


Vanilla natural regeneration is just too fast to be challenging.

In the later game, your diamond pickaxe will open up the ability to do branch mining. In the early game, you’ll need to go caving for stone and for ores. Likewise, hard stone will convert back to stone after it’s been un-surrounded in the same amount of time. Once a block of stone has been surrounded by compressing blocks, it will convert to hard stone in about the same time as it takes for wheat to grow one stage. Hard stone takes ten times as long to mine, unless you’re using a golden or a diamond pickaxe. Blocks that compress stone include stone itself, dirt, ores, and bedrock. In Iberia, hard stone is any of the stone types (stone, andesite, diorite, granite) that has been surrounded by a compressing block on all six sides. The philosophy of Iberia is to make Minecraft harder in ways that respect the vanilla Minecraft experience, enhance gameplay, encourage more experiences that are available in the game, and add a dose of reality. Iberia Minecraft Made Harder Mod 1.12.2/1.11.2 changes some in-game mechanisms of vanilla Minecraft and makes them more challenging for the players.
