There seems to be a kinda weird layer of lava generated at Z level = 3, within bedrock. This lava do not behave as a "normal" one, in the sense that it does not flow, do not turn into cobble/pumex/obsidian on contact with water, can't be scooped with bucket and can't be replaced by block placed by player.
That's magma! You can toggle magma generation in the mod configuration.
how’s the 1.17/1.18 version going? are there plans to make the items in the mod compatible with tech mods and stuff? since many of the ores and alloys from bettergeo are present in tech mods. it is kind of a gamebreaker to not have its items compatible with the vast majority of mods used in modpacks. mainly vanilla cobblestone being unobtainable
We have ported over ~60-70% of the code to the 1.18 version, but we don't have time to work on it at the moment unfortunately. Hopefully we'll have time to work on the 1.18 version sometime after spring, and we'll look into item compatibility issues as well.
1. Is there a source of limestone powder without weathering? I turned off stone weathering to compare server performance and realized I couldn’t find any.
No, currently you can only get limestone dust from weathered limestone.
2. Have you considered offering different odds or speed or other options for weathering?
Yes, we have talked about adding an option to allow players to configure how blocks are affected by weathering.
3. Is there anything for Apatite? No recipes for Crafting Table or Ore Processing Plant. No new recipes appear the first time it’s picked up.
Apatite only works as a fertilizer at the moment. You can also create a BetterGeo book about apatite with it.
4. For some reason, in one of the seeds I use with default config, there are a lot of lightning strikes that makes a lot of skeleton horses. I doubt it’s related to BG but just in case. It’s weird bc it happens so often, in one instance but also several different instances.
Sounds cool, but I don't think it's something we are responsible for.
I agree but you can have iron ore, wolframite, and graphite in quantity long before you have enough lithium to do the batteries. Also, if you don’t have a jungle nearby, nickel and cobalt.
True, it probably isn't an issue when I think about it.
6. Currently, you can put flue gas filter on the sides. When one fills up, another start taking the ash. You are limited by the # of sides you put flue filters on, max 4 I think? So, does it make sense to allow flue filters to stack so when one fills up, the next one in line starts to take the ash? This could allow for long-term smelting without emptying ash. My use in the game would be to smelt a ton of metal while I was gone for days mining other stuff. In this regard, even the high-tech smelter is limited because it will fill up with ask that needs to be emptied. I hope all of that makes sense.
Ah okay, now I understand what you meant. That's not a bad idea, but I think doing so defeats part of what makes the high-tech smeltery so efficient. The high-tech smeltery doesn't produce ash so you don't need to attach a flue gas cleaner to it. This gives you an incentive to build one instead of sticking with a regular smeltery I'll write up your idea anyway so I can discuss it with my coworkers at a later time.
Also, for the translation, is the device meant to be something like in this video?
This is great, I cannot imagine what v3 would be like with 1.18 or whatever you’re working on.
UPDATE: Some possible 🦟:
alloy furnace doesn’t take fuel (Alum Shale, others) with shift-click
alloy furnace stops working after several rounds, won’t start again, needs to be smashed and set up again to run
recycler creates no output, just eats up input. tried with zombie flesh, wheat, different rock, etc.
smeltery doesn’t go out after it’s done for quite a while, creates pollution
smeltery doesn’t work with hoppers on side (chimney works on sides or on top since last update)
And a feature question: can put chimnies together to extend how long the smeltery can run before you need to intervene? last one in sequence fills up, then next to last, then one before that one, etc.
Hi!
Yes, the ore processing plant is meant to be something similar to the machine in the linked video You can read more about the process in the real world if you're interested here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mineral_processing. The alpha release of version 3.0 for 1.18 has been delayed, it was meant to be released earlier this year but too many other things got in the way unfortunately. Regarding the issues you listed:
I've noted it down, thank you!
This is an interesting bug that I too have come across. It seems to only manifest whenever there's a change in the code base, and in my experience it only affects furnaces and smelteries that had already been placed into the world previously (I could be wrong though). This is a bit tricky to debug..
I got the correct output when I tried to recycle zombie flesh (compost earth), but wheat did not work as expected. It did however not eat up the input, so maybe the problem you experienced is similar to the problem with the furnace?
You could argue that this is working as intended. If the fuel is still burning then pollution should be generated.
You can currently only add fuel in the hoppers on the sides of the smelteries. We could change that so you can add ore as well.
I'm not sure I understand your question about the chimneys. If you're asking whether you can add multiple chimneys to a smeltery then the answer is yes.
BetterGeo is a mod with more geology for Minecraft! We have increased the geological content and also made it appear more like reality by adding rock types, minerals, metals, gemstones and exciting areas of application for the new materials!
We have added new blocks and resources representing rock types, minerals, metals, elements and gemstones. Some of the blocks from the original version of Minecraft Vanilla are still present but have been modified and given new properties. Geological features like stratigraphy, veins and pipes are also introduced in BetterGeo. As of 2.0 new realistic soils are added which replace dirt.
We have created new recipes including rock types and resources to make the areas of application relevant and interesting. E.g. there are possibilities to create new high tech products like jet packs and heart starters. Also, some of the products that were already present in Vanilla have been modified, e.g. different types of ovens. The geology and the areas of application present in BetterGeo are similar to reality but with some simplifications.
The block hardness varies and the blocks are therefore mined with different difficulty. We have used Moh’s scale of mineral hardness as a reference for the relative hardness of our new blocks. The new smeltery also requires different amount of heat relative to the metal's melting point.
Check out our Wikia to find out more about recipes, where to find rocks and minerals etc., it can be found in English here:
Also checkout the project BetterGeoEDU for learning materials to be used in schools to teach geology. Some exercises doesn't even require the game to be used!
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For the 1.12.2 version you will need Forge 1.12.2-14.23.5.2768 or later.
For the 1.7.10 version you will need Forge 1.7.10-10.13.2.1277 or later.
Gabbro slag has been split into two separate slag types for copper and titanium.
