If you like trying out unique resource packs that bring something new and unusual to the table, then Visible Ores resource pack is one of your possible choices. Every Minecraft player knows that it can be quite tedious to find and even notice some of the rarer ores, especially in the dark caverns that you’re likely going to be mining at. The main purpose of the Visible Ores texture pack is to ease that process and eventually make the game even more enjoyable. Unlike most of the other packs that utilize X-ray and essentially make you feel like you’re cheating, Visible Ores manages to retain the vanilla experience and doesn’t nullify that feeling of success and joy once you encounter diamonds, emeralds, or any other valuable material. You won’t be able to simply see through the blocks at the press of a button – it still requires you to go through all the necessary progression and well-known mining expeditions. At its core, Visible Ores simply highlights and outlines every ore vein that you can find in caves – coal, iron, gold, diamond, and others. The glow is not overwhelming, but just enough to help you notice it in the dark.
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Visible Ores is one of the best resource packs for new players who’d like to make the game a tad bit easier. No textures in the game have been altered at all, which makes it great for everyone who wants to take in the vanilla Minecraft experience. Also, this resource pack is supported by all online servers since it doesn’t bring you any advantages over other players. With Visible Ores, you’ll have more time left to enjoy other aspects of the game such as building, adventuring, visiting new dimensions, etc. To use Visible Ores, you’ll need to have Optifine installed. The resource pack uses its emissive/connected textures feature in order to work and display properly. It goes without saying that all the textures retain their 16×16 original resolution, which means that you won’t experience any FPS drops. You could even notice a performance increase if you didn’t have Optifine installed previously. If you want to make Minecraft look even prettier, there is a labPBR release of the resource pack. This version requires shaders, but it will give every ore its appropriate blocklight color for a unique glow. The Visible Ores resource pack supports Minecraft versions from 1.15 all the way up to 1.17.
Visible Ores should be compatible with all of these Minecraft versions: 1.21.4 - 1.21.3 - 1.21.2 - 1.21.1 - 1.21 - 1.20.6 - 1.20.5 - 1.20.4 - 1.20.3 - 1.20.2 - 1.20.1 - 1.20 - 1.19.4 - 1.19.3 - 1.19.2 - 1.19.1 - 1.19 - 1.18.2 - 1.18.1 - 1.18 - 1.17.1 - 1.17 - 1.16.5 - 1.16.4 - 1.16.3 - 1.16.2 - 1.16.1 - 1.16
Visible Ores — Screenshots
How to install Visible Ores Resource Pack:
- Most resource packs require Optifine, so be sure to download and install it. – general recommended step for all packs, Optifine is also needed for most shaders
- Download the Visible Ores texture pack for Minecraft from the download section below. – if there are many different versions, just choose the one you like, is compatible with your version/edition of Minecraft, the one you think your computer can handle in terms of performance.
- Launch the game client through the Minecraft launcher.
- On the main menu, click "Options".
- On the options menu, click "Resource Packs...".
- Click on "Open Resource Pack Folder". – folder titled "resourcepacks" will pop up
- Move the .zip file you downloaded in the first step to the newly opened "resourcepacks" folder.
- Click "Done".
- Click on "Resource Packs..." again.
- Your pack should have appeared in the left window, just hover over it and click on the arrow pointing to the right.
QUICK TIP: Sometimes, when activating a pack, the game may say that the pack is made for a newer or older version of Minecraft. This is just a warning, it does not affect your gameplay in anyway, and you can still activate and enjoy the pack by simply clicking the "Yes" button when prompted.
- Click "Done" again.
- The pack has now been successfully loaded and ready to be used in your world!
Required settings:
- Emissive Textures: ON in
Options > Video Settings > Quality - Connected Textures: Fancy/Fast in
Options > Video Settings > Quality
Important information:
- Optifine required.
- There is also a LabPBR version that allows each block to have its own blocklight color, unlike other versions that have a blocklight overlay. LabPBR version requires BSL Shaders unlike the other version that only require optifine.
Visible Ores - Comparison Slider #1 Without shaders
Comparison slider #1 for those who want to compare vanilla Minecraft without any texture packs installed (on the left) with Minecraft using this particular texture pack (on the right).
Vanilla
Visible Ores
Visible Ores - Comparison Slider #2 With BSL Shaders
Comparison slider #2 for those who want to compare vanilla Minecraft without any texture packs installed (on the left) with Minecraft using this particular texture pack (on the right).
