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Useful Ores

by neutrinodust · for Minecraft

Adds 17+ ores and cool items like wireless redstone, logic gates, magic staffs, tools and more.. beyond normal ores mod with just armours and weapons.

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Apache-2.0License
Fabric · Forge +1Loaders

About Useful Ores

From Modrinth

Adds 17+ ores and cool items like wireless redstone, logic gates, magic staffs, tools and more.. beyond normal ores mod with just armours and weapons.

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This mod requires geckolib

Useful ores is more than just ores mod that not only just add armour and tools of new ore with different texture but also adds unique, useful and interesting to use items that adds different mechanics of their own to the base game. This mod is also optimized well to run on low end systems also.

Ores this mod adds:

| Ore                 | Dimension | Generation | Y-Level       | Spawn Rate                     |
|---------------------|-----------|------------|---------------|--------------------------------|
| Arcanite            | Overworld | -          | -64 to -32    | 4 veins/chunk                  |
| Chromite            | Overworld | -          | -32 to 0      | 4 veins/chunk                  |
| Enderium            | End       | -          | 0 to 120      | 4 veins/chunk                  |
| Extruding Crystal   | Overworld | -          | -64 to 16     | 1 vein/chunk, 50% chance       |
| Fulgurite           | Overworld | -          | -32 to 0      | 4 veins/chunk                  |
| Ilmenite            | Overworld | -          | -64 to 16     | 7 veins/chunk                  |
| Nyxium (Normal)     | Overworld | -          | -64 to 16     | 7 veins/chunk                  |
| Nyxium (Small)      | Overworld | -          | -64 to -4     | 2 veins/chunk                  |
| Nyxium (Large)      | Overworld | -          | -64 to -48    | 1 vein/chunk                   |
| Osmium              | Overworld | -          | -32 to 0      | 4 veins/chunk                  |
| Phosgene            | Overworld | -          | -32 to 64     | 10 veins/chunk                 | 
| Scheelite           | Overworld | -          | 0 to 64       | 8 veins/chunk                  |
| Solarite            | Nether    | -          | 8 to 119      | 1 vein/chunk                   |   
| Painite             | Nether    | -          | 8 to 119      | 7 vein/chunk                   |
| Sperrylite          | Overworld | -          | 0 to 64       | 6 veins/chunk                  |
| Zephyrite           | Overworld | -          | -16 to 112    | 14 veins/chunk                 |
| Argentite           | Overworld | -          | 0 to 64       | 8 veins/chunk                  |
| Lonsdaleite         | Overworld | -          | Meteorite     | 1 vein per meteorite           |
| Voidshard           | End       | -          | 0 to 20       | 1 vein every 5 chunks (20%)    |

Items added:

Combat / Utility

Arcanite Arrow : Heals with absorbtion heart on each hit with arrow to any mob.
Nyxium Arrow: Drain hearts of other mobs and adds to player absorbtion hearts on each hit.
Scheelite Arrow: 1.5x raw damage than normal arrow.
Scheelite Chisel: chisel the state of block from block to stairs to slabs for eligible blocks.
Meteor Staff: A dangerous weapon doing 40 hearts damage with explosion making a small hole with blast and fire and can turn stones into scorched stone, dirt into scorched dirt and wood into ash.
Nyxiumnite Staff: links to a ancient pedestal and throws a projectile than will summon a wormhole and teleport the mobs to the pedestal.

Special Crafting Materials

Heated Shard
Subspace Ingot(Most powerful ingot and hardest to get also)
Subspace Nugget
Attributed Subspace Ingot(special feature of subspace)
Farseeker Crystal
Extruding Crystal
Extruding Crystal Nugget
Extruding Nether Star
Meteorite Core Shard
Volatile Meteorite Core
Meteor Dust
Meteor Bomb
Dark Core
Nyxium Arcanite Core
Volatile Nyxiumnite Core
Silver-Core Arcanite Shard
Lonsdaleite Layer Glue(makes the block blastproof and fireproof)
Phosgene potion Powder(makes block emits potion effect)

