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Excavated Variants

by lukebemish

Excavated Variants generates stone variant ores in the world, so ore blocks appear in several stone types across existing terrain, as a world generation addition.

FabricForgeNeoForgeQuiltClient and serverGNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 or laterOpen source1.18.1 – 1.21.1

What it does

Ore blocks are generated in a range of stone types, with new ore and stone combinations produced from the vanilla stones and ores. Mods that add their own stones and ores can be included through the default configs that cover several such additions. Because generation is data-driven, the set of stones and ores can be changed without writing code.

The mod needs Dynamic Asset Generator and Fabric API on Fabric and Quilt, and Dynamic Asset Generator on Forge and NeoForge. Installation covers the server and each player's game. Worlds that load slowly after installing it can be helped by enabling stronger asset and data caching. Its source code is released under the GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 or later, and it is open source.

Key features

  1. Generated stone variant ores

    Ore blocks are generated in several stone types, so variants of the same ore appear naturally in the world.

  2. Configs in the globalresources folder

    Config files are loaded from the globalresources folder, and built-in configs can be extracted there to be edited.

  3. Four config data types

    Configs define four main data types, and each one is placed under globalresources/[folder/pack]/globaldata/[namespace]/excavated variants/.

  4. Shared ground types

    Generated ore and stone combinations share the ground type of the variant they came from unless a modifier changes it.

Compatibility

Latest build for each game version and loader.

1.21.x2 of 2 versions with builds
1.21.14.3.1Not available4.3.14.3.1
1.214.3.0Not available4.3.04.3.0
1.20.x5 of 5 versions with builds
1.20.64.2.2Not available4.2.24.2.2
1.20.54.2.0Not available4.2.04.2.0
1.20.44.1.6Not available4.1.64.1.6
1.20.24.0.3Not available4.0.34.0.3
1.20.1Not available3.0.93.0.93.0.9
1.19.x4 of 4 versions with builds
1.19.4Not available2.3.1Not available2.3.1
1.19.3Not available2.2.0Not available2.2.0
1.19.2Not available1.0.3-1.19.2-forgeNot available1.0.3-1.19.2-quilt
1.19Not available1.0.0-1.19-forgeNot available1.0.0-1.19-quilt
1.18.x2 of 2 versions with builds
1.18.20.6.4-fabric0.6.5Not available0.6.5
1.18.10.3.1-fabric0.3.1-forgeNot availableNot available
ReleaseBetaAlphaNot available

Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.

Requirements

Dependencies declared by the latest file for each loader.

Required 2

Dynamic Asset GeneratorLibrary mod for dynamically generating assets at runtime.
Required
Fabric APILightweight and modular API providing common hooks and intercompatibility measures utilized by mods using the Fabric toolchain.
Required

Use cases

Who it’s for: Modpack makers and server owners who want more ore variety in the world, and players who edit generation through JSON configs.

Questions

Which loaders does Excavated Variants support?

It is published for Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt, with the latest files for 1.21.1 on Fabric, NeoForge and Quilt and 1.20.1 on Forge.

Does Excavated Variants need Fabric API?

Fabric API is required on Fabric and Quilt, and Dynamic Asset Generator is required on every loader.

Why are worlds loading slowly after installing it?

The author suggests turning on stronger asset and data caching to reduce loading times in worlds with many generated variants.

In the catalog

Excavated Variants is one of 8,515 World generation mods on ModsFinder, and one of 4,027 World generation mods for Fabric. 32,366 mods support Minecraft 1.21.1.

World generation mods8,515Fabric modsMods for 1.21.132,366

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What the author says

Fabric/Quilt version requires: Dynamic Asset Generator and Fabric API/Quilted Fabric API Adds automatically generated variants of ores based on various stones.
lukebemish, on the Modrinth page

Official listing

Owner
lukebemish
Published
2022-02-08
Updated on Modrinth
2024-08-13
Facts verified
2026-10-15

Tags

World generationDecoration
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