Dangerous ores

Dangerous Ores

Dangerous Ores is a Minecraft challenge mod that makes every major ore dangerous to mine.

Instead of ores being passive blocks, breaking them activates different traps and attacks. The mod is designed primarily for challenge runs where the goal is to survive long enough to find and successfully mine a diamond.

The normal mining and ore drop systems are still used, including mechanics such as Fortune and Silk Touch.

What each ore does

• Coal Ore applies the Darkness effect when mined.
• Iron Ore fires several iron nugget projectiles toward the player.
• Gold Ore sets the player on fire.
• Copper Ore spawns a weakened hostile Copper Golem that attacks the player.
• Redstone Ore creates a small explosion that damages the player without destroying nearby blocks or dropped items.
• Lapis Lazuli Ore creates a magical shockwave that knocks the player away.
• Emerald Ore starts a short ranged attack, firing emerald projectiles at the player's position.
• Diamond Ore is the final challenge. When the player tries to mine it, the ore can escape to another nearby position instead of immediately breaking. The player has to chase it through the cave. When the player approaches the escaped diamond ore, it can charge and release a powerful shockwave to damage and knock the player away. After surviving its defenses and catching it enough times, the diamond can finally be mined normally.

Both regular and deepslate variants of supported ores activate their corresponding mechanics.

What is the goal?

The mod is intended for Minecraft challenge runs such as:

"Minecraft, but ores are dangerous."

A simple objective is to start a new survival world and try to obtain a diamond.

Reaching the diamond requires dealing with increasingly dangerous ores along the way, while the diamond itself acts as the final challenge.

The mod can also be used in normal survival worlds if you want mining and cave exploration to be more dangerous and unpredictable.

How to use the mod

Install the mod together with its required Fabric dependencies and launch a world normally.

There are no special commands or items required to start the challenge. Ore traps activate automatically when a player mines supported ores.

Creative Mode players are not affected by ore traps by default.

Multiplayer

Dangerous Ores supports multiplayer.

The mod should be installed on both the client and the server. Some mechanics use custom entities and projectile rendering, so it is not intended to be used as a server-only mod.