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
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
can you make 1.15.2?
Apologies if this is a dumb question, but: Is this mod fully compatible with Underground Biomes Constructs?
I play Minecraft 1.12.2 and my issue is that the ores from Base Metals do exist and spawn, but they are EXTREMELY RARE if played together with Underground Biomes Constructs... like in, I had to plow through caves in creative/spectator mode for a good 15 minutes to find a single small vein of Marble Mercury Ore.
Everything is installed correctly as far as I can tell (OreSpawn3 + MMDLib) and up to date. Also there are no other mods that mess with world generation in that manner, I think. Will attach a mod list though...
mod list:
I tested an install with only Base Metals and its dependencies afterwards and sure enough: Copper, silver, lead etc. were found in the first minute.
I'd appreciate some help here, because I'm a bit overwhelmed by how the mods work together and don't know if and how I would change the config files.
platinum does not have an molten state with tinkers installed, all other ores do, like adamantite and aquarium.
1.12.2
In reply to GreenForzeGaming:
Huh... this is likely a major error - I could have sworn that I included everything for melting... Thanks for the report!
Edit:
I just looked through the code and tested the currently released version of the mod and cannot replicate this. Can you please inform me which versions of MMDLib, BaseMetals and Tinkers' Construct you are using ?
In reply to dshadowwolf:
ive made a mod pack and i have the latest ones
In reply to GreenForzeGaming:
Thank you - this gives me a chance to check and see if there is an issue with the mod interactions, as I was not able to reproduce with my local test setup. Is it possible that one of the other mods in the pack is manipulating the Tinkers' Smeltery for its own difficulty changes ?
In reply to dshadowwolf:
yes i beleve there was but i removed moar tinkers other than that i dont know
In reply to GreenForzeGaming:
Okay, but I do (now) have a direction to look in. Thank you for the report and for you patience.
When i launch minecraft with Spartan BaseMetals, BaseMetals and Spartan Weaponry it says "You must include the right dependencies for Spartan Base Metals: Requires basemetals any (missing)" I checked and downloaded basemetals multiple times, but it's still not working
In reply to cyclonebuster:
Please report this to the Spartan BaseMetals devs - if they are not detecting BaseMetals being installed, there is nothing we can do from our end.
No metals will generate (i have orespawn installed)
In reply to EnzosPrettyCool:
What versions of the mods are you using, where did you get them and what changes to config files have you made ?
can you tell me if you will update to 1.16
In reply to 08spacecowboy80:
This has already been answered. The answer is "As soon as the work on redesigning the underlying support mod is done"
Is this ever coming out on 1.16 or later? Id love it if I could use some of these metals for super potions and playing it on 1.16 would be even better!
In reply to imPPas:
It is being worked on, but the current version of MMDLib (which all of *Metals uses as a base for abstract code) has features that have it tightly integrated with the startup system of FML up to 1.12. To alleviate this we're working on a full redesign and hopefully a complete simplification of the code that also exposes more of the internals to CraftTweaker and the users - including the long promised full control of individual blocks/items being added and even a system for controlling the various stats of the materials.
Do i need to generate a new world for this mod to work and find new ores? thanks
Can you config the ore generation?
In reply to patapon56:
Ore Generation, by default, is handled for BaseMetals by MMD OreSpawn - which is extremely configurable.
Anyone know a way to change the crafting requirements for alloys, Particularly Steel? I'm using it along side Armors construct and i realized that steel completely breaks the balance between them. Steel base armor is better then manyullyn, a top tier alloy which requires you to go to the nether. Where as steel is just 8 iron and a piece of coal. I don't mind keeping it in the game but would like to make it at least a little bit harder to craft.