Base Metals Mod FAQ

Find and mine copper, tin, or silver ore from the ground like you would stone. Smelt the raw ore in a furnace to get ingots, then craft tools and armor just like vanilla materials. If you want to progress faster, craft a Crack Hammer to pulverize ores into powder instead.

Break an ore block with the Crack Hammer and it drops two piles of metal powder instead of one ore, effectively doubling your yield. You can also use it on items dropped on the ground by right-clicking the block underneath them.

Crush the required metals into powder using the Crack Hammer, then craft the powders together in a shapeless recipe to make an alloy blend. Smelt the blend in a furnace to get the final alloy ingot.

It depends on where you're going: Cold-Iron for the Nether, Adamantine for tough mobs, Mithril for fighting undead, Star-Steel for the End (with self-repairing tools), and Aquarium if you need to breathe underwater.

Most metals can be crafted into a full set of tools and armor, but some metals like Mercury cannot be used for equipment—check the wiki for which metals support tool crafting.

Natural metals like copper, silver, and tin are found as ore blocks in the world. Alloys like bronze and brass are crafted from metal powders, not mined, so you can't find alloy ore naturally.

Cold-Iron and Adamantine spawn in the Nether, while Star-Steel is found in the End. Check the mod's ore generation settings if you're not finding them.

Base Metals Mod is generally compatible with most mods, but performance can suffer if you're running many mods at once—monitor your frame rate and adjust render distance if needed.

Set up a mining operation using the Crack Hammer to pulverize ores into powder (doubling output), then smelt the powder in multiple furnaces or a smelting setup to process ingots quickly.

You can use hoppers and furnaces to automate smelting of metal powder into ingots, but the Crack Hammer itself requires manual use to pulverize ores.

Base Metals is a Minecraft mod that adds a large set of metal-themed ores, ingots, tools, weapons, armor, and decorative blocks , with each metal forming a full equipment and building set. It includes common historical metals like copper, silver, tin, and lead, as well as fantasy metals like cold-iron, mithril, and adamantine.

The mod adds natural metals such as copper, silver, tin, lead, zinc, mercury, nickel, and platinum, along with alloys like bronze, brass, steel, invar, and electrum. It also adds fantasy metals including aquarium, cold-iron, adamantine, mithril, and star-steel.

Breaking an ore block with a Crack Hammer drops two piles of metal powder instead of an ore block, doubling your metal production. You can also crush regular items by dropping them on the ground and right-clicking the block underneath them with the Crack Hammer.

To make an alloy, craft the required metal powders together to create an alloy blend, then smelt the alloy blend in a furnace to turn it into an ingot.

Aquarium is a magical alloy that lets you breathe underwater when worn as a full armor set, and its tools deal extra damage to water mobs.

Star-Steel is found in the End, and its armor lets you jump higher and fall slower. Its tools slowly repair themselves.

Adamantine is a rare Nether metal as strong as diamond. Its armor gives damage resistance, and its tools are effective against mobs with high health.

Mithril is an alloy as strong as steel, and its weapons are extra effective against undead mobs.

Cold-Iron is found in the Nether and is strong against Nether mobs and fire-immune creatures.

Lead is a heavy metal that makes fragile but high-damage weapons.