Seamless Ores

Seamless Ores adds ore variants for the stones ore generates in, such as granite, andesite, tuff and dripstone, and the stones other mods add, in the Overworld, the Nether and the End. Each variant uses its stone as the background, so the ore matches the wall it sits in.

Ore appears in the stone it would form in, in the real world. Where another mod puts its ore in a stone it does not belong in, that stone stays plain rock, and vanilla ores follow the same rule when the Geology setting is on. Everywhere else the veins are the same and in the same places; only their look changes. The settings that change the amount of ore are listed below, and each has its own switch.

Resource pack

Seamless Glowing Ores is the companion resource pack. Ores glow in the dark, with an optional connected outline that joins ore of the same type across different stones, and optional subtle and animated looks, all in one file. It needs only Fusion.

Stones

Ore gets a variant in granite, diorite, andesite, tuff and dripstone, and in basalt and blackstone in the Nether. The Sulfur Caves' cinnabar holds ores too, on Minecraft 26.2 and 26.3, and on 1.21.1 and 1.20.1 with Vanilla Backport. The deep blackstone that Terralith lays in its caves gets matching ore on every version.

Stones from other mods are covered as well, each with the vanilla and modded ores that form inside it:

Atmospheric, Blockus, Born in Chaos, Create, Create: TFMG, Darker Depths, EmbellishCraft, Forbidden and Arcanus, Galosphere, Let's Do Meadow, Mythic Upgrades, Nature's Spirit, Oh The Biomes We've Gone, Promenade, Quark, Regions Unexplored, Spawn, Twigs, Wilder Wild and YUNG's Cave Biomes.

In the End, the stones of BetterEnd, Endless Biomes, Enlightend, Legendary Monsters, The Outer End and Unusual End hold the End ores of the mods that place ore there.

Calcite and smooth basalt get ore only where Create's stone layers place them.

Ores from other mods

The ores of these mods get variants in the stones they generate in:

Actually Additions, Basic End Ores, Basic Nether Ores, BetterNether, Bigger Reactors, Born in Chaos, Bronze, Cobblemon, Create, Create: Gunsmithing, Create: New Age, Create: Propulsion, Create: Tank Defenses, Create: TFMG, Dense Mekanism, Dense Ores, Electrodynamics, Elemental Craft, Embers Rekindled, Energized Power, Epic Paladins, EvilCraft, Exp Ores, Expanded Delight, Extreme Reactors, Hazen 'N Stuff, Ice and Fire (Community Edition), Immersive Engineering, Iter RPG, Just Enough Guns, Malum, Mekanism, Mining Master, Modern Industrialization, Mystical Agriculture, Mythic Metals, Mythic Upgrades, Occultism, Oreganized, Ores Above Diamonds, Powah, Project Red Exploration, Railcraft Reborn, RFTools Base, Rubinated Nether, Scaling Health, Scorched Guns, Silent Gear, Silent Gear Compat, Silent's Gems, Sulfur and Potassium, Superb Warfare, Tech Reborn, Theurgy, Things, Tinkers' Construct, Treasure2 and Werewolves: Become a Beast.

Not every mod has a build for every Minecraft version and loader, so the blocks you get depend on what you have installed. A modded block exists only when the mods it belongs to are installed, so there is nothing to configure. The variants carry the same tags, drops, experience, hardness and mining level as the ore they replace, read from that ore's own files, so JEI, REI, Jade, ore doubling and processing chains treat them as ordinary ore, and a data pack that changes an ore's drops changes its variants too. Born in Chaos' infected diamond gets a tuff variant, off by default, that like the original releases a Diamond Termite when mined.

Amount of ore

A block that becomes granite iron ore was already going to be iron ore, and a vein running from stone into granite changes look block by block. These settings are the exceptions:

• Copper. Vanilla's large copper veins and dripstone caves look like solid copper once the stone around the ore matches, so ordinary copper defaults to 75 percent and dripstone caves to 50 percent. Set both to 100 for vanilla amounts.
• Lush Caves. Ore left bare in their clay and moss becomes clay or moss. This removes a little ore, only there.
• Sulfur Caves (26.2 and 26.3, and 1.21.1 and 1.20.1 with Vanilla Backport). No ore sits in or against their sulfur and cinnabar. This removes ore, only there.
• Cinnabar ores (the same versions). Gold, iron, redstone and the modded ores that occur beside cinnabar form inside it, in the same veins and at the same rates as the ore they stand in for. This adds ore, only in cinnabar, with a slider for how much.
• Geology, off by default. When on, vanilla ores also stop forming in the vanilla stones they would not form in, such as coal in granite. In a test area of 1,024 chunks on 26.3, this left 4.1 percent less ore, mostly coal and lapis. Other mods' ores follow this rule always, in every stone.

