Excavation - Mining Expansion

Excavation (Mining Expansion)

Excavation aims to improve the mining experinence without overwhelming the player with new items and instead uses existing items and blocks in new ways to create an easy to understand experience.
It also adds new uses for several items like golden pickaxes and copper. When playing with Excavation installed, you will progress from the stone age to the copper age and then reach the iron age. Copper is used as a stepping stone and replaces iron in some recipes. You will also construct multi-block structures for smelting and crafting.

Features

• Added new uses for
  • Gold
  • Copper
  • Cauldrons
• Improved progression
  • Copper is now used as a stepping-stone for iron
  • Use copper to construct an iron smeltery and progress to the iron age
  • Wash iron to smelt it
• Diamond progression (coming soon!)

Structures

Iron Smeltery

Use the iron smeltery to smelt washed iron into molten iron. To create the structure, place a copper stair around a filled lava cauldron and drop a lightning rod on top. An invisble item frame will spawn on top. Place washed raw iron into it and wait for it to melt. You can place multiple stairs around a single cauldron!

Crafting

• Iron
  1. Wash impure raw iron in a water cauldron
  2. Use an iron smeltery to create molten iron
  3. Create iron by cooling molten iron on a block of smooth stone
• Copper
  1. Smelt raw copper into molten copper
  2. Drop molten copper on stone to cool it into a copper ingot