Reduced the drop rate of apatite. Phosphorite blocks can now also drop 50% of the time.
Slag produced in smelteries has been capped at 2.
Bugfixes:
Quartz that has been placed into the world by the player no longer drops experience orbs when mined.
Copper ingots now return 8 copper (redstone dust) when converted back into dust.
Fixed an issue where an incorrect amount of slag was produced the first time slag was generated.
Changelog
2021-12-22 - BetterGeo 3.0 - 1.12.2
New rocks and soil:
Carbonatite - igneous rock containing zircon and monazite.
Laterite (rock and soil) - found in tropical environments (savanna and jungle).
Basalt with Zircon - igneous rock containing zircon.
Anorthosite - igneous rock.
Phosphorite - sedimentary rock.
New minerals:
Zircon (+ ingot). Used in alloys, found in basalt with zircon and carbonatite.
Nickel (+ ingot). Used in batteries, found in laterite rock.
Cobalt (+ ingot). Used in batteries, found in laterite rock.
Indium (+ ingot). Used in alloys, found in andesite and skarn.
Graphite. Used in batteries, found in diorite.
Apatite. Used as a fertilizer, found in phosphorite.
Vanadium. Used in alloys, found in anorthosite.
New alloys:
High-strength steel - made from steel, zircon and vanadium/tantalite.
Indium tin oxide - made from indium and tin.
New tools and weapons:
Sword, hoe, shovel, axe and pickaxe can now be made from flint. Almost the same efficiency as iron tools but gets damaged very quickly.
Sword, hoe, shovel, axe and pickaxe can now be made from steel. Slightly better than iron tools but less so than diamond tools.
New items:
Gravimeter - works as the conductivity meter but for finding pegmatite.
Drill - used to drill holes in blocks. See "Controlled explosions" further down.
Liquid explosives - see "Controlled explosions" further down.
Display - used as a recipe component in the gravimeter, monster scanner and conductivity meter.
Graphite anode - used as a recipe component in lithium batteries.
Anorthosite slab and stair.
New features:
High tech smeltery - works as the normal smeltery but uses solar energy and is more efficient than the old smeltery. Generates no pollution.
Controlled explosions - drill a hole in a rock, fill it with liquid explosives to create a block with explosives and ignite it. Will create an explosion in a straight line in the direction the user was facing when filling the block with explosives.
Crushed ore - findings used in the smeltery now has to be crushed first.
Ore processing plant - gives twice the amount of crushed ore. Uses solar energy.
Geo suit - new armor (helmet, chest, legs, feet) that makes the user immune to fire when all pieces are worn. Wearing the chest piece allows the wearer to fly (like the jetpack).
6 new advancements.
11 new books. Learn more about flint, carbonatite, laterite, anorhosite, phosphorite, zircon, cobalt, graphite, indium, apatite and vanadium with the new BetterGeo books.
Flint now drops from sand, gravel, limestone and sandstone.
Pegmatite can now also be found in clusters around the world making them a bit easier to find.
Smelteries now only accepts crushed ore, slag, ash or copper (redstone) as input.
Updated the recipe for lithium batteries to now include cobalt, nickel and a graphite anode.
Recipes for bookshelves are now unlocked in the recipe book by any mineral, rock etc. that is part of respective bookshelf recipe.
Ash now breaks if the block underneath is broken/changed.
The quantity of dropped ash when broken is now dependent on the number of layers.
Bugfixes:
Kimberlite now requires a pickaxe with a tool level of iron or higher in order to be mined.
Added missing recipe and recipe advancement for the metal boat.
Added missing recipe advancements for the fire proximity suit and mineral blocks.
Fixed hoppers not working when placed on the sides of a smeltery.
The recycle station will no longer try to add to a full stack in an output slot.
Mineral blocks and display cases now generate the correct outputs when recycled.
Fixed lit fuel not depleting unless the recycling station was actively recycling.
Fixed an issue where swapping out items in the recycling station would not reset the progress bar.
The "no charge" message now appears when trying to use the monster scanner and conductivity meter while they are out of battery.
The alloy furnace now takes the input amount into consideration when looking at the recipe for a certain alloy.
Plain quartz now only drop a single block when mined.
Fixed an issue where vanilla dirt and grass would appear in the savanna biome.
Andesite, sandstone and diorite can now be polished with sandpaper and in the polishing machine.
Fixed the armor texture for the fire proximity suit not showing correctly.
Bookshelves now drop the corresponding bookshelf when broken instead of a furnace.
Fixed a minor visual glitch with the smeltery where the stack in the progress slot would flicker when an ingot was produced.
Fixed an issue where ash that was generated on top of an ash block would cause the block to disappear.
Other:
Translations for the new features added for Estonian, Finnish, German, Italian, Slovenian, Spanish, and Swedish (thanks to our BetterGeoEDU partners!)
Added support for books with multiple pages.
Flint is now translated to "Roženec" in the Slovenian translation.
Updated some older translations in Italian.
Older changes
2021-10-21 BetterGeo 2.1 for Minecraft 1.12.2
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.
2021-10-14 BetterGeo 2.0.2 for Minecraft 1.7.10
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.
2018-08-08 BetterGeo 2.0 Beta 2 for Minecraft 1.12.2
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.
2018-07-03 BetterGeo 2.0 Beta 1 for Minecraft 1.12.2
NOT compatible with 1.7.10-worlds!
This is a beta release.
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
* In June we released an update to BetterGeo 2.0 for Minecraft 1.7.10 that contains Finnish and Slovenian language translations.
* 2.0.1u1 is a minor update fixing an issue where some of the Finnish texts was rendered outside the book pages.
2016-11-01 BetterGeo 2.0 for Minecraft 1.7.10
* Added a bunch of new soil types that replace dirt: Clay-rich Till, Till, Boulder Till, Peat, Pebbles, Glacial Erratic and Weathered Tropical Soil. The soils have different properties, like hardness and cultivation speed based on geology.
