All that you can mine

[Argmaster]

This issue is intended to aggregate the issues related to balancing and adding ores, gems and any other rare mineable resources player can find underground. I am fairly convinced that underground should be balanced as a whole, to avoid oversaturation and undersaturation of different Z levels with different deposits and to make sure that each material has something special about it.

This issue can be used to better keep track of ideas that were discarded and those that were deemed viable.
It is intended to encourage focusing on what we want not what we have to compromise on right now.

Below you can find list of mineable resource ideas. Positions that are checked are already present in the game. Position that are crossed out were deemed unfit for the game.

Ores:

• Coal
• Tin
  • Copper, Tin and Bronze for mid tier items, more progression steps #1115
• Zinc
• Copper
  • Copper, Tin and Bronze for mid tier items, more progression steps #1115
  • Add copper ore and make iron generate deeper #1268
• Iron
• Gold
  • Gold ore, ingot, and block #1110
• Silver
  • Add silver ore #1306
• Uranium
  • Uranium ore, ingots and blocks #1127
• [Ore] Titanium #1270
• [Ore] Sulfur (mostly done, still needs modifiers) #1272 Sulfur ore, block, and torches #1287
• [Ore] Magnesium #1281
• Meteorite
  • Meteorite assets #1283
• [Ore] Resin #1325 Resin assets #1383
• [Ore] Seashells #1329

Gems:

• Diamond
• [Gem] Sapphire #1280
• [Gem] Ruby (mostly done, still needs life-steal modifier) #1276 Ruby ore + diamond texture tweaks #1349
• Emerald
• Amethyst
• [Gem] Opal #1300
• Garnet
• [Gem] Topaz #1301
• [Gem] Citrine #1279
• Peridot
• [Gem] Amber (mostly done, but needs to spawn on deserts, and removed from underground (minus underground deserts if present)) #1326 Amber ore & blocks #1585
• [Gem] Aquamarine #1330

## Alloys:

• Bronze Copper, Tin and Bronze for mid tier items, more progression steps #1115
• Brass
• [Alloy] Steel #1271

My personal opinion is that each of those resources should get its own issue to keep track of current and planned state of modifiers, spawn rules and any other related ideas and those issues should all be reachable from this issue to simplify navigation.

I will do my best to keep the description up to date with the discussion, actively crossing out discarded ideas and adding new ones.

Related to: #172
Related to: #651
Related to: #1278

[IntegratedQuantum]

I think before we can add any new ores or materials from that big list, there should be at least a use case and a vague idea where to put it in progression.

Also one thing to always keep in mind: There are other materials than metals/gems, e.g. I would like to have rare and special wood types, sticky or rope-like binding materials and of course leather and other entity drops.

[careeoki]

In addition to real-life materials I would also like a variety of unique sci/fantasy materials.
But those can't really be added to a list since we have to come up with them first.

[IntegratedQuantum]

Yeah, definitely, those are things that we'll have to discover over time, like we discovered Snale
(How about Snalium?)