I understand Oredict was discontinued in older versions of forge and replaced with Tags. What is the current best way to detect if a block is an ore, and is there a way to account for ores added by other mods as well?

The ORES tag doesn't seem to include any of the deepslate or copper ore variants, so I'd have to go through specific use cases which I'd prefer to avoid. Are there any other ways to check that I'm not aware of, or are hard coded/messy generic checks (such as "ore" in block name") the only alternative ways?

Edited January 10, 20223 yr by CrackedScreen

You're going to need to contact the author of the mod that is supplying those blocks to add their blocks to the tag.

Until then, you'd have to do that yourself.

Looks like I'll just use hardcoded checks or create my own tag to handle all the ores. Thanks for answering.

On 1/10/2022 at 2:46 AM, CrackedScreen said:

The ORES tag doesn't seem to include any of the deepslate or copper ore variants, so I'd have to go through specific use cases which I'd prefer to avoid.

What? What version of Minecraft are you using? I've checked and #forge/ores links to each ore in #forge/ores/<ore>.json which link to #minecraft:<ore>_ore.json e.g. #minecraft:diamond_ore.json:

{
  "replace": false,
  "values": [
    "minecraft:diamond_ore",
    "minecraft:deepslate_diamond_ore"
  ]
}