* Added Sphagnum
* Added Andesite and Diorite
* Added Alum Shale, which can be used as fuel
* Added Fossils (Trilobite, Brachiopod and Ammonite) which can be found in sedimentary rocks
* Added the Electrical Conductivity Meter, used to find certain ores
* Added the ability to recycle food in the Recycle Station to create compost
* Added Mulch, a block with high cultivation speeds
* New feature! Recycle Ash in the smeltery to extract Titanium. Flue Gas Cleaners now accomodate Ash which needs to be taken out reguraly to ensure safe operation of the Smeltery
* Added peat blocks and the ability to use peat as fuel
* New feature! Achievements! BetterGeo now has its own set of achievements in a seperate achievement tree
* New feature! Education edition! By completing achievements or finding new minerals, rocks, metals or soil types the player get a book about the related geological goodie (off by default, change in mod options). Can also be created by combining a book with the mineral, rock, metal or soil the player wants to know more about.
* Added four book cases to keep your new books in. Collect them all and get the ultimate achievement!
* Added more mod options!
* Added further support with different mods!
* Bauxite now generates correct
* Bugfixes and tweaks
2016-04-28 BetterGeo 1.2
* The Flue Gas Cleaner can now be placed on the side of the smeltery to accomodate a hopper on top of the smeltery.
2016-04-28 BetterGeo 1.2
* Focus on the environment! The smeltery now produces pollution when active. Ash spreads around the smeltery which hurt players and animals.
* Added the Flue Gas Cleaner! When installed on top of the smeltery it prevents pollution from spreading from the smeltery.
* Added the Recycle Station! The Recycle Station will recycle tools and other items by melting them down and returning the parts. Will recycle most items, but wood burns to charcoal and stone turns into gravel. Amount of diamonds are returned based on durability of tools.
* Display Cases are improved! Can now hold any item so you can show of your amazing collection to the world! Note that existing display cases will disappear when updating. Sorry for this!
* Recipe for the Smeltery changed to make it easier for new players. Now needs 8 feldspar instead of 3 feldspar blocks.
* Bugs with the Fire Proximity Suit fixed.
* Bugs with trees growing on rocks fixed.
* Bugs with floating intrusive rocks fixed.
* Minor tweaks here and there!
2016-03-22 BetterGeo 1.1u1
* Server bug fix
2016-02-24 BetterGeo 1.1
* Server bug fix
2016-02-04 BetterGeo 1.1b01
Patch focus on items!
* Added Metal Boat
* Added Polishing Machine
* Added Display Cases
* Added Fire Proximity Suit
* Bug fixes
2015-11-05 BetterGeo 1.0
* Release of 1.0!
* Fixed a bug where dedicated servers could not be started
* Fixed casing
2015-10-19 BetterGeo 1.0b05
* New feature! Weathering of limestone
* Added limestone dust
* Changed interface on smeltery and alloy furnace
* Changed amount of slag in smeltery
* Changed gravel texture and placement
* Fixed reeds and cactus-growing on sand
* Fixed Viscaria spawning
* Fixed translation and spelling errors
2015-07-03 BetterGeo 1.0b04
* New separate blocks: Sandstone, sandstone slabs and sandstone stairs
* Improved the smeltery user interface
* Made alpine catchfly really rare, but when found copper below is guaranteed
* The alloy furnace now supports ore dictionary
* Gravel is no longer generated in superflats
* Now able to smelt copper "dust" into ingots
* Smelting sphalerite now produces zinc ingots
2015-06-09 BetterGeo 1.0b03u1
* Fixed crash when trying to investigate if an unsupported item in the smeltery can be smelted.
* Added config option to disable hightech items.
2015-06-05 BetterGeo 1.0b03
* Ore dictionary support following the standard names "oreZinc", "oreTin", "ingotRee" and so on...
* Ore dictionary support in the smeltery recipes. (Alloy furnace support in next version)
* Ore dictionary support in BetterGeo crafting recipes.
* Ore dictionary support in the magnetic compass. Reacts on "oreIron" and "blockIron".
* Config file support to enable and disable features in the mod. Auto created on the first time with default settings. The file is called SGU.cfg and is located in the Minecraft config folder.
* isReplaceableOreGen support added but disabled by default. Can be enabled in the configuration file.
* Skarn with Rare earth elements generation heavily increased. Skarn drops REE in most bordering chunks between different biomes.
* Coal blocks can now be used in the smeltery and alloy furnace.
* Gravel is back! Generated randomly at ground level for now.
* Lapis lazuli is also back! Look for it in the marble.
2015-05-17 BetterGeo 1.0b02u1
* Now able to use stone/iron pickaxes to mine banded iron formation
2015-05-16 BetterGeo 1.0b02
* Magnetic compass now using less CPU resources.
* Fixed magnetic compass endless rotating after switching graphic mode.
* Slab recipes wasn't aligned with latest slab changes, this has been fixed.
* Sand paper now work on stairs in survival mode.
* Fixed missing Gabbro brick translation.
* Monster scanner charge in item frame now shown correctly.
* Invalid empty ItemStacks was left in the alloy furnace, this has been fixed.
* It's now possible to place blocks, in creative mode, that drops both resources and the block itself and get the drops from them when switching back to survival. Currently only work on clients and not on multiplayer servers. If placed in survival mode the block only drops itself to prevent a never ending source of resources. Please note that REE will still not drop from Skarn.
Igneous rocks
Rock types formed when magma or lava from different levels of the Earth’s crust cool and crystallize.
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.
Metamorphic rocks
Rock types that have undergone changes in minerology, texture, and/or chemical composition in a substantially solid state as a result of heat and/or pressure.
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.
Sedimentary rocks
Rock types that are formed in low-temperature and low-pressure environments through the compaction and solidification or precipitation (cementation) of sediments, rock fragments and minerals that have been transported and deposited on the surface of the Earth.
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
Veins and pipes are formed when magma intrudes lateral and vertical fracture zones and other weak points in the host rock. This can happen near spreading zones between tectonic plates, rift systems etc.