Vanilla (BSL Shaders)
Visible Ores (BSL Shaders)
Visible Ores Texture Pack Download
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- Since the links are official and we update them manually - the links may stop working with each new update. We make every effort to update links as quickly as possible and usually we update everything on time and users have no problems, but if suddenly any link stops working - let us know through the comments below.
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If you want ores to glow, you need shaders. Get shaders here.
For this resource pack to work, it must always be at the top of your active packs.
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[16x] [1.21.x – 1.20.2] Download Visible Ores Resource Pack
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JWRB
Why doesn’t this exist for older versions like 1.8.x?
skibidi
to be honest idk if i should get this cause i already have fullbright ima get it if it not useful ima uninstall it
LeSinclair
U can use sodium too btw
Altaf
Ican we use this texture pack in servers if yes how i am using a papper server
guttszz
Is this texture pack only for bedrock?
Admin
It is only for Java Edition.
averag3jay
i have bsl shaders installed and active, but what do i need to do to make the ores glow ?
Admin
Check the “required settings” section on this page, it is located right below the installation instructions. Most likely, you have Emissive Textures disabled.
aria
why when im use the resource pack my mc crash to force close and saying cannot read file
CyanB3
How would you make modded ores glow?
Yatagurusu
is the LABPBR a separate version that I need to download, or will the texture pack just work with BSL shaders automatically?
Admin
It should work with BSL shaders, just remember to place the visible ores at the very top of the active packs.
alexsch1
Coal doesn’t light up in the 1.20.4 version. It has an outline, but no glow. All other ores have borders and glow.
tkgfdz
how the hell can coal glow ? its dont even a colar can glow ? ITS DARK
pringless
i dosent work on1.21 how do i fix it so dose work
Admin
What exactly doesn’t work?
Kelpo
Im on 1.21 optifine and my game crashes every time i turn on the resource pack.
aria
yeah that happen to me too
Vry
Is there a bedrock version?
PAUL
I LIKE THE DETAIL IT IS COOL
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GOOD
bussetexD
i just loved this but there is one thing i would like to fix which is my coal ores are actual black with no glowing in it. i can see in some images that the coal ores are actual white with black coals in it, how can i activate that in my game?
Crescentmoon1244
I am experiencing the same problem. Any fixes yet? I am on version 1.20.4 with optifine.
KrzysztofK
hello yes for java edition 1.18.2!!!
ShadowZzx
I Uploaded the pack to my realm but when i go to play on my xbox series i notice the deepslate ore’s are not bordered like the rest am i missing something to make it work on the xbox?
Admin
This is a Java Edition only resource pack that requires Optifine.
Claude
Need to create one for 1.8..9!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Admin
You can just install a newer version of the pack on an older version of Minecraft without any problems.
burned toast
Hi, I’ve used the pack in the past for older versions and it used to work perfectly fine. However, a while ago i started using lunar client (which I prefer far over the regular launcher), I can’t get the ores to glow. The outlines are there, but the glowing is the most beneficial part when looking for ores of course. I don’t have the emissive textures option in my settings, probable because Lunar runs a custome optifine version.Can someone please help me, I’ve tried multiple packs, reinstalling the packs, relaunching the game and some more complicated stuff but none of it worked. Am i missing something? Thanks for the help already :)
Admin
There is nothing we can do about it, the lunar client is not official, this could be a problem. Based on our recent tests, everything works fine on the official version of java Minecraft with optifine installed.
Stony
Bro I absolutely love this amazing job, one of my favorites!!
Bimbo
All cool but why the ores aren’t bright
sninko
does it work with lunarclient? because it dosent for me
blaissse
Hey! If anyone wants to use this resource pack in fabric, you need to:
1. Install sodium,
2. Install Iris,
3. Install Complementary Shaders v4 (curseforge)
Working perfectly fine with default settings of shaders.
Zaluxo
where can i find these things to download?
micah
does this work with iris
Criziz
Hey, ive used two versions of this pack (2.7 and 2.9) while running on different optifine versions for 1.19.2 and 1.19.3. For some reason, the pack is extremely inconsistent and there are many issues. First, the ores sometimes will only have an outline and some with, not glow, but rather the outlines and ores are just extremely bright. Second, most of the time the ores will at seemingly random be replaced with matte textures covering most if not all of the ore. This matte texture will sometimes flicker and swap between colors. Lastly, the pack will just make some block patches entirely textureless and invisible. Also, though not very concerning, the 2.9 version says is incompatible for the versions but 2.7 doesn’t (again 1.19.2-3). I am running on required settings, emmisive on and connected textures on fancy. I have also used my BSL shaders, but that fixes none of the previous issues, if not just further pointing out the glow inconsistencies.
