Ores

What are ores, really? Do we truly mine ores, or do the ores mine us? Sources say no, that's stupid. But I say that mining for ore is a spiritual experience. The swing of the pick, the sweat on your back, and the satisfying pop as the ore is sucked into your inventory...truly magnificent. I'm tearing up just thinking about it. Get me a tissue

What?
The ores of RSMC will spawn similarly to that of regular Minecraft ores with the more common ones spawning at higher y values and requiring the player to dig deep for the more sought after and higher level requirement ores. An important note is that ores in RSMC do NOT deplete after they are mined. They will wait a certain amount of time based on the ore and will respawn to be mined again. If there is an ore in a spot you do not like you may mine the ore (meaning that you must meet the mining requirement to break said ore) and then while sneaking break the block again after it is depleted which will remove the ore block entirely.

As of right now, blocks can not be mined with silk touch and moved to more convenient places.

Copper and Tin


Copper and tin both have a mining level requirement of 0 to mine, making them the starting ores that a new player will have access to. They will both grant 17.5 exp per ore mined and can be combined in a smithy to make a bronze bar with a 1:1:1 ratio.

Rune Essence
This is less of an ore and more of a resource, however it requires level 0 mining as a mining requirement. When mined you will receive 5 exp and a chunk of rune essence to be made into a choice rune at a desired rune altar; provided you meet the runecrafting requirements. An important thing to note is that this ore can only be found in an ice plains biome where they will be seen in giant spires ready to mine.

Gold Ore
...No clever comments? Good. Gold ore, thankfully, is simpler to smelt. Just toss it in the smelter, and out comes a gold bar. However, the tradeoff is that gold bars do literally nothing, and are completely worthless. Kind of an interesting parallel to real life, right? It's held in such high esteem, and yet there are very few practical applications.

Makes you think about your priorities.



Silver Ore
Oh yes, silver! Wait, no, this is pretty much exactly the same as gold. One ore makes one bar, which you can't use for anything.



Mithril Ore
That's no small jump! We go from silver, which is entirely useless at the moment, to mithril, which is like, made by dwarves! Or something... I didn't read Lord of the Rings. Surround it with four pieces of coal ore in a smelter to get one shiny, sparkling mithril bar.



Adamant Ore
What is adamant, I hear you ask? It's green ore that's better than mithril, that's what. Put it in a smelter with three pieces of coal ore on either side to get one super awesome adamant bar.



Runite Ore
Completely surround it with coal ore in a smelter to get one rune bar.