EmpyreanOres

If you are bored of mining for netherite or just using diamonds for your tools, this is your mod. This mod adds new mining materials that enhance the way you collect resources and make your inventory more vibrant and colorful with its gems.

The following table ranks the new minerals alongside the vanilla ones for comparison:

Mineral	Base tool durability	Height (y level)	Biome (Overworld)
0. Adamantite	3500	(Only crafted)	-
1. Opal	2600	100 - 255	Mountains, Windswept Hills
2. Sapphire	2200	80 - 180	Mountains, Windswept Hills and Taigas
3. Netherite	2031	-	-
4. Diamond	1561	-	-
5. Steel	800	(Only crafted)	-
6. Ruby	---	35 - 80	Oceans
7. Topaz	---	20 - 120	Badlands, Desserts
8. Iron	250	-	-
9. Aluminum	200	50 - 140	All Biomes
10. Stone	131	-	-
11. Wood	59	-	-
12. Tungsten	---	50 - 110	Dark Forest, Forest, Mountains, Ice Plains, Taiga
13. Titanium	---	50 - 110	Birch Forest, Stony Biomes, Windswept Hills, Plains, Sunflower Biomes
14. Citrine	---	55 - 105	Savanna
15. Zircon	---	60 - 100	Jungle, Swamp

Note: Opal ore can only be mined with Sapphire tools and those need at least diamond-level gear to obtain.

These new gems can also be used to craft new armor and tools like pickaxes, axes, hoes, shovels, and swords with increased toughness, durability, attack speed, and damage. To do so just follow the standard Minecraft recipes replacing vanilla materials with modded ones.

Don't forget to try out the new shiny mineral blocks and add some new colors to your builds. You will need at least Sapphire tools to work with these new materials.

To craft Adamantite combine the new materials except Aluminum using a crafting table to obtain adamite, then smelt it to get an Adamantite Ingot. To get steel you have to craft it using an iron ingot and any type of coal. Low-carbon steel is used only for structural blocks, mid-carbon steel is used for armor and high-carbon steel is used for tool crafting. So what are you waiting for? Try it out for yourself.