Dio's Tiny Ore
by AlasDiablo
With Dio's Tiny Ore installed, small deposits of vanilla ores appear in specific biomes, adding ore variants that Dio's Extended Resources and Dio's Lib support.
What it does
Dio's Tiny Ore is a world generation mod that places small quantities of ore in selected biomes, aimed at exploration. Each ore appears within its own height range: tiny coal ore in deserts and savannas between heights -12 and 127, tiny copper ore in oceans between -12 and 60, tiny diamond ore in jungles between -64 and 24, and tiny emerald ore in mountains between -64 and 127. Tiny gold ore shows up in badlands between -48 and 127, tiny iron ore in birch forest mountains between -38 and 127, tiny lapis lazuli ore in taigas and dark forests between -38 and 38, and tiny redstone ore in taiga swamps between -38 and 42.
The ore variants drop vanilla items, and the mod adds a non-vanilla nugget that players collect from them. Biome placement uses biome tags, so other mods that implement the desert, savanna, ocean, jungle, mountain, badlands, birch forest, taiga, dark forest and swamp tags can be compatible with it. The mod is published for NeoForge only, for 1.21.1 and 1.21.8, with the 2.0.0 build for 1.21.8 as the latest file. The server and every player need the mod installed. It requires Dio's Extended Resources and Dio's Lib. The code is not open source, and the mod is released under All rights reserved.
Key features
Tiny ore variants
Small ore deposits of coal, copper, diamond, emerald, gold, iron, lapis lazuli and redstone generate in fixed biomes.
Biome-specific placement
Each ore has its own list of biomes and height range, so the same ore appears in different places on the map.
Vanilla ore drops
Mining the tiny ores yields vanilla items, with a non-vanilla nugget added as an extra drop.
Biome tag compatibility
Placement follows biome tags, so other mods that implement those tags can take part in the generation.
Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
Requirements
Dependencies declared by the latest file for each loader.
Required 2
How it compares
Ore placement is the common function of several alternatives. BiomeOres is a server-side only, open source mod under the GNU General Public License v3.0 or later, for Forge and NeoForge on 1.21.1 – 1.21.11. Large Ore Veins is open source under the GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only, published for NeoForge 1.21.1, with the server required and the client optional. Dio's Tiny Ore runs on client and server and is not open source.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dio's Tiny Ore | NeoForge | 1.21.1 – 1.21.8 | Client and server | 2025-12-06 |
| BiomeOres | Forge and NeoForge | 1.21.1 – 1.21.11 | Server-side only | 2026-06-11 |
| Large Ore Veins | NeoForge | 1.21.1 | Server required, client optional | 2026-05-31 |
Questions
Does Dio's Tiny Ore need Dio's Extended Resources?
Must the mod be installed on the server?
Which game versions have files?
In the catalog
Dio's Tiny Ore is one of 8,515 World generation mods on ModsFinder, and one of 4,175 World generation mods for NeoForge. 17,695 mods support Minecraft 1.21.8.
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What the author says
Dio's Tiny Ore is an ore generation mod focused on adding ore to enhance exploration. Dio's Tiny Ore adds a variant of all vanilla ore that drops between two and six nuggets (Non-vanilla nugget added by Dio's Extended Resources).
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/dios-tiny-ore
- Owner
- AlasDiablo
- Published
- 2024-09-01
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2025-12-06
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15