Processing Gems into Ingots and Blocks in Mythic Upgrades
This guide details how to obtain and process raw gems into usable ingots and blocks. Gems can be found as ores and then smelted or blasted into their pure forms. These pure gems can then be further processed into ingots and blocks.
Gem Ores and Processing
Many types of gem ores exist, which can be processed into their respective gems. Both Smelting and Blasting methods can be used for this.
The following ores yield their corresponding gems:
Ametrine Ore yields 
Ametrine
Aquamarine Ore yields 
Aquamarine
Deepslate Aquamarine Ore yields Aquamarine
Citrine Ore yields 
Citrine
Deepslate Citrine Ore yields Citrine
Jade Ore yields 
Jade
Deepslate Peridot Ore yields 
Peridot
Peridot Ore yields Peridot
Ruby Ore yields 
Ruby
Sapphire Ore yields 
Sapphire
Deepslate Topaz Ore yields 
Topaz
Topaz Ore yields Topaz
Necoium Processing
Necoium is an exception, as its ores and raw form directly yield an ingot:
Necoium Ore yields 
Necoium Ingot
Raw Necoium yields Necoium Ingot
Both Smelting and Blasting can be used to process Necoium Ore and Raw Necoium into Necoium Ingot.
Creating Ingots and Blocks
Processed gems can be used to create ingots. For example, 
Aquamarine Ingots can be made in two ways:
- A
Block of Aquamarine can be crafted into an Aquamarine Ingot. - Four Aquamarine gems combined with four Necoium Ingots will yield an Aquamarine Ingot.
Furnace recipes are 1.20.1 only
Both builds carry this route: 15 smelting and 15 blasting recipes on 1.21.1, 14 of each on 1.20.1. The real version gap is elsewhere — smithing trims run thirty-two on 1.20.1 and none at all on 1.21.1, and stonecutting drops from 176 recipes to 96.
On 1.21.1, then, a furnace does nothing for you here. Ore blocks drop their gem directly when mined, and every step after that runs through the crafting grid.
The second track: crystal shards
Gems are only half the material in this mod. Crystal clusters growing in the mythic cave biomes drop Crystal Shards, which never touch a furnace and never become ingots:
- Four shards of a colour make that gem's Block of Crystal
- One
Cobblestone plus one shard makes the matching Schist, the mod's building stone - Blocks polish into bricks, pillars, slabs and stairs through ordinary crafting and stonecutting
Ingots are for gear; shards are for building. Keeping the two apart saves a lot of wasted necoium.
Necoium is the real bottleneck
Every gem ingot costs four gems and four Necoium Ingots, so a full nine-piece set of any tier needs thirty-six necoium on top of thirty-six gems. Necoium is also the one material that smelts straight to an ingot rather than to a gem, which makes it easy to under-collect. Mine it whenever you pass it, because gems are never what holds a set up.
Covers the mod’s in-game guide topics: minecraft:blasting minecraft:smelting Aquamarine Citrine Peridot Topaz Aquamarine Ingot