The Better Metals & Gems Mod

This mod will add:
Metals

Copper, a common metal that is better than stone but worse than iron.

Silver, an uncommon metal only found in biomes that are warm, and it can also be found in the nether, where is more common than in the overworld, only spawns in basalt deltas,

Rhodium
A uncommon metal only found in rivers, it can be used to craft White Gold

Rose Gold, this can be crafted with Gold and Copper, with these ingots you can upgrade your gold gear, giving it the durability of iron, it can also be used to craft rose gold apples these can give you haste and speed for mining.

Green Gold
Is crafted with Gold and silver, it can also rarely spawn as an ore in mesa biomes, is weak but it packes a punch, you can craft Green Gold Apples if you are about to fight someone.

White Gold
It is used to upgrade Gold, it is a straight upgrade to it, it is kind of like diamond

Gems

Amethyst
is like emeralds, it can only be found in deserts biomes, both as individual stone ore and in groups in geodes made of grimstone, the ore glows and the block can give you glowing if you stand on it, amethyst gems can be used to upgrade your diamond armor

Topaz
Can only be found in Forests, tthe gem block can give you resistance if you stand on it, like amethyst it can be used to make diamond armor more resistant to damage and the tools are more durable.

Sapphire
Can only be found in Snowy tundras, the block can give you stregnth if you stand on it,also can be used to make diamond armor tougher and the tools deals more damage.

Fluorite
Can only be found in Badlands, the block can give you Haste and Speed if you stand on it,also can be used to make diamond tools faster.

Sculk Onix
It's a gem that only spawns in Y: 5 and it can be used to upgrade your diamond gear, it's like the overworld's netherite, the helmet can give you night vision

MISC

Grim stone, it's a stone variant that generates deep underground

Deep in the dark, there are shrines that contains an infection, I'd be careful if I were you.

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