Acidglow's Ore Expansion

Acidglow's Ore Expansion is a Minecraft NeoForge mod for Minecraft 26.2 that adds a set of common modded metals, their ores, raw materials, ingots, nuggets, storage blocks, recipes, tags, and normal Overworld ore generation.

Metals

The mod can add:

• Aluminum
• Bismuth
• Lead
• Nickel
• Osmium
• Platinum
• Silver
• Tin
• Titanium
• Uranium
• Zinc

Each enabled metal adds:

• Ore block
• Deepslate ore block
• Raw material item
• Raw material storage block
• Ingot
• Nugget
• Metal storage block

Config

On first load, the mod creates:

config/acidglows_ore_expansion-common.toml

All metals default to enabled:

[metals]
aluminum=true
bismuth=true
lead=true
nickel=true
osmium=true
platinum=true
silver=true
tin=true
titanium=true
uranium=true
zinc=true

Setting a metal to false prevents that metal from being registered at all. Disabled metals get no blocks, items, recipes, loot tables, tags, creative tab entries, or world generation from this mod.

Config changes require a full game or server restart.

Recipes

For each enabled metal:

• Raw material smelts into ingot
• Raw material blasts into ingot
• Raw material block blasts into metal block
• 9 ingots craft into 1 metal block
• 1 metal block unpacks into 9 ingots
• 9 nuggets craft into 1 ingot
• 1 ingot unpacks into 9 nuggets
• 9 raw materials craft into 1 raw material block
• 1 raw material block unpacks into 9 raw materials

Raw material block blasting is balanced as 9 items worth:

• Blast furnace: 900 ticks

The mod also adds these vanilla block cooking recipes:

• Raw Iron Block -> Iron Block in a blast furnace
• Raw Gold Block -> Gold Block in a blast furnace
• Raw Copper Block -> Copper Block in a blast furnace

Ore Generation

Enabled ores generate only in newly generated chunks. The mod does not retro-generate ores into existing chunks.

Ore generation uses configured features, placed features, and NeoForge biome modifiers. Ores generate in the Overworld with stone and deepslate variants. Platinum is restricted to mountain biomes.

Drops

Ore blocks drop their matching raw material item.

Loot tables support:

• Silk Touch dropping the ore block
• Fortune increasing raw material drops
• Explosion decay

Tags

The mod generates compatibility tags for enabled metals, including:

• c:ores
• c:ores/<metal>
• c:raw_materials
• c:raw_materials/<metal>
• c:ingots
• c:ingots/<metal>
• c:nuggets
• c:nuggets/<metal>
• c:storage_blocks
• c:storage_blocks/<metal>
• c:storage_blocks/raw_<metal>
• minecraft:mineable/pickaxe
• minecraft:needs_stone_tool
• minecraft:needs_iron_tool
• minecraft:needs_diamond_tool

Only enabled metals are included in generated tags.

Creative Tab

The mod adds a creative tab named:

Acidglow's Ore Expansion

Enabled metals are listed in this order:

1. Ore
2. Deepslate Ore
3. Raw Material
4. Raw Material Block
5. Ingot
6. Nugget
7. Metal Block

Textures

The mod generates models that reference texture paths, but PNG texture files are not included yet.

Expected block texture paths:

assets/acidglows_ore_expansion/textures/block/<metal>_ore.png
assets/acidglows_ore_expansion/textures/block/deepslate_<metal>_ore.png
assets/acidglows_ore_expansion/textures/block/raw_<metal>_block.png
assets/acidglows_ore_expansion/textures/block/<metal>_block.png

Expected item texture paths:

assets/acidglows_ore_expansion/textures/item/raw_<metal>.png
assets/acidglows_ore_expansion/textures/item/<metal>_ingot.png
assets/acidglows_ore_expansion/textures/item/<metal>_nugget.png

Technical Notes

The mod loads its metal config before creating DeferredRegister entries. This allows disabled metals to be skipped completely during registration.

Recipes, loot tables, tags, assets, and worldgen data are served from a generated runtime resource/data pack. This avoids static JSON files referencing metals that were disabled in config.

Build

./gradlew build