About Ore Growth
From ModrinthOre Growth adds crystals which can grow on ores!
Ore Growth allows crystal clusters to grow on ores! Clusters can then be harvested for resources.
Default configuration
By default, crystals can grow on any of the vanilla ores as well as on ancient debris. Once fully grown, the crystals can be mined to obtain resources relevant to the block it grew on.
Custom recipes
Ore Growth is completely customizable and custom recipes can allow crystals to grow on a certain block. Adding new recipes or adjusting default recipes can be done through a datapack. To add a recipe, simply create a new recipe file in your datapack and set its type to oregrowth:ore_growth. Here is an example of the properties for an ore growth recipe to make crystals grow on pumpkins:
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{
"type": "oregrowth:ore_growth",
"base": [
"minecraft:pumpkin"
], // blocks the crystal grows on
"stages": 4, // number of growth stages the crystal has, max of 4 stages
"spawn_chance": 0.2, // chance for a crystal to spawn when the base
// receives a random tick
"growth_chance": 0.3, // chance for a crystal to grow when it receives a
// random tick
"drops": [
{
"stage": 4, // growth stage for this drop, one may also specify
// 'min_stage' and 'max_stage'
"chance": 0.9, // optional, specifies the chance of obtaining this
// drop
"item": {
"id": "minecraft:pumpkin_pie",
"count": 2
}
},
{
"min_stage": 1, // minimum stage for this drop
"max_stage": 3, // maximum stage for this drop
"chance": 0.3, // optional, specifies the chance of obtaining this
// drop
"loot_table": "minecraft:blocks/short_grass" // loot table to
// obtain items from
}
]
}
</td><td>
</td></tr> </table>
The full datapack files for this example are available here.
For convenience, there are config options to disable all default recipes, to scale the spawn chance of all ore growth recipes, and to scale the growth chance of all ore growth recipes.
Just Enough Items integration
All ore growth recipes are visible in recipe viewing mods.
Jade and The One Probe integration
Both Jade and The One Probe will display the growth progress of crystals.
Mod compatibility
Ore Growth has compatibility for ores from the following mods:
Additional Blocks: Stone Edition
BetterEnd
BetterNether
Bigger Reactors
Create
Deep Aether
Enderscape
Extreme Reactors- <img width='28' alt='Gems & Jewels' src='https://media.forgecdn.net/avatars/285/254/637300336290714863.png'> Gems & Jewels
Industrial Revolution
Mekanism
Mystical Agriculture
Mythic Metals
Pigsteel
Powah!
RFTools
Spelunkery
The Aether
Thermal Foundation
Highlights
From source dataGame versions
Supports 32 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 catalogWorld generation
Changes or adds to how new terrain, biomes and structures are created.
Runs on your server
From source side supportModrinth lists Ore Growth 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 31 earlier
Verified at the source
- ✓ModrinthOfficial listing, checked 2026-10-01Open ↗
- ✓AuthorSuperMartijn642, as published on Modrinth
- ✓LicenseLicenseRef-All-Rights-ReservedFree










