The Silver Age

Step into a new age of mining and adventure!

The Silver Age is a vanilla-friendly mod that introduces Silver, designed to feel like an official game drop you’d expect straight from the developers at Mojang.

Features

Oxidization

Silver blocks don’t stay shiny forever. Over time, silver blocks will oxidize, becoming darker in color. Just like with copper, silver blocks will slowly go through the stages Unaffected, Exposed, Weathered and Tarnished.

The Silver Age adds many decorative blocks, which can all tarnish:

• Block of Silver, Cut Silver (with slab & stairs), Chiseled Silver and Silver Pillar
• Silver Bricks (with slab, stairs & wall)
• Silver Grate, Silver Bars and Silver Chain
• Silver Door, Silver Trapdoor and Silver Pressure Plate
• Silver Bulb, Silver Lantern and Silver Lightning Rod

💡 Tip: Block of Silver can also be used to power up your Beacon!

Bane of the Undead

Zombies, skeletons and other undead mobs should think twice before taking on a player in silver:

• Silver tools and weapons deal extra damage to undead mobs, stacking with Smite
• Silver armor has a chance to hurt an undead mob that hits you, like Thorns. Silver Horse & Nautilus Armor protects your horse the same way
• Silver blocks damage undead mobs that walk on them, and they can't spawn on them. The more silver tarnishes, the weaker it gets, so keep it polished!
• Silver Torches and Silver Lanterns burn with a violet flame that undead mobs avoid
• Silver Arrows fly faster than normal arrows and hit the undead even harder. Look for them at master Fletchers, in pillager outposts and in trial chambers

💡 Tip: The Silver Pressure Plate can't be pressed by hostile mobs, so it makes for a safe door opener. The more it tarnishes, the more mobs it takes to give a full signal.

Secrets of the moon

One of the new utility items is the Moon Dial. Similar to a Clock, you can use it to keep track of the next moon phase. You can also use the Moon Phase Detector for phase detection in your redstone builds.

Tools & Equipment

Silver gear is designed to be slightly stronger than iron, but with less durability. It has slightly higher enchantability than iron, but not as much as gold. This brings more strategy into choosing your equipment.

In addition to a new tools & armor set, dress up your horses with shiny new Silver Horse Armor! Silver armor is also trimmable, and silver can be used as a new trimming material for your other armor.

On Minecraft 1.21.11 and up you can also craft a Silver Spear and find Silver Nautilus Armor. Playing on an older version? Install Vanilla Backport or Backported Spears to get them there too.

Be wary for monsters, as they learned to wear silver armor too…

Trading & Loot

Structure loot tables have been carefully adjusted to include silver items. To make sure loot feels natural and not cluttered or overpowered, the mod randomly replaces iron/golden items with their silver variants. The same has been done with villager trades. For flavor, silverfish now randomly drop Silver Nugget when defeated.

Still prefer vanilla loot? Villager trades and loot overrides can be disabled through the mod's config.

Making Silver Matter

Silver isn’t meant to sit on the sidelines. To help it feel truly at home in the game’s progression, silver has been woven into existing vanilla recipes.

With its ties to energy and alchemy, silver now appears in systems that already feel magical or technical, like brewing and redstone. A few familiar recipes have been updated to include silver:

• Lodestone (Silver Ingot, instead of Netherite/Iron Ingot)
• Brewing Stand (Silver Ingot, instead of Stone)
• Redstone Repeater (Silver Ingot, instead of Stone)
• Redstone Comparator (Silver Ingot, instead of Stone)
• Glistering Melon Slice (Silver Nugget, in addition to Gold Nugget)

Some of these items also have (subtle) adjusted textures, giving them a silvery look.

Prefer the original recipes and textures? These overrides can be disabled in the mod's config!

Compatibility

• Create - Support for Deployer, Spout, Crushing Wheel, Mechanical Press & washing, and a Silver Sheet
• Create: Aquatic Ambitions - Channeling tarnishes silver blocks, like copper
• Create: Aeronautics (Sable) - Blocks are properly tagged for Sable
• Farmer's Delight - Adds a Silver Knife
• Mekanism - Silver joins Mekanism's ore processing, with Silver Dust, Clumps, Shards, Crystals and slurries
• Werewolves: Become a Beast - Werewolves are sensitive to silver, and silver tools and armor count as silver
• Enhanced Celestials - The Moon Dial shows the current lunar event
• Yori3o's Grappling Hooks - Adds a Silver Grappling Hook
• Vanilla Backport - Adds the Silver Spear and Silver Nautilus Armor, and silver blocks work with its copper features
• Backported Spears - Adds the Silver Spear
• Better Combat - The Silver Spear swings like a spear
• Copper Age Backport - Silver bars, chains, lanterns and lightning rods work like copper's
• JEI & EMI - Info pages, and world interaction recipes for waxing/scraping silver blocks

Silver also works out of the box with mods that use silver from any mod, like Silent Gear, Immersive Engineering, Iron Furnaces and Occultism.

Future Updates

This mod is still being actively worked on, with more updates coming soon. Some features you can expect:

• More decorative blocks, such as a Silver Chest
• A new mob: the Silver Golem
• Compatibility with popular mods: Please let me know if you want compatibility with a mod you like!

Discord

Join the Discord server to stay ahead with the latest updates and get exclusive sneak peeks! Got ideas or found a bug? Share your feedback and help shape the future of The Silver Age!