Weapon Types

Combine Ores adds several new weapon categories beyond vanilla Minecraft. Each material can be crafted into most or all of these types.

Melee Weapons

Sword

The classic melee weapon. Best for close range and single target — highest per-hit damage.

• Trigger: Varies by material (hit or right-click)
• Recipe: Standard vanilla sword pattern (2 ingots + 1 stick)

Axe

Versatile melee weapon with good damage and mining speed.

• Trigger: Usually right-click for ability activation
• Recipe: Standard vanilla axe pattern (3 ingots + 2 sticks)

Hammer

Heavy melee weapon that smashes enemies. Best for close range and multiple targets.

• Trigger: Usually right-click for AoE ability
• Damage: Generally highest among weapon types

Scythe

Ranged melee weapon — hits enemies from a distance and often affects multiple targets in an area.

• Trigger: Hit for passive abilities, right-click for active abilities
• Range: Hits enemies up to 2-3 blocks away

Spear

Melee weapon with unique charge-and-release mechanics.

• Trigger: Hold to charge, release for ability. Charge must be held for at least 10 ticks.

Ranged Weapons

Chakram

Throwable disc weapon — throw it at enemies, but make sure to catch it when it returns.

• Trigger: Throw to hit enemies at range

Staff

Magic weapon — charge until the particle effect becomes solid, then release to fire a projectile.

• Trigger: Charge and release to shoot

Blaster

Ranged weapon that shoots a unique projectile for each material.

• Trigger: Use to fire projectile

Tools

Pickaxe

Mining tool with material-specific speed. Follows vanilla recipe.

Shovel

Digging tool with material-specific speed. Follows vanilla recipe.

Hoe

Farming tool. Follows vanilla recipe.

Drill

Universal mining tool that can mine all block types (with some tier restrictions for lower materials). Requires Redstone and an Iron Pickaxe in the recipe.

Drill Mining Restrictions by Tier:

Armor

Armor Set

Full armor sets (Helmet, Chestplate, Leggings, Boots) follow vanilla crafting recipes. Each material's full set grants a unique passive ability. Some abilities require sneaking to activate.

See Armor Sets for all full set abilities.

Wolf Armor

Protective armor for your wolf companion.

Uses Armadillo Scute as the secondary material.