I tried to make a Orechid setup that would drops ores using the Weight lens onto torches so that all ores would be processed correctly, and found that the IC2 ores (and from further testing, the normal blocks too) all changed their metadata to 0 when they hit the torches. Testing this interaction with Vanilla blocks and blocks from other mods revealed that it seems to just be IC2 with this problem. I have already sent a bug report to the IC2 team, but maybe something can be done on Botania's side too.

Tested using IC2 2.3.173-ex18 and Botania r1.8-299

Are IC2 ores TileEntities?
On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 12:41 PM esapee [email protected] wrote:

I tried to make a Orechid setup that would drops ores using the Weight
lens onto torches so that all ores would be processed correctly, and found
that the IC2 ores (and from further testing, the normal blocks too) all
changed their metadata to 0 when they hit the torches. Testing this
interaction with Vanilla blocks and blocks from other mods revealed that it
seems to just be IC2 with this problem. I have already sent a bug report to
the IC2 team, but maybe something can be done on Botania's side too.

Tested using IC2 2.3.173-ex18 and Botania r1.8-299

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it might be a problem with how falling sand entity converts itself into an item, lemme see

update: it uses damageDropped to get the meta, so idk how IC2 distinguishes its ores but this might be a vanilla limitation and/or on ic2's end

if IC2 ores are TEs then the fallingsand method won't work for them.

Took a quick look through IC2's code, and the ores are instances of BlockMultiID, which uses the enum ResourceBlock to determine the type, and extends BlockBase extends Block. I'm assuming its the way they set the variants (using ResourceBlock instead of just plain metadata) that's causing the issue.

do they implement damagedroped?

Doesn't look like it, just getDrops.

Yeah vanilla's falling sand uses damageDropped and weight lens just turns it into a falling sand entity, so it's on ic2's side

Yeah I already sent in a bug report to the IC2 people, but who knows how long it'll be before that gets any attention.