So, I've been thinking about this for a while, and I believe this is time to post it. It's gonna be pretty controversial, but if you don't like it, just tell me. Don't flame me.
I've been thinking that Minecraft goes by relatively fast tool-wise. Once you get a Diamond Pickaxe, progression continues but gear doesn't. This suggestion doesn't aim to add Nether and Ender tools, but it will lengthen the time it takes between tiers of tool. Without further ado, here we go!
1. Copper Tools (Courtesy of Shaddura)
So, to start off, you get wood. Then, you make tools. Pretty simple, and unchanged from the norm. I'm not including anything before getting wood, because honestly, that would suck. Outside of mods, that is. But, you only need to collect 8 stone now. That 8 stone will make a Furnace. Then, you must find some Copper, which is as common as Coal but it has the vein size of Iron. You must smelt the Copper. Then, you can make your second-tier tools. Copper Tools have the same speed, durability and mining level as Stone, but you can't craft Stone Tools anymore. You must make these instead.
This suggestion was made by the user Shaddura, and the original suggestion can be found here. He also gave me permission to post this in PM. However, in that suggestion copper doesn't have any other uses. So, I have a few ideas.
Activator Rails will be crafted with Copper instead of Iron, as well as Hoppers (with texture changes to match).
Copper is used for the base of Redstone Repeaters and Comparators instead of Stone, and they are also retextured.
The Light Weighted Pressure Plate is crafted with this instead of Gold, again, retextured.
Copper Golems can be created. Copper Golems are made like Snow Golems, but with Copper Blocks instead of Snow. These guys also spawn in large villages in quantities of 2-3, no intermediaries of medium-sized villages getting 1. These guys will be faster than Iron Golems, are passive to you unless you attack a Villager (it won't defend itself), and can open doors to protect the villagers inside.
Copper Armor replaces Chain Armor, but Chain Armor is still obtainable as a novelty from Zombies or in Creative.
2. Iron, Gold and Silver
So, with your new Copper Pickaxe, you can mine some Iron. You make tools out of that, and like Wooden tools, Iron tools are unchanged.
However, with your new Iron Pickaxe, you have two choices to go, as Diamond still spawns, but it cannot make tools (more on its uses later). You either mine Gold, or you mine Silver. Gold tools can now mine everything as fast as the old Diamond but with the durability of Wood (but not lower like currently). Silver, however, is the opposite. It has the durability of the old Diamond, but it can only mine as fast as Wood. These two materials contrast each other in recipes:
Silver Nuggets can be made with 1 Ingot, which makes 9.
8 Silver Ingots surrounding an Apple makes a Silver Apple, which has the power to cure all negative potion effects and heals as much as a Golden Apple and cures all negative potion effects (like Milk, but without ridding the positive ones). Enchanted Silver Apples, crafted like the Golden ones, will give you the Immunity potion effect, which makes you immune to all negative potion effects, for 8 minutes.
8 Silver Nuggets surrounding some Cocoa Beans makes Silver Beans, which can be brewed into a Potion of Haste.
Detector Rails are now crafted with Silver Ingots instead of Iron, as are Compasses.
This is all fine and dandy, but what if I want my Diamond tools back? Well, fear not, but you'll have to take a trip to the Nether...
3. The Nether, the Forge, and Alloy
First thing you have to do to get your snazzy new tools is to mine some Obsidian. Gold and Silver can each mine Obsidian now, and I'd honestly recommend you to use Gold as mining it with Silver would be painstakingly annoying. But after that, you go into the Nether. You won't need to explore any Fortresses right now unless you really want to. What you need to do is to get half a stack of Netherrack, smelt it up into Bricks, and make Blocks out of it. Then, craft it in the pattern you would craft a Chest or Furnace. This gets you a Forge.
The Forge is an upgraded version of the Furnace, working faster but not taking any fuel worse than Coal. But its best property is that it can smelt Silver and Gold Ingots. This process gives you an item called Molten Silver/Gold. If you want to get your precious metals back, turn them into Blocks like you would for Ingots. Then unload those Blocks and you get your metal back! But beyond that, they do have a use. Making a 3 wide, 2 tall checkerboard pattern of Molten Silver and Molten Gold will get you 1 Alloy Ingot. Alloy Ingots combine the best qualities of Gold and Silver, making what are essentially Diamond tools. And Alloyed tools aren't the only use of the Ingots. Instead of Diamonds, you make your Enchanting Table accents with Alloyed Ingots, gating Enchanting behind the Nether.
