AllTheOres guide for All the Mods 10 2.16 to 2.29

AllTheOres is one of those mods you'll use constantly, even if you never think about it much. This pack ships version 3.1.6 for NeoForge 1.21.1, and it has been part of the pack since version 1.9 or earlier.^[1]

You won't find an AllTheOres quest chapter. Instead, its materials show up as tasks in chapters for other mods, including Mekanism, Mekanism reactors, Extreme Reactors, Occultism and the steam age. So whether you follow the tech side or the magic side, you'll run into its items early and often.^{[2][3][4][5][6]}

Where its items show up in the quests

• Mekanism: one quest asks for Raw Osmium (a quest in "?"), and it unlocks a follow-up for Osmium Ingot (a quest in "?"). The chapter also asks for Steel Ingot (a quest in "?"), and for Sulfur together with Mekanism's Chemical Oxidizer (a quest in "?").^[2]
• Mekanism reactors: you collect Sulfur first (a quest in "?"). That unlocks a quest for Fluorite alongside the Chemical Dissolution Chamber (a quest in "?").^[4]
• Extreme Reactors: one quest asks for Uranium Ingot (a quest in "?"), and a later one wants 4 of them (a quest in "?").^[3]
• Occultism: Silver Ingot is a task in a quest with a bound djinni book (a quest in "?"). Raw Silver sits next to raw iron, gold and copper in a quest with a bound foliot book (a quest in "?").^[5]
• Steam age: this chapter asks for Steel Ingot (a quest in "?").^[6]
• Steel and uranium ingots are also quest tasks elsewhere in the pack (a quest in "?" and a quest in "?").^[7]

Unverified The mod's own description, ore generation and processing mechanics aren't covered by the available pack files. This overview only covers where the mod's items appear in the pack's quests.

AllTheOres supplies a lot of the basic metals and gems you need early on. Quests in the Mekanism, steam age, Extreme Reactors and Occultism chapters ask for its items, so knowing where to find each ore and how to process it pays off quickly.^[2][3][5][6]

Step 1: Know where to dig

Each ore has a tooltip showing its height range. The metals you need first sit fairly deep, so a mining trip into the lower layers covers most of them.^[8]

• Osmium, silver and nickel ore are found between Y -64 and Y 56.^[8]
• Sulfur ore is found between Y -64 and Y 25.^[8]
• Uranium ore is found between Y -64 and Y 16, so it's the deepest of these.^[8]
• Fluorite ore is found between Y -64 and Y 228, so it's easy to come across.^[8]

Step 2: Osmium for Mekanism

Your first AllTheOres goal is osmium. The Mekanism chapter starts with a quest for Raw Osmium (a quest in "?"), followed by one for Osmium Ingot (a quest in "?"). Raw osmium goes straight into a regular furnace or a blast furnace.^[2][9]

Osmium IngotMod recipe

Smelting

• any osmium raw material

Recipe id: alltheores:smelting/osmium/raw_smelting

Osmium IngotMod recipe

Blasting

• any osmium raw material

Recipe id: alltheores:smelting/osmium/raw_blasting

The blast furnace version

Step 3: Steel, your big early goal

Steel Ingot shows up in three separate quests: a quest in "?" in the steam age chapter, a quest in "?" in chapter 2, and a quest in "?" in the Mekanism chapter. You can't smelt it in a plain furnace from raw materials, so you'll need a machine. The Ender IO alloy smelter and the Immersive Engineering alloy smelter both have recipes for it. In this pack, the Immersive Engineering blast furnace also makes this mod's Steel Ingot.^[2][6][7][9]

Steel IngotMod recipe

Alloy Smelting (enderio)

• any iron ingot
• any coal

Recipe id: alltheores:alloy_smelting/steel_ingot

Ender IO alloy smelter

Steel IngotMod recipe

Alloy (immersiveengineering)

• any iron ingot
• any coal

Recipe id: alltheores:alloysmelter/steel/ingot

Immersive Engineering alloy smelter

Steel IngotChanged by the pack

Blast Furnace (immersiveengineering)

