The Ore Dowsing mod provides items called Dowsing Rods which can help find ores and other blocks. When you right-click with a Dowsing Rod it highlights ores which it finds in a cube around you (sized from 9x9x9 to 17x17x17 depending on the tier). Which ores it highlights is also dependent on the tier.
The highest-tier rod (diamond) can also be set to target a specific ore of your choice, or even non-ores. This can be used for various cheaty and non-cheaty tasks, such as finding chests in a mine or stronghold, or highlighting a pipe system in your base.
Screen shots:
Wood Dowsing Rod revealing some iron ore:
Diamond Dowsing Rod revealing coal, iron, redstone, lapis, gold, and diamond ores:
Minecraft 1.8 requirements:
Minecraft Forge, built/tested with version 1.8-11.14.3.1515
Minecraft 1.7.10 requirements:
Minecraft Forge, built/tested with version 1.7.10-10.13.4.1448
- Iron Dowsing Rod
- made with 5 iron ingots, 1 redstone
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- finds gold
- searches 13x13 cube
- 100 uses
- Gold Dowsing Rod
- made with 5 gold ingots, 1 lapis lazuli
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- finds diamonds
- searches 17x17 cube
- 100 uses
- Diamond Dowsing Rod
- made with 5 diamonds, 1 emerald
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- shift-right-click on a block to find that type of block
- shift-right-click on air to find any ore
- searches 17x17 cube
- expand range by combining with 4 more diamonds in a crafting grid
- 1000 uses
- repair damage by recharging with RF
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The Ore Dowsing mod provides items called Dowsing Rods which can help find ores and other blocks. When you right-click with a Dowsing Rod it highlights ores which it finds in a cube around you (sized from 9x9x9 to 17x17x17 depending on the tier). Which ores it highlights is also dependent on the tier.
The highest-tier rod (diamond) can also be set to target a specific ore of your choice, or even non-ores. This can be used for various cheaty and non-cheaty tasks, such as finding chests in a mine or stronghold, or highlighting a pipe system in your base.
Screen shots:
Wood Dowsing Rod revealing some iron ore:
Diamond Dowsing Rod revealing coal, iron, redstone, lapis, gold, and diamond ores:
Minecraft 1.8 requirements:
Minecraft 1.7.10 requirements:
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Recipes/items:
There are 4 different Dowsing Rods:
- Wood Dowsing Rod
- made with 5 sticks, 1 coal
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- finds iron
- searches 9x9 cube
- 50 uses
- Iron Dowsing Rod
- made with 5 iron ingots, 1 redstone
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- finds gold
- searches 13x13 cube
- 100 uses
- Gold Dowsing Rod
- made with 5 gold ingots, 1 lapis lazuli
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- finds diamonds
- searches 17x17 cube
- 100 uses
- Diamond Dowsing Rod
- made with 5 diamonds, 1 emerald
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- shift-right-click on a block to find that type of block
- shift-right-click on air to find any ore
- searches 17x17 cube
- expand range by combining with 4 more diamonds in a crafting grid
- 1000 uses
- repair damage by recharging with RF
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Plans/to do
Mod packs:
You are welcome to include the mod in your mod pack. You don't need to ask me. Attribution is always appreciated.
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I've released version 0.2 of the mod. Ores are now colored according to their type, so you can pick things out when using the Diamond Dowsing Rod:
Here you can see coal, iron, redstone, lapis, gold, and diamond ores.
Requirements are the same as before.
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