Welcome to Jo’s Simple Gems & Metals Mod!

Looking to spice up your vanilla Minecraft world? You’re in the right place.
This vanilla-friendly mod adds 14+ new materials (and growing!) with unique recipes, uses, and progression — perfect for solo adventures or SMPs.

What's Inside? New Materials and What They Do

Here’s a breakdown of all materials, how to get them, and what you can do with them:

🟤 Bronze

Crafting: Tin + Copper in a crafting table.
Strength: Tools and armor are slightly stronger than iron.

⚙️ Steel

Crafting: Combine coal, iron, and a diamond.
Upgrade Path: Use the smithing table to upgrade iron gear to steel.
Strength: Armor is a bit weaker than diamond, but tools outperform diamond.

🪙 Tin

Use: Decorative block and used for crafting bronze.
Ore Location: Commonly found in caves.

🔵 Cobalt

Use:
- Craft soul lanterns, soul torches, etc.
- Essential for crafting titanium.
Strength: Slightly weaker than diamond.
Ore Location: Rarely found in caves.

🟣 Titanium

Crafting: Combine titanium shards, cobalt, and uranium.
Strength: Gear that rivals netherite.
Ore Location: Super Rare cave spawn.

☢️ Uranium

Use:
- Craft uranium glass blastproof and drops itself when mined.
- Ingredient for titanium, vibranium, and darkmetal.
Ore Location: Rare cave spawn.

❤️ Ruby

Use:
- Decorative block.
- Ingredient for vibranium and opal.
Ore Location: Found in the Nether.

⚫ Darkmetal (formerly Enderite)

Crafting: Combine ruby, uranium, and darkmetal shards.
Upgrade Path: Use smithing table to upgrade netherite gear to darkmetal.
Strength: stronger than netherite.
Ore Location: rarely, found in The End.

💠 Vibranium

Crafting: Ruby + Uranium → Vibranium Dust, smelt to get ingots.
Strength: Similar to netherite gear.

💎 Opal

Crafting: 4 Rocky Opal + 1 Ruby. then smithing table with titanium
Strength: Slightly weaker than darkmetal.
Ore Location: Rarely found in The End.

⚫ Black Opal

Crafting: 4 Rocky Opal + 1 Amethyst Shard. then smithing table with vibranium
Strength: Slightly weaker than darkmetal.
Ore Location: Rarely found in The End.

🌌 Voidsteel

Crafting: Combine infused opal, and darkmetal.
Upgrade Path: Smithing table to upgrade darkmetal gear.
Strength: The strongest material in the game — period.

🔥 The Two Fire Metals

Crafting: Blast for Crimsonite, smoke for Solarium
Use: Needed to craft Voidsteel and the Fire Metal Bow and shield.
Ore Location: Found rarely in Crimson Forests in the Nether.

✨ New Additions

🧿 Aetherium Pearls

Use: Craft into Blessed Aetherium Pearls.
Effect: Used to buff yourself (potion effects, etc.).

🔥 Blast Furnace Support

You can now smelt all new ores in a blast furnace — requested by player

⚙️ Gameplay Balance & Notes

All materials (except for maybe the ultra-rare Voidsteel) are balanced to keep that good ol’ vanilla challenge.
Perfect for survival, SMPs, or even modded adventures.
Designed with fun and exploration in mind

📢 Feedback Welcome!

Have an idea? Found a bug? Want to suggest a new gem, ore, or armor set?
Leave a comment — I’d love to hear your thoughts!

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