Mr1k3 Posted April 18, 2021 Report Share Posted April 18, 2021 (edited) This huge mod doubles the current amount of tool-grade metals in the game, massively expanding the endgame content. Enjoy 7 unique metal types all with their own quirks and complexities to create, start with blacksteel- a tier 5, progress to crysteel or move on to redsteel/bluesteel in teir 6. Finally, with some rare resources you will be able to create the three legendary metals-adamantite, mithril, and ultimately vinarium. Mod takes major inspiration from the minecraft mod "Minefantasy II", currently using TerraFirmaCraft colored steel ratios, might change them for balance though. I recommend using my mod: BetterDrifters so post steel tools have some sort of point in progression. Looking for feedback on things like "is the durability/mining speed difference too small or dramatic?", crashes or general balance suggestions on things like the hammer/excavator. I'll read all feedback. Mod is currently in a alpha/testing state, while unlikely, there may be crashes and there might be incompatibilities with other mods like: Metal recovery is at least one mod that will not work with this from what I've seen, so use it/similar mods at your own discretion. Brief description: I'll go over some basics here but I've included three new guides in the handbook going over stuff in more detail. You should give them a read if you need help. Spoiler New worldgen- Mystic ore is a new ore found rarely near the mantle in the deepths of the world, it produces a strange clockwork-like sound so you can find it easier when your nearby, mystic ore does not show up when prospecting so you will need to dig around in the dangerous depths while keeping an ear out for its signature sound. 3x3 Tools- Stronger metals means stronger tools, blacksteel and better metals can be created into powerful 3x3 mining tools like the hammer or excavator. Despite a general slower mining speed these tools can dig large tunnels far faster than a pickaxe but they cant mine as many total blocks as one. Legendary metal hammers need a special set of parts to create. More anvils- While blacksteel and crysteel can be forged into tools on a steel anvil, you will need a blacksteel anvil to work red and blue steel. You will eventually need to make a red/blue steel anvil so you can forge the legendary metals. These anvils are far easier to craft and can be reclaimed with a chisel. Standard tools and armor- All these new metals can be forged into vanilla things like pickaxes, axes, saws, hammers, shovels, shears, brigantine, chainmail, plate, scalemail and more. The only thing you cant make that might be added later on is spears and arrows if I can figure out how to make custom entities of these items. Armor recipes are based off of the armor crafting rebalance mod I have made, these recipes make more sense than vanillas and this mod is balanced to use these recipes. New fuels/alloys- To make these new metals you will need to alloy them from other metals/materials. Because of this, there are two new fuel types able to melt steel and beyond. Blacksteel needs to be carbonated via a cementation furnace before you can use it so you may want to build a few of those to expand your production. I might eventually add more cementation furnace useage, or even unique multi-blocks if needed. Also adds the ability to smelt down nickel and magnesium to ingots for some alloys. Nuggets- I've added tons of new nuggets for vanilla and this mods metals, this is for convenience when creating all these alloys, they have the same metal value as a normal nugget at 5 units and the recipe is 1:1 so you can smelt them back down to an ingot. They can be made with a chisel and the ingot you want to break down. Metal properties: Each new metal offers a choice: durability or speed. While some metals may let you mine faster or offer increased mobility this often comes at the cost of durability, as such you will need to make a choice of what metals you will want to make your tools or armor out of. Spoiler Blacksteel (tier 5)- Blacksteel is a very basic metal, its better than steel in every way. Armor made from any mystical metal offers far fewer restrictions than vanilla overall and is tuned to be different for each metal. Crysteel (tier 6)- Crysteel is an interesting "metal" that while in the same tier as the better steels it only needs a tier 4 anvil to smith like blacksteel, it has some fillers in it so its a good way to stretch your blacksteel supply, due to its properties it is unable to be made into armor and has less durability than blacksteel but it mines faster and does more damage. Redsteel (tier 6)- Redsteel is a very dense metal, its super strong and gear made from it have lots of durability and will protect you very well. Unfortunately its also very heavy so your tools will mine slower than bluesteel and armor will hinder your mobility greatly. Bluesteel (tier 6)- Bluesteel is unnaturally lightweight so tools made from it will mine really fast, its also great at making armor that barely hinders you, gear will have slightly less durability/protection than redsteel. Adamantite (tier 7)- Adamantite has incredible strength and gear made from it has insane durability and protection, it is very very heavy though so you wont be able to move or mine as fast with it. As an example adamantite plate armor will slow you down by 30%, but all types of armors made from it get a high tier damage resistance bonus. Mithril (tier 7)- Mithril is a metal incredible in its own right, its so lightweight that ingots of it will float on water! Gear made from this metal offer the fastest mining speed and even its plate armor will only slow you down by just 9%! Its not nearly as durable or protective as adamantite though and does not get a high tier damage resistance on scale and below. Vinarium (tier 7)- This super-metal is the result of mixing adamantite and mithril, its the ultimate alloy in the fact that it borrows properties from its components, items made from it are the most durable yet and also offer insane protection, the only catch is that its slightly heaver than mithril so its plate armor slows you down by 15%, but all types of armors made from it get a high tier damage resistance bonus. Images: Spoiler Metal textures: Order- blacksteel, crysteel, redsteel, bluesteel, adamantite, mithril, vinarium. Downloads: Current- MysticalMetals1.0.1.zip Old: Spoiler MysticalMetals1.0.0.zip Edited May 4, 2021 by Mr1k3 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lisabet Posted May 3, 2021 Report Share Posted May 3, 2021 woo...now someday when I learn to make steel the 'right way' I'll come back to mine this lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr1k3 Posted May 4, 2021 Author Report Share Posted May 4, 2021 1.0.1- Tweaked axes to have more damage but less durability/range compared to a sword. Fixed some tools that had no durability. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deviator Posted May 27, 2021 Report Share Posted May 27, 2021 One thing I just came across is none of the tools can be used in recipes. Found out while trying to make firewood with my new black steel axe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin Finger Posted May 29, 2021 Report Share Posted May 29, 2021 Yah thats the one thing that makes these tools actually kind of useless in some cases. Always have to keep a steel axe on me anyways. Really hope that gets changed at some point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brigtsen Posted June 27, 2023 Report Share Posted June 27, 2023 Does this mod still work in newer versions of the game? Seems really good, and id like to add it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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