• any iron ingot
• any slag

Recipe id: immersiveengineering:blastfurnace/steel

Changed by the pack to output this mod's steel

Step 4: Sulfur and fluorite

Sulfur is needed for quests in the Mekanism and Mekanism reactors chapters (a quest in "?" and a quest in "?"). The quest after that one, a quest in "?", asks for Fluorite. You can get both from their ores with a simple crafting-grid recipe, and sulfur ore can also be smelted.^[2][4][9]

2× SulfurMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• any ore hammer
• any sulfur ore

Recipe id: alltheores:crafting/hammer/sulfur/dust_from_ore

2× FluoriteMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• any ore hammer
• any fluorite ore

Recipe id: alltheores:crafting/hammer/fluorite/gem_from_ore

SulfurMod recipe

Smelting

• any sulfur ore

Recipe id: alltheores:smelting/sulfur/ore_smelting

Sulfur, Coal DustAdded by the pack

Sag Milling (enderio)

• any coal

Recipe id: enderio:sag_milling/coal

Step 5: Silver and uranium

The Occultism chapter asks for Raw Silver in a quest in "?" and for Silver Ingot in a quest in "?". In this pack, smelting silver ore gives you a Silver Ingot directly.^[5][9]

Silver IngotChanged by the pack

Smelting

• any silver ore

Recipe id: immersiveengineering:smelting/ingot_silver

Uranium Ingot is needed for a quest in "?" in chapter 2 and for a quest in "?" in the Extreme Reactors chapter. The later quest a quest in "?" asks for 4 of them. The pack changed the Extreme Reactors recipes so that smelting Raw Yellorium gives this mod's Uranium Ingot.^[3][7][9]

Uranium IngotChanged by the pack

Smelting

• Raw Yellorium

Recipe id: bigreactors:smelting/yellorium_from_raw

Unverified The sources don't show whether Raw Silver or raw uranium can be smelted in a regular furnace in this pack. Check the recipe viewer in-game. This site does hold All the Mods 10's own recipes, read from the pack itself: look the item up in the item browser.

Same as in the All the Mods 10 4.5 guide

AllTheOres adds a big set of ores, storage blocks and processing chemicals. Its ore blocks come in five variants: a normal stone version, a deepslate version, a Nether version, an End version and an 'other' version. Every variant of the same ore shares the same height range, so once you know where one kind of ore spawns you know where all its variants spawn.^[8]

Where each ore spawns

Every ore range starts at Y -64, the bottom of the world, and ends at a different height depending on the ore. The lower the top of the range, the deeper you'll need to dig.^[8]

• Aluminum: Y -64 to Y 320, so it can turn up at almost any height.^[8]
• Sapphire: Y -64 to Y 296.^[8]
• Cinnabar, Fluorite, Ruby and Salt: Y -64 to Y 228.^[8]
• Peridot and Tin: Y -64 to Y 196.^[8]
• Zinc: Y -64 to Y 126.^[8]
• Lead, Nickel, Osmium and Silver: Y -64 to Y 56.^[8]
• Platinum: Y -64 to Y 36.^[8]
• Iridium: Y -64 to Y 32.^[8]
• Sulfur: Y -64 to Y 25.^[8]
• Uranium: Y -64 to Y 16, the deepest range of the lot.^[8]

Slurry chemicals

The mod also registers chemicals for four of its metals: aluminum, iridium, platinum and uranium. Each one comes as a Dirty Slurry and a Clean Slurry, for example Dirty Iridium Slurry and Clean Iridium Slurry. The dirty and clean pairing means these are meant for an ore-processing chain where you clean the slurry before turning it into metal.^[8]

Unverified Which machines process these slurries in this pack, and what they turn into, isn't shown in the available sources. Check your recipe viewer in game for the exact chain. This site does hold All the Mods 10's own recipes, read from the pack itself: look the item up in the item browser.