LDAD
Hello Criziz, have you gotten any solution for the textureless blocks? I’m having the same issues, though I am currently playing minecraft 1.19.4. I have all the recommended settings and the shaders. At the beginning it worked just fine, but out of nowhere I started experiencing theese problems. Thanks for your help!
Acid
so when i open it with java it says” unable to install java” and i have java downloaded
Cavityburn
Is there any way in a future update to adjust how much light/brightness is added or taken away from the “glow” effect? I really like the simplicity of this mod, but wish I could tone down the brightness a bit, as with BSL and SEUS shaders make the glow extremely bright, with the brightness scale down at “moody”.
Hungspymax
Is work for 1.16.5 ?
lila
yea
trashgamer
so I have opitifine and everything, but how do I get the bsl shaders?
Admin
Just check out our shaders category (top right menu), choose the one you like best and read the installation instructions for that particular shader pack. Most shader packs are installed in the same way as resource packs, only in the shaderpack folder.
Ella Mae
Can it be work on 1.20.0.23 Minecraft beta?
Admin
It should just fine, just ignore the incompatibility message.
stugikuni
nice, x raying is now easier for me now :D
darius
you x ray?
AB_4K
I have done everything for the modpack to work and it doesnt glow for me. can someone please help me
Admin
It’s not a modpack, it’s a resource pack and should be installed like all other resource packs. Make sure you have optifine installed and set the recommended settings.
AB_4K
yes i have done all of that and still not glowing
Admin
Did you enabled Emissive Textures in settings?
AB_4K
yes i even have bsl shaders on
Admin
We took the time to test it. On our side it works fine. We used Optifine HD U H8, bsl shaders and minecraft version 1.19. The only thing we can think of why this doesn’t work for you is probably that it’s not at the very top of the list of active resource packs or you are not running the optifine version of Minecraft.
Abby
Hey dude, not sure if you sorted it out yet but make sure you put the glowing ores resource on top of all the resources, at least that’s what worked for me. Hope this helped but if you need further assistance I can send some pics maybe? or email me
Kirin_1911
I am dealing with which it does not work on previous versions it worked for me but not now?
oof
the regular gold ore for version 1.19.x doesn’t have an outline? possibly a bug?
eddie
it works good cause I dont like the brightness high I like it low so i can see ores much better
kroatina
uhm idk if i did it wrong or something but the blocks dont glow they just have an outline around them so idk
oof
its because your brightness is high
Bananana
no just turn on Emissive textuers
yoooo
idk how to do that bc i dont have it
Basquiat
Is this compatible with 1.19 and the newest version of Optifine? Seems to work weird in 1.19, with newest version of Optifine and BSL shaders.
IshaBon
Since updating to 1.19 and updating to Optifine supported 1.19, somehting’s weird with the resource pack. I get the updated texture from the ores, aka the colored outline of the block,and sometimes updated color. But I don’t get the destinct glow. I have the required settings on, but there still is no glow. I’ve tried messing around with lighting settings, but no result.
What could be the cause?
Amtvar1647
Bruu I cant even use this
K
make it for 1.19.1 ver please
Slimiiii
You can use it in 1.19
Erith
This is different than an xray, correct? And compatiable with other packs? (ie Mizuno)
Admin
It’s not really an x-ray, we just marked it in the x-ray category. We think it’s more suitable for those who are looking for an easier ore grinding method. We haven’t tried it, but if put on top of Mizuno, we think it should work.
debilxDhehlol
plssssssssssssssssss
lukas
how do i make the blocks light up
Admin
Please read the “Required Settings” and “Important Information” sections of this page.
Ahaan
does this work on 1.18.2
Tehfries
yes
Sturgen
I would love this with Jicklus ores if anyone knows how to make that happen.
Daniel
pls 1.18.1
yoooo
1.18.x when?
idkanynametosetsoisetthisname
now
christian
this looks so good AND cool
Klaudia
I was really hoping that the blocks will glow unfortunally they don´t but still very cool.
Admin
You should first read the “Required Settings” and “Important Information” sections on this page.
Viix
How do I get “a LabPBR” version for that?
Admin
If we’re not wrong, you don’t need to download a separate version for this. You just need to install BSL shaders and enable labPBR in shader settings.
Abdon3gm
There is nothing about PBR in BSL shader settings.
Ez_cokes
Noice resource pack