Melaphyre
“A dark igneous rock with embedded crystals.“
– dictionary“The first and only farm-able ore.” – me
What the hell is melaphyre?
In real world, this:
Where to find
- Rarely spawned naturedly near bedrock
- Created naturedly by cooling down hot stones (on air or with water)
- You can heat stones up with adjacent lava (2 lava blocks minimal)
- Hot stones can be found in lava lakes, dry the lake up to get them.
- Smooth stone is heated up if it is adjacent to lava.
- More lava means faster heating.
- Lava connected by side counts as 3 heat points, others as 1.
- Stone needs 6 heat points to start heating up.
- When stone is hot, it will turn orange and start to glow.
- If there are less than 6 heat points, stone will start to cool down again.
- Less lava means faster cooling.
- If a red-hot stone is cooled down, it will turn to melaphyre.
- If you pour water onto a red-hot stone, you have 50% chance to get melaphyre, or cobblestone.
- Cooling warm stones (not red-hot stones or almost-melaphyre) will turn them to ordinary smoothstone.
- Right-click warm stone, and you will get some useful info.
- If you walk on a hot stone, you will get hurt.
- Unlike cactus, dropped items won’t be destroyed.
- The farming is slow, be patient!
- You have to use iron or better pickaxe.
- You will get 0-2 precious stones.
- You will get some precious stones from melaphyre.
- You can use them as decoration (on shelves), or craft them to gem blocks (9 gems to get 1 block).
- I will probably add more usages, but right now I don’t have any ideas.
- Gem blocks are translucent.
- Silmaril gem block glows and is much nicer than glowstone.
- Use them as decoration, or as windows.
- They have better resistance than glass, but are less transparent.
- You need iron or better pickaxe to mine them.
- On fancy graphics, you can’t see one gem block through other gem blocks.
- You need ModLoader.
- After ModLoader is successfully installed, backup your minecraft.jar.
- Copy contents of the downloaded zip into minecraft.jar using WinRAR or something similar.
- This mod uses IDs: 130-137 and 1301-1306. if you want to change them, run Minecraft once (don’t open a world) and then edit the melaphyre.properties file.