Custom Ore Generation Mod Wiki & Guide
The Custom Ore Generation Mod provides extensive control over how ores and other blocks generate in Minecraft worlds, allowing for highly customized and biome-specific terrain generation through XML configuration.
Overview
The Custom Ore Generation Mod (often abbreviated as COG) is a powerful utility mod for Minecraft that grants players and server administrators unparalleled control over the generation and distribution of ores and other blocks within their game worlds. Instead of adding new content like mobs, items, or blocks, COG focuses entirely on modifying the world generation mechanics.
Its primary purpose is to allow for highly flexible and detailed customization of ore spawning, supporting both vanilla Minecraft ores and those added by other mods. The mod introduces several custom distribution types beyond the game's default 'cluster' generation, such as 'vein' and 'cloud' distributions, and allows for the substitution of any block type with another during world generation.
Customization is achieved through a sophisticated XML-based configuration file and simpler plain text options files, enabling conditional generation, mathematical expressions, and other advanced features. This allows for intricate control, including biome-specific ore generation and the ability to define custom parameters that players can adjust via an in-game GUI during world creation.