Easy Steel & More Mod for Forge 1.14.4 & 1.15.2
NO JEI, RECIPES HERE
NOTE: For 1.15.2, tools and weapons use sticks instead of metal rods.
Easy Steel & More is designed for vanilla+ play, respecting the supremacy of Diamond and providing the player with additional choices for tools, weapons, and armor. This mod adds Flint, Bronze, Steel, Titanium Alloy, Hardened Steel and Tungsten-Carbide to provide a fuller range of choices between Vanilla's Stone and Diamond.
Where the materials fit with Vanilla:
The Crack Hammer will be an important tool! Right-click on various ores and it will randomly drop 3, 2, or 1 powdered ores. There is a small chance you will just get stone powder. Drop rates can be adjusted in the config. Works on coal, iron, gold, diamond, emerald, copper, tin, titanium, and tungsten. If ore blocks from other mods have proper Forge ore tags, it will work on those as well.
It you want more balance in the game, you can disable the right-click feature of the Crack Hammer and Hand Shovel in the config file.
Minecraft 1.14 introduced a new Blast Furnace. One of the best uses of a Blast Furnace is to make alloys. This mod adds a simple method to make steel and bronze.
While many ores process faster in the Blast Furnace, compared to the regular Furnace, Carbon and Steel take much longer. Copper, tin, and bronze are a little slower than normal.
USAGE:
- Four ores are added to world generation: Bornite (copper), Cassiterite (tin), Rutile (titanium), and Wolframite (tungsten); harvest by right-clicking on the ores with a Crack Hammer to get powders; ores can be disabled in the config
- Carbon is obtained by using a crack hammer (right-click) on coal ore, dropping carbon powder
- Bronze is made by mixing copper and tin powders (3x1) in crafting table and processing the Raw Bronze in a regular Furnace
- Steel is made by mixing carbon powder and iron powder in crafting table and processing the Raw Steel in a Blast Furnance
- Titanium Alloy is made by mixing carbon powder and titanium powder in crafting table and processing the Raw Titanium Alloy in a Blast Furnance
- Hardened Steel is made by mixing raw steel and carbon powder in crafting table and processing the Raw Hardened Steel in a Blast Furnance
- Tungsten-Carbide is made by mixing tungsten powder and carbon powder in crafting table and processing the Raw Tungsten_Carbide in a Blast Furnance
- Crack Hammer provide ore doubling for copper, tin, tungsten, iron, gold, diamond, and emerald.
TIPS:
- Starting in an Extreme Hills Biome is helpful since ores may be exposed on the surface
- Use a Hand Shovel to gather Sharp Flint to make flint tools. Use by right-clicking on Gravel blocks, random chance to get either flint or sharp flint.
- Using a pickaxe on ore yields (1) powder, using a Crack Hammer on ores yields (2) powders
- Carbon Powders are obtained by right-clicking with a Crack Hammer on Coal Ore
- Iron Nuggets can be crafted into Iron Links, which can be crafted into vanilla Chain Mail
ITEMS:
- Bronze and Steel Armor/Tools/Weapons can be made from Silent Mechanisms bronze and steel
- Bronze/Steel/Titanium Alloy/Hardened Steel/Tungsten-Carbide Ingots - used to make Steel Plate
- Flint/Bronze/Steel/Titanium Alloy/Hardened Steel/Tungsten-Carbide Tools and Weapons - made from ingots and sticks
- Steel/Hardened Steel Bows and Crossbows
- Bronze/Steel/Titanium Alloy/Hardened Steel/Tungsten-Carbide Armor - made from Bronze, Steel, Titanium Alloy, Hardened Steel, and Tungsten-Carbide Plates
- Copper, Tin, Titanium, and Tungsten Ingot included for cross mod compatibility
Mod Development Discord: https://discord.gg/j7bYbkW
Hello there, I really liked your mod but something holding me back to use it.
The thing is I tried it but with the hammer you can instantly mine an ore inside caves. Thus, not needing any pickaxe and feels a lot cheaty. I dont know how you could do something else though. Maybe hammer only works on crafting table? Like ore + hammer shapeless recipe gives dust. So you would still need a pickaxe for caving/mining and when you back you use those.
In reply to Reotte:
This has bothered me as well since I re-focused the mod on being true to vanilla. Problems is that 1.15 does not have a working HarvestBlockEvent that will let us clear/replace the drops of a block. Mojang moved everything to loot tables and I do not want to have to replace the vanilla ore blocks (not to mention the modded copper, tin, etc.)
There is a feature update to Forge working its way through the process that will allow for easier override of loot tables in code (without son), so I will be looking at that.
In reply to kwpugh:
I hope it comes out good. I am really looking forward to add this to my modpack and this is the only reason holding me back. Waiting for the updates, good luck :)
In reply to Reotte:
Next update, I'm going to add a config option to disable the right-click on crack hammer and hand shovel and add recipes to get the items in a crafting table
In reply to kwpugh:
Thanks a lot!
In reply to Reotte:
The v42 now adds the ability to disable the right-click "instant break" of the crack hammer and the hand shovel.
Hey! I'm an amateur mod developer. My config file does not load from the defaultconfigs folder. I saw that someone brought up a similar issue and you have managed to patch it around two weeks ago. I was wondering, what measures did you take to fix this issue?
Thanks!
In reply to Squidsword:
Try commenting out this line in your main class:
ModLoadingContext.get().registerConfig(ModConfig.Type.SERVER, Config.config);
I believe that is what I did.
In reply to kwpugh:
Thanks!
Hi i like your mod and i have few sugestion for enhance this great mod : You can change the config files to add option for the crushing hammer ?
I also have an idea for the crushing hammer : It should have a percentage of chance for looting like : 50 % chance to get nothing (or stone powder) 25 % chance to got 1 powder and 25% to get 2 or 3 powder (those percentage can be change in the config) . With this system the hammer look less OP :) hope you like the idea.
In reply to vrunk11:
Interesting. I will play around and see what I can do.
In reply to vrunk11:
Check out v41 when it gets approved.
I think metal rods are unnecessary
In reply to Mikeliro:
I have been thinking about that, but have not made up my mind yet.
If you decide to change that, I can help you with the textures.
In reply to Mikeliro:
Thanks. It should be simple enough. I can handle, If I do.
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Hey man, I just saw you updated to 4 ores now including Rutile! This is a really cool route youre taking, I hope you think about adding "above diamond" ores in the future (or maybe making a separate mod for it) because I like your balance decisions. I noticed you just updated 1.15 with titanium and am looking forward to a possible update for 1.14 as well.
Peace
In reply to spiritofodysseus:
Thanks. I will not be updating 1.14 or back. All new feature work is 1.15 +. As for above diamond, I have other mods for that, like Powder Power and Gobber.
Aaah, well that sucks. Is the Forge team working on a fix? I hope so. Glad to hear the bucket piqued your interest though!