ORES HARD TO FIND
A Vanilla+ Ore Progression Overhaul
"Every ore tells a story. Some hide, some fight back—and the rarest demand courage to uncover." - DeepSeek about my mod, 2025
⛏️ Guide and Features
COPPER

Tools & Armor:
- Full tier with dynamic oxidation textures.
- Armor slowly degrades when worn.
Progression:
- Iron ore now requires a copper pickaxe to mine.
- Don't forget to make a Brush - you might need it.
GOLD

Generation:
- No vanilla gold ore (except Nether).
- Now found in brushable variants: gold-infused sand, gravel, clay near rivers/lakes.
MAGNETITE (new!)

Generation:
- Brushable suspicious gravel and sand with blue-gray particles.
- Can be foun near water or in gravel mountains
Usages:
- Craft magnetometers.
- Make charged magnets (with lightning).
Your first Magnetometer

Magnetometer is a new tool that helps you navigate in caves. When used, it emits a beam of particles pointing in the direction of the nearest ore. But dont trust it too much: the precision of the beam dergrades rapidly with distance.
Magnetometers are divided into three tiers: copper, iron and netherite.

IRON
Generation:
- Only in rare deepslate veins.
Progression:
- Can be found with copper magnetometer
- Requires copper pickaxe for mining
New Mechanic:
- Suspicious Iron Ore:
- Identical to vanilla ore but transforms into an Iron Ore Golem when mined.
- Defeat the golem for raw iron.
- Silk Touch lets you collect it safely.
Making a Magnet
To craft a next tier Magnetometer you first need to obtain Charged Magnet.
Crafting recipe for Uncharged Magnet:

When, place Lightning Rod on top of it, and go do some farming, or idk. Eventually, a lightning strike turns it into a Charged Magnet.
Also check Cleric's trades - he can provide you with a way to summon storm.

Now you can craft an Iron Magnetometer!

It works just like it's copper variant, but is more durable and also can detect Lapis Lazuli and Redstone.
LAPIS LAZULI

Generation:
- Custom geodes (like amethysts).
- Contains lapis-calcite ore clusters.
No Changes (for now):
- Same enchanting uses (but harder to find).
REDSTONE

Generation:
- Changed slightly. Still generates on the same level, but rearer and with redstone block as a core.
No Changes (and won't be):
- Redstone is already has deep mechanics in vanilla
DIAMONDS

Generation:
- Deep Dark exclusive as Shrieking Diamond Ore.
Mechanics:
- Plays sound when activated by sculk sensor's vibrations, so they can de found even if completely buried.
- Mines safely with Silk Touch.
- Without it: shrieks like a sculk shrieker.