4. Diamond Cutting and Jewelry
But what are Diamonds used for now? Well, they can be used for a Jukebox, but that isn't all. Putting a Sword in the first slot of an Anvil and a Diamond in the second cuts the diamond, taking durability from the sword. First, you get a Hexagonal Diamond, then a Pentagonal Diamond (kinda looking like Chaos Emeralds), then a Rhombus Diamond, and finally a Triangular Diamond. These can be crafted into Jewelry with Gold Chains (crafted with 3 Gold Nuggets in a horizontal line). Jewelry can be equipped on your character, with 3 slots: A Necklace, a Bracelet (dominant hand), and a Ring (non-dominant). These will appear on the other side of your character image, along with your off-hand slot. Necklaces are crafted with 7 Gold Chains in an upside-down U shape, with a Diamond in the bottom center. Bracelets are crafted with 3 Gold Chains in a V shape, with a Diamond in the top center. And Rings are crafted with 1 Gold Chain and a Diamond above it.
Anyway, each Diamond has the ability to be crafted into Jewelry, which grant you different effects. Hexagonal Diamonds will decrease the rate your hunger goes down. Pentagonal Diamonds increase the rate of regeneration, but only at full hunger. Rhombus Diamonds make you able to climb a certain number of blocks without jumping. And Triangular Diamonds will randomly grant Poison to enemies you strike with a weapon. But the hunger rate decrease, regen increase, number of blocks climbed and chance to poison all scale with the type of jewelry. Necklaces grant the best buffs, then bracelets, then rings. And jewelry of the same type doesn't stack, so you can't load up with massive amounts of regeneration. You need to choose which effects matter the most to you, and you also need to exclude one entirely.
Although I do see the time and effort put into this suggestion, and do, in fact, quite like it, I think that anything that overhauls Minecraft to this sort of degree should not be made an official part of the game; it'd be better as a mod. Take Terrafirmacraft, for instance. It completely overhauls the game to be very realism-based, but it's not something you would want added to the game by Mojang, as it deviates too far from what Minecraft already is. The same could be said for this suggestion; it just changes too much of what the game already is. If Minecraft was still in, say, the alpha stage of development, then this would be a fine addition to a growing game with a growing community. But alas, Minecraft 1.9 is already coming out soon, and though I personally like the changes we have seen thus far, they are not for everyone. Now, it'd just be better to add new things to the game, rather than change existing features.
Hmm..... interesting the copper is very good idea since it's a conductive metal. And making bracelets and necklace and rings by using diamonds. FULL SUPPORT!
Just a suggestion that probably sucks:Electrum is the alloy of gold and silver. It would be used to make items with the durability of iron, and the mining speed of gold. You take a silver ingot, and a gold ingot and you combine them to get electrum, and then you make tools out of that.
Use the nether forge to craft diamonds into usable tools, keeping diamonds as the final tier.
Partial Support
The idea is that Silver has the durability of the final set, and Gold has the speed, if you combine them, you get the best qualities of both. Diamonds are iconic, and because of that I know Mojang will never put this in, but it was definitely a fun thought exercise.
Hmm..... interesting the copper is very good idea since it's a conductive metal. And making bracelets and necklace and rings by using diamonds. FULL SUPPORT!
In other words, make the steps you need to take to craft something more complicated?
And replace all the iconic materials of minecraft with materials some people don't even know about, like copper and silver?
And nerf chemists (negative potion users in pvp) even more by allowing people to eat an apple that makes them totally immune to their attacks?
And make diamonds a material that is only used for trinkets which cannot be customized in any way?
And add slots for trinkets that give very minor bonuses in the inventory?
No support. I dislike every single part of this suggestion.
And that's fine. You don't have to like it. I did this mostly as a thought exercise to see if I could stretch out the gameplay without making it like TerraFirmaCraft where everything is entirely realistic and you can't chop wood for the longest time.
Just a suggestion that probably sucks:Electrum is the alloy of gold and silver. It would be used to make items with the durability of iron, and the mining speed of gold. You take a silver ingot, and a gold ingot and you combine them to get electrum, and then you make tools out of that.
Electrum is actually a good name for the Alloy, but it's a bit too obscure. I originally had Platinum, as it is more valuable than both of them, but it seemed a bit too unrealistic, even for Minecraft. So I just named it Alloy and called it done.
Although I do see the time and effort put into this suggestion, and do, in fact, quite like it, I think that anything that overhauls Minecraft to this sort of degree should not be made an official part of the game; it'd be better as a mod. Take Terrafirmacraft, for instance. It completely overhauls the game to be very realism-based, but it's not something you would want added to the game by Mojang, as it deviates too far from what Minecraft already is. The same could be said for this suggestion; it just changes too much of what the game already is. If Minecraft was still in, say, the alpha stage of development, then this would be a fine addition to a growing game with a growing community. But alas, Minecraft 1.9 is already coming out soon, and though I personally like the changes we have seen thus far, they are not for everyone. Now, it'd just be better to add new things to the game, rather than change existing features.
I hate to say it, but no support.
I can see that. Glad you like it, and I can actually agree that it'd be quite the change to the gameplay.
