Create Ore Excavation Mod

Create Ore Excavation is an addon for the Create mod that introduces a hidden layer of infinite ore veins beneath your world. Rather than mining ore blocks by hand, you locate these invisible veins using the Ore Vein Finder, then set up a Drilling Machine powered by rotational force to extract resources automatically and indefinitely. This guide covers everything you need to know to get your first drill running.

Unlike standard ore mining, veins in this mod are chunk-based — they are invisible properties attached to individual chunks rather than physical blocks in the world. Only one vein can exist per chunk, and they generate with a small random chance, so exploration and scouting with the Vein Finder is your first step before committing to any build.

Ore Vein Finder

The Ore Vein Finder is your essential scouting tool. Right-clicking while holding it scans the current chunk you are in and prints the results directly to chat, listing every ore vein and fluid reservoir it detects. Since veins have no physical presence in the world, this is the only way to know what a chunk contains.

Based on your distance from a ore vein chunk, the results will be printed in multiples of 25. If the message says Found traces of: <ore> (~25 blocks away), it means you are very close to a vein. Move to the nearby chunks one-by-one and scan them until one of them prints Found in Chunk: <ore>.

The chat output for each chunk tells you:

• Found in Chunk: the ore type of the vein in that exact chunk, or "Nothing" if empty.

• Found nearby: any other veins within scan range.

• Found traces of: the nearest vein of each type and its approximate distance in blocks, even if it's outside the scan radius.

We have detected a chunk with an ore vein and flattened out the area to make it easy for us to build a drilling system.

The Drilling Machine

The Drilling Machine is a multiblock structure that extracts ore from the vein assigned to whichever chunk it sits in. It does not need to be placed on top of any specific block or at any particular height — it can go anywhere within the chunk, on any surface. As long as the chunk has a vein and the machine's requirements are met, it will produce ore continuously.

Drill Heads

Before the Drilling Machine can run, a Drill Head must be inserted into it. Simply craft a drill head using the recipes provided below and right-click on the drilling machine with it, to attach the drill head to the drilling machine.