Surface Samples

Surface Samples is a simple mod to do a simple thing: add small indicator blocks that worldgen mods can use as markers for ore deposits. I created this with EnderLanky's fantastic Large Ore Deposits mod in mind, but you can use it with any mod that allows you to specify blocks as markers. You could even use them solely as decoration for creative builds. The samples drop nuggets of their respective ores when right-clicked or destroyed, and are waterloggable, and snowloggable with Snow! Real Magic.

THIS MOD DOES NOT IMPACT WORLDGEN, FOR THESE TO APPEAR NATURALLY YOU WILL NEED A WORLDGEN MOD LIKE LARGE ORE DEPOSITS.

There are ore samples for all vanilla and create ores, including nether variants for gold, quartz, and netherite. I've also included a non-nether variant of quartz, which by default drops Sky's Overworld Quartz shards.

There are blockstate variants for sandy and red sandy environments, these live under the flavour blockstate, the values are stony, sandy, and red_sandy I've included example configs for Large Ore Deposits here. When placed by hand, the sample blocks will automatically detect the block under them. Sadly this doesn't work for worldgen, you'll have to specify the blockstate for that.

All samples included with 0.1.2

It also adds in four other blocks:

Crystallised redstone, which is a concentrated block of redstone that acts as a hybrid between a redstone block and redstone ore
Glowquartz, which is intended to be used as an early-game alternative to glowstone
Polished glowquartz, which has a different look and a higher light level
Glowquartz lamp, a redstone lamp equivalent

Intermediary items have been added for glowquartz, crystallised redstone, and andesite samples (since having a small sample drop an entire block felt strange).

All blocks and items have Create integration out of the box.

To change the drops of the samples, you can use a datapack, targeting data/surfacesamples/loot_table/blocks

This mod was created for a private SMP I am setting up, and so will likely get intermittent updates, but feel free to suggest changes or ore samples you'd like to see on the github issues page, I'll try to get to them one way or another :)

Inspiration from this mod stems from oitsjustjose's Geolosys and Vintage Story's ore samples.

This is my first venture into minecraft modding, I hope you like it as much as I do :3

All blocks lit

If you want to use this in a modpack be my guest! It'd be polite to credit me, but don't feel like you have to. If you use it in a video though, I'd appreciate credit. And if you use it to make something even cooler, show me!

Attribution/Credits:

Large Ore Deposits for inspiring me to make this mod in the first place
Quartz sample textures taken from Sky's overworld quartz
Snippets of code from Kaupenjoe's fantastic tutorial series
Zinc ore texture from Create
Andesite chunks, glowquartz shard, and crystallised redstone shard textures adapted from Malcomriley's Unused Textures
Glowquartz & crystallised redstone block textures also assembled from malcomriley's item sprites
Sample pickup behaviour inspired by Geolosys and Vintage Story
Sample model inspired by Vintage Story

Regarding Creativity

I do not and never will use AI in my creations. The code, models, and artwork in this may not be perfect, but they are mine, as are any modifications I've made to the sources listed above.