Better Glowing Ores

Glowing Ores Resource Pack

Make Minecraft ores glow brightly in complete darkness while keeping the original vanilla Minecraft style.

Perfect for dark caves, mining, and shader packs where ores can be difficult to see.

IMPORTANT: Required Mods

This resource pack requires an emissive-texture supporting mod to display the glow effect. The pack will NOT glow natively without one.

Fabric / Quilt

Continuity is required.

If you are using Sodium, you may also need Indium depending on your setup.

Forge

OptiFine is required.

Alternatively, you can use another mod that supports Emissive Textures.

NeoForge

Continuity is required.

Sinytra Connector is also required.

Important Setting

Make sure Emissive Textures is enabled in your Minecraft Video Settings / Quality Settings.

Features

Full Ore Visibility

All supported ores have bright emissive textures, making them easy to spot even in extremely dark areas.

Vanilla Friendly

Keeps the original Minecraft textures and visual style while adding a clean glowing effect.

Shader Compatible

Works especially well with dark shader packs where caves and mining areas can become difficult to see.

Lightweight 16x Textures

Uses lightweight 16x textures designed to keep performance impact low.

Supported Ores

Overworld

Diamond Ore
Emerald Ore
Redstone Ore
Gold Ore
Iron Ore
Copper Ore
Lapis Lazuli Ore
Coal Ore

Nether

Nether Gold Ore
Nether Quartz Ore
Ancient Debris

Installation

1. Install the required emissive-texture mod for your Minecraft version and mod loader.
2. Download the resource pack .zip file.
3. Open Minecraft.
4. Go to Options → Resource Packs → Open Pack Folder.
5. Move the downloaded .zip file into the resource pack folder.
6. Select the pack and move it to the Selected Resource Packs section.
7. Click Done.
8. Make sure Emissive Textures is enabled in your Video / Quality Settings.

The glowing ores should now be visible in dark areas.

Terms of Use

You may use this resource pack in public or private modpacks.

You may not re-upload this resource pack to other websites.

You may not redistribute the original files without permission.

Do not claim the textures or files as your own.

Recommended For

Dark caves
Mining
Survival
PvP
Dark shader packs
Low-light environments
Players who want better ore visibility without changing the vanilla art style