About Mineral Chance
From Modrinth💎 Players can find minerals inside stone-type blocks when mining in the overworld and nether.
Mineral Chance is a mod created to make mining a little bit more exciting. It adds a chance to find a random mineral after mining a stone-type block. In the overworld these stone blocks are stone, andesite, diorite, granite, tuff and deepslate. In the nether it's netherrack, basalt and blackstone.
By default there is a 1/50 chance to find a mineral. The overworld minerals consist of diamonds, iron nuggets, gold nuggets, lapis lazuli, redstone and emeralds. The nether minerals consist of quartz, golden nuggets and netherite scraps(1.16+). Mining with Silk Touch will disable mineral drops.
All minerals have the same chance of dropping. The message when finding a random mineral can be changed and turned off in the config.
All available config options:
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extraMineralChanceOnOverworldStoneBreak default 0.02, min 0, max 1.0
The chance a mineral is dropped when an overworld stone block is broken. By default 1/50.
extraMineralChanceOnNetherStoneBreak default 0.01, min 0, max 1.0
The chance a mineral is dropped when a nether stone block is broken. By default 1/100.
enableOverworldMinerals default true
If enabled, mining overworld stone blocks in the overworld has a chance to drop an overworld mineral. These consist of diamonds, gold nuggets, iron nuggets, lapis lazuli, redstone and emeralds.
enableNetherMinerals default true
If enabled, mining nether stone blocks in the nether has a chance to drop a nether mineral. These consist of quartz, gold nuggets and netherite scraps(1.16+).
disableMineralDropsWithSilkTouch default true
If enabled, minerals won't drop from stone mined with the silk touch enchantment.
sendMessageOnMineralFind default true
If enabled, sends a message when a mineral is found to the player who broke the stone block.
foundMineralMessage default "You've found a mineral hidden in the block!"
The message sent to the player who found a hidden mineral when 'sendMessageOnMineralFind' is enabled.
ignoreFakePlayers default true
If enabled, minerals won't be dropped if the player is a fake. For example when a mod breaks a block as a simulated player.
The effect in action in the overworld with 'extraMineralChanceOnOverworldStoneBreak' set to 0.5:
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The effect in action in the nether with 'extraMineralChanceOnNetherStoneBreak' set to 0.5:
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Highlights
From source dataGame versions
Supports 29 Minecraft versions, the newest being 26.3.
Loaders
Runs on Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt.
Footprint
Rated a light load on a server.
What kind of mod it is
From the catalogBuilding & decoration
Blocks, furniture, decorations and building tools.
Runs on your server
From source side supportModrinth lists Mineral Chance as required on the server. Check its Modrinth page to see whether players need it too.
Compatibility
- Game
- Minecraft
- Loaders
- FabricForgeNeoForgeQuilt
- Runs on
- Serverrequired on the server
- Game versions
- 26.3 and 28 earlier
Verified at the source
- ✓ModrinthOfficial listing, checked 2026-10-01Open ↗
- ✓AuthorSerilum, as published on Modrinth
- ✓LicenseLicenseRef-All-Rights-ReservedFree
