Shining Ores

# Neon Ores (1.8.8 - 1.21.8)

Turns every ore into a bright, saturated neon block with glowing white edges and shining ore clusters. Ores are easy to spot in caves, strip mines and the Nether, and the pack looks great in videos and screenshots.

## What changes

| Ore | Neon colour |
|---|---|
| Diamond | Cyan |
| Emerald | Green |
| Gold (also nether gold and gilded blackstone) | Yellow |
| Lapis | Blue |
| Redstone | Red |
| Iron | Salmon |
| Copper | Orange |
| Coal | Violet |
| Nether quartz | Pink-white |
| Ancient debris | Amber |

- 22 ore textures, 16x16
- Bright glowing frame around every block, with white corners
- Deepslate ores are a little darker so they still fit their surroundings
- Only ore blocks change, everything else stays vanilla, so it works with other packs

## Supported versions

This download is for **Java Edition 1.8.8 up to 1.21.8**.

For **1.21.9 and newer** (up to 26.3), use the separate download, because Minecraft changed the `pack.mcmeta` format in 1.21.9.

The pack includes both the old (`blocks`) and new (`block`) texture folders, so the right textures load on every version in this range. Ores that don't exist in an older version, such as copper or deepslate, are simply ignored there.

## About the glow

The glow is painted into the textures, so the ores look bright and glowing in daylight and in your inventory. A texture pack can't make blocks light up dark caves or add a real light haze on its own. For that, use OptiFine or a shader pack. The pack includes optional glow maps and an OptiFine emissive setting for this. Vanilla ignores them without any problem.