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Bugfixes:

• Quartz almost never had any gold or silver.
• Marble didn't drop Sphagnum and no experience drops from Lapis.
• Brickblocks dropped just Andesite Brickblocks when broken.
• Sandstone Brickblock translation was missing.
• Sheeps didn't eat tillgrass and doesn't grow back wool.
• Till wasn't regrowing grass (ooops, that was a late minute change in beta2 that broke this 😞).
• Recycle station didn't create a new stack of output when an exisiting one couldn't handle more items.
• Mineralblocks was not being rendered correctly.
• Show BetterGeo sand TNT recipe in the recipe book.
• A few shift-click crashes on the smeltry, batterycharger and flue gas cleaner has been fixed.
• Conductivity meter animation is now working.
• Minor changes to battery charger code.
• Sometimes duplicate messages would be sent to the player instead of just one message when using various items.
• Minor changes to what can grow on TillGrass. Requests has been made to make BetterGeo to work with Biomes o plenty plants but unfortunatly the 1.12-version of BoP doesn't utilitze the correct method for this so we can't do anything about it. (BoP for later Minecraft versions does that).
• Snow covered grass blocks now has the snowy side texture again.

New features:

• Translations added for German, Spanish, Estonian, Finnish, French, Italian, Polish and Slovenian. Thanks to our BetterGeoEDU-partners!
• Recipes added for Mineralblocks.
• Recipes added for BetterGeo Books.
• BetterGeo Books recipes shown in the recipe book.
• Alloyfurnace and Smeltery will light up, change the front texture and generate burning particles when used.
• Stone tools and weapon will now show up in the recipe book when picking up one of the BetterGeo stone types that can be used to build these tools or weapon.
• The furnace will now show up in the recipe book when picking up one of the BetterGeo stone types that can be used to build the furnace.

Bugfix:

• Sheeps didn't eat Tillgrass which causes them to never grow back wool. This has now been fixed.

• Translations for the following languages has been added:

- German

- Spanish

- Estonian

- French

- Italian

- Polish

• Slovenian translation has been updated.

• Added hopper automation support for the Smeltery, Alloy furnace, Flue gas cleaner and Recycle station. This should take care of crashes to worlds that refused to load after a hopper was placed in the world. (sorry about that one!)
• Fixed flue gas cleaner not restoring properly after loading a saved world.
• Fixed flue gas cleaner not generating smoke when it was full.
• Some seeds couldn't grow on farmlands.

• Completely rewritten to work with Minecraft 1.12.2
• Integrates with the new Minecraft 1.12 recipiebook
• The old achivements have been updated to advancements
• Jetpack movements has been improved
• Grass paths can be made in grass covered Till with a shovel
• BetterGeo blocks and items have been split into four separate creative mode tabs
• Performance improvements and optimization to BetterGeo worldgeneration
• Other various bugs taken care of during development of the new version

2018-07-05 BetterGeo 2.0.1u1 for Minecraft 1.7.10

2016-11-01 BetterGeo 2.0 for Minecraft 1.7.10

2016-04-28 BetterGeo 1.2

2016-04-28 BetterGeo 1.2

2016-03-22 BetterGeo 1.1u1

2016-02-24 BetterGeo 1.1

2016-02-04 BetterGeo 1.1b01

2015-11-05 BetterGeo 1.0

2015-10-19 BetterGeo 1.0b05

2015-07-03 BetterGeo 1.0b04

2015-06-09 BetterGeo 1.0b03u1

2015-06-05 BetterGeo 1.0b03

2015-05-17 BetterGeo 1.0b02u1

2015-05-16 BetterGeo 1.0b02

Granite is placed in sustained masses with various sizes and at various depths below ground. You can find granite in mountains, e.g. underlying other rock types. Granite is often abundant near gneiss and is found in the continental crust (the continental crust is present on land and can continue under the oceans). Caves can be found in granite.
Function: Building block, is one of the sources of cordierite and feldspar.

Gabbro is mostly found in the oceanic crust under the sea, but can be found in some environments on continental crust. Gabbro is found under layers of sedimentary rocks, granite and gneiss. You can also find blocks of gabbro with titanium and copper.
Function: Building block, source of copper and titanium (gabbro with copper is one of the new blocks that replace the former block red stone ore).

