Massive Ore Deposits

Massive Ore Deposits overhauls Minecraft's underground worldgen by adding incredibly rare, continental-scale geological ore deposits to your world, alongside standard vanilla ore generation!

Designed specifically for players who love industrial-scale engineering (like the Create mod), this mod gives you a reason to actually prospect for resources rather than just use infinite cobble gen farms. You can still mine standard small veins to survive the early game, but to fuel your late-game factories, you will have to travel thousands of blocks to discover a single, massive deposit. But once you find one, it contains enough ore to supply any project.

Set up massive quarries, build expansive rail networks to transport your goods, and engineer real mining settlements!

Features

Continental-Scale Deposits: These massive deposits spawn in massive underground radii up to hundreds of blocks wide, but are spaced thousands of blocks apart.
Geological Surface Traces: Massive deposits naturally push "traces" up to the surface. If you explore the world, you might stumble across parallel streaks of raw ore ripping through the grass or snow like massive geological claw marks. The bigger the deposit underneath, the larger and more pronounced the gashes are on the surface!
Industrial Yields: A single mountain can contain tens of thousands of ores. The closer you dig to the epicenter, the denser the ore becomes.
Fully Configurable: Don't like the default scale? Everything is adjustable via the Config! Change the grid spacing, tweak the minimum and maximum radius of the mountains, adjust the global ore density, or change the spawn weights (rarity) of individual ores! (DISCLAIMER: Install MrCrayfish's "Configured" mod to adjust these settings directly ingame)

Mod Compatibility

Create: Zinc
Mekanism: Osmium, Fluorite
Thermal Series / Immersive Engineering / GregTech: Tin, Lead, Silver, Nickel, Aluminum/Bauxite, Uranium, Platinum, Iridium, Tungsten, Cobalt, Ruby, and Sapphire!

Examples

Traces

Ore Veins/Deposits

The pictures arent a very accurate representation of just how many ores are in a single deposit.

Debug: The /locateore <ore> e.g. /locateore emerald, /locateore zinc
can be used to locate ore deposits and get a reading on their size.