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.
Soil types
BetterGeo introduces different soil types to the game. The soils have different properties, like cultivation speed and hardness.
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.
Gemstones
Gemstones are rock types, minerals, pearls, corals or amber which after certain treatment (e.g. splitting or polishing) become attractive and are often kept as personal possessions.
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.
Metals and other resources
Metals and other resources like minerals, rock types and elements are found in the soil or bedrock in different environments. We extract them and produce several products that we need in our everyday life. We have introduced a lot of metals and other resources in this mod since they play such a big part in our society. We want to emphasize this and make you aware of wherefrom these resources originate.
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
Are grains and fragments of gems and metals that have been transported from the source of origin (usually by streaming water) and deposited by gravity separation through sedimentation. These can be found in sand and streaming water near the original source. It can be mined by placer mining where you use a prospector’s pan.
Placer deposits in this mod contain gold and diamonds and can be found in sand near rivers.
Weathering of limestone
Water breaks down limestone blocks with time, similar to reality where the chemical reaction between limestone and water causes the limestone to dissolve.
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.
Recipes
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?
You have to put the blocks with metals in to the smeltery in order to use them in recipes as ingots.
Input/Output
8 blocks of bauxite and 3 slots of fuel (pieces of coal or buckets of lava)/ 1 aluminum ingot and 2 pieces of slag
8 blocks of gabbro with titanium and 2 slots of fuel /1 titanium ingot and 3 pieces of slag
8 blocks of gabbro with copper and 2 slots of fuel/ 1 copper ingot and 3 pieces of slag
8 pieces of iron from skarn och banded iron formation and 2 slots of fuel/ 1 iron ingot and 1 piece of slag
8 pieces of sphalerite and 2 slots of fuel /1 zink ingot and 3 pieces of slag
The slag can be put in the smeltery one more time to extract even more of the ore. Input/ Output
10 pieces of slag from bauxite and 3 slots of fuel / 1 aluminium ingot and 2 waste pieces
10 pieces of slag from gabbro (both with titanium and copper) and 2 slots of fuel / 1 titanium ingot and 3 waste pieces
10 pieces of slag from skarn or banded iron formation and 2 slots of fuel / 1 iron ingot and 1 waste piece
10 pieces of slag from sphalerite and 2 slots of fuel / 1 zink ingot and 3 waste pieces
If you have 8 pieces of the following rescourses you can melt them into one ingot in the smeltery by adding one slot of fuel (no waste is produced):
Copper pieces from gabbro, skarn och basalt
Gold nuggets from quarts or placer mining in river sand
Silver nuggets from quarts
Pieces of lithium
Pieces of tin
Pieces of tantalum
Pieces of tungsten
Pieces of rare earth elements
64 pieces of ash can be smelted to 1 titanium ingot.
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?
Input/output
7 iron ingots, 1 piece of coal, 1 tungsten ingot and 1 slot of fuel / 1 piece of steel
6 copper ingots, 3 zink ingots and 1 slot of fuel / 1 piece of brass
7 copper ingots, 2 tin ingots and 1 slot of fuel / 1 piece of bronze
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.
Achievements and books
BetterGeo adds its own achievements and books about geology!
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.
Summary of alterations and new blocks
Alterations from the original version Vanilla:
Stone and cobblestone: Is replaced in recipes by these new blocks - andesite, diorite, diabase, gabbro, gneiss, granite, kimberlite, limestone, schist and skarn.
Dirt: is replaced by these new blocks - till, clay-rich till, boulder till, peat, glacial erratic, pebbles, weathered tropical soil, bauxite.
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
We have simplified the geology and presented the most common features in this mod. We could have introduced a lot more and made it more complex, but we think that this is a good level to start with when introducing you to geology and what it looks like in reality.
Features like fossils, faults, dinosaurs etc. have not been our main focus. Instead we have wanted to emphasize the importance of geology, minerals and metals for society and hence made relevant recipes and areas of application for a selection of rock types, metals and minerals. We have mainly based our content from Swedish geology and mineralizations.
Publisher
The mod BetterGeo is developed by the Geological Survey of Sweden (SGU) as a part of the Public Awareness Measure within Sweden’s Minerals Strategy. SGU wants to increase the general populations knowledge of geology. BetterGeo was released as a beta version 7th of May 2015 and left beta on the 5th of November 2015. More information available here: https://www.sgu.se/en/geology-of-sweden/bettergeo-minecraft-with-more-geology/
Hello!
I am happy to announce that BetterGeo 3.0 for version 1.12.2 has now been released! New rocks, items, tools and more have been added for you to craft and explore (see the changelog further down for the full list of additions and changes). We are also working on porting BetterGeo 3.0 to 1.18 using the Fabric API, and we estimate that about 70% of all features have been ported over. Those who are interested in a 1.18 version can keep an eye out for a possible alpha release early next year! Support for the 1.12 version will continue to be provided as well. We would also like to remind you to upgrade to Forge version 2860 in order to be shielded from the log4j exploit. Download links can be found in the first post of this thread or at CurseForge
Changelog
2021-12-22 - BetterGeo 3.0 - 1.12.2
New rocks and soil:
Carbonatite - igneous rock containing zircon and monazite.
Laterite (rock and soil) - found in tropical environments (savanna and jungle).
Basalt with Zircon - igneous rock containing zircon.
Anorthosite - igneous rock.
Phosphorite - sedimentary rock.
New minerals:
Zircon (+ ingot). Used in alloys, found in basalt with zircon and carbonatite.
Nickel (+ ingot). Used in batteries, found in laterite rock.
Cobalt (+ ingot). Used in batteries, found in laterite rock.
Indium (+ ingot). Used in alloys, found in andesite and skarn.
Graphite. Used in batteries, found in diorite.
Apatite. Used as a fertilizer, found in phosphorite.
Vanadium. Used in alloys, found in anorthosite.
New alloys:
High-strength steel - made from steel, zircon and vanadium/tantalite.