You want to remove Stone tools. You want to make Diamond tools very hard to get. We've had these for years. Adding Copper and Silver tools could be okay, they should be their own tier, though, and not replace anything. No to adjusting any recipes, but adding new recipes sound okay.
Electrum is actually a good name for the Alloy, but it's a bit too obscure. I originally had Platinum, as it is more valuable than both of them, but it seemed a bit too unrealistic, even for Minecraft. So I just named it Alloy and called it done.
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e·lec·trum
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[i]noun[/i]
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a natural or artificial alloy of gold with at least 20 percent silver, used for jewelry, especially in ancient times.
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But Electrum is the real life name ._,
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So, I've been thinking about this for a while, and I believe this is time to post it. It's gonna be pretty controversial, but if you don't like it, just tell me. Don't flame me.
I've been thinking that Minecraft goes by relatively fast tool-wise. Once you get a Diamond Pickaxe, progression continues but gear doesn't. This suggestion doesn't aim to add Nether and Ender tools, but it will lengthen the time it takes between tiers of tool. Without further ado, here we go!
1. Copper Tools (Courtesy of Shaddura)
So, to start off, you get wood. Then, you make tools. Pretty simple, and unchanged from the norm. I'm not including anything before getting wood, because honestly, that would suck. Outside of mods, that is. But, you only need to collect 8 stone now. That 8 stone will make a Furnace. Then, you must find some Copper, which is as common as Coal but it has the vein size of Iron. You must smelt the Copper. Then, you can make your second-tier tools. Copper Tools have the same speed, durability and mining level as Stone, but you can't craft Stone Tools anymore. You must make these instead.
This suggestion was made by the user Shaddura, and the original suggestion can be found here. He also gave me permission to post this in PM. However, in that suggestion copper doesn't have any other uses. So, I have a few ideas.
2. Iron, Gold and Silver
So, with your new Copper Pickaxe, you can mine some Iron. You make tools out of that, and like Wooden tools, Iron tools are unchanged.
However, with your new Iron Pickaxe, you have two choices to go, as Diamond still spawns, but it cannot make tools (more on its uses later). You either mine Gold, or you mine Silver. Gold tools can now mine everything as fast as the old Diamond but with the durability of Wood (but not lower like currently). Silver, however, is the opposite. It has the durability of the old Diamond, but it can only mine as fast as Wood. These two materials contrast each other in recipes:
This is all fine and dandy, but what if I want my Diamond tools back? Well, fear not, but you'll have to take a trip to the Nether...
3. The Nether, the Forge, and Alloy
First thing you have to do to get your snazzy new tools is to mine some Obsidian. Gold and Silver can each mine Obsidian now, and I'd honestly recommend you to use Gold as mining it with Silver would be painstakingly annoying. But after that, you go into the Nether. You won't need to explore any Fortresses right now unless you really want to. What you need to do is to get half a stack of Netherrack, smelt it up into Bricks, and make Blocks out of it. Then, craft it in the pattern you would craft a Chest or Furnace. This gets you a Forge.
The Forge is an upgraded version of the Furnace, working faster but not taking any fuel worse than Coal. But its best property is that it can smelt Silver and Gold Ingots. This process gives you an item called Molten Silver/Gold. If you want to get your precious metals back, turn them into Blocks like you would for Ingots. Then unload those Blocks and you get your metal back! But beyond that, they do have a use. Making a 3 wide, 2 tall checkerboard pattern of Molten Silver and Molten Gold will get you 1 Alloy Ingot. Alloy Ingots combine the best qualities of Gold and Silver, making what are essentially Diamond tools. And Alloyed tools aren't the only use of the Ingots. Instead of Diamonds, you make your Enchanting Table accents with Alloyed Ingots, gating Enchanting behind the Nether.
4. Diamond Cutting and Jewelry
But what are Diamonds used for now? Well, they can be used for a Jukebox, but that isn't all. Putting a Sword in the first slot of an Anvil and a Diamond in the second cuts the diamond, taking durability from the sword. First, you get a Hexagonal Diamond, then a Pentagonal Diamond (kinda looking like Chaos Emeralds), then a Rhombus Diamond, and finally a Triangular Diamond. These can be crafted into Jewelry with Gold Chains (crafted with 3 Gold Nuggets in a horizontal line). Jewelry can be equipped on your character, with 3 slots: A Necklace, a Bracelet (dominant hand), and a Ring (non-dominant). These will appear on the other side of your character image, along with your off-hand slot. Necklaces are crafted with 7 Gold Chains in an upside-down U shape, with a Diamond in the bottom center. Bracelets are crafted with 3 Gold Chains in a V shape, with a Diamond in the top center. And Rings are crafted with 1 Gold Chain and a Diamond above it.
