Ore Detector Reborn

One ore detector, attuned to whatever you are looking for.

Brew a liquid from the ore you want, pour it in, and the detector finds that ore. Change your mind and pour in something else. Load a few at once and it looks for all of them.

Everything it is built from comes out of a Trial Chamber, so the mod has somewhere to send you before it gives you anything.

The loop

Step	What you do
Raid	Breeze Rods, Shards, Crystals and Heavy Cores all come from a Trial Chamber
Grind	Sneak and right click a Grindstone to crush an ingot into dust
Brew	A Resonance Chamber turns that dust into bottled Attunement Liquid
Attune	Pour a bottle into the detector
Scan	Right click a wall and it tells you what is behind it

Focus beats capacity

Range depends on how many different liquids are loaded, not how full the tank is. One ore and the beam reaches a long way down a narrow column. Load five and you sweep a wide area, but barely past the wall.

Liquids loaded	Reach down	Sideways	Column
1	24	18	3x3
2	16	12	5x5
3 or more	8	6	7x7

Every scan outlines the box it just swept, straight through the rock, so you can see exactly how far and how wide it looked.

What a tank holds

The tank holds 500 finds, across at most five ores, and one find of any ore costs one millibucket. Rarity is in the brewing rather than the reading: one dust makes three bottles, and a bottle is worth far more of a common ore than a rare one.

Bottle of	Worth
Coal, Copper, Zinc, Tin	165
Lapis	90
Iron, Gold, Quartz, Amethyst, Uraninite	45
Diamond, Emerald	25
Ancient Debris	12

So three bottles of coal very nearly fill the tank, and filling it with ancient debris is a project. Brew it once, though, and you can carry as much of it as you like.

X-Ray Goggles

Wear them and a scan draws what it found through the rock, in the ore's own colour, for about twelve seconds. A scan that turns something up also grants Haste while they are on, stronger when a single liquid is loaded.

They show nothing on their own. Nothing is revealed that the detector did not already report, and only for as long as the window lasts.

Every look costs Strain, which fades on its own. Push it too far and the goggles hand you Nausea and refuse to draw until they settle. The detector keeps working the whole time, so you never lose the numbers, only the picture.

Crafting

Ore Detector	X-Ray Goggles	Resonance Chamber

The detector takes two Heavy Cores, which means an ominous vault. The goggles take two Breeze Crystals and a Netherite Ingot. Everything else is cheap by comparison.

A Breeze Rod now makes Breeze Powder the way a Blaze Rod makes Blaze Powder, so Wind Charges move to a Fire Charge style recipe: clay, gunpowder and Breeze Powder for three.

Repairs

Breeze Shards repair both the detector and the goggles in an anvil, 250 durability at a time, and that repair costs the same few levels every time. It never climbs, so neither tool is ever priced out of being fixed. One chamber usually covers a repair of each, which is why you keep going back.

Modded ores

Mod	What you get
Create	Zinc grinds and detects like any vanilla ore
Energized Power	Tin ore is detected, and its ingot grinds into their own Tin Dust
Powah	Uraninite ore, all six of its blocks, with a dust of ours
Seamless Ores	Its ore variants count as the ore they are made of
Universal Ores	The same, in its own namespace

All optional, all detected automatically. A mod you do not have simply never matches anything.

In game guidance

An eleven step advancement tree lays out the whole progression, so you always know what to do next.

Install Modonomicon on 26.2, or Patchouli on 26.1.x, and you are handed the Tome of Resonance the first time you load a world, covering every step with the recipes drawn in.

Dependencies

Mod	Fabric	NeoForge
Cloth Config	Required	Required
Fabric API	Required	n/a
Mod Menu	Optional	n/a
Modonomicon	Optional	Optional
Patchouli	Optional	Optional
Create	Optional	Optional
Energized Power	Optional	Optional
Powah	n/a	Optional
Seamless Ores	Optional	Optional
Universal Ores	Optional	n/a

Which guidebook mod you want depends on the version: Modonomicon on 26.2, Patchouli on 26.1.x. Everything else works either way.

Quilt should work but is untested.

Common questions

Does it work in an existing world? Yes. Nothing about it depends on world generation.

Do I have to find a Trial Chamber? Yes. Every material comes from one, and the detector needs Heavy Cores from an ominous vault.

Is this an x-ray mod? No. The goggles only redraw a scan you already paid for, for a few seconds, and only in the column the detector actually swept.

Does it work with shaders? The detector does, entirely. The goggles cannot draw their highlight through terrain while a shaderpack is running, because shaderpacks replace the rendering step that lets it, so you will only see it on ore already in view. The goggles say so in their tooltip when a pack is on.

Does it work on a server? Yes, install it on both sides.

Is there a simpler version? Ore Detector Legacy is one plain detector per ore, no brewing and no attuning, covering Minecraft 1.20 through 26.2. The two are separate mods and install side by side.

Credits

Inspired by Ore Detector by restonic4 (MIT), which Legacy began as a port of. Item art is derived from Minecraft's own textures and remains Mojang's property.