Identifying Nether Ores and Mineral Blocks

Beyond standard Overworld caves, Animated Outlined Ores updates the textures for Nether ores and solid mineral blocks. You can use these visual changes to gather resources faster in the Nether and keep track of compact storage blocks.

Locating Nether Ores

The Nether's dim ambient lighting and vast expanses of Netherrack can make ore veins difficult to distinguish from a distance.

1. Scanning Netherrack: As you travel through Nether wastes or dig tunnels, watch for the animated borders framing Nether Quartz Ore and Nether Gold Ore against plain Netherrack.

2. High-Ceiling Harvesting: Nether Quartz and Nether Gold frequently generate high up on overhangs and cliff faces over lava lakes. Use the highlighted outlines to confirm whether a distant patch contains ore before bridging or pillaring up to reach it.

3. Tunnel Mining: When strip-mining through Netherrack, the moving borders make it much easier to catch single exposed ore blocks in your peripheral vision before your high-efficiency pickaxe mines past them.

Recognizing Mineral Blocks

In addition to raw ores, the pack also applies its visual style to full mineral blocks.

• Storage Sorting: When you craft raw smelted materials into compact nine-ingot or nine-gem blocks for storage rooms, the custom block textures remain distinct from regular building blocks.
• Finding Natural Vein Blocks: If you come across naturally generated raw ore blocks inside large underground ore veins, their borders help distinguish them from standard surrounding stone and deepslate.