Ore Dimensions

Turn your resource blocks into gateways to dedicated mining worlds. Each destination is a hollow geode: ore-rich walls surround a large chamber, a two-layer bedrock shell keeps the world enclosed, and an interior portal brings you home.

Features

15 resources: coal, copper, iron, redstone, lapis lazuli, gold, quartz, diamond, emerald, netherite, amethyst, glowstone, obsidian, sulfur and cinnabar.
Two shallow supply caches with food, torches and themed materials, plus a deeper treasure chest with resource-tier rewards.
Glowing wall clues and polished-deepslate trails help you find the caches.
Amethyst crystal clusters and naturally illuminated glowstone chambers.
Netherite worlds use ancient debris and blackstone, with rare buried netherite blocks.
Persistent mining and loot: rebuilding a portal never restores mined ore or refills a chest.

Requirements and installation

Minecraft Java Edition 26.3, Java 25, Fabric Loader 0.19.5 or newer, and Fabric API 0.161.0+26.3. This release targets 26.3 specifically.

Extract the download ZIP. Copy only ore-dimensions-0.5.1+26.3.jar into the mods folder of your Fabric installation. Install Fabric API separately and remove older Ore Dimensions JARs. Restart Minecraft. On a dedicated server, install the mod and Fabric API on both the Fabric server and every connecting client. The package does not include Minecraft, Fabric, other mods or a launcher.

Make your first portal

Build a vertical frame 4 blocks wide and 5 blocks high, leaving a 2-by-3 opening. Corners are optional: use 10 frame blocks without corners or 14 with them. Craft the matching Portal Igniter with eight resource ingredients around flint and steel. Right-click inside the frame, then stand in the portal for two seconds.

Coal uses coal blocks. Copper accepts waxed copper blocks or raw copper blocks; iron and gold accept their refined or raw storage blocks. Accepted frame types can be mixed. Unwaxed or weathered copper is not accepted. Netherite portals use ancient debris, and their igniter uses netherite scrap. The included installation and loot guides list every resource's exact frame and recipe.

Finding treasure and more ore

Look for three polished-deepslate wall patches with glowing centers. The lower two mark shallow supplies; the higher clue leads deeper toward the main treasure. Mine inward through the center and follow the trail.

Each resource has one shared saved dimension with geodes spaced 192 blocks apart. Nearby Overworld portals usually share a geode. Move at least 192 blocks along Overworld X or Z to reach another one. The return portal remembers the entrance used for that trip. Natural mobs do not spawn in these dimensions.

Existing worlds

The mod keeps its existing world, block and item identifiers. The two legacy coal dimensions remain supported. Existing geodes receive conservative supply-cache upgrades without resetting terrain or emptied treasure. Back up an existing world before installing or updating mods.

Credits and testing

By Kentucky Farmer. Original implementation inspired by the ore-dimension concept; no code or assets from Dimensions of Ores are included. CC0-1.0; license and provenance are included in the download.

Validated on a Windows Java 26.3 client and an isolated Linux Fabric dedicated server. Tests cover portal trips, generation, loot, legacy worlds, conservative cache upgrades and save/reload. Other Minecraft versions and loaders are not certified.

Not an official Minecraft product. Not approved by or associated with Mojang or Microsoft.