Easy Steel & More Mod for Forge 1.15.2 & 1.16.3
NOTE: 1.14.4 is no longer supported, 1.15.2 will get bug fixes. 1.16.3 is focus of new development.
For 1.15.2+, tools and weapons use sticks instead of metal rods. Also, the Crack Hammer is no longer a breaking tool, it is a crafting item. Recipes are in JEI.
Easy Steel & More is designed for vanilla+ play, respecting the supremacy of Diamond/Netherite 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! Use it in a crafting table on vanilla and Easy Steel ores and it will yield (2) powdered ores. 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.
Make Steel with powders or ingots, you choose:
USAGE:
- Four ores are added to world generation: Bornite (copper), Cassiterite (tin), Rutile (titanium), and Wolframite (tungsten); ores can be disabled in the config
- Carbon is obtained by using a crack hammer with coal in a crafting table
- 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 provides 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 on Gravel blocks, random chance to get either flint or sharp flint.
- Carbon Powders are obtained by crafting Coal with a Crack Hammer
- 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
NOTE: If you happen to be using a mod that has stronger mobs than vanilla, the attack damage and durability of tools and armor material can be adjusted in the config.
Mod Development Discord: https://discord.gg/j7bYbkW
Spotlight:
can you please make a mini-mod that only adds the dusts and the crack hammer? i would love to use this mod with only those items, thanks!
Just tested it. Very unreliable mod. Most ores don't spawn, even with CLib. The tools are not that good either.
In reply to eg12p:
- Easy Steel ores do not spawn at present. Equivalent ores available with CLib or other ore mods that provide copper, tin, tungsten etc.. If CLib ores are not spawning, likely need to travel into an unexplored area if mod added to existing world.
- "Tool are not that good", what do you mean? The tools are intended to between vanilla Stone and Diamond.
In reply to kwpugh:
- I explored a large chunk of caves and they didn't spawn.
- I mean that tools are not worth the addition to the game, they don't provide real value between the current silver, gold and diamond tools.
In reply to eg12p:
use xray maybe you are unlucky
EASY STEEL & MORE Mod Spotlight Video:
Will there be a 1.16.1 version?
In reply to mrbunnylamakins:
A version for 1.16.2 is now out. The world gen ore is not working so you will need a mod that provides ores. I tested CLib https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/clib and it works fine, but does not provide Titanium though.
Wow, very nice. Sucks that it isn't backported to 12.2.
i found a coal exploit, in your recipes, you turn coal into 2 carbon, then 9 carbon into coal block,1 coal block into 9 coal then 9 coal nito 18 carbon, then repeat until you have a burj khalifa made out of coal blocks or never ending furnace fuel, just adjust the recipe of coal to become only one carbon powder or remove the block recipe, then exploit is gone.
and for some reason the bronze armor looks too dark to match the bronze block, like blocks and armor match in vanilla
In reply to chocolatemystery:
I'll take a look.
In reply to kwpugh:
thank you for putting an end to the exploit
Update this mode for version 1.16.2!
Update this mode for version 1.16.2!
Update this mode for version 1.16.2!
Update this mode for version 1.16.2!
Update this mode for version 1.16.2!
Update this mode for version 1.16.2!
Update this mode for version 1.16.2!
In reply to kajmak_prsta:
First: don't nag, won't help
Second: 1.16.2 is not even released, 1.16.1 is the latest with Forge
Third: Forge 1.16.1 is still very messy, without full MCP mapping complete. I am waiting until the full mappings are are out before tackling my bigger mods.
Carry on and Keep calm.
Hello again author! Loving this mod and also Powder Power.
I'm wondering though, I installed PP after Easy Steel. In both mods there is something called "Iron Powder" which sounds like they should be the same item, but one is crafted with the Crack Hammer, the other with the Alchemical Hammer. They can't be substituted in recipes despite having the same name.
Are they supposed to be different things or can they be made equivalent via the ore dictionary for crafting purposes?
In reply to Geethebluesky:
Good catch. Turns out I never used the tags for iron, gold, diamond, and emerald that I added in Powder Power. Although you posted here, the change will be in PowderPower, since Easy Steel already has the Forge Tags (new OreDict in 1.15). Look for a new release of Powder Power shortly. You will be able to use Easy Steel iron, gold, diamond, and emerald powders in the Powder Power recipes (specifically Redium, Lapium, and Gemium Blends).
Regards.
EDIT: see Powder Power v3.1.68
In reply to kwpugh:
Thanks again!! :)
A Fabric version of this mod would be freakin' awesome.
EasySteel-1.15.2-1.1.77.jar download page says it's for fabric.
Would you consider adding a diamond hammer/paxel/excavator?