Andesite is an igneous rock which can be found together with diorite, granite and gabbro.
Function: Building block.

Dioriteis an igneous rock which can be found together with andesite, granite and gabbro.
Function: Building block.

Basalt is found in the oceanic crust under the sea, either as a smooth layer directly under the oceans or with gabbro on top. Copper can be found in basalt (which partly replaces the former block of red stone ore).
Function: Building block, source of copper.

Pumice floats on the water surface in reality and of course it does in this mod too. If you drop your pumice blocks in water the will float and if the water is moving, the pumice blocks will move in the same direction as the water. Also, if you put two pumice blocks next to each other in water, they will break. So be careful if you use pumice as a building block.
Function: Building block.

Gneiss (the metamorphic equivalent of a granitic rock) is placed in sustained masses with various sizes and various depths. You can find gneiss in the continental crust and in mountains, often close to granite sequences and with other rock types above. You can also find gneiss under the oceans (the continental crust continues from land and out under the ocean). Caves can be found in gneiss.
Function: Building block, is one of the sources of cordierite.

Skarn can be found at deeper depths in the crust and is often seen as the contact surface between limestone, marble and granite. Skarn is one of the new iron and copper ores, and replace the former blocks of iron ore and red stone ore.
Function: Building block. Skarn is one of the bigger sources of metals in the mod (e.g. iron, rare earth elements, tungsten and copper).

Marble (the metamorphic equivalent of limestone) is found adjacent to banded iron formations (BIFs), other metamorphic rocks (e.g. schist) or by itself in big masses underground. It can also be found in the contact zones where skarn is present. You will be able to extract zinc from marble since it contains sphalerite (a zinc-bearing mineral). You will also find the blue rock type lapius lazuli in some marble blocks.
Function: Building block, source of sphalerite and lapis lazuli.

Schist (the metamorphic equivalent of shale) is placed deep down in the continental crust along with other metamorphic rocks.
Function: Building block.

Shale occurs in horizontal layers in mountains and below ground above metamorphic and igneous rock types, together with limestone or sandstone in a “Grand Canyon inspired” stratigraphy.
Function: Building block.

Alum shale is a special type of shale which can be used as fuel.
Function: Building block, fuel

Sandstone occurs in horizontal layers of mountains and below ground above metamorphic and igneous rock types, together with limestone or shale in a “Grand Canyon inspired” stratigraphy. Sandstone already exists in Vanilla, but we have added coal to some sandstone blocks and hence it is now a new source of coal (replacing the former coal ore blocks). We have also given the sandstone blocks a new color.
Function: Building block, source of coal.

Limestone occurs in horizontal layers of mountains and below ground above metamorphic and igneous rock types, together with shale or sandstone in a “Grand Canyon inspired” stratigraphy. Limestone is like sandstone one of the new coal ores and replaces the former coal ore blocks.
Function: Building block, source of coal.

Banded Iron Formation (BIF) is found in masses or single blocks next to other sedimentary rocks like shale, limestone and sandstone, but also near marble. Banded iron formations are one of the new iron ores and replace the former iron ore blocks from Vanilla. By mining banded iron formations you will get iron – an important resource for some of the new recipes! You will be able to track iron by using the magnetic compass. The compass will react when you are less than 20 blocks away from an iron source.
Function: Building block, source of iron.

Fossils can be found in sedimentary rocks, with a little luck!

Veins and pipes are exciting geological features in this mod! They are visible from the ground level by the soil surface. They vary in length, width and direction and do not occur in oceanic crust under the sea (in reality they can but we have simplified it in this mod so you can only find them in the continental crust on land).

Diabase is an intrusive rock type pictured as veins in this mod.
Function: Building block.

Pegmatite is an intrusive rock type pictured as veins in this mod. Blocks of pegmatite can weather after some time if placed by the player.
Function: Building block and contains several resources: garnet, aquamarine, tantalum, tourmaline, emerald, feldspar, tin and lithium.

Quartz is a common mineral in reality as well as in this mod. Quartz is found in veins, sometimes bearing gold or gold and silver together. The former gold ore block is replaced by quartz with gold in this mod.
Function: Building block, source of gold and silver.

