FTechResource

Bring the surface mineral veins and mining machines from the Factorio game to the Minecraft

game content

Description

Surface Ore Veins — Ore patches generate naturally on the terrain surface. No more branch-mining: find, place, collect.
Terrain‑adaptive surface vein generation — Generates ore veins only on the surface, adaptively adjusting their placement and quantity based on terrain features.
Two Tiers of Mining Drills
- Burner Mining Drill — runs on coal/charcoal/any fuel. Simple early-game automation.
- Electric Mining Drill — powered by FE (Forge Energy). Mines all veins in range simultaneously. Auto-ejects output to adjacent container.
Multiple Mineral Types — Coal, iron, copper, gold, redstone, lapis, emerald, diamond (Overworld) + nether quartz (Nether). Each with custom weight, size, and surface tint.
Rich Configuration
- Disable vanilla ore generation per-block-ID (replace unwanted ores with stone/deepslate/netherrack on chunk load).
- Tune vein generation chance, drill speed, fuel efficiency, and energy consumption.
- Define custom vein types via JSON — add ores from any mod.
Vanilla+ Feel — Pickaxes work on veins (drops scaled by config). Left-click a vein to collect a few items; automate the rest with drills.
JEI & Jade Integration — View vein type info (dimension, biome) in JEI. Hover with Jade to see remaining blocks and drill energy.
Clean Placement UX — Live overlay shows drill range and vein locations before you place.

Define which ores appear as surface veins: Key fields:

Field	Description
`outputItem`	What the drill (or pickaxe) drops
`weight`	Generation probability relative to other types
`maxBlocks`	Total ore reserves in one patch
`maxPerBlock`	Max blocks per world block (0 = default 64)
`color`	ARGB tint on the vein overlay
`noiseFreq` / `noiseGamma` / `shapeThreshold`	Controls vein shape & density
`biomes` / `dimensions`	Where the vein can generate (empty = all)
`surfaces`	Valid surface blocks to generate on (`#` prefix for tags)
`surfaceMode`	`"auto"` (default), `"nether"`