Base Metals
PLEASE STOP ASKING FOR A PORT - WE ARE WORKING ON MAKING IT HAPPEN, BUT THE TEAM IS, ESSENTIALLY, TWO PEOPLE FOR ABOUT A HALF-DOZEN MODS.
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
Is there a plan to release it for 1.8? I don't care when, just want to know if. Very good mod btw.
In reply to strixoriginal:
I'm pretty sure we actually have a version for 1.8 - I think the only one we don't have a modern release for is 1.7.10... Now if you were asking 1.18 ? Its planned, but there has been a lot of RL stuff happening for the team and a lot of burn-out all around. We do plan to, but...
In reply to dshadowwolf:
Yeah I meant 1.18. Thanks for the reply and take as much time as you need.
I hope you can release this for 1.16.5 <3
I really love Aquarium and every fantasy metal, you rock!
In reply to josias_joestar:
A wonderful friend has done a port of the existing MMDLib and BaseMetals code to 1.16.5 but we are working on a near-complete rewrite to fix all of the boneheaded mistakes that were made as the team got used to working in Java and using Forge.
But more than that... there are massive issues with changes to world-gen stuff that are stopping us, at this time, from making it all work.
In reply to dshadowwolf:
pls upload it
In reply to selui_ali:
This I cannot do - the last time I looked she had not sent a "Pull Request" to us telling us that the port is complete and asking for the changes to be accepted back and built into a release. (She had, however, alerted the team on Discord that the work was done)
The Base Gems mod is a work in progress? I can't find it :(
In reply to suddendeatt:
Yes - there have been some issues with the art and some other factors that have held up a release.
i found an exploit where u can get inf obs because the obsidian blocks are made with 9 obs nugs pls make obs block recipie 4 obs ingots
When new update for MC 1.12.2 ? I will cry very much if it will not be very soon !!!
All known incompatible mods list please !
Hi there, IK this is probably abandoned or just in its finished state but... If I remove MMDOrespawn and disable the fallback generator, it complains that the MMDOrespawn is not present. Then if I enable the fallback generator it still spawns the ores with what I take a built in fail-safe generator. How do I get it to spawn with CoFHWorld? Sofar the only way I found to generate the ores with CoFH is to have MMDOrespawn active and disable all the ores in the config files or to remove all but one ore entry from the config and disable it. NOTE: I dont want to have MMDOrespawn together with CoFHWorld, its unnecesary.
Also: If I generate the world with MMDOrespawn, the config files only list some of the ores, not all of them, which may be the cause of the ores not generating correctly.
PS: I see there is no Antimony or Bismuth in the config or any info on it here, but it shows in JEI.
PPS: NVM, I found the option in MMDLib Config to disable MMDOrespawn.
Now the question is, does it apply to ModernMetals, too?
In reply to xtypeinteractive:
The options in the MMDLib config should cover all the various *Metals mods, yes
I downloaded the latest 1.12.2 versions and tried to craft alloy dusts (which were powders), but to no avail. I tried to search the recipe up on JEI but there were no recipes available for alloy "dusts", are the recipes changed in these 2 latest versions ?
Edit: my mistake, it turned out that the "blends" are the alternatives, still, the dusts have the same texture as the powders of old versions, which confused me
also i found a loop hole with obsidian u can dupe obs by hammerng than crafting obs blocks u should make obsidian blocks 4 ingots in 1.12.2 and other vertions were this is the case
pls fix the crossbows the projectile that they are suposed to shot has no texture and cant hit anything
Where can I find the Nickel ore? I have been mining for days and I still haven't found any.
For this and Modern Metals, All shields aren't correct names - only "Shield".
I saw correct ones like "Adamantine Shield" for Adamantine in source code (Note that I saw only en-us and ja-jp).
When will you reflect them? These sources are committed before latest updates are released here, so I look you forgot.
I tried to change them with CraftTweaker, then no error but no change. Something disturbs it.
I know you've asked us to be patient, but any news on how the port is going? I promise I'm being patient; I was just curious enough that I thought I'd ask.