Kimberlite is an igneous rock type that is placed in pipes in this mod. Some of the kimberlite pipes contain diamonds. The former diamond ore block is replaced with blocks of kimberlite with diamonds in this mod.
Function: Building block and source of diamonds.

Till is the result of the grinding and displacement of rock and soil by an inland ice sheet and can be found in many biomes. Till replaces dirt.

Clay-rich till. Just like regular till, clay-rich till is the result of the grinding and displacement of rock and soil by an inland ice sheet. This type of till is relatively rare and is found in areas of easily eroded sedimentary rocks such as limestone, shale and sandstone. Clay-rich till have a high proportion of clay particles (over 15 percent) and is suitable for cultivation. Clay-rich till replaces dirt.

Boulder till. Just like regular till, boulder till is the result of the grinding and displacement of rock and soil by an inland ice sheet. This type of till contain, as the name suggests, a remarkable amount of boulders, often with a diameter greater than 1m. The abundance of boulders make areas with boulder till difficult to dig or pass with most vehicles. This type of till is not suitable for cultivation. Boulder till replaces dirt.

Pebbles is the accumulation of only gravel and therefore is referred to as a sorted soil. Waves sorted out other material such as sand or clay leaving only the gravel. Shingle sometimes marks the Highest coastline (HK), i.e. the highest level that the water reached after the inland ice sheet melted away.

Glacial erratic are huge boulders that have been broken off from bedrock and transported by glaciers or inland ice sheet. The boulder travels in the direction of the ice flow until the ice melts, leaving the boulder in the terrain. Glacial erratic can have a different composition than surrounding rock.

Bauxite is an aluminum rich soil type formed in tropical environments as a result of the subsequent chemical weathering of underlying parent rocks. Bauxite in this mod is placed in big and sustained masses above granite and adjacent to or surrounded by limestone, shale or gneiss in tropical environments. Bauxite is one of the larger sources of aluminum both in reality and in this mod.
Function: Source of aluminum, which will be used for making the jet pack.

Weathered tropical soil is formed in jungle biomes. It replaces dirt.

Except diamonds and emeralds that you already get in Vanilla, there are several new gemstones in this mod. By putting nine pieces of the same gemstone together in the crafting table you will get a block.
Function: Colorful building blocks, decoration and as part in some of the recipes.

Garnet is a mineral that will be found in pegmatite blocks.

Topaz is a mineral will be found in pegmatite blocks.

Cordierite is a mineral that will be found in granite and gneiss.

Aquamarine is a blue mineral that will be found in pegmatite blocks.

Tourmaline is a mineral that will be found in pegmatite blocks.

Iron (Fe) is a base metal that can be found in skarn and banded iron formations (BIFs), and these blocks replace the former iron ore block. Iron can be tracked by using the magnetic compass.
Functions: Iron will be used in recipes for e.g. steel, prospector’s pan and batteries with lithium.

Copper (Cu) is a base metal that is found in blocks of skarn, basalt and gabbro which are new copper ore blocks and replace the former block red stone ore. You will be able to track copper since the flower Alpine Cathchfly (Lychnis alpina) can be used as an indicator of copper deposits in the nearby ground.

Function: Copper will be used in alloys, the magnetic compass, the monster warning system and the battery charger.

Gold (Au) is a precious metal that can be found in quartz veins or by placer mining in rivers.

Tantalum (Ta) is a transition metal that can be found in pegmatite veins.
Function: Is used in the recipe for making the heart starter.

Titanium (Ti) is a transition metal that can be found in gabbro.
Function: In recipes for heart-starter and jet pack.

Silver (Ag) is a precious metal that can be found in quartz veins where gold also is present.

Tungsten (W) is a transition metal that can be found in skarn.

Function: Is used in the process for making steel.

Lithium (Li) is an alkali metal that can be found in pegmatite veins.

Function: Lithium can be widely used in the mod since the batteries are made of lithium. The batteries will be used in the heart starter, jet pack and monster warning system.

Tin (Sn) is a metal that can be found in pegmatite veins.
Function: Is part of the recipe for brass alloys.

Sphalerite is a mineral that can be found in blocks of marble.
Function: Is used for making zinc ingots and brass alloys.

Feldspar is a mineral that occurs as a resource in granite, gneiss and pegmatite.
Function: Is used as a building block for the melting furnace.

