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Quote from Sinding18»

It isn't?
That wasn't my point though, I'm saying there's already efficient ways to get mob drops, and your idea would be a useless feature - since there's easier and faster ways to get the mob drops, and you would have to have a gold sword on your hotbar (or inventory at least), a golden sword which barely have any durability so you would spend more time running back to your anvil (or have to use yet more space in your inventory for the anvil + spare swords).

Quote from joonatan1998»

With the changes to the OP this would allow you to convert 18 gold swords, 3 wither skeleton skulls and 4 soul sand to 3 diamonds. Much more balanced than just converting gold swords.

Support, I don't think that this would be the best way to buff gold swords, but would make them useful for something.

Quote from Sinding18»

You can make farms to get nearly all the ressources (Except the diamond), and after a certain point it would be yet another useless feature in the game.

A simple mobfarm will get you all the flesh, bones, arrows and gunpowder ever needed.

Enderman farm will give you more pearls than you ever use, and levels at the same time.

There's the 1.8 pigman farm which gives you gold, flesh and XP. Even when you're AFK.

Ghasts, harder to farm. Not impossible, but I would imagine it's easier to create a farm than hitting them with a golden sword.

Blaze, again you can make a blaze farm. XP and blazerods (and by that; blazepowder)

The Wither: No, just no. That's way too OP. joonatan1998 already explained why - and if you put looting on the sword also, you would increase the chance. [EDIT: And with the 1.8 gold farm, you also get golden swords, so you wouldn't even need to sacrifice any gold or sticks making them]

If there should be a use for the gold sword, this isn't the way to go. Personally I would never have a golden sword on me, for the sole purpose of getting extra drops.

Quote from JerenVidsPC»

Cool idea, but it really isnt that "realistic".

I feel that there should be a explanation for it

Quote from joonatan1998»

"Wither: 0.5% chance of dropping a diamond" No, this would make diamonds renewable, and people would find a way to farm it.

"Ender Dragon: 0.05% chance of dropping lvl 7 xp" xp levels have different xp requirments depending on you level.

Currently, the gold sword doesn't do much. So we should give it some ability so people won't go like... "why should i craft this trash?" Gold swords should have a chance of making a mob drop items on each attack. It will be like slicing them to chunks, or something like that. The table: