Adventurer: Refining Ruby Fragments, Red Architecture, and Trail Rations

Styled by its author as "An Adventure about a Ruby", Adventurer anchors its mineral loop around broken gem shards rather than whole stones straight off the pickaxe. Every vein you crack open feeds into a reversible shard economy, decorative crimson masonry, and a pair of quirky expedition consumables.

Ore Veins and the Fragment Loop

Mining standard Ruby Ore without Silk Touch drops 1 to 3 Ruby Fragments, while deeper Deepslate Ruby Ore yields a richer 2 to 4 Ruby Fragments per block. Alongside those crimson veins, the mod also adds stone Netherite Ore and Deepslate Netherite Ore, each dropping a single Netherite Scrap when broken.

Once back at base, four Ruby Fragments press together into a whole Ruby, and a single Ruby breaks right back down into four Ruby Fragments whenever a recipe calls for smaller pieces. If you bring home Silk-Touched Ruby Ore or Deepslate Ruby Ore, cooking either block in a Furnace or Blast Furnace produces one whole Ruby directly.

Crimson Blocks and Direct Gem Masonry

Builders do not have to compress gems into full blocks before shaping trim pieces — every architectural cut crafts straight from raw Ruby items:

• Ruby x9 -> Ruby Block for compact vault storage or solid red floors
• Ruby x6 -> Ruby Stair x4 for stepped roofs and thresholds
• Ruby x3 -> Ruby Slab x6 for half-height walkways
• Ruby x4 + Ruby Fragments x2 -> Ruby Fence x3, mixing whole gems with shards in place of wooden sticks

Trail Rations and Volatile Emeralds

Two non-ruby recipes round out an expedition kit before you leave home. Combining Wheat x6, Sugar x2, and a Milk Bucket bakes three Compressed Cracker rations for long cave runs. Meanwhile, surrounding Gunpowder with Emerald x8 crafts nine Throwable Emerald items, turning spare villager currency into a stack of lobbed projectiles.