Aluminum (Al) is a base metal that can be found in bauxite.
Function: Is part of the recipe for the jet pack.

Rare Earth Elements (REEs) are elements that are found in small concentrations in the Earth’s crust. In reality the REEs are represented by 17 different elements. In the mod we have introduced six different REEs, but we have not given them their individual names. Instead, as a simplification, we call all of them as a group for REE and they are represented by different colors. In the mod the REEs can be found in skarn deep down in the crust and between different biomes (defined environments) where skarn is present.
Function: REEs are used in recipes for heart starter and battery charger.

Coal (C) is one of the elements in Vanilla that could be found in coal ores, but in this mod coal is found in limestone and sandstone.
Function: Fuel.

Placer deposits in this mod contain gold and diamonds and can be found in sand near rivers.

When limestone blocks break by weathering they have a chance to drop the item Limestone Dust, which can be used as a fertilizer similar to Bone Meal.

Smeltery
A smeltery is needed when you want to extract your metals from the ore and make them useful. Blocks/drops that you can put in to the smeltery in order to get pure ingots are: bauxite, gabbro with titanium, gabbro with copper, iron from skarn och banded iron formations and sphalerite from marble. You need to put 8 pieces of each in the smeltery to make it start. Different amounts of waste slag will be produced during the process. You can put 10 slag pieces in the smeltery once more to extract more of the metal. You will also need various amounts of coal or buckets of lava in the process as fuel. You can fill 1-3 slots in the oven for the extraction, which represents different energy levels for the process. The number of slots varies depending on which metal you want to extract.
The smeltery will also produce pollution in the form of ash! Build a Flue Gas Cleaner to stop the spreading of pollution.
Composed by: One oven and eigth pieces of feldspar.


What to put in to the smeltery?

Flue gas cleaner
The flue gas cleaner prevents pollution from spreading the smeltery. Install it on top of the smeltery. The flue gas cleaner accomodates ash, which has to be taken out regularly to operate safely. The ash can be smelted to get titanium.
Composed by: Six steel, two wool and one limestone dust.

Alloy furnace
The alloy furnace is used for mixing different metals and make alloys. No waste slag is produced in this process. Fuel in the alloy oven is coal or a bucket of lava.
Composed by: One smeltery and three blocks of bricks.

What to put in to the alloy furnace?

Prospector's pan of wood
To pan gold and diamonds in the sand in river biomes.
Composed by: Three wooden sticks.

Prospector’s pan of steel
To pan gold and diamonds in the sand in river biomes. Lasts longer than the prospector's pan in wood.
Composed by: Three pieces of steel.

Recycle Station
The recycle station will recycle items you don't need any more! To recycle it needs fuel based on the melting point of the materials that you want to recycle. Wood will however burn to charcoal and rocks turn to gravel. Food can be recycled to create Compost, which is used in Mulch.
Composed by: Four steel, two copper blocks and two pistons.

Jet pack
The jet pack will enable you to fly around in the different gaming worlds (in survival mode). It will therefore be exciting to explore the environments and it will also be easier to the detect ores, veins and other resources. The jet pack works as long as the battery is charged, then you have to connect it to the battery charger (the charge is visible through a bar when you have the jet pack on your back).
Composed by: Four aluminum ingots, two titanium ingots and one lithium battery.

Monster scanner
The monster scanner can be used to detect monsters at a distance and is turned on/off by right clicking. The monster scanner has to be charged in the battery charger prior to the first time you use it and then recharged after some time.
Compose by: Two quarts blocks, two copper ingots, one piece of cordierite and one lithium battery.

Heart starter
If you lose all your hearts by dying or getting hurt during the game, the heart starter will allow you to continue and keep the possessions that you found so far. The heart starter needs to be charged in the battery charger prior to the first time you use it and then every time it has been used.

Composed by: Two titanium ingots, two tantalum ingots, one lithium battery and one REE ingot.

Lithium batteries
Lithium batteries are used in several products, e.g. the heart starter, jet pack and monster scanner.
Composed by: Steel and one lithium ingot.

Battery charger

Is used to charge the products that has a lithium battery. The battery charger is driven by solar power and hence it will only work during day time and when it is sunny. Products with a lithium battery like the jet pack, heart starter and monster scanner can be plugged in to the charger.
Composed by: Three REE ingots, one day light sensor and three copper ingots.

