Mineralogy 6 Building and Crafting

Building and Crafting

Mineralogy 6 documentation: M6 index | Rock catalogue | Content configuration

Mineralogy turns its rocks into useful building families. The exact family available for a material depends on the content flags enabled for that build and pack.

Basic rock families

Standard Mineralogy rocks can provide:

• the natural rock block;
• rock bricks;
• polished rock;
• polished rock bricks;
• slabs;
• stairs;
• walls;
• rock-matched furnaces;
• relief carvings.

Slabs, stairs, walls, and furnaces are available across the natural, brick, polished, and polished-brick families when their matching configuration flags are enabled.

Rock-specific results

Mineralogy keeps a link between the material used and the crafted result. A furnace made from a matching rock produces that rock's furnace, and family recipes return the matching Mineralogy slab, stair, wall, or brick.

This is different from a broad compatibility recipe. A recipe that genuinely means "any stone" can use a stone tag, while a recipe intended to produce a specific limestone block should remain tied to limestone.

Bricks and polished stone

Natural rocks can be turned into brick and polished forms where those content families are enabled. Polished rock can also have its own brick, slab, stair, wall, and furnace variants.

The exact recipes are data-driven and can differ between Minecraft versions. Use a recipe viewer in the installed pack rather than relying on an old recipe layout from a different release.

Relief carvings

Reliefs are shallow decorative carvings made from Mineralogy rock. They are a large optional content family, so packs that need to reduce registrations can disable them before creating a world.

Do not disable reliefs or another family after those blocks have been placed in a world unless the missing-registry consequences have been tested.

Rock furnaces

Rock and derived building families can provide matching furnaces. They behave as furnaces while keeping the appearance of the chosen material.

Furnace recipes are deliberately narrower than general cobblestone compatibility. This prevents every Mineralogy rock recipe from collapsing into the same vanilla furnace result.

Rock salt lighting

Rock salt has its own decorative uses:

• lamps that can be placed on different surfaces;
• tall streetlamps.

These blocks give rock salt a role above ground as well as in sedimentary formations.

Gypsum and drywall

Gypsum is part of the sedimentary rock catalogue. Mineralogy uses it for building materials including drywall, with coloured variants where supported by the installed version.

Stone and cobblestone compatibility

Most ordinary Mineralogy rocks participate in broad stone or cobblestone crafting through Forge, vanilla, and Mineralogy tags.

Important Mineralogy tags include:

• mineralogy:rocks;
• mineralogy:standard_rocks;
• mineralogy:rocks/sedimentary;
• mineralogy:rocks/metamorphic;
• mineralogy:rocks/igneous;
• mineralogy:crafting_materials/<rock>.

Pack authors should use broad tags only when every included material is a valid ingredient. Use the rock-specific crafting tags when the output must retain the input material's identity.

Trimming optional content

config/mineralogy-common.toml contains separate flags for:

• reliefs;
• natural rock slabs, stairs, walls, and furnaces;
• brick blocks and their derived families;
• polished blocks and their derived families;
• polished-brick blocks and their derived families.

These flags control registered content and recipes. They do not control where rocks or ores generate. Read Configuration before changing them.

Historical screenshots

The Legacy Screenshots and Texture Packs page shows furnaces, reliefs, slabs, lamps, walls, stairs, polished blocks, and community builds from earlier Mineralogy releases. The content ideas continue in Mineralogy 6, but those images do not show the current default textures exactly.