Indium tin oxide - made from indium and tin.
New tools and weapons:
Sword, hoe, shovel, axe and pickaxe can now be made from flint. Almost the same efficiency as iron tools but gets damaged very quickly.
Sword, hoe, shovel, axe and pickaxe can now be made from steel. Slightly better than iron tools but less so than diamond tools.
New items:
Gravimeter - works as the conductivity meter but for finding pegmatite.
Drill - used to drill holes in blocks. See "Controlled explosions" further down.
Liquid explosives - see "Controlled explosions" further down.
Display - used as a recipe component in the gravimeter, monster scanner and conductivity meter.
Graphite anode - used as a recipe component in lithium batteries.
Anorthosite slab and stair.
New features:
High tech smeltery - works as the normal smeltery but uses solar energy and is more efficient than the old smeltery. Generates no pollution.
Controlled explosions - drill a hole in a rock, fill it with liquid explosives to create a block with explosives and ignite it. Will create an explosion in a straight line in the direction the user was facing when filling the block with explosives.
Crushed ore - findings used in the smeltery now has to be crushed first.
Ore processing plant - gives twice the amount of crushed ore. Uses solar energy.
Geo suit - new armor (helmet, chest, legs, feet) that makes the user immune to fire when all pieces are worn. Wearing the chest piece allows the wearer to fly (like the jetpack).
6 new advancements.
11 new books. Learn more about flint, carbonatite, laterite, anorhosite, phosphorite, zircon, cobalt, graphite, indium, apatite and vanadium with the new BetterGeo books.
Flint now drops from sand, gravel, limestone and sandstone.
Pegmatite can now also be found in clusters around the world making them a bit easier to find.
Smelteries now only accepts crushed ore, slag, ash or copper (redstone) as input.
Updated the recipe for lithium batteries to now include cobalt, nickel and a graphite anode.
Recipes for bookshelves are now unlocked in the recipe book by any mineral, rock etc. that is part of respective bookshelf recipe.
Ash now breaks if the block underneath is broken/changed.
The quantity of dropped ash when broken is now dependent on the number of layers.
Bugfixes:
Kimberlite now requires a pickaxe with a tool level of iron or higher in order to be mined.
Added missing recipe and recipe advancement for the metal boat.
Added missing recipe advancements for the fire proximity suit and mineral blocks.
Fixed hoppers not working when placed on the sides of a smeltery.
The recycle station will no longer try to add to a full stack in an output slot.
Mineral blocks and display cases now generate the correct outputs when recycled.
Fixed lit fuel not depleting unless the recycling station was actively recycling.
Fixed an issue where swapping out items in the recycling station would not reset the progress bar.
The "no charge" message now appears when trying to use the monster scanner and conductivity meter while they are out of battery.
The alloy furnace now takes the input amount into consideration when looking at the recipe for a certain alloy.
Plain quartz now only drop a single block when mined.
Fixed an issue where vanilla dirt and grass would appear in the savanna biome.
Andesite, sandstone and diorite can now be polished with sandpaper and in the polishing machine.
Fixed the armor texture for the fire proximity suit not showing correctly.
Bookshelves now drop the corresponding bookshelf when broken instead of a furnace.
Fixed a minor visual glitch with the smeltery where the stack in the progress slot would flicker when an ingot was produced.
Fixed an issue where ash that was generated on top of an ash block would cause the block to disappear.
Other:
Translations for the new features added for Estonian, Finnish, German, Italian, Slovenian, Spanish, and Swedish (thanks to our BetterGeoEDU partners!)
Added support for books with multiple pages.
Flint is now translated to "Roženec" in the Slovenian translation.
Updated some older translations in Italian.
We wish you all a Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays, and a happy new year! See you in 2022.
Looking forward to BG for MC 1.17. What do you think of the 1.19 1.18 release?
It looks pretty great! We've been working on porting BetterGeo to 1.18, but there's still some features missing. However we've been thinking about possibly releasing an alpha version of 3.0 for 1.18 soon.
hoppers don’t work from the sides of the smeltery? By design, or should they do so?
That is a bug, it's been fixed in version 3.0.
appears that single pieces of plain quartz (not with gold or silver) breaks into multiple pieces.
Fixed in 3.0.
design question: should ash break when the blocks underneath it are broken?
That wasn't really something we had thought much about, but it has been changed now so ash breaks if the block underneath is broken/changed.
no option for Block of Feldspar in recipe book
Yes, we noticed that all mineral blocks are missing their respective recipe unlock advancements. They have been added in 3.0.
no option for Feldspar from Block of Feldspar in recipe book or possible from player or crafting table
Recycling a block of feldspar will give you back feldspar. However due to a bug in 2.1, recycling mineral blocks will only return tourmaline. This bug has also been fixed in 3.0.
The fixed 1.12 release is just waiting for a few translations and then it will be released!
I'm happy to announce that BetterGeo 3.0 is now in development for https://www.bettergeoedu.com/ unfortunatly at this time it is too big job to upgrade the mod to later releases. I have done parts of the worldgeneration for the 1.16 release but it's a big job to port everything at the moment. But lets see what happens after the final release of the cave update.
Really loving this mod, I love fossicking and collecting minerals in real life. This mod adds that "mining" realism that minecraft failed to develop. The subtle changes to the landscape is great. The education aspect is fantastic too, are there other similar mods that work well with this one?
Couple of ideas:
- for collectors more displayable specimens rare to find, maybe tradeable to villagers for high emerald values.
- water erosion extended from limestone to soils (maybe rare geode drops, fulgerites from where lightning strikes maybe) and sandstone (drop sand). maybe incorporating improved river generation and waterflow so erosion can create realistic gullies and canyons. maybe extended with storms where heavy rain can create new source waterblocks to start the erosion process.
Couple of bugs:
- sheep dont seem to graze to regain wool. breeding wool-less sheep produces baby sheep without wool too.
- actual dirt blocks are very rare and when placed dont seem to gain grass, i dont have silk touch so cant yet try dirt with grass blocks.
