Bedrock Ore

Bedrock ores are a new type of special ore added in 1.0.27X3991.

They appear in the bedrock layer, directly under a depth ore vein and are capable of providing infinite resources of their type, amount depending on the amount of processing of its item form.

Locating

The easiest way to find a vein is to use a Survey Scanner (hand-held item). It will show the type of ore directly under the player in a small radius. It can also be found using a satellite with the depth-resource scanning module (neutrino lens). Note that the satellite will only show where the bedrock ore is located, not the type.

Exploitation

Bedrock ores cannot be obtained by hand nor explosives, but need a Large Mining Drill to be extracted .

Every type of bedrock ores are categorized in different tier, each one needing a different drillbit tier and/or different type of acid.

Once the needed material is supplied and the drill reaches bedrock, it will start mining that ore infinitely, which is especially advantageous for rare ores.

Tiers

Tier	Ore	Minimum Drillbit	Acid
Tier 1	Coltan	Steel	-
	Copper
	Coal
	Emerald
	Bauxite
	Gold
	Fluorite
	Redstone
	Iron
Tier 2	Asbestos	High-Speed Steel	-
	Niobium		Hydrogen Peroxide (500mb)
	Niter		Hydrogen Peroxide (500mb)
	Titanium		Sulfuric Acid (500mb)
	Tungsten		Hydrogen Peroxide (500mb)
	Rare Earth Ore		Hydrogen Peroxide (500mb)
Tier 3	Borax	Desh	Sulfuric Acid (500mb)
	Chlorocalcite		Sulfuric Acid (500mb)
	Neodymium		Hydrogen Peroxide (500mb)
Tier 4	Uranium	Technetium Steel	Sulfuric Acid (500mb)
	Thorium		Sulfuric Acid (500mb)

There are also bedrock ores that are only in the nether:

Tier	Ore	Minimum Drillbit	Acid
Tier 1	Nether Quartz	Steel	-
	Glowstone Dust
	Red Phosphorus

Processing

Most of the bedrock ores give their bedrock form, excluding Niter, Coltan, Coal, Redstone, and Rare Earth Ore, which will give mined form.

There are in total 10 states of bedrock ore: Bedrock Ore (the raw form), Centrifuged, Cleaned, Separated, Purified, Nitrated, Nitrocrystalline, Deep Cleaned, Seared and Enriched. Each stage will unlock new stages, Enriched stage can be done in any other stages and is required for final process, which will give the actual usable material. Nitrated, Deep Cleaned and Seared gives crystalline fragments after processing them.

On the flowchart below, you can see routes for bedrock ore (please note that Enriched stage can be done at any time, and is the reason why It's out of the diagram):

File:BedrockoreProgress.png

Useful byproducts

Highly processed bedrock ores eventually produce crystals, some of these crystals are of rare elements that are usually quite difficult to produce, such as bismuth. Each crystal is equivalent to a nugget of the ore, combining 9 of them in a crafting table will produce a powder. Note that the higher tiers of processing are gated in such a way that bedrock ores will not allow you to skip progression.

Crystal	Combined powder	From nitrated	From deep cleaned	From seared
Crystalline Aluminium Fragment	Aluminium Powder			Titanium Fluorite
Crystalline Bismuth Fragment	Bismuth Powder			Gold Neodymium Tungsten
Crystalline Calcium Fragment	Calcium Powder		Borax Titanium	Borax
Crystalline Copper Fragment	Copper Powder		Gold
Crystalline Iron Fragment	Iron Powder	Niobium	Niobium Tungsten	Niobium
Crystalline Lead Fragment	Lead Powder	Gold Tungsten Uranium
Crystalline Lithium Fragment	Lithium Powder	Borax Chlorocalcite Neodymium	Fluorite
Crystalline Polonium Fragment	Polonium-210 Billet			Uranium
Crystalline Radium Fragment	Radium-226 Powder		Uranium
Crystalline Silicon Fragment	Quartz Powder	Asbestos Fluorite Thorium Titanium	Asbestos Chlorocalcite Neodymium	Asbestos Chlorocalcite
Crystalline Sulfur Fragment	Sulfur	Copper Iron	Copper	Copper
Crystalline Technetium Fragment	Technetium-99 Billet			Thorium
Crystalline Titanium Fragment	Titanium Powder		Iron	Iron
Crystalline Uranium Fragment	Uranium Powder		Thorium

Trivia

• You can modify bedrock ores in creative (both placed and generated).
  • Right clicking with an item will set the ore to be extracted to that item. You can even produce wacky ores like mini-nuke ore.
  • Right clicking with a fluid container will set the required liquid to the volume. You can use a pipette for more specific values.
  • Right clicking with a drillbit will set the tier required for extraction to that drillbit.
• Bedrock Ore with no specified ore inside is a visual bug, if you use Survey Scanner on it, it'll give you info what the block contains.