The Nether

Vanilla gold and quartz only generate in netherrack, so their basalt and blackstone versions are new ore rather than a restyle. They are on by default, and the same goes for the Nether ores of the supported mods. Nether ore rarity (one in two by default) and Nether vein size (80 percent by default) control how much of it forms, and turning basalt and blackstone off brings Nether generation back to vanilla. Bastions are protected, so their walls never turn into ore.

The End

The End stones listed above add ore: the End ores of the supported mods also form inside them. Each of those stones can be switched off.

Compatibility

Worldgen overhauls and ore distribution datapacks keep their own settings, including Terralith, because existing ore features are extended rather than replaced.

Settings

The settings screen opens from Mod Menu on Fabric, or from the mods list on NeoForge and Forge. Every stone can be switched off and each supported mod has its own section; sections for mods you do not have are hidden. Settings never change which blocks exist, only what generates, so a client and a server with different settings always agree. Changes apply to newly generated chunks.

Supported versions

There is one file per loader, and it picks the right build for the version it is installed on. On NeoForge 1.20.1 the NeoForge file runs the Forge build, which NeoForge supports at that version. Where the table says 5.1.0, that version stays available and keeps working. Tested in game: Fabric on 1.20.1, 1.21.1, 1.21.11, 26.1.2, 26.2 and 26.3, NeoForge on 1.21.1, 1.21.11, 26.1.2, 26.2 and 26.3, and Forge on 1.20.1.

Dependencies

Every stone and ore mod above is optional.

Common questions

I have Seamless Ores: Matrix installed. What should I do? Matrix is now part of Seamless Ores and is no longer available on its own. Update Seamless Ores to 5.0.0 or newer first, then delete the Matrix file from your mods folder. Your worlds are safe: while both are installed Seamless Ores steps aside, and once Matrix is gone the Matrix ores already in your worlds become Seamless Ores' own blocks.

Does it work in an existing world? Yes, in chunks you have not visited yet. Explored areas keep what they have. Blocks from an earlier version keep working: renamed ones load as their new block, and the few that no longer exist turn into their stone, placed or in an inventory.

I play on 1.21.4 to 1.21.10, or on Forge 1.21.x. Stay on Seamless Ores 5.1.0, which keeps working there, and on Seamless Glowing Ores 9.1.0.

Does it work on a server? Yes, install it on both sides.

Credits

An original mod, written from scratch. Not a fork or a port.

The vanilla ore overlays are derived from Minecraft's own textures and remain Mojang's property. Each jar carries THIRD_PARTY_ART.txt, which lists every overlay derived from another mod's ore art under that mod's name, authors and licence.

The Immersive Engineering, Oreganized and Malum overlays are derived from their ore textures and are used with the permission of BluSunrize, Binome and Sammy Semicolon, respectively.

Electrodynamics' and Railcraft Reborn's ore art is used under their own licences, with credit to Sebastian Siljuholtet Johansen, and to Sm0keySa1m0n and Edivad99, respectively.

Shipped under the mod's own licence, file by file: Bigger Reactors and Elemental Craft (LGPL-2.1); Epic Paladins, Ice and Fire Community Edition, Powah, Sully's Mod and Werewolves (LGPL-3.0); Cobblemon (MPL-2.0); Bronze, Create: Gunsmithing, Iter RPG, Just Enough Guns, Scorched Guns and Superb Warfare (GPL-3.0); Dense Ores (AGPL-3.0); Treasure2 (OSL-3.0); Rubinated Nether and Theurgy (CC BY-SA 4.0); EvilCraft and Oritech (CC BY 4.0); Hazen 'N Stuff (PolyForm Shield 1.0.0, Required Notice: Copyright Hazen).

Credit only (MIT, Apache-2.0, BSD-3-Clause, AFL-3.0 or CC0): Actually Additions, Basic Nether Ores, BetterNether, Create, Create: New Age, Create: Propulsion, Create: Tank Defenses, Create: TFMG, Dense Mekanism, Embers Rekindled, Energized Power, Exp Ores, Expanded Delight, Extreme Reactors, Mekanism, Mining Master, Modern Industrialization, Mystical Agriculture, Mythic Metals, Mythic Upgrades, Occultism, Ores Above Diamonds, Project Red Exploration, RFTools Base, Scaling Health, Silent Gear, Silent Gear Compat, Silent's Gems, Sulfur and Potassium, Tech Reborn, Things and Tinkers' Construct.