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Ore Registry

This page is the current canonical ore and mined material registry for ChonkyCraft.

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This page is the current canonical ore and mined-material registry for ChonkyCraft.

Use this page when deciding:

If another page mentions a material ladder more loosely, this page wins.

Core Rule

ChonkyCraft should have a materially richer progression than vanilla Minecraft.

That means:

more mined materials than vanilla progression normally uses
real reasons to care about multiple ore families instead of collapsing into one best bar
support for both custom materials and reactivated vanilla materials
readable regional identity instead of random material clutter

One explicit rule is now locked:

Emerald and Obsidian are real equipment materials, not decorative or currency dead ends

The ladder uses five broad types:

Only some of these are literal ore blocks, but all of them belong to the progression material ladder.

These vanilla materials are explicitly allowed and intended to matter in gear, tools, upgrades, or station progress.

Material	Current Role
`Copper`	Early utility metal, tools, light armor, and starter stations
`Iron`	Reliable early armor and weapon line
`Gold`	Utility, relic-adjacent, and magic-support branch
`Emerald`	Precision, trade-hunt, and agile gear branch
`Obsidian`	Heavy defense, mining, and impact-resistant gear branch
`Redstone`	Device, trigger, and active-utility upgrade material
`Lapis`	Etching, magic, and focus-support material
`Amethyst`	Resonance, relic, and projectile-support material
`Quartz`	Precision, route, and structure-linked support material
`Diamond`	High-grade core upgrade ingredient rather than the only end of progression

This is the current locked named roster for mined or mine-adjacent progression materials.

Material	Source Direction	Main Use
`Copper`	Vanilla overworld	Early armor, utility tools, and starter stations
`Iron`	Vanilla overworld and caves	Core early combat and armor line
`Gold`	Vanilla overworld and caves	Utility, focus, and relic-support recipes
`Emerald`	Villages, hills, trade pockets, and special cave pockets	Agile gear, sharp tools, and precision upgrades
`Obsidian`	Lavafront crafting and volcanic or ritual pockets	Heavy gear, barrier tools, and knockback-resistant lines
`Rootshard Ore`	Greenwake cave content	Greenwake weapon, summon, and station recipes
`Life Quartz`	Mireglass and swamp-adjacent cave routes	Sustain, resilience, and relic utility
`Runestone`	Windplain cairns and structure-tied caves	Martial, ritual, and arena-linked upgrades
`Void Shard`	Black Archive and structure-depth mining	Magic-heavy archive branch and void upgrades

Material	Source Direction	Main Use
`Tungsten`	Underbriar and deep forest cave routes	Heavy combat, advanced tools, and deep alloy lines
`Glacial`	Deep Rime caverns and frost seams	Cold-control weapons, brittle burst lines, and frost armor
`Mycelium`	Rotwarren and decay warrens	Bio-gear, poison, summon, and sustain branches
`Ancient Fossil`	Ember Vaults and deep desert bone strata	Spear, ranged, and ruin-linked ancient craft lines
`Ivy Stone`	Hollowstep and overgrown deep structures	Mobility, climb utility, and dryad-support conversion
`Shadow Quartz`	Underbriar shadow gates and deep void seams	Shadow upgrade branch and stealth or crit support
`Cryostone`	Deep Rime roosts and frozen veins	Cryo conversion and control-focused crafting

Material	Source Direction	Main Use
`Pearlescent Diamond`	High breach clusters and rare sky or prism pockets	Elite synthesis and prestige gear
`Omni-Crystal`	Prism and horizon-tier spaces	Endgame conversion, relic fusion, and capstone tools
`Sunmetal`	Auric and solar breach content	Radiant offensive gear and sun-tier conversions
`Moonglass`	Velvet eclipse and moon breach content	Night-control gear and evasive high-tier lines
`Prismstone`	Prismwyrm and crystal breach content	Beam, refraction, and prestige armor support

These are not ore blocks, but they are still part of the material ladder and should be treated as progression-critical.

Material	Source Direction	Main Use
`Greenwake Resin`	Greenwake mobs plus `Resin Clumps`	Summons, utility, and early gear
`Cave Spider Gland`	Cave spiders and spider-biome routes	Summon and venom-support recipes
`Swamp Sludge`	Mireglass surface and cave harvestables	Resilience, poison, and skimmer gear
`Ivy Fiber`	Deep overgrowth and Hollowstep routes	Grapnels, mobility gear, and dryad-support crafting
`Ancient Char`	Ember Vaults and ash-biased structures	Fire conversion and vault upgrades

These are not standard ores, but they are part of the later gear ladder.

Material	Source Direction	Main Use
`Shadow Essence`	Underbriar bosses and elites	Shadow upgrades and late anvil conversions
`Cryo Essence`	Deep Rime bosses and elites	Frost upgrades and control branches
`Bio Essence`	Rotwarren bosses and elites	Bio-sustain and poison branches
`Primordial Essence`	Ember Vaults capstones	Flight, vault, and ancient conversions
`Slime Essence`	Breach slime content	Hopper and elastic branches
`Blood Essence`	Crimson breach content	Risk-reward and sustain-offense branches
`Spider Essence`	Silk breach content	Summon, silk, and trap-support branches
`Upgrade Shard`	Bosses, breaches, and rare caches	Universal upgrade currency
`Alchemy Shard`	Late structures and high-value caches	Etching and relic-support conversion

A phase should usually have at least one regional mined material and one drop or harvest material
New mined materials should unlock real gear or station value quickly
Emerald and Obsidian should not be flavor-only side branches
Vanilla materials should stay useful without flattening the regional identity of custom materials
Deep-band and breach-band materials should feel more specialized, not just numerically bigger

This registry is now partially implemented in the codebase.

Currently implemented in the mod:

Implementation status:

every custom ore currently has its own block texture, item texture, blockstate, models, loot table, and configured or placed feature
ore worldgen is split across overworld stone, overworld deepslate, Nether, and End host layers
biome modifiers are already separated by ore-family tags so regions can be tuned independently
the remaining gap is not ore existence, it is progression use: recipes, gear lines, station integration, and balance still need to catch up to the material roster