Storage blocks and decompression

AllTheOres has storage blocks for its metals, alloys and gems, such as Osmium Block, Bronze Block, Enderium Block and Ruby Block. There are also raw ore blocks like Raw Osmium Block and Raw Uranium Block. In this pack, each of these blocks has a compressed 1x version, and a shapeless crafting recipe turns that 1x compressed block back into the normal block.^[10]

9× Osmium BlockMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• Osmium Block 1x

Recipe id: allthecompressed:decompress/osmium_block_1x

Turning a compressed Osmium Block back into a regular one

9× Raw Osmium BlockMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• Raw Osmium Block 1x

Recipe id: allthecompressed:decompress/raw_osmium_block_1x

The same idea works for raw ore blocks

These decompress recipes cover a wide range of blocks: metals like Aluminum Block, Platinum Block and Iridium Block, alloys like Electrum Block, Signalum Block and Lumium Block, gems and minerals like Sapphire Block, Peridot Block and Salt Block, and raw blocks like Raw Tin Block and Raw Zinc Block. So if you've packed your stockpile into compressed storage, you can always unpack it when you need the regular blocks again.^[10]

Unverified The available sources don't show any machines, multiblocks, power or fluid handling that belong to AllTheOres itself. The mod appears to supply materials for other mods to process, but this isn't confirmed here.

AllTheOres supplies many of the shared metals and gems this pack runs on: Osmium Ingot, Silver Ingot, Steel Ingot, Uranium Ingot, Sulfur and Fluorite. Its progression comes from other mods' quest chapters asking for these materials, and from the in-pack recipes that let you process them with better machines as you go.^{[2][3][4][5][6][7][9]}

Where the quests ask for AllTheOres materials

• In the Steam Age chapter, a quest in "?" asks you for a Steel Ingot.^[6]
• In the Mekanism chapter, a quest in "?" wants Raw Osmium. It unlocks a quest in "?", where you turn that into an Osmium Ingot.^[2]
• The same chapter also asks for a Steel Ingot in a quest in "?". a quest in "?" wants Sulfur together with a Chemical Oxidizer.^[2]
• In the Mekanism Reactors chapter, a quest in "?" asks for Sulfur. It leads into a quest in "?", which wants Fluorite and a Chemical Dissolution Chamber.^[4]
• In the Occultism chapter, a quest in "?" includes Raw Silver next to the vanilla raw metals and a bound foliot Book of Binding. a quest in "?" includes a Silver Ingot alongside a bound djinni Book of Binding.^[5]
• In the Extreme Reactors chapter, a quest in "?" wants a Uranium Ingot. Later, a quest in "?" asks for 4 of them.^[3]
• The chapter_2_the_star quest file also has a quest in "?", which asks for a Uranium Ingot, and a quest in "?", which asks for a Steel Ingot.^[7]

Processing: from hand tools to machines

For most of these materials you have a ladder of options. You can start with hand crafting and plain furnace or blast furnace smelting. Later, machines from other mods take over, such as the Immersive Engineering crusher and arc furnace, the Ender IO SAG mill and alloy smelter, and Mekanism's enriching.^[9]

Osmium

Early on, you can smelt or blast Raw Osmium, osmium ore or osmium dust straight into Osmium Ingot. Once you have a SAG mill, milling osmium ore gives you raw osmium plus cobblestone. In this pack, a Modern Industrialization macerator also turns osmium ore into raw osmium, and an Industrial Foregoing laser drill with a light gray lens can produce raw osmium.^[9]

Osmium IngotMod recipe

Blasting

• any osmium raw material

Recipe id: alltheores:smelting/osmium/raw_blasting

Raw Osmium, CobblestoneMod recipe

Sag Milling (enderio)

• any osmium ore

Recipe id: alltheores:sag_milling/osmium/ore

Silver

You can smelt or blast Raw Silver, silver ore and silver dust into Silver Ingot, and SAG milling silver ore gives you raw silver. In this pack, an Industrial Foregoing laser drill with a gray lens can also produce raw silver. If you're deep into magic, an Ars Nouveau imbuement recipe changed by the pack makes Silver Ingots too.^[9]

Silver IngotChanged by the pack

Smelting

• any silver raw material

Recipe id: immersiveengineering:smelting/ingot_silver3

Silver IngotChanged by the pack

Imbuement (ars_nouveau)

• Manipulation Essence
• Demon's Dream Essence
• Spirit Attuned Gem
• any gold ingot