Machines / Storage

Solarite Battery
Solarite furnace
Minecart with Solarite Battery
Titanium Lock
Titanium Key
Arcanite XP Jar
Logic gates(AND, NAND, OR, NOR, XNOR, NOT)
WIRELESS RELAY( single mode, connection mode, multi mode)
REDSTONE CLOCK(2,4,10,20,40,60,100,200,300 ticks frequency)
Argentite filter(to sort items)

Alchemy

Sperrylite Catalytic Vial
Splash Sperrylite Catalytic Vial
Lingering Sperrylite Catalytic Vial
Fuel Items

Each ore also has an Infused Coal variant:

Chromite Infused Coal
Enderium Infused Coal
Nyxium Infused Coal
Phosgene Infused Coal
Arcanite Infused Coal
Fulgurite Infused Coal
Osmium Infused Coal
Solarite Infused Coal
Sperrylite Infused Coal
Argentite Infused Coal
Zephyrite Infused Coal
Ilmenite Infused Coal
Scheelite Infused Coal
Voidshard Infused Coal
Lonsdaleite Infused Coal

Misc:

Colored fire of each ore
colored campfire or each ore

I have an issue / bug / crash / report / request, where can I send it?

Github Issues page

or even can send in comments of curseforge: Link to CurseForge Page

Highlights

From source data

Game versions

Supports 14 Minecraft versions, the newest being 26.3.

Loaders

Runs on Fabric, Forge and NeoForge.

Footprint

Rated a light load on a server.

Useful Ores on Nxeon

From our catalogue
One-click install
Supported on Nxeon Minecraft servers. We download it from Modrinth, place it, and restart the server.
Server side
Required on the server
Server type needed
Fabric, Forge, NeoForge
Server load
light
Smallest plan we suggest
Minecraft — 2 GB (2 GB RAM). This follows our own load rating above, not a benchmark.
Latest build
2.2.0.1-26.3, released 2026-10-22

Game versions by loader

LoaderGame versionsNewest
Fabric1.20.1 to 26.3 (13 versions)26.3
NeoForge1.21 to 26.3 (13 versions)26.3
Forge1.20.11.20.1

From 30 recorded builds of Useful Ores.

Recent builds

BuildReleasedGame versionsLoaders
2.2.0.1-26.32026-10-2226.3NeoForge
2.2.0.1-26.32026-10-2226.3Fabric
2.2.0-1.21.32026-10-201.21.3NeoForge
2.2.0-1.21.32026-10-201.21.3Fabric
2.2.0-1.21.102026-10-201.21.10NeoForge
2.2.0-1.21.102026-10-201.21.10Fabric

Dependencies

  • Required: modrinth project 8BmcQJ2H (modrinth, not in our catalogue)

Declared by the newest build that lists any. Required ones are installed with it on one-click installs.

Run Useful Ores on a Minecraft server

Pick a server or deploy a new one above; it is installed in one click.

What kind of mod it is

From the catalog
Listed on Modrinth as “Mods”

World generation

Changes or adds to how new terrain, biomes and structures are created.

Runs on your server

From source side support

Modrinth lists Useful Ores as required on the server. Check its Modrinth page to see whether players need it too.

Compatibility

Game
Minecraft
Loaders
FabricForgeNeoForge
Runs on
Serverrequired on the server
Game versions
26.3 and 13 earlier

Verified at the source

  • ✓ModrinthOfficial listing, checked 2026-10-23Open ↗
  • ✓Authorneutrinodust, as published on Modrinth
  • ✓LicenseApache-2.0Free

Useful Ores, answered

Generated from the mod’s own source data.

Do my players need to install Useful Ores?

Modrinth lists Useful Ores as required on the server. Check its Modrinth page to see whether players need it too.

Which loaders does it support?

Fabric, Forge and NeoForge.

Is it free?

Yes. Useful Ores is free to download from Modrinth. Its license is Apache-2.0.

How do I add it to my Nxeon server?

Use “Add to a server” on this page, or open NxLabs from your dashboard. We install it, restart your server and switch it on.

NxLabs

Run Useful Ores on a Minecraft server.

Deploy in about a minute from $4.99 a month, then add Useful Ores in one click.