Adds new minerals that have their own gimmicks

Vanadium

A sturdy yet rare metal found in small veins but scattered in all the world.
Serving as a branched tier from Iron, in order to obtain vanadium gear you should get first some vanadium upgrade. These smithing templates can be found in dungeons, shipwrecks and very rarely on village toolsmith and weaponsmith chests. But is more common on temples, mineshafts and buried treasures. You can duplicate them with Vanadium Ingots instead of Diamonds.

Vanadium tools are a bit lighter than iron, and offer more durability than diamond but not too much.

Each piece of Vanadium Armor grants you 1 point of Physical Guard, letting you negate half heart of physical damage like enemy projectiles and explosions. With a full set you can negate up to 2 hearts of damage.

And theres also upgrades to non tiered weapons.

Upgrade your crossbow to obtain the Vanadium Repeater, a ranged weapon that fires a three shot burst of arrows that ignore i-frames (just make sure to have a lot of arrows, because they will run out fast)

Or if you got a trident, you can upgrade it to obtain a much more powerful version of one.

These upgrades can be repaired with Vanadium Ingots, if you got some spare ones.

Also you can craft the Radar, an useful device that tells you the number of hostile mobs in a 20 block radius, and gives you a warning if at least one of them is very close. Useful for cave exploration!

Version 1.3.0 adds the new Vanadium Golem! In order to get one you should give an Iron Golem (doesnt matter if naturally spawned or player-built) 10 vanadium ingots, giving a vanadium ingot to a golem will fully repair them and only works if they have 50% or less health.

Vanadium golems are a much tankier and powerful version of a regular Iron golem. They have the ability to perform 3 different types of attacks, each one more powerful than the previous one. These gentle giants are also awed by its surroundings, if there is an animal or flower nearby they will look at it. But of course their main goal is protection, so they will target monsters and finish them off! If they are flooded with monsters, they can do a heavy slam and clear its path.

These golems already trust you when you create them, so if you attack them they wont see you as a threat. Except the ones summoned by commands or spawn eggs.

If you want to add more personality to your guardian, you can put them a carpet on! All 16 vanilla carpets have unique patterns, if you dont like the color you can use shears to remove them and try another one.

Has compatibility with Dye Depot carpets!

Labradorite

Version 1.2.0 adds Labradorite, featuring also potions of Wisdom and the Refining Table

Labradorite is a rare mineral that you can find near y=0, with it you can use it to brew potions of wisdom that lets you gain more experience by killing mobs or mining ores.
You can also make the refining table, which lets you upgrade your enchantments without the use of xp.

Version 1.4.0 adds Auroral Arrows, an upgrade of a normal arrow that when dealing a critical hit it will deal splash damage.

You should first put an enchanted tool/weapon/armor into the table, and with labradorite and lapis you can upgrade one random enchantment. The item should have at least 1 upgradeable enchantment (so for example a sword with mending is invalid).

If you got all of your enchantments at max level, then you can overcap a random trait with the use of a gold ingot going beyond vanilla levels.

Osmium

A dense yet brittle metal found in the same levels as gold, but more common in mountain regions.

This metal serves as a sidegrade to gold, more focused on defense and protection, as well as other uses.

Osmium tools can ignore a fraction of the defense of the target, while its armor offers a powerful protection against heavy attacks, meaning that you cannot receive more than a certain percentage of your health in a single hit. More pieces reduce that percentage, though a single piece is enough to protect you from damage that can kill you in one hit.

Other uses of Osmium include the Moondial, used to measure lunar phases (can be handy while in caves); the Bulwark, a heavy shield that can slow you down but offers an almost perfect knockback protection, even from explosions; and leap rails, a special kind of rail that when activated can make the minecart jump above gaps.

Two more uses of Osmium involve powerful late game equipment. Combine some ingots with echo shards and phantom membranes and you get Ancient Lattices, with them you can make the new Cimmerian Armor, a low defense gear that makes you so can store damage taken and return them to the attacker when hitting. The more damage received, the more deadly the recoil.

Or you can combine Osmium ingots with Netherite scraps to make Damask Ingots, a Netherite sidegrade that is more offense focused. The armor set has an innate thorns effect that always activate, gather more pieces and you can deal more damage, the effect also stacks with the thorns enchantment and you can further boost the damage with potions of strength. Damask Tools have less damage than netherite, but their critical damage output has been increased.

Also new stuff related to the deep dark has been added:

Depending on the moon phase, deadly hounds known as the Enforcers will spawn, a deadly source of echo shards that are a considerable threat. More of them can spawn in Ancient Cities during new moons. But none of them during full moons, so choose wisely when to go.

With the renewability of the echo shards, you can now upgrade the radar into a Recalibrated Radar, that can now tell you the current position of hostile mobs through the darkness and walls!

Also a new trim pattern related to cimmerian armor has been added. And more enchantments to go! (enchantment descriptions recommended)

Credits to Bagel for the code used for the extra armor geometry and placeable ingots

Version 1.3.0 and above requires Blueprint

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