Recipe id: ars_ocultas:silver_transmute

Steel

Steel shows up early in the quests, and you have plenty of ways to make it. You can use the Ender IO alloy smelter, the Immersive Engineering alloy smelter, blast furnace or arc furnace, or the Modern Industrialization blast furnace. You can also smelt steel dust. All of these give the same AllTheOres Steel Ingot in this pack.^[9]

Steel IngotMod recipe

Alloy (immersiveengineering)

• any iron ingot
• any coal

Recipe id: alltheores:alloysmelter/steel/ingot

Steel IngotChanged by the pack

Blast Furnace (immersiveengineering)

• any iron ingot
• any slag

Recipe id: immersiveengineering:blastfurnace/steel

Uranium

You can smelt or blast raw uranium, uranium ore and uranium dust into Uranium Ingot. The arc furnace also processes raw uranium and raw uranium blocks.^[9]

Uranium IngotChanged by the pack

Smelting

• Raw Yellorium

Recipe id: bigreactors:smelting/yellorium_from_raw

Sulfur and Fluorite

The simplest way to get Sulfur and Fluorite is an ore hammer in the crafting grid, and you can also smelt sulfur ore directly. After that, you can crush their ores with the Immersive Engineering crusher, the Ender IO SAG mill, Actually Additions crushing or Mekanism enriching.^[9]

2× SulfurMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• any ore hammer
• any sulfur ore

Recipe id: alltheores:crafting/hammer/sulfur/dust_from_ore

2× FluoriteMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• any ore hammer
• any fluorite ore

Recipe id: alltheores:crafting/hammer/fluorite/gem_from_ore

This pack also adds sulfur as an output of several other recipes. SAG milling coal gives Sulfur plus coal dust. Crushing blaze rods, or coal, lapis and quartz ores, in the Immersive Engineering crusher lists Sulfur among the outputs. Mekanism can make it through coal gasification, and by injecting gunpowder with hydrogen chloride. That's handy once the Mekanism Reactors quests start asking for sulfur.^[4][9]

Sulfur, Coal DustAdded by the pack

Sag Milling (enderio)

• any coal

Recipe id: enderio:sag_milling/coal

AllTheOres is the shared metal and gem backbone of this pack, so its items show up in other mods' machines, recipes and quest chapters. Here's how those connections work in this pack.^[2][9]

Mekanism ore processing

Mekanism handles most of the ore processing for AllTheOres materials. Its purifying, injecting and dissolution recipes take ores, raw materials and raw storage blocks and turn them into AllTheOres clumps, shards and dirty slurries. Aluminum, iridium, nickel and platinum get the full set, so you can make items like Aluminum Clump, Iridium Shard, Nickel Clump and Platinum Shard directly from ore, raw material or raw blocks.^[9]

Clumps can also be made from shards, and shards can be injected from crystals. Crystal-to-shard recipes exist for aluminum, copper, gold, iridium, iron, lead, nickel, osmium and platinum, giving you items like Copper Shard, Gold Shard, Iron Shard, Lead Shard and Osmium Shard. Copper, gold, iron, lead and osmium also have dissolution recipes that turn ore, raw material or raw blocks into dirty slurry.^[9]

2× Iridium ShardChanged by the pack

Injecting (mekanism)

• Liquid Hydrogen Chloride
• any iridium crystal

Recipe id: alltheores:processing/iridium/shard/from_crystal

One of the crystal-to-shard recipes the pack changed

Unverified The sources don't say exactly what the pack changed in these crystal-to-shard recipes.

3× Platinum ClumpMod recipe

Purifying (mekanism)

• Liquid Oxygen
• any platinum ore

Recipe id: alltheores:processing/platinum/clump/from_ore

All The Compressed storage blocks

All The Compressed adds 1x compressed versions of many AllTheOres storage blocks, and you can craft each one back into the original block. That covers metal blocks like Steel Block, gem blocks like Ruby Block and raw blocks like Raw Osmium Block. There's also a recipe to compress a Salt Block into a Salt Block 1x.^[9]

Salt Block 1xMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

9 × Salt Block

Recipe id: allthecompressed:compress/salt_block_1x

9× Steel BlockMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• Steel Block 1x

Recipe id: allthecompressed:decompress/steel_block_1x

Applied Energistics wireless range

The pack adds its own crafting recipe for the Infinity Range Booster, which uses AllTheOres gears alongside an AE2 Wireless Booster.^[9]