- gemstones like aquamarine don't combine into blocks as indicated in wiki, maybe removed from mod.
Mostly I hope to see further updates and thank you so much for the mod as it stands already
I will forward your suggestings to the PM of the BetterGeo project
Sheep bug has been fixed and will be included in an upcoming release.
Dirt blocks should actually not be found anywhere since we replaced dirt with normal, blocky, clay till/moraine. So the bug is actually that you managed to find them
Gemstone blocks recipies missing and will also be included in the upcoming release.
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That's magma! You can toggle magma generation in the mod configuration.
We have ported over ~60-70% of the code to the 1.18 version, but we don't have time to work on it at the moment unfortunately. Hopefully we'll have time to work on the 1.18 version sometime after spring, and we'll look into item compatibility issues as well.
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No, currently you can only get limestone dust from weathered limestone.
Yes, we have talked about adding an option to allow players to configure how blocks are affected by weathering.
Apatite only works as a fertilizer at the moment. You can also create a BetterGeo book about apatite with it.
Sounds cool, but I don't think it's something we are responsible for.
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True, it probably isn't an issue when I think about it.
Nope, they're powered by the sun only.
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Ah okay, now I understand what you meant. That's not a bad idea, but I think doing so defeats part of what makes the high-tech smeltery so efficient. The high-tech smeltery doesn't produce ash so you don't need to attach a flue gas cleaner to it. This gives you an incentive to build one instead of sticking with a regular smeltery
I'll write up your idea anyway so I can discuss it with my coworkers at a later time.
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Hi!
Yes, the ore processing plant is meant to be something similar to the machine in the linked video
You can read more about the process in the real world if you're interested here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mineral_processing. The alpha release of version 3.0 for 1.18 has been delayed, it was meant to be released earlier this year but too many other things got in the way unfortunately. Regarding the issues you listed:
I'm not sure I understand your question about the chimneys. If you're asking whether you can add multiple chimneys to a smeltery then the answer is yes.
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BetterGeo is a mod with more geology for Minecraft! We have increased the geological content and also made it appear more like reality by adding rock types, minerals, metals, gemstones and exciting areas of application for the new materials!
We have added new blocks and resources representing rock types, minerals, metals, elements and gemstones. Some of the blocks from the original version of Minecraft Vanilla are still present but have been modified and given new properties. Geological features like stratigraphy, veins and pipes are also introduced in BetterGeo. As of 2.0 new realistic soils are added which replace dirt.
We have created new recipes including rock types and resources to make the areas of application relevant and interesting. E.g. there are possibilities to create new high tech products like jet packs and heart starters. Also, some of the products that were already present in Vanilla have been modified, e.g. different types of ovens. The geology and the areas of application present in BetterGeo are similar to reality but with some simplifications.
The block hardness varies and the blocks are therefore mined with different difficulty. We have used Moh’s scale of mineral hardness as a reference for the relative hardness of our new blocks. The new smeltery also requires different amount of heat relative to the metal's melting point.
Check out our Wikia to find out more about recipes, where to find rocks and minerals etc., it can be found in English here:
http://bettergeo.wikia.com/wiki/BetterGeo_Wikia
Or in Swedish here:
http://sv.bettergeo.wikia.com/wiki/Huvudsida
Also checkout the project BetterGeoEDU for learning materials to be used in schools to teach geology. Some exercises doesn't even require the game to be used!
Download
For the 1.12.2 version you will need Forge 1.12.2-14.23.5.2768 or later.
For the 1.7.10 version you will need Forge 1.7.10-10.13.2.1277 or later.
Download 3.1 (2022-02-21) for Minecraft 1.12.2 from CurseForge
Download 2.0.2 (2021-10-14) for Minecraft 1.7.10 from CurseForge
Changelog
2022-02-21 - BetterGeo 3.1 - 1.12.2
New features:
Bugfixes:
Changelog
2021-12-22 - BetterGeo 3.0 - 1.12.2
New rocks and soil:
New minerals:
New alloys:
New tools and weapons:
New items:
New features:
Bugfixes:
Other:
Older changes
2021-10-21 BetterGeo 2.1 for Minecraft 1.12.2
Bugfixes:
New features:
2021-10-14 BetterGeo 2.0.2 for Minecraft 1.7.10
Bugfix:
- German
- Spanish
- Estonian
- French
- Italian
- Polish
2018-08-08 BetterGeo 2.0 Beta 2 for Minecraft 1.12.2
2018-07-03 BetterGeo 2.0 Beta 1 for Minecraft 1.12.2
NOT compatible with 1.7.10-worlds!
This is a beta release.
2018-07-05 BetterGeo 2.0.1u1 for Minecraft 1.7.10
* In June we released an update to BetterGeo 2.0 for Minecraft 1.7.10 that contains Finnish and Slovenian language translations.
* 2.0.1u1 is a minor update fixing an issue where some of the Finnish texts was rendered outside the book pages.
2016-11-01 BetterGeo 2.0 for Minecraft 1.7.10
* Added Sphagnum
* Added Andesite and Diorite
* Added Alum Shale, which can be used as fuel
* Added Fossils (Trilobite, Brachiopod and Ammonite) which can be found in sedimentary rocks
* Added the Electrical Conductivity Meter, used to find certain ores
* Added the ability to recycle food in the Recycle Station to create compost
* Added Mulch, a block with high cultivation speeds
* New feature! Recycle Ash in the smeltery to extract Titanium. Flue Gas Cleaners now accomodate Ash which needs to be taken out reguraly to ensure safe operation of the Smeltery
* Added peat blocks and the ability to use peat as fuel
* New feature! Achievements! BetterGeo now has its own set of achievements in a seperate achievement tree
* New feature! Education edition! By completing achievements or finding new minerals, rocks, metals or soil types the player get a book about the related geological goodie (off by default, change in mod options). Can also be created by combining a book with the mineral, rock, metal or soil the player wants to know more about.
