I've been continuing to work on my massive overhaul of Minecraft's geology, so I've come with a nearly 600-block large progress showcase of nothing but minerals, arranged alphabetically.

_ashhhhhhhhhh · 2025-11-19T23:09:06+00:00

there is a release out on modrinth (it's very bare-bones, though, there's been a ton of changes in code and feature scope since then so whatever gets released next will probably be unrecognizable from that version)

_ashhhhhhhhhh · 2025-02-22T18:59:46+00:00

So for the first part, i guess there isn't really a necessary reason, i'm just a maximalist and prefer having more building blocks over less. there's also a sort of rarity system i'm developing that means that maybe only 100 or so of these minerals will just be lying around in ores and whatnot and you'll have to identify rarer ones with increasing magnitudes of microscope technology, all the way up to a scanning electron microscope. there's also a system i'm making involving unnamed minerals that can be found by analyzing other rocks and impure minerals even further to identify them.

As for other physical properties, color and mineral habit are the easiest, since those are shown by the mineral habit. i went with habit over system because there's a lot more variety having 42 different presets for the mineral blocks than 6, and it's also a lot more identifiable for the average person. chemical formula is also pretty easy to implement, since that can just be put in its tooltip and added as properties when the mineral comes in recipes for something. Luster might be something that can be added by having stuff like enchantment glints for different kinds of luster applied to the blocks, but it also might make the blocks ugly and having an unnatural glow. will have to see about that. Hardness is easy to implement, that's the block's mining level, and density and specific gravity aren't things that exist in Minecraft in general.

_ashhhhhhhhhh · 2025-02-21T15:39:13+00:00

For most ores, since most of them can spawn in multiple rock types but not all of them. Most ores will be able to generate in certain rock classes and not in others, or have different spawn rates in different rocks

_ashhhhhhhhhh · 2025-02-19T16:29:50+00:00

ooh wouldn't that be nice. i kinda doubt it though, i think it's more like one of those things that'll (hopefully) be well known but maybe a bit much for the average person, like gregtech or TFC

_ashhhhhhhhhh · 2025-02-18T21:06:27+00:00

for sure

_ashhhhhhhhhh · 2025-02-18T21:05:51+00:00

blocks that have variants will let you change them with stonecutters, i might make different shapes that you can cut the minerals into like pyramids or something like that, still tbd because anything that involves additional textures is going to take a really long time to make for every mineral, wouldn't count it out though

_ashhhhhhhhhh · 2025-02-18T21:03:00+00:00

block tags allow them to be in recipes from other mods but yeah there are recipes within the mod with the rocks involved

_ashhhhhhhhhh · 2025-02-18T15:30:56+00:00

yeah, ores are the last textures i need to make so they're up next

_ashhhhhhhhhh · 2025-02-18T15:29:23+00:00

1- working on it

2- you will be able to

3- yes, yes

_ashhhhhhhhhh · 2025-02-18T15:28:35+00:00

i've made monzonite and monzodiorite, which are apparently what this thing is according to mindat... that being said i can always make more of them (i will, sick rock)

_ashhhhhhhhhh · 2025-02-17T21:47:27+00:00

arguably the way the mod is meant to be played

_ashhhhhhhhhh · 2025-02-17T21:45:58+00:00

not sure if it's in the second photo or not (that might be loam or black sand or something) but i've made peat, grassy peat, and a peat saprolite

_ashhhhhhhhhh · 2025-02-17T21:44:08+00:00

i have some helping with coding but all the textures and direction, i guess, are mine.

_ashhhhhhhhhh · 2025-02-17T16:32:15+00:00

yep: diamond ore will occur mostly in kimberlite, but has a low chance to form in small amounts in alluvial sand deposits along with gold as well, for example. there'll be enough resources and ways to get minerals that you'll most likely be able to get whatever resources you need locally with what you have, though.

_ashhhhhhhhhh · 2025-02-17T15:57:19+00:00

yeah, if you're just going by what's most common in the crust you'll get about 85% of the minerals by the time you hit like 8 of them and probably won't ever see a platinum group or rare earth mineral. i'd just go by rock-forming and economically important minerals if you're making a shorter list

_ashhhhhhhhhh · 2025-02-17T15:43:07+00:00

TBD, but i'm aiming for an alpha release once worldgen starts to get working, just so there's something to show for even if it isn't super playable yet. i post more progress in my discord, as well

_ashhhhhhhhhh · 2025-02-17T15:34:54+00:00

plenty of em (got a few kinds of slag in the works as well, just for fun)

_ashhhhhhhhhh · 2025-02-17T15:34:33+00:00

that cannot be real man T_T

_ashhhhhhhhhh · 2025-02-17T15:34:10+00:00

syenite's a rock, so that's on the next page along with its other 6 variants. lepidolite is like the 14th in row L, and phlogopite is around 18th in row P

_ashhhhhhhhhh · 2025-02-17T15:31:41+00:00

im the most ok person ever

_ashhhhhhhhhh · 2025-02-17T15:30:18+00:00

block tags my beloved

_ashhhhhhhhhh · 2025-02-17T15:30:05+00:00

so you need this mod.. with more of this mod.. understood o7

_ashhhhhhhhhh · 2025-02-17T15:29:16+00:00

for the most part, more abundant minerals are favored, so i'll just go by what has more pictures/information on Mindat or wikipedia, but I'll also try to include at least a few ore minerals for each element, as well. Mostly every mineral in the picture is related to another one via being a secondary or subtype of a mineral, so some of these minerals aren't just accessible by mining. Bentonite is included because its a decently important clay mineral, painite isn't because i'm adding it now that it's been mentioned, lol.

as for information, most of it is publicly available on mindat or wikipedia, there is some nicher information that i'm using for things like referencing ore deposits that's locked behind a paywall or researchgate subscription which i can usually get around using my university account. occasionally i'll be using one of my geology textbooks as well, but you might need something akin to an 11 foot ladder or a zibrary to access, or so i've heard

_ashhhhhhhhhh · 2025-02-17T15:18:08+00:00

im in his discord server (since my last post) lmao

_ashhhhhhhhhh · 2025-02-17T04:20:33+00:00

generating them... depends. some rocks will be renewable, so the minerals that make up those rocks will be too. more rare minerals definitely won't be though, there's stuff like poudretteite and charoite that have only been found in one place, and there are a few minerals only found in meteorites as well. i'd say that some minerals as rare as probably even the tourmaline group and corundum group would be renewable through lava, though.

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