This mod is one I usually include in my survival worlds, despite not being much of a builder. The stones are easy enough to make a simple base from. I also enjoy that they can be made into dye, and the slightly unrealistic recipes to mix some if the stones and dyes to other stones. It also offers a way to farm some of the stones (the quartz variants) by cookingthem in a furnace for the budding form, which passively makes crystals that can be crafted into the quartz blocks. There is also active updates to this. I think this mod offers more than enough to be worth using. I feel like some of the special stones like ammolite should glow, but thats just a personal preference.
There are glowing stones by the way . You just have to dig really deep to find them. I tried to limit transparent stones to real transparent ones and glowing ones to real glowing ones.
This mod is one I usually include in my survival worlds, despite not being much of a builder. The stones are easy enough to make a simple base from. I also enjoy that they can be made into dye, and the slightly unrealistic recipes to mix some if the stones and dyes to other stones. It also offers a way to farm some of the stones (the quartz variants) by cookingthem in a furnace for the budding form, which passively makes crystals that can be crafted into the quartz blocks. There is also active updates to this. I think this mod offers more than enough to be worth using. I feel like some of the special stones like ammolite should glow, but thats just a personal preference.
There are glowing stones by the way . You just have to dig really deep to find them. I tried to limit transparent stones to real transparent ones and glowing ones to real glowing ones.