Create Ore Excavation Mod

For Create mod players who want to automate ore collection at a massive scale, Create Ore Excavation offers a unique solution — hidden infinite ore veins buried across your world, harvested entirely by Create-powered machines. Available for Java Edition 1.18.2 through 1.21.1 on Fabric, Forge, and NeoForge, it's a natural extension of Create's philosophy of automating everything with rotating shafts and gears.

The Drilling Machine

The Drilling Machine

Placeable machine

The core machine of the mod is the Drilling Machine, a Create-powered block that bores into an ore vein beneath it and extracts resources over time. It must be positioned above a detected vein, and its extraction speed and efficiency scale directly with the rotational force supplied to it — the faster you spin it, the faster it drills.

Rotation Input, Fluid Input, and Ore Output

Three Input/Output Faces

Explained in GUIDES section

The Drilling Machine accepts Rotational Force from any standard Create source — cogwheels, waterwheels, steam engines, or anything else in your network. Some veins or drill types also require a fluid input (such as lava) to operate, adding an extra layer of resource management to your setup. Extracted ores come out as items and can be fed directly into your existing Create conveyor and processing lines.

Ore Veins and the Ore Vein Finder

Additional Tools

Ore Vein Finder and More!

Ore veins are hidden structures that generate randomly across chunks — only one per chunk — and are invisible without the right tool. The Ore Vein Finder item lets you scan for nearby veins and fluid reservoirs, acting as a dowsing rod for your drilling operations. By default veins are infinite, though they can be configured to be finite with a randomized size multiplier.

Conclusion

Create Ore Excavation is compatible with Fabric, Forge, and NeoForge across versions 1.18.2 to 1.21.1, and requires the base Create mod to function. Its deep KubeJS and Datapack support makes it a strong candidate for modpacks looking for a customizable, Create-native ore automation system, while CC: Tweaked compatibility adds an extra dimension for technical players who want to automate everything from vein detection to extraction.