Raw Ore Pellets
This mod adds three new items: Raw Copper Pellet, Raw Iron Pellet, and Raw Gold Pellet. These items function as the equivalent of nuggets for raw ores.
Mining changes:
Ore blocks no longer always drop raw ores - The drops depend on the tool used:
- Lower-tier tools (e.g. stone pickaxe) drop a small number of pellets
- Higher-tier tools increase the amount of pellets dropped
- Diamond pickaxes and above drop raw iron and raw gold as in vanilla
- Copper pickaxes and above drop one raw copper.
Copper is limited to a maximum of one raw copper per ore block (same rule as iron or gold).
Smelting:
- Pellets can be smelted into their corresponding nuggets
- Raw ore blocks can be smelted directly into their corresponding metal blocks
- Smelting times are adjusted to remain consistent with vanilla balance
Purpose:
- Gives a purpose to copper tools by making iron rarer only during the early game
- Makes early-game mining less efficient than mid/late-game
- Preserves vanilla behavior for high-tier tools
- Reduces the amount of copper obtained from mining to a reasonable value