Anyway, each Diamond has the ability to be crafted into Jewelry, which grant you different effects. Hexagonal Diamonds will decrease the rate your hunger goes down. Pentagonal Diamonds increase the rate of regeneration, but only at full hunger. Rhombus Diamonds make you able to climb a certain number of blocks without jumping. And Triangular Diamonds will randomly grant Poison to enemies you strike with a weapon. But the hunger rate decrease, regen increase, number of blocks climbed and chance to poison all scale with the type of jewelry. Necklaces grant the best buffs, then bracelets, then rings. And jewelry of the same type doesn't stack, so you can't load up with massive amounts of regeneration. You need to choose which effects matter the most to you, and you also need to exclude one entirely.
What do you think?
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Use the nether forge to craft diamonds into usable tools, keeping diamonds as the final tier.
Partial Support
This is really interesting.
But yea, this should be in minecraft!
Although I do see the time and effort put into this suggestion, and do, in fact, quite like it, I think that anything that overhauls Minecraft to this sort of degree should not be made an official part of the game; it'd be better as a mod. Take Terrafirmacraft, for instance. It completely overhauls the game to be very realism-based, but it's not something you would want added to the game by Mojang, as it deviates too far from what Minecraft already is. The same could be said for this suggestion; it just changes too much of what the game already is. If Minecraft was still in, say, the alpha stage of development, then this would be a fine addition to a growing game with a growing community. But alas, Minecraft 1.9 is already coming out soon, and though I personally like the changes we have seen thus far, they are not for everyone. Now, it'd just be better to add new things to the game, rather than change existing features.
I hate to say it, but no support.
Hmm..... interesting the copper is very good idea since it's a conductive metal. And making bracelets and necklace and rings by using diamonds. FULL SUPPORT!
Just a suggestion that probably sucks:Electrum is the alloy of gold and silver. It would be used to make items with the durability of iron, and the mining speed of gold. You take a silver ingot, and a gold ingot and you combine them to get electrum, and then you make tools out of that.
I'm white. Not asian.
In other words, make the steps you need to take to craft something more complicated?
And replace all the iconic materials of minecraft with materials some people don't even know about, like copper and silver?
And nerf chemists (negative potion users in pvp) even more by allowing people to eat an apple that makes them totally immune to their attacks?
And make diamonds a material that is only used for trinkets which cannot be customized in any way?
And add slots for trinkets that give very minor bonuses in the inventory?
No support. I dislike every single part of this suggestion.
Spears, Daggers, and Hammers for 1.9
The idea is that Silver has the durability of the final set, and Gold has the speed, if you combine them, you get the best qualities of both. Diamonds are iconic, and because of that I know Mojang will never put this in, but it was definitely a fun thought exercise.
Glad you like it!
Again, glad you like it!
And that's fine. You don't have to like it. I did this mostly as a thought exercise to see if I could stretch out the gameplay without making it like TerraFirmaCraft where everything is entirely realistic and you can't chop wood for the longest time.
Electrum is actually a good name for the Alloy, but it's a bit too obscure. I originally had Platinum, as it is more valuable than both of them, but it seemed a bit too unrealistic, even for Minecraft. So I just named it Alloy and called it done.
I can see that. Glad you like it, and I can actually agree that it'd be quite the change to the gameplay.
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Welcome to modded Minecraft. There are mods that tackle this progression in different ways.
This would be a cool challenge mod, but I don't see myself using it very much.
PARTIAL SUPPORT
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You want to remove Stone tools. You want to make Diamond tools very hard to get. We've had these for years. Adding Copper and Silver tools could be okay, they should be their own tier, though, and not replace anything. No to adjusting any recipes, but adding new recipes sound okay.
Minimal support.
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Team Fortress 2
Borderlands series (Borderlands 2 is my favorite game, ever. TPS combat is a lot of fun and makes up for the lower-quality story, in my opinion)
Elder Scrolls series
Warframe (IGN is something like That_One_Flesh_Atronach)
Pokémon series (HGSS forever)
Rocket League
Fallout series
Left 4 Dead 2 (Boomer files always corrupt though)
SUPERHOT (SUPERHOT is the most innovative shooter I've played in years!)
Dead Rising series (Dead Rising 2 is one of my favorite games, and the 3rd was a lot of fun. 1st has poor survivor AI and the 4th is bad)
Just Cause series
Come to think of it, I mainly play fighting-based games.
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e·lec·trum
iˈlektrəm/
[i]noun[/i]
[*]
a natural or artificial alloy of gold with at least 20 percent silver, used for jewelry, especially in ancient times.
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But Electrum is the real life name ._,
List tags are malformed.
I'm white. Not asian.
I may change it. Not sure.
I go by AquaBuzzardHR on my YouTube Channel. Link here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyrxj072mhHlrhiv6RoZcWw
It is a channel about building and being creative, currently playing on the Lake Laogai SMP.