Refined Prospecting is a mining overhaul for Minecraft 1.16.5 that replaces traditional ore generation with a depth-based stone layer system.

This modpack is still in development, and there will be a few bugs. Please put all criticism in the comments.

How It Works

Below Y63, all types of stones, ores, and materials are replaced with 6 layers.

Stone — requires atleast a wood hammer
Andesite — requires atleast a stone hammer
Diorite — requires atleast an iron hammer
Granite — requires atleast a reinforced iron hammer (Coal blocks, water and lava)
Basalt — requires a atleast a reinforced iron hammer (Iron blocks)
Blackstone — the deepest layer, requires atleast a ender hammer (variety of granite and basalt materials)

Each layer can contain rare Glimmering variants that produce more materials once processed.

Important: This mod currently does not have support for other dimensions in vanilla or modded minecraft.

This mod is meant to make mining take longer by preventing the rushing of Iron and Diamond. However, netherite is much more consistantly findable and obtainable in the overworld. If you do not like this idea, either change the config or dont play.

Hammers & Sieves

Six hammer tiers are available, each capable of processing blocks from their tier and below.

Two sieve tiers are available — Load rubble into a sieve and process it to extract materials from them. Each rubble type has its own drop table with varying chances per item.

Sieves have durability; 100 for regular, and 250 for advanced (note: advanced can be repaired with string by right clicking on them, repairing 125 durability. If broken, the mesh breaks and has to be repaired. The entire sieve breaks after a collective 750 durability is lost).

JEI is reccomended to see drop chances.

Designed for Modpacks

Most aspects of this mod are configurable via four config files:

worldgen — layer Y ranges, ore generation, cluster behavior
blocks — hardness, resistance, and harvest levels for every stone block
tools — hammer tier caps and sieve processing speeds
drops — full control over sieve drop tables with add, remove, and replace options
RNG — Almost every chance aspect of this mod is modifiable.

A public API at com.zefishy.prospectoroverhaul.api.ProspectorRegistry allows other mods to register custom stone layers, remove vanilla layers, and modify sieve drop tables without any core changes.

Dependencies

Minecraft Forge 36.2.42+
GeckoLib 3.0.0+
Just Enough Items (optional, has two built in unique menus for crushing and sifting results)