* Added four book cases to keep your new books in. Collect them all and get the ultimate achievement!
* Added more mod options!
* Added further support with different mods!
* Bauxite now generates correct
* Bugfixes and tweaks
2016-04-28 BetterGeo 1.2
* The Flue Gas Cleaner can now be placed on the side of the smeltery to accomodate a hopper on top of the smeltery.
2016-04-28 BetterGeo 1.2
* Focus on the environment! The smeltery now produces pollution when active. Ash spreads around the smeltery which hurt players and animals.
* Added the Flue Gas Cleaner! When installed on top of the smeltery it prevents pollution from spreading from the smeltery.
* Added the Recycle Station! The Recycle Station will recycle tools and other items by melting them down and returning the parts. Will recycle most items, but wood burns to charcoal and stone turns into gravel. Amount of diamonds are returned based on durability of tools.
* Display Cases are improved! Can now hold any item so you can show of your amazing collection to the world! Note that existing display cases will disappear when updating. Sorry for this!
* Recipe for the Smeltery changed to make it easier for new players. Now needs 8 feldspar instead of 3 feldspar blocks.
* Bugs with the Fire Proximity Suit fixed.
* Bugs with trees growing on rocks fixed.
* Bugs with floating intrusive rocks fixed.
* Minor tweaks here and there!
2016-03-22 BetterGeo 1.1u1
* Server bug fix
2016-02-24 BetterGeo 1.1
* Server bug fix
2016-02-04 BetterGeo 1.1b01
Patch focus on items!
* Added Metal Boat
* Added Polishing Machine
* Added Display Cases
* Added Fire Proximity Suit
* Bug fixes
2015-11-05 BetterGeo 1.0
* Release of 1.0!
* Fixed a bug where dedicated servers could not be started
* Fixed casing
2015-10-19 BetterGeo 1.0b05
* New feature! Weathering of limestone
* Added limestone dust
* Changed interface on smeltery and alloy furnace
* Changed amount of slag in smeltery
* Changed gravel texture and placement
* Fixed reeds and cactus-growing on sand
* Fixed Viscaria spawning
* Fixed translation and spelling errors
2015-07-03 BetterGeo 1.0b04
* New separate blocks: Sandstone, sandstone slabs and sandstone stairs
* Improved the smeltery user interface
* Made alpine catchfly really rare, but when found copper below is guaranteed
* The alloy furnace now supports ore dictionary
* Gravel is no longer generated in superflats
* Now able to smelt copper "dust" into ingots
* Smelting sphalerite now produces zinc ingots
2015-06-09 BetterGeo 1.0b03u1
* Fixed crash when trying to investigate if an unsupported item in the smeltery can be smelted.
* Added config option to disable hightech items.
2015-06-05 BetterGeo 1.0b03
* Ore dictionary support following the standard names "oreZinc", "oreTin", "ingotRee" and so on...
* Ore dictionary support in the smeltery recipes. (Alloy furnace support in next version)
* Ore dictionary support in BetterGeo crafting recipes.
* Ore dictionary support in the magnetic compass. Reacts on "oreIron" and "blockIron".
* Config file support to enable and disable features in the mod. Auto created on the first time with default settings. The file is called SGU.cfg and is located in the Minecraft config folder.
* isReplaceableOreGen support added but disabled by default. Can be enabled in the configuration file.
* Skarn with Rare earth elements generation heavily increased. Skarn drops REE in most bordering chunks between different biomes.
* Coal blocks can now be used in the smeltery and alloy furnace.
* Gravel is back! Generated randomly at ground level for now.
* Lapis lazuli is also back! Look for it in the marble.
2015-05-17 BetterGeo 1.0b02u1
* Now able to use stone/iron pickaxes to mine banded iron formation
2015-05-16 BetterGeo 1.0b02
* Magnetic compass now using less CPU resources.
* Fixed magnetic compass endless rotating after switching graphic mode.
* Slab recipes wasn't aligned with latest slab changes, this has been fixed.
* Sand paper now work on stairs in survival mode.
* Fixed missing Gabbro brick translation.
* Monster scanner charge in item frame now shown correctly.
* Invalid empty ItemStacks was left in the alloy furnace, this has been fixed.
* It's now possible to place blocks, in creative mode, that drops both resources and the block itself and get the drops from them when switching back to survival. Currently only work on clients and not on multiplayer servers. If placed in survival mode the block only drops itself to prevent a never ending source of resources. Please note that REE will still not drop from Skarn.
Igneous rocks
Rock types formed when magma or lava from different levels of the Earth’s crust cool and crystallize.
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.
Metamorphic rocks
Rock types that have undergone changes in minerology, texture, and/or chemical composition in a substantially solid state as a result of heat and/or pressure.
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.
Sedimentary rocks
Rock types that are formed in low-temperature and low-pressure environments through the compaction and solidification or precipitation (cementation) of sediments, rock fragments and minerals that have been transported and deposited on the surface of the Earth.
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
Veins and pipes are formed when magma intrudes lateral and vertical fracture zones and other weak points in the host rock. This can happen near spreading zones between tectonic plates, rift systems etc.
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.
Soil types
BetterGeo introduces different soil types to the game. The soils have different properties, like cultivation speed and hardness.
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.
Gemstones
Gemstones are rock types, minerals, pearls, corals or amber which after certain treatment (e.g. splitting or polishing) become attractive and are often kept as personal possessions.
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.
Metals and other resources
Metals and other resources like minerals, rock types and elements are found in the soil or bedrock in different environments. We extract them and produce several products that we need in our everyday life. We have introduced a lot of metals and other resources in this mod since they play such a big part in our society. We want to emphasize this and make you aware of wherefrom these resources originate.
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
Are grains and fragments of gems and metals that have been transported from the source of origin (usually by streaming water) and deposited by gravity separation through sedimentation. These can be found in sand and streaming water near the original source. It can be mined by placer mining where you use a prospector’s pan.
