There's A Serious Problem With Massive Restore In Regards To Ore Generation.

[Pumpkin_Rot]

I have spent a lot of time mining and on my various mining trips it seemed to me that massive restore gives a lot of coal and a lot less of everything else. Because of this I've spend most of my time mining in Ellador which has an ore generation more similar to default.

I decided to take this basic feeling I had and put it to the scientific test. I took two of my god silk touch pickaxes and mined in ellador untill they were used up. I then restored them with /fix and did the exact same amount of mining in a massive restore world.
(Coal ore was deliberately ignored but sometimes mined accidentally, all other ores will completely mined once found)
(I have over 1,000 mining, so luck on double drops in not a factor)

Here are my SHOCKING results,

Ellador-

Iron- 514 Ores
Gold- 140 Ores
Lapiz- 144 ores
Diamond- 70 ores
Coal- 77 ores
Redstone - 808 Ores
Emerald- NA for Ellador

Massive Restore-
Iron- 423 Ores
Gold- 38 Ores
Lapiz- 60 ores
Diamond- 50 ores
Coal- 88 ores
Redstone- 108 ores
Emerald- 44 ores


These results confirm my feeling that there is a lot LESS of everything in massive restore except coal. Redstone seems to be severely lacking. I will conduct further tests collecting much more data. Perhaps the use of 5 picks instead of 2? I'm not aware if staff is aware of this gross depletion that massive restore has brought to mining. As of now I am forced to mine in old worlds and avoid mining in massive restore worlds for this reason.

(Let it be noted that aside form the ore spawn rate, I much enjoy massive restores ability to clear up blemishes on the land and get rid of old uninhabited factions)
Thank you for your time.

(Attached are screenshots of the actual ores themselves to give a visual representation of the HUGE difference)

 

[Billy_Rage]

I think this was on purpose, to lessen the amount of ores that can be farmed and keep the value of said ore up.

 

[Sephite]

I think this was on purpose, to lessen the amount of ores that can be farmed and keep the value of said ore up.

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It definitely works. I recently had to go up a good amount with my redstone prices...

 

[Lord_Aza]

Ores are supposed to be valuable. This is a good thing in my opinion.

 

[MonMarty]

Massiverestore randomizes the ore placement, meaning the difference in coal ore can be hundreds at any given area. In general though, the percentages are consistent with vanilla, bar a dozen. The difference with vanilla is that the ores clump less and behave unpredictable.