Infinity Range BoosterAdded by the pack

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Enderium Gear	Wireless Booster	Enderium Gear
Wireless Booster	Lumium Gear	Wireless Booster
Netherite Ingot	Netherite Ingot	Netherite Ingot

Recipe id: allthemods:aeinfinitybooster/infinity_card

Quests that use AllTheOres items

• In the Mekanism chapter, you collect Raw Osmium in a quest in "?" and then an Osmium Ingot in a quest in "?". You also need a Steel Ingot for a quest in "?", and Sulfur together with Mekanism's chemical oxidizer for a quest in "?".^[2]
• The Mekanism reactors chapter asks for Sulfur in a quest in "?", then Fluorite alongside a chemical dissolution chamber in a quest in "?".^[4]
• The Extreme Reactors chapter uses Uranium Ingot in a quest in "?", and a quest in "?" asks for 4 of them.^[3]
• In the Occultism chapter, a quest in "?" includes a Silver Ingot among its tasks, and a quest in "?" includes Raw Silver.^[5]
• The chapter_2_the_star chapter has quests for a Uranium Ingot in a quest in "?" and a Steel Ingot in a quest in "?".^[7]
• The steam_age chapter asks for a Steel Ingot in a quest in "?".^[6]

AllTheOres doesn't get its own quest chapter in this pack. Its ores, ingots and gems appear as tasks in six other chapters. Here's what each one asks for and, where the quest book links quests together, the order you'll do them in.^{[2][3][4][5][6][7]}

Mekanism

The Mekanism chapter uses AllTheOres materials the most. Osmium comes first: collect some Raw Osmium, then smelt it into an Osmium Ingot to unlock the next quest.^[2]

1. a quest in "?" asks for Raw Osmium.^[2]
2. a quest in "?" asks for an Osmium Ingot and unlocks after the raw osmium quest.^[2]

Later in the chapter, a quest in "?" asks for a Steel Ingot. a quest in "?" asks for a Chemical Oxidizer together with Sulfur. Both of these unlock from quests outside this mod's material.^[2]

Mekanism Reactors

1. a quest in "?" asks for Sulfur.^[4]
2. a quest in "?" comes right after it and asks for Fluorite plus a Chemical Dissolution Chamber.^[4]

Extreme Reactors

This chapter uses uranium. a quest in "?" asks for an Uranium Ingot. a quest in "?" asks for 4 uranium ingots and unlocks from a quest outside this mod's material.^[3]

Occultism

Silver is the AllTheOres material in the Occultism chapter. a quest in "?" asks for Soul Sand, a Diamond, a Copper Ingot, a Silver Ingot and an Book of Binding: Djinni (Bound).^[5]

a quest in "?" asks for an Book of Binding: Foliot (Bound) along with Raw Iron, Raw Gold, Raw Copper and Raw Silver. It needs several earlier quests from that chapter to be done first.^[5]

Steam Age and chapter_2_the_star

Steel shows up in the steam_age chapter too, where a quest in "?" asks for a Steel Ingot.^[6]

The chapter_2_the_star chapter has two quests that use this mod: a quest in "?" asks for an Uranium Ingot and a quest in "?" asks for a Steel Ingot. The quest data doesn't link these two quests to each other.^[7]

Unverified The sources don't say which chapter you're meant to do first, so the order between chapters isn't covered here.

AllTheOres has been part of All the Mods 10 for a long time. The mod list shows it was first included in All the Mods 10 1.9 or earlier, so you've had it since the early days of the pack.^[1]

All the Mods 10 2.29

In All the Mods 10 2.29, the pack updated AllTheOres from version 3.1.5 to 3.1.6.^[11]

This pack version ships AllTheOres 3.1.6 as the NeoForge build for Minecraft 1.21.1. If you're comparing notes with someone on a different pack version, check which AllTheOres version they're running.^[1]

Unverified No changelogs for the AllTheOres jars shipped with the pack were available. This section can't confirm what changed between 3.1.5 and 3.1.6, such as new ores, fixes or recipe changes, or what happened in earlier pack releases.