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TR metal ores drop as raw ore instead of ore blocks

RiceIRL opened this issue ยท 2 comments

commented

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
The latest 1.17 update for Minecraft introduced the concept of metal ore blocks being mined into Raw Ore instead of dropping itself as a block as with all previous updates. Other mods, including Tech Reborn, introduce metal ores that don't drop as raw ore variants when mined, instead still dropping as ore blocks. While not really an issue, this creates a displeasing inconsistency between vanilla and TR metal ores.

Describe the solution you'd like
Tech Reborn ores drop as raw ores instead of ore blocks. Shuffling of existing item use-cases to accommodate this change?

Describe alternatives you've considered
An alternative is probably just not doing the above, since this is a very minor thing that has no real impact on gameplay, but the inconsistency!

Additional context
A conversation at #2423 already exists, but discusses the fact that TR's raw ores act more like dust than ore.

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Doesn't this bother anyone? Is it just me?

commented

Truthfully I just forgot to check, lol. Good issue.
There's a thing to keep in mind here, I think.
Did you notice that you get more Raw Copper per-ore than you do Raw Iron? This was Mojang's compromise solution for wanting to make copper blocks cheap. In older snapshots, a copper block was 4 ingots instead of 9.
Should Tech Reborn be doing the same with any of its ores? (And notably, I don't think TR's grinders address copper being more fruitful like this.)

commented

I'm not sure - I only wanted to bring up the ore inconsistency!
I think changing the base drop rates of any of the metals like vanilla Minecraft does with its Raw Copper would involve a discussion of what metals need an increase in drop rates to begin with, since this now goes more into game balance than mod consistency. For now, I don't think Tech Reborn needs to do the same thing with its ores that copper does, since the mod operated fine before this mechanic was introduced to the game. Someone with more in-depth knowledge than me might disagree with me on this though.