OrePacksMod: Ruby Gear and Specialty Mineral Blades

Not every resource in OrePacksMod follows the nine-piece metal mold. While Ruby supports an entire gemstone wardrobe and toolset, Cinnabar, Orpiment, and vanilla emeralds channel into single-purpose weapons and axes with hybrid recipes.

Full Ruby Equipment

Once Ruby Ore smelts into Ruby inside a Furnace, it behaves like a complete crafting tier. Two Stick handles and three gems assemble a Ruby Pickaxe or Ruby Axe, while smaller cuts produce a Ruby Shovel, Ruby Hoe, and Ruby Sword. Defensive crafters can spend gems across a Ruby Helmet (5 Ruby), Ruby Chestplate (8 Ruby), Ruby Leggings (7 Ruby), and Ruby Boots (4 Ruby), storing leftovers as a Block of Ruby.

Cinnabar, Orpiment, and the Elegant Sword

Three standalone weapons break away from single-material templates and reward mixed-resource crafting:

• Cinnabar x2 + Iron Ingot x2 + Stick -> Cinnabar Sword
• Orpiment x3 + Stick x2 -> Orpiment Axe
• Emerald + Diamond Sword + Iron Ingot -> Elegant Sword

Neither Cinnabar nor Orpiment crafts into armor, pickaxes, or shovels; Cinnabar exists strictly to reinforce iron into a Cinnabar Sword (or stack as Block of Cinnabar), and Orpiment goes straight into an Orpiment Axe (or Block of Orpiment). For players already carrying diamond gear, upgrading a Diamond Sword with an Emerald and an Iron Ingot yields the Elegant Sword without needing any modded ore veins at all.