Sand paper
Is used to polish blocks, slaps and stairs. The sand paper will work on the following rock types: gabbro, marble, granite, gneiss, diabase, limestone, quartz, shale and schist.
Composed by: a garnet, slime and a paper.

Magnetic compass
Is a tool to help you localize iron ores. The magnetic compass will start to react when you are less than 20 blocks away from the ore. The closer you get to the ore, the bigger reaction from the compass.
Composed by: Four iron ingots and one copper ingot.

Metal boat
The metal boat is stronger than the wooden boat and can even travel on lava!
Composed by: 5 steel.

Polishing machine
The polishing machine is used to make polished blocks.
Composed by: 2 copper ingots, 2 bronze, 2 steel and 3 sandpaper.

Electrical conductivity meter
The electrical conductivity meter is used to find certain metals found in the rock skarn in BetterGeo. It is made with brass, copper, quartz, tantalum and a battery. It needs to be charged in the battery charger to be used.

Mulch
Mulch is a special block which has a very high cultivation speed. It is made by peat, clay or clay-rich till, and compost (which is made by recycling food or rotten flesh in the recycling station).

Peat blocks
Peat blocks can be used in a garden or as a building block.

Display cases
Show of your fancy gemstones and minerals with the display cases! There are three different kinds (brass, bronze and steel). You can display anything by right-clicking to put the item into the display case!
Composed by: 2 steel/brass/bronze, 1 glass.

Fire proximity suit
To work in dangerous environments you need the right equipment! The fire proximity suit gives you a fire resist effect if all parts are worn. The golden visor gives you a yellow tint to your view (can be removed in config).
Composed by:

• Helmet: Leather helmet + 1 silver ingot
• Chestplate: Leather chestplate + 2 silver ingots
• Legs: Leather legs + 2 silver ingots
• Boots: Leather boots + 1 silver ingot

Steel
Is an alloy made of seven iron ingots, one piece of coal and one tungsten ingot.



Bronze
Is an alloy made of seven copper ingots and two tin ingots.

Brass
Is an alloy made of six copper ingots and three zinc ingots.

The new achievements can be seen in a seperate window along with vanilla achievements.

BetterGeo also has an Education Edition! By finding new minerals, metals, rocks or soil types the player gets a book explaining more about the geology around the found object. The education edition is off by default and can be turned on in the mod options.

The books can be placed in book cases to earn achievements when completed. There are four book cases: rock, soil, mineral and metallurgy. They are created by a circle of wood and a mineral, soil, rock or metallurgically related item (ash, slag or any alloy) in the middle.

Alterations from the original version Vanilla:

Copper: Can be found in blocks of skarn and gabbro, which replaces former blocks of red stone ore.

Diamond: Is now found in sand as a placer deposit and in kimberlite pipes instead of the former diamond ore blocks.

Emerald: Can be found in pegmatite blocks, that replaces the former emerald ore blocks.

Iron: Blocks of skarn and banded iron formations are new sources of iron, and they replace former blocks of iron ore.

Obsidian: Changed hardness from a value of “50” to “9”.

Sandstone: There is a new color of the blocks and they can contains coal, hence it (together with limestone blocks) replace the former coal ore block.

New blocks
Andesite
Basalt: Replacing former gold- and copper ores.
Banded iron formation (BIFs): Replacing former iron ores.
Bauxite
Coal
Diabase
Diorite
Gabbro
Gabbro with copper: Replacing red stone ore.
Gabbro with titanium
Gneiss
Granite
Kimberlite
Kimberlite with diamonds: Replacing former diamond ores.
Limestone
Limestone with coal
Marble
Pegmatite
Pumice
Quartz: Replacing former gold ores.
Schist
Shale
Skarn: Replacing former iron and copper ores.
Till: Replaces dirt
Clay-rich till: Replaces dirt
Boulder till: Replaces dirt
Peat: Replaces dirt
Glacial erratic
Pebbles: Replaces dirt
Weathered tropical soil: Replaces dirt


New resources
Aluminum
Aquamarine
Cordierite
Feldspar
Garnet
Lithium
Rare Earth Elements (REEs)
Silver
Sphalerite
Tantalum
Tin
Titanium
Topaz
Tourmaline
Tungsten