How to make vanilla ores generate more common and make mobs spawn less.

[proper mesa]

Hey I am new to addon making and I want to know how to make a behavior pack that makes all Minecraft ore spawn way more commonly. For example diamonds, iron, ancient debris, etc.. I also want to make hostile mobs spawn less. Overhaul I want to make Minecraft easier.

[tribal linden]

You can't modify the vanilla ores generation chance, but you can increase it using custom structures with the vanilla ores

For the hostile mobs, you could maybe make them only have a limit herd of 1 so only a single monster could spawn

[proper mesa]

If you can't do that then how did he do it

https://mcpedl.com/better-diamond-generation-addon/

[tribal linden]

He just added more diamond ore generation by adding more custom structures

[proper mesa]

Oh how do I do that

[tribal linden]

Something to do with how stones and other things generate

I can't really help you as this is not in my book of understanding yet

Maybe try searching up a forum with something about stone generation?

[proper mesa]

Oh. Alright well I hope I can try to find someone who can help

[keen depot]

i think you can

[tribal linden]

wait really?

[keen depot]

yeah

just edit the feature rule

[tribal linden]

huh

[keen depot]

just take the vanilla feature rule and add more iterations

[tribal linden]

where is it located at?

[keen depot]

bds file

[dapper willow]

Bedrock Dedicated Servers

https://wiki.bedrock.dev/servers/server-software.html

[keen depot]

also idk why you say you would need a structure for adding more ores, you could just use an ore feature

[proper mesa]

@keen depot Okay so I made the feature folder in my behavior pack and I downloaded the bedrock dedicated servers file and I copied the ore features and put it in my feature folder. Now what do I change to make them appear more commonly?

[keen depot]

iterations would be the one

it's in the feature rule

you can change the 'count' in the features file to increase the amount per ore vein

[proper mesa]

Wait never mind I didn't find the ore json files.
Are you able to give them to me?

[keen depot]

they are in the feature rules of the definitions folder on bds

overworld_underground_diamond_ore_feature

i believe

the actual features are just 'diamond_ore_feature' i believe

[proper mesa]

Am I suppose to be here

Is it located here?

[proper mesa]

I don't see for some reason? I am confused

[tribal linden]

had the same problem

where is it actually located?

[proper mesa]

I am wondering why Mojang don't include the extra files that are missing in the behavior making folder.

like it don't have features, biomes, or whatever other folder that's missing

Oh I found the folder and it has all the overworld underground ore json files but they dont have the deepslate varients?

[tribal linden]

where?

[proper mesa]

Well actually I found it in features folder here

Though it don't have deepslate variants

I don't know why

There is no deepslate json files for the ores

[keen depot]

the definitions folder

[tribal linden]

just realized after searching again

I though all of them would be in the behavior_packs

didn't expect them to be in another one instead

[proper mesa]

Where is the deepslate ore to? I only see the normal ones

[keen depot]

in the vanilla_1.17.0 and vanilla_1.18.0 folders it would seem

[proper mesa]

You sure, I am in the 1.18 folder and I searched for deepslate and I see no deepslate ore file?

[tribal linden]

it works

[proper mesa]

😂 Well what about deepslate

[tribal linden]

oh yeah

[keen depot]

i mean i did

in 1.17 atleast

[proper mesa]

I can't seem to find it

Can you send them?

[tribal linden]

Only appears at transition, not on deepslate

so yeah need to modify the deepslate one too

[proper mesa]

Yeah tell me if you find the deepslate ore files

I can't seem to find them

[proper mesa]

Can you send me them please?

[keen depot]

it's in the feature folder of vanilla_1.17.0

it's called 'diamond_ore_feature'

ore whatever ore you want

[proper mesa]

But that's just normal diamond ore. Not the deepslate one

[keen depot]

read the file lol

it's both

[proper mesa]

really

oh

I found it in 1.18

and 1.17

Okay

I will use 1.18

because it is new generation

never mind the 1.17 one has all the ores

so I use that one

[proper mesa]

Where is iterations?

Oh wait is it the feature rules folder one

Okay I understand now

Am I right? @keen depot

and the file would be overworld_underground_diamond_ore_feature.json

[proper mesa]

Did you figure out how to modify the deepslate ones because I only see iteration for stone ores.

[tribal linden]

nope

[proper mesa]

@keen depot Do you know how to modify the deepslate ores because I only see the stone ore iteration

[keen depot]

they have the same iterations

make it generate lower if you want more deepslate

[proper mesa]

But how would I make it generate on both

[proper mesa]

I want it to be the same for both not just more on deepslate

[keen depot]

then increase iterations

[proper mesa]

k

[proper mesa]

What is the X and Z distribution do?

[keen depot]

that's the range from the 0,0 it can generate

so it can generate anywhere from 0,0 of a chunk to 16,16

[proper mesa]

uh so I only need to change the y

[keen depot]

you don't have to ping me for every single question btw

[proper mesa]

Sorry

[keen depot]

yes

[proper mesa]

I have one more question by the way.

How do I make hostile mobs spawn less?

[keen depot]

edit their spawn rules

[proper mesa]

is the folder called spawn_rules?

[keen depot]

yes

[proper mesa]

uh so the ore only seem to be generating from 0 to -5

What did I do wrong?

[keen depot]

well what did you set the extent to

[proper mesa]

50 to -59

well I did set it to 0, -59

but I changed it to 50, -59

and it is only generating on a small layer

See? this is what it looks like

[keen depot]

send feature file

[proper mesa]

Okay

I am going to test something quick

before I do

k

I will send it

Here it is

[keen depot]

i said feature file

[proper mesa]

oh

my bad

for the diamond ore? or the whole folder?

Here is the features file

if that's what you wanted

I don't know why Discord renamed it

[proper mesa]

Alycia? you there??

[proper mesa]

I fixed it

I had to reverse the Y coordinate distribution extent numbers

[urban dagger]

yes, its been doable for years

and quite easily too

[proper mesa]

How do I make ancient debris more common? @keen depot

[keen depot]

bruh

[proper mesa]

What

[keen depot]

you don't have to ask me everything

to make ancient debris more common just do what you did with the ores

[proper mesa]

Well I don't see Ancient Debris there

[keen depot]

wel then it's probably not a feature we can edit

[proper mesa]

K

[tribal linden]

Yep, checked it and didn't see any

[keen depot]

you can make a new feature

that spawns ancient debris

[proper mesa]

I can?

How

[keen depot]

well yeah lol

make a new ore feature that replaces nether rack with ancient debris

make it generate the same y-range

bam

[proper mesa]

Do I just copy the json code in for example the diamond ore one and replace the text in the json code that says diamond_ore to ancient_debris and instead of replace stone make it replace netherack?