Realistic Deposits is an extension for MMD OreSpawn that is being built to make valuable minerals feel like geological discoveries. Instead of scattering a steady supply of small, isolated ore clusters throughout the world, it plans rare formations large enough to reward exploration and support sprawling mines, rail networks, and long-term resource projects.
The project starts with Minecraft 1.10.2 and is intended to follow the maintained OreSpawn branches across Forge and NeoForge.
Version 0.1.0.110021 is an early development preview. It can load and
validate deposit definitions, plan deterministic formations, show their bounds
with preview commands, and provide a configuration screen.
It does not place or replace blocks yet. Installing this version will not add massive deposits to generated worlds. This limitation is intentional while the first generation integration is completed and tested.
- Rare, region-scale deposits that remain identical regardless of chunk generation order.
- Long stratiform seams and other geologically inspired bodies instead of simply enlarged spherical ore blobs.
- Massive-and-rare, geome-aware, and host-rock-aware generation modes.
- Additive, hybrid, and replacement policies for controlling interaction with ordinary ore generation.
- Configurable support for vanilla and modded resources.
- Optional compatibility catalogs for Mineralogy, Base Metals, Modern Metals, Base Minerals, and Base Gems where those mods are available.
- Safe generation that avoids air, fluids, bedrock, block entities, structures, and undeclared host blocks.
The current branch requires:
- Minecraft 1.10.2;
- Forge 12.18.3.2511 or a compatible newer Forge 12 build;
- MMD OreSpawn 4.0.16 or newer, but earlier than OreSpawn 5;
- Java 8 to run Minecraft.
Realistic Deposits is independent of the similarly themed Large Ore Deposits mod and does not require it.
Install Forge, OreSpawn, and Realistic Deposits in the usual mods directory.
The first launch creates:
config/realisticdeposits/deposits/vanilla.json
The supplied definition describes a rare iron formation using a long, thin,
folded stratiform_seam. You can inspect the loaded configuration and preview
deterministic candidates with:
/realisticdeposits status
/realisticdeposits preview <regionX> <regionZ> [deposit-id]
/realisticdeposits reload
reload requires operator permission. These commands are diagnostic only in
the current preview and never change world blocks.
The configuration screen is also available from Forge's Mods list.
The Gradle build runs on Java 17 and compiles the mod for Java 8 using the configured toolchain. On Windows, run:
.\gradlew.bat clean check build
.\gradlew.bat genEclipseRunsImport the project into Eclipse through Buildship after generating the Forge run configurations.
Bug reports and feature ideas are welcome through the issue tracker.
Realistic Deposits is licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License version 2.1.