
Q: Why make this mod?
A: Minecraft appears to have a pre-industrial fantasy setting, but the fantasy literature (and pre-industrial history) is full of references to silver and copper as well as gold.
Q: What does the Crack Hammer do?
A: When you break ores with the Crack Hammer, you get two piles of metal powders instead of a single block of ore. This is necessary to make metal alloys, which is done by combining the powders of the verious components and then smelting the alloy mix. You can also drop items and blocks on the floor and crush them with the Crack Hammer by right-clicking the floor directly under the item.
Q: Why isn't adamantine red?
A: Because this isn't Terraria. The fantasy metals in this mod are inspired by Dungeons & Dragons, not video games.
Q:Help! I can't get it to work, it keeps crashing!
A:There are log-files that we need - they contain the data about the crash and let us know a great deal about the cause. Please have them available when reporting crashes to us - Pastebin, Hastebin and the "gist" system of Github are wonderful for making them available. Don't worry about annoying us - we want people to use our mods and if they are filled with bugs, people won't use them - so we enjoy hearing about bugs so we can fix them and give you a better experience!
Mod reviews
LegendaryGeek: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWxhOsTbLC4
Star-Steel should be beyond diamond because you need armor beyond diamond to go to the end.
In reply to jtroundtree:
You really don't.
In reply to TheRealJackiecrazy:
Why?
In reply to jtroundtree:
As in, the end doesn't really need diamond-tier armor. Plus, it's very easy to spiral stats out of control when doing pure stats; I think the current perks work well.
In reply to TheRealJackiecrazy:
Beyond that... the materials that actually exist have stats derived from numbers related to real-world attributes of the material, scaled to match how Iron scales from those values. For others we've assigned them values for those things and then derive. We're actually trying to decide what to add for doing the calcs for TiCon bows and arrows.
so, funny story but I wanted to delete the mod (nothing wrong with it or anyting), so I did, when i restarted my server en then tried to join I couldn't join cause my level.dat file still contained the mod information in it (error it gave is: fatally missing registry entries) . I literly have to build my entire RPG server again cause nobody can join as they are technicly missing the mod. I know i should've made a back up before installing.
In reply to DreanDrix:
I found out how to fix it but its still quite annoying,
i just had to delete the level.dat file and replace the region file with the one from my old world with the buildings
In reply to DreanDrix:
Not a problem with the mod.
Is there an easy way to modify the stats of each metal?
This mod is required for me with Tconstruct, it just makes it way better!
I wanted to ask something though, Cold-Iron armor doesn't give you the set bonus unless it has full durability, I'm assuming this isn't intended right?
In reply to determinedgames:
I noticed this myself... I think that some of the changes required to completely separate MMDLib from BaseMetals broke this - we're working on it
In reply to dshadowwolf:
Okay thanks! Good to know.
Adamantine leggings are hurting me whenever they don't have full durability. Is that supposed to happen? It's like triple the damage from wither.
In reply to CheezBallzFTW:
Odd... I'll have to look into that - we have been having some issues with detecting the armor and having it apply special effects...
In reply to CheezBallzFTW:
Same thing happening to me, I've tried making a new set, but it still hurts me.
I warning due to tinkers contruct's already have the same ore
should I replace ore from this mod or smt?
In reply to bensyne2:
a copy of the error posted somewhere like gist.github.com or pastebin would help me understand what you're talking about here...
I recently come across a issue with this mod, just out of nowhere.
1.12.2-forge1.12.2-14.23.5.2836
The mod isn't failing, but this happens: 2 fatals, both "orespawn client thread fatal Loading integration for orespawn" and one more for "basemetals."
I noticed also, that last time I played, the ores spawn plentiful. a 10x10 hole would yield copper next to that lead and such.
Now, I swear to god I barely found lead in a 40x40. I need 3 pieces of it you know? shits now more rare then a feminist who actually knows what she is talking about.
Created a new world to test that spawn rate.
"Disable Thermal expansion plugin for 2.5.0 and such" Uh, the only thing that says "plugin" on the cofh config path is:
.minecraft/config/cofh/thermalexpansion file called "client" with the line called "coolant, B.Plugins.JEI=true" Is that the plugin I'm disabling? Maybe to fix my possible mess here?
Just looking to fix why this is now a "fatal" mod to have.2 other mods i have add the same ores, but I killed them spawning cause their images/details aren't faithful looking. Plus 3 types of copper is annoying.
In reply to AwesomeTrioGaming3:
try looking in mmdlib.cfg or basemetals.cfg - ***NOT*** in the CoFH/Thermal configs - for options configuring MMDLib/BaseMetals and... those "fatal" lines are ***NOT*** errors - they're informational outputs that are mislabeled. Beyond that... again - look in basemetals.cfg - you can turn off it providing copper there (though this will turn off everything relating to copper that it adds, as well)
In reply to dshadowwolf:
I don't want to disable it. I'm just reading the info OF the mod and your info says
"Base Metals 2.5.0-beta5 and earlier for Minecraft 1.12 requires that you *disable* the Thermal Expansion Plugin in the config file to work with the latest versions of Thermal Expansion, this has been fixed in beta6."
Well, Thermal Expansion can only be found in COFH's config path. Nowhere else.