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 we expect this mod to be available for 1.14.4 any time soon?
In reply to enderdragneel2:
There is a ground-up rewrite planned because of the complexity of MMDLib and the way mods interact with it. Due to several factors we have to work out a new means of synchronizing the users so that stuff added in BaseMetals can be accessed in other mods, etc...
Could you please update the config to be potent and useful? Disabling all of a certain category is not as good as smaller bundles or single items.
I am unable to disble the iron arrow from this mod, and use a better one from another mod.
Same thing with emerald/obsidian/you name it gear. The stats for this mods smaller additions and such are not prefered.
I've really tried to work with this mod for the last 2 years while making packs, and I'm always disappointed at how useful it is, how on-point the ore images are yet how terrible the config is.
In reply to AwesomeTrioGaming3:
That is going to be in *Metals 3.x - we're in the "release candidate" cycle for the current 2.5 series and this means that major code changes are no longer being accepted or committed.
Sorry for this inconvenience.
I cannot for the life of me get the base metals to spawn, if I need to do something with the inner files can someone specify where to drop what files, I don’t see a config folder, I have the mmd ore spawned the base metals mod the mmdlib mod I don’t understand why it isn’t working and if there’s some coding to be don’t can’t u just post your finished new coded file on here or send it to my gmail drive or something this is driving me nuts please help me! :(
the crafting recipe for crack hammer is not showing up on my jei. am i missing something that i needed to download?
I found a possible issue: I'm using Biomes O' Plenty in 1.10.2 (Yes I know it's an older version but still, it's a bug), and ores from mods like Thermal Foundation and IC2 are present in the world, but the ores from this mod don't appear. There also wasn't anything configurable to fix this.
its Says I Need A Mod Called nndlib?
In reply to therealyocky7:
thats "MMDLib" - and its even mentioned on this page.
does this mod work with tinker's construct?
In reply to wolf6537:
In general, yes, though we're aware of an issue that causes crashes if you have the mods integration with Tinkers' turned on and you turn off molten prismarine or certain other fluids.
Does this also work with NetherEx?
In reply to ChuckDSage:
Not a clue... If NetherEx just expands gen of the Nether and doesn't override or replace the world gen events that are used for ore spawning (in MMD OreSpawn and the "stupid" fallback generator) then yes, it should work fine with NetherEx. However... we've not actually tested with NetherEx.
In reply to dshadowwolf:
alright I found some of the fantasy ores in the nether, but I gotta look for the non-NetherEx areas or basically the normal Netherracks coz the ores don't spawn on the NetherEx Netherracks(Gloomy Netherracks, Fiery Netherracks, etc.). Took me a while to find em but hey, atleast they're rarer to find now... btw is there a way to increase the ore spawn rate of fantasy metals?
In reply to ChuckDSage:
That can be fixed - see config/orespawn3/sysconf/replacements-orespawn.json - in there you can add the registry names of the NetherEx netherrack and have it capable. I'll see if we can add this as a default for the next version.
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.