OrePacksMod: Copper, Tin, and Bronze Metallurgy

Early mining trips in OrePacksMod turn up Copper Ore and Tin Ore, giving pre-diamond worlds three distinct metallic equipment families before rarer veins appear. You can wear or swing either pure metal immediately after smelting, or combine them on a crafting grid to step into Bronze.

Pure Copper and Tin Loadouts

Smelted Copper and Tin each support a complete tool and armor lineup using standard vanilla shapes and Stick handles. On the tool rack, Copper crafts into a Copper Pickaxe, Copper Axe, Copper Shovel, Copper Hoe, and Copper Sword, while Tin mirrors every slot with a Tin Pickaxe, Tin Axe, Tin Shovel, Tin Hoe, and Tin Sword.

Armor sets follow the familiar 5, 8, 7, and 4 ingot layouts:

• Copper Helmet, Copper Chestplate, Copper Leggings, and Copper Boots
• Tin Helmet, Tin Chestplate, Tin Leggings, and Tin Boots

Mixing Bronze on the Crafting Grid

Instead of requiring a dedicated alloy smelter, Bronze mixes directly in a shapeless crafting recipe:

• Tin x2 + Copper -> Bronze

Because each bar consumes two Tin per Copper, keeping extra Tin Ore cooking in your Furnace prevents bottlenecks when outfitting a full suit. Nine bars compress into a Block of Bronze (which unpacks back into Bronze x9), and individual ingots forge into a Bronze Pickaxe, Bronze Axe, Bronze Shovel, Bronze Hoe, and Bronze Sword. Suiting up follows the standard 5, 8, 7, and 4 piece recipes across the Bronze Helmet, Bronze Chestplate, Bronze Leggings, and Bronze Boots.