Minecraft Mineralogy
Minecraft Mineralogy adds real world stones in a realistic layering pattern - because there's no such thing as 'stone' in a geology textbook!
Craftable Items
Stone furnaces - make furnaces out of the mineralogy stone types, e.g. basalt furnaces textured correctly, which take on the characteristics of the stone they are made from.
Stone Reliefs - decorative stone carvings
Slabs and Double Slabs - the Mineralogy slabs can be placed together as double slabs, and can be places in all possible orientations
Rocksalt lamps - Rock salt lamps are pretty, and they can be placed on all surfaces.
Rocksalt street lamps
Polished and Brick - Most mineralogy stones can be polished with sand, turned into brick or both.
Walls - Most mineralogy stones can be crafted into walls
Stairs - Most of the mineralogy stone types can be crafted into stairs
Note: These screenshots were taken using the Mineralogy x128 texture pack and the Chocapiv V7 Low shader pack, with Optifine
Add-Ons
Mineralogy Golems Add-on - SkyJay has developed a fantastic add-on which allows you to create golems from the Mineralogy stone types!
Compatability
Mineralogy should be compatible with most mods, I haven't yet found a mod it specifically doesn't work with, in terms of terrain generation I can confirm it certainly works with;
- Biomes O Plenty
- Natura
- Realistic Terrain Generation
- OreSpawn
- BaseMetals
Important note for combining with other mods in a pack
The newest versions of mineralogy include a lot of new craftable items, and rock types which makes it more likely to reach the 4k block limit in Minecraft 1.12, to solve this I suggest either using Just Enough ID's mod in your pack, or if you do not wish to and are hitting the limit opening the Mineralogy config file and switching off some of the craftable items, such as reliefs (which account for a lot of blocks).
Stone types
Igneous
- Andesite
- Basalt
- Diorite
- Granite
- Rhyolite
- Pegmatite
- Diabase
- Gabbro
- Peridotite
- Basaltic Glass
- Scoria
- Tuff
Sedimentary
- Shale
- Conglomerate
- Dolomite
- Limestone
- Marble
- Siltstone
- Rock Salt
Metamorphic
- Slate
- Schist
- Gneiss
- Phyllite
- Amphibolite
- Hornfels
- Quartzite
- Novaculite
Other Languages
Talk to the developers on Discord: Here and Navigate to the #Mineralogy channel
Requirements
This mod requires that you install Minecraft Forge, the version will depend on which version of Minecraft you are using, usually the most recent recommended download of for for your version is correct.
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 (128x128 or 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.
News
In development
Mineralogy 1.14
Mineralogy 1.14 whilst being fully compatible with previous versions is a complete rewrite of the mod, it will look the same and behave the same, but under the hood it us being developed using common standards such as a high level of configuration, recipes etc all handled via JSON's with an emphasis on maximizing it's compatibility (or ability to be made compatible) with other mods within a pack.
Of particular note, the geomes (geological biomes) will be fully configurable so you'll be able to create your own.
Could you maybe make the stone look less realistic? Kinda clashes with the game unless your using realistic texture packs
In reply to NerdCuddles:
It could be done but it would require a whole new alternative texture pack, I doubt FoxNekitsune who does all the textures would have time to maintain two texture packs, she is partway through an updated texture pack at the moment which is looking very nice, but realistic. When I first came to the mod back when Cyano was still writing it I had the same immediate reaction to seeing the world with such sharp textures, but after a couple of days alongside the Faithful x64 pack I really got to like it, now its the only way I like to play!
If someone wanted to help produce a more 'cartoony' alternative texture pack I'd be very grateful, but I'm a programmer and don't have the skill with graphic art to do this myself.
New versions for 1.10 and 1.12 are live :)
Any feedback on these please let me know, the new 1.14 version is underway.
Apart from some aesthetic tweaks the new 1.12 build appears to be ready, once I've finished backporting some fixes to 1.10 we should have the new builds out, hopefully in a few days now.
I have a decent amount of texture and pixel art experience if you want someone to make textures for you. I also love geology!
In reply to MrCryandCheat:
That would be awesome if you could,I think there's clearly improvements which can be made, particularly with the x16 textures which are currently mostly made by downscaling from x128 and don't always look great, and the polished brick ones. The new release I'm close to deploying has about 10 new rocks, new things to make out of those rocks, double slabs, recipe and compatibility fixes etc. If you use the discord link above it should take you to the MMD public discord server (if you have discord), from there if you go the the channel #other_cyano_mods which is the channel currently used for Mineralogy, and from there you can ping me @SkyBlade if you'd like to discuss the textures or the mod in general.
New 1.12 build is even closer, I shall be adding double slabs then we'll be retesting.
Just doing some final fixes on the new 1.12 build,the bug where the crafting table recipe book recipes didn't work for many of the recipes is fixed for most of them, and they'll all be fixed in the upcoming release, hopefully within a few days (then I can get back to the 1.14 version..)
New 1.10 build seems stable, partway through porting the new stuff and fixes to 1.12 then they will both be released at once.
Also, there is a lot of new material being added currently, new stone types and new blocks to construct, going into 1.10 first and then across to 1.11 and 1.12 (and of course the upcoming 1.14 release
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.
In reply to doriko45:
It took me a while to get used to it but now I love it, at the moment there isn't anyone helping who can do textures, if you're willing to help I'd be more than grateful, possibly an alternative texture pack?
In reply to SkyBlade1978:
yeah I got the hang of it I just needed to actually find out what stones I could and couldn't mine
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)