Placer deposits in this mod contain gold and diamonds and can be found in sand near rivers.
Weathering of limestone
Water breaks down limestone blocks with time, similar to reality where the chemical reaction between limestone and water causes the limestone to dissolve.
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.
Recipes
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?
You have to put the blocks with metals in to the smeltery in order to use them in recipes as ingots.
Input/Output
8 blocks of bauxite and 3 slots of fuel (pieces of coal or buckets of lava)/ 1 aluminum ingot and 2 pieces of slag
8 blocks of gabbro with titanium and 2 slots of fuel /1 titanium ingot and 3 pieces of slag
8 blocks of gabbro with copper and 2 slots of fuel/ 1 copper ingot and 3 pieces of slag
8 pieces of iron from skarn och banded iron formation and 2 slots of fuel/ 1 iron ingot and 1 piece of slag
8 pieces of sphalerite and 2 slots of fuel /1 zink ingot and 3 pieces of slag
The slag can be put in the smeltery one more time to extract even more of the ore.
Input/ Output
10 pieces of slag from bauxite and 3 slots of fuel / 1 aluminium ingot and 2 waste pieces
10 pieces of slag from gabbro (both with titanium and copper) and 2 slots of fuel / 1 titanium ingot and 3 waste pieces
10 pieces of slag from skarn or banded iron formation and 2 slots of fuel / 1 iron ingot and 1 waste piece
10 pieces of slag from sphalerite and 2 slots of fuel / 1 zink ingot and 3 waste pieces
If you have 8 pieces of the following rescourses you can melt them into one ingot in the smeltery by adding one slot of fuel (no waste is produced):
Copper pieces from gabbro, skarn och basalt
Gold nuggets from quarts or placer mining in river sand
Silver nuggets from quarts
Pieces of lithium
Pieces of tin
Pieces of tantalum
Pieces of tungsten
Pieces of rare earth elements
64 pieces of ash can be smelted to 1 titanium ingot.
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?
Input/output
7 iron ingots, 1 piece of coal, 1 tungsten ingot and 1 slot of fuel / 1 piece of steel
6 copper ingots, 3 zink ingots and 1 slot of fuel / 1 piece of brass
7 copper ingots, 2 tin ingots and 1 slot of fuel / 1 piece of bronze
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:
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.
Achievements and books
BetterGeo adds its own achievements and books about geology!
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.
Summary of alterations and new blocks
Alterations from the original version Vanilla:
Stone and cobblestone: Is replaced in recipes by these new blocks - andesite, diorite, diabase, gabbro, gneiss, granite, kimberlite, limestone, schist and skarn.
Dirt: is replaced by these new blocks - till, clay-rich till, boulder till, peat, glacial erratic, pebbles, weathered tropical soil, bauxite.
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
We have simplified the geology and presented the most common features in this mod. We could have introduced a lot more and made it more complex, but we think that this is a good level to start with when introducing you to geology and what it looks like in reality.
Features like fossils, faults, dinosaurs etc. have not been our main focus. Instead we have wanted to emphasize the importance of geology, minerals and metals for society and hence made relevant recipes and areas of application for a selection of rock types, metals and minerals. We have mainly based our content from Swedish geology and mineralizations.
Publisher
The mod BetterGeo is developed by the Geological Survey of Sweden (SGU) as a part of the Public Awareness Measure within Sweden’s Minerals Strategy. SGU wants to increase the general populations knowledge of geology. BetterGeo was released as a beta version 7th of May 2015 and left beta on the 5th of November 2015. More information available here: https://www.sgu.se/en/geology-of-sweden/bettergeo-minecraft-with-more-geology/
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Hello!
I am happy to announce that BetterGeo 3.0 for version 1.12.2 has now been released! New rocks, items, tools and more have been added for you to craft and explore (see the changelog further down for the full list of additions and changes). We are also working on porting BetterGeo 3.0 to 1.18 using the Fabric API, and we estimate that about 70% of all features have been ported over. Those who are interested in a 1.18 version can keep an eye out for a possible alpha release early next year! Support for the 1.12 version will continue to be provided as well. We would also like to remind you to upgrade to Forge version 2860 in order to be shielded from the log4j exploit. Download links can be found in the first post of this thread or at CurseForge
Changelog
2021-12-22 - BetterGeo 3.0 - 1.12.2
New rocks and soil:
New minerals:
New alloys:
New tools and weapons:
New items:
New features:
Bugfixes:
Other:
We wish you all a Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays, and a happy new year! See you in 2022.
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It looks pretty great! We've been working on porting BetterGeo to 1.18, but there's still some features missing. However we've been thinking about possibly releasing an alpha version of 3.0 for 1.18 soon.
That is a bug, it's been fixed in version 3.0.
Fixed in 3.0.
That wasn't really something we had thought much about, but it has been changed now so ash breaks if the block underneath is broken/changed.
Yes, we noticed that all mineral blocks are missing their respective recipe unlock advancements. They have been added in 3.0.
- no option for Feldspar from Block of Feldspar in recipe book or possible from player or crafting table
Recycling a block of feldspar will give you back feldspar. However due to a bug in 2.1, recycling mineral blocks will only return tourmaline. This bug has also been fixed in 3.0.Thanks for reporting these issues!
/Daniel - Geological survey of Sweden
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The fixed 1.12 release is just waiting for a few translations and then it will be released!
I'm happy to announce that BetterGeo 3.0 is now in development for https://www.bettergeoedu.com/ unfortunatly at this time it is too big job to upgrade the mod to later releases. I have done parts of the worldgeneration for the 1.16 release but it's a big job to port everything at the moment. But lets see what happens after the final release of the cave update.
/Nicklas - SGU
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I will forward your suggestings to the PM of the BetterGeo project
Sheep bug has been fixed and will be included in an upcoming release.
Dirt blocks should actually not be found anywhere since we replaced dirt with normal, blocky, clay till/moraine. So the bug is actually that you managed to find them
Gemstone blocks recipies missing and will also be included in the upcoming release.