CustomOreGen gives the user control over the placement of ores and other blocks via a sophisticated XML configuration language. Config authors can generate ores according to three main distribution types: veins, clouds and vanilla clusters. They can also substitute any block in the world with another one. The configurations can be parameterized by custom options (such as whether a particular ore should be deposited as a vein or cloud), and the player can configure those options through an in-game GUI during world creation. Default configurations are included for vanilla and most major mods. See the wiki for documentation and the MCF post for more information.
Changing spawn frequently of coal ores or other makes redstone ore and gold ore spawn on surface but other than that work better than other these type of mods.
In reply to powraca1:
That's intentional (at least for redstone), and you can disable it by changing the distribution type for those ores.
I'm hoping this is compatible with Ore Stone Variants, but by default, it seems like COG doesn't spawn any ores in any of the stone variants (diorite, etc). Even for ores in normal stone, HWLYA shows the block as being from their origin (Vanilla, Immersive Engineering, etc) rather than from OSV (which is what I would have expected, since it's what I see in other non-COG worlds). Is this something that needs to be tweaked in the config (and if so, what's the simplest way to do that?), or is it an issue with the order of events (ie, COG is destroying/overwriting OSV blocks)?
EDIT: I've got a custom config now with the veins replacing variant stone, but OSV still doesn't seem to be replacing them with its own integrated blocks. I guess they're both trying to do their thing "last" and COG is winning :/
In reply to curiousepic:
You'd have to configure COG to replace the stone variants with the integrated blocks from OSV directly.
In reply to lawremi:
Aah, I see. So, within the same Veins element, is it possible to do something like:
<OreBlock block='ore_stone_variants:coal_ore:0' weight='1.0' />
<ReplacesOre block='stone' weight='1.0' />
<OreBlock block='ore_stone_variants:coal_ore:1' weight='1.0' />
<ReplacesOre block='stoneDiorite' weight='1.0' />
In order to match up the proper replacements, or is only one OreBlock element expected within the config?
In reply to curiousepic:
You can have multiple <OreBlock> elements, but COG will choose randomly from them. There is no way to specify multiple one-to-one mappings in a single distribution. But with inheritance, it is pretty easy to create one sub-distribution per mapping.
This mod was the key to me getting an obscure prospecting mod for 1.7.10 to work with custom ores from Thermal Foundation. I guess it somehow forces the game to generate all ores along with the initial worldgen, which is exactly what I needed. Thank you kind mod author, you are the reason the people on my server can now pan for silver and tin.
Question
When I try to make a new world and select Custom ore gen, I only get to configure AE2, Thermal and Pam's harvest. I have way more mods installed, but I don't get the option to configure their ore generation before creating the world.
Help?
well, server getting cascading worldgen lag
Hello!
I'm trying to create my first mod pack & want to use COG as the keystone mod. My only issue is the XML is basically Latin to me. I'm muddling my way through learning the basics. I can tell it's not too hard if you have basic XML knowledge.
That leads me to the ask, would anyone that knows the ins & outs of the COG XML be willing to open their discord/twitter DMs to let me pick their brain?
In reply to VikingVod:
<body> <arm> <hand length=3> <finger/> </hand> <forearm/> </arm> </body>So basically you have opening tags and closing with children inside, A tag can be self closing by having /> at the end.
For those looking for the old shoutwiki. It doesn't exist any longer.
However I was lucky enough to find a backed up version on Archive.org
I have recreated the former wiki here: http://custom-ore-generation.wikia.com/wiki/
Guinaro
PS. This mod rocks if you succeed in properly configuring it. Going ore scavenging is much more rewarding this way!
In reply to darthvader45:
Unless you want to give the user options, you can also do away with the whole configuration via GUI at world-start. I simply implement my changes in the XML without a lot of extra options, unless it is for myself with testing purposes.
A lot of fun in mining can be had when you make shafts surrounded by a different material. Or materials surrounding lava tubes, the same goes for Geodes, hollowed out, filled with water, lava, ... . Other tweaks I like to make is a big motherlode with very thin hintveins leading towards it. Make ores hard to find, but once you do, you will have plenty of it.
I also tend to work with Dense, normal and poor ore variants. Like something along the lines of 80% poor ores, 18% normal ores and 2% dense ores. Mixing up ores is also fun. Like mixing silver and lead, ... Find one, you can find the other one too.
Limiting ores to certain biomes or making extra deposit chances in specific biomes tends to promote exploration of the world.
This mod doesn't seem to work with Biome Bundle. What's issue here and can you make them compatible?
Hello. I am using COG for following transformation:
0. 'RTG' with 'BoP' as terrain generator.
1. 'Mineralogy' as the initial stone generator - as I consider it superior in generation of multiple layers of different rocks.
2. COG Substitution from 'Mineralogy' blocks to 'UBC' blocks, which I consider superior for ore blocks.
3. Further COG substitutions to clear all remaining ores and to convert vanilla cobble to UBC cobble.
4. Generate new ores with COG distributions.
Most of these actions in COG require 24 copies of distributions with the same setup and seed, as a single ore distribution definition in COG spans multiple different regions of different rocks - and I want to use UBC feature where each ore has 24 variants for each supported rock type.
At the moment, I use only two ore distributions, which can span no further than 32-48 blocks from the distribution center (horizontaly).
So, there are approx 50 substitutions and approx. 50 distributions.
'Preparing Start Area' during server startup takes 4 hours - due to COG only. Is it expected?
In reply to K_A_:
Heya! Im asking just out of curiosity, at the moment other members of a island are unable to change the ore gen when ever the owner is offline. Is there anyway for me to fix this so they are able to change the gen?
The 1.12.1 custom ore gen jar file from Draco18s seems to work just fine.
Having a 1.12.* release here would allow my modpack to being getting published here on curseforge.
What are frequency and size ratios to have same amount of ores just better distributed?
Setting frequency to 0.1 and size to 4 for example means way more ores doesnt it?