Minecraft Mineralogy
This mod replaces the generic "stone" in Minecraft with real-world rock types.
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Requirements
This mod requires that you install Minecraft Forge version 1.7.10-10.13.1.1219 or later (earlier versions of Forge for Minecraft 1.7.10 may work, but no guarentees).
Installing
After you have successfully installed Forge, simply place the file mineralogy-#.#.jar in your mods folder. You can get the mineralogy-#.#.jar file (as well as the texture packs) from the Releases tab of this repository page.
Texture Packs
There are three levels of texture resolution available. The default textures are low-resolution (16x16 pixels, same as Minecraft), but I recommend trying the high-resolution (64x64 pixels) textures via the high-res texture pack.
Q&A
Q: Why make this mod?
A: Minecraft is a game that involves a lot of mining, yet it takes very little inspiration from actual geology. I made this mod to give Minecraft more of a geology vibe. After all, there's no mineral called "stone" in the geology textbook.
Q: Where's the cobblestone?!
A: Many of the stone types can be used as cobblestone or as stone in crafting recipes. If you want "Stone", smelt gravel. If you want "Cobblestone", craft two blocks of rock with 2 blocks of gravel.
Q: There's too much lag when generating new chunks!
A: Yes, that can happen. Mineralogy puts a lot more computation into world generation, so you don't want to run the server (or play single-player) on a computer with a slow CPU. I tried to improve performance as much as possible, but there's no getting around the fact that the stone type needs to be calculated for every single underground block in the game.
Q: Why do the ores look funny?
A: I re-textured the ores to better match the appearance of the new rock types. You can change them back by making your own texture pack from the default Minecraft resources.
Q:What can I make with these new types of stone?
A: In addition to being able to use them in place of cobblestone in existing recipes, they can be used following a normal recipe pattern to construct slabs, stairs and walls, in addition to this brickwork may be crafted by placing the stone in a 2x2 grid, stone may be polished by placing with sand in the crafting grid, the polished stones may also be converted to brickwork, and finally these refined block types may also in turn be used to craft slabs, stairs and walls.
Languages Supported
- English
- French (Français)
- German (Deutsche)
- Spanish (Español)
- Chinese (中文)
Mineralogy works great alongside it's cousin mod Base Metals also by MMD.
I'm starting work on version 1.14.4 now
I found out how to get around this
Could there perhaps be an official resource pack that makes all the stones and ores and new minerals less ugly? Because tbh this mod's default texture looks like a scrambled mess. Sure it's more realistic but when you put this mod's stones and minerals next to the rest of the game's textures, such as wood and grass, it looks so off and unfitting.
It's almost impossible to make a stone pickaxe, you need to make way more of the stones be able to be mined with a wooden pickaxe
In reply to thewalkingcorpse183:
I second this. But I think it's better to just find a cave and check out what minerals are in there.
In reply to thewalkingcorpse183:
Some of the softer type stones can't be used to make stone tools but most of the stones should work, also there is a recipe to make cobblestone (2 mineralogy stone + 2 gravel) but I almost never use that myself as the mineralogy stones with the 64 bit texture pack in my opinion look a lot better than cobblestone anyway
good mod
In reply to notesfir:
Glad you like it, its my favorite too (which is why I adopted it)
I posted a bug last year and it STILL hasn't been fixed. You even responded, but made no commits in a entire year.
Is this compatible with Underground Biomes?
So can these be used in place of cobblestone in crafting recipes?
In reply to orphanedpixel:
Yes, most of the new stone types can be used in place of cobblestone for vanilla recipes, although I can't be certain of recipes added by other mods, note some stones are considered too soft to be used in place of cobblestone.
In reply to orphanedpixel:
Most of the stones yes, not all the softer stones though
I noticed Andesite in 1.12.2 and Andesite in the mod are both present. any possibility of a future update making them both one in the same, kinda like how you did with cobblestone. Not removing it but making them both work for the same purpose. I'm assuming Diorite is also a issue as well.
In reply to silviyius:
In theory it should be possible to tell the mod not to place particular rocks by adding to it's blacklist in the config file, although I haven't looked at that part of the code in a while (its not a section of code I wrote originally) so I can't be sure, if I get some time I'll have a look though.
In reply to silviyius:
Yes its the same issue, there's supposed to be a white/backlisting section in the config but I'm not sure if its working correctly, I'll have to check it when I do 1.14 anyway
any chance on mineralogy furnaces?
In reply to apoclaydon:
In reply to SkyBladeImmortal:
In reply to apoclaydon:
Yes, that would be awesome and I'll try and do it in 1.14 and backport it, the code is easy the problem is I'm no good at graphical art and they would all need skins so it depends if someone will help with the textures, also anvils..