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Have you ever taken a good look at the pillager beast textures?
if you have, you would have noticed the blueish grey metal on its back and ankles.
This metal cannot by diamond or iron, as iron is all grey/white, and diamond is a sort of teal.
will this metal be obtainable?
what might this metal be?
It's called ficatian (as in testificate) steel. It's a gold-iron alloy that's been infused with a strength potion, imparting greater durability to tools and retaining fine edges for longer (which means it just does 2 points more damage, not that tool damage will one day be tied to tool durability). The process does not impart any greater magical ability to the tool, so it's really just a nifty iron-level variation unique to the illager community. It will not be available to the player, both for lore reasons (hello, secretive and highly unethical badguy group here) and for functionality reasons (we already have iron tools, no real reason to add more), but you will see references to it in future "builds".
It's called ficatian (as in testificate) steel. It's a gold-iron alloy that's been infused with a strength potion, imparting greater durability to tools and retaining fine edges for longer (which means it just does 2 points more damage, not that tool damage will one day be tied to tool durability). The process does not impart any greater magical ability to the tool, so it's really just a nifty iron-level variation unique to the illager community. It will not be available to the player, both for lore reasons (hello, secretive and highly unethical badguy group here) and for functionality reasons (we already have iron tools, no real reason to add more), but you will see references to it in future "builds".
Your not the first to ask. It's purely cosmetic. Jappa replied to others asking this.
Which seems obvious and logical in a limited representation of the real world such as Minecraft (and even so it gets much further with open-world ideas than most games). Even so, small details do bother people sometimes if they stand out too much and are never clarified. It's always bothered me how you get the steely saw and hatchet textures on crafting tables from pure wood materials.
Of course, you can always pull a Sherlock and use the weird, seemingly unrelated facts, to reverse engineer a reasoning. That goes for any work of fiction and it justifies nearly all mistakes and omissions that an artist inevitably makes. Since it's fiction, you don't have to prove or justify what you start with because you only see the end result, very opposite from the real world where we start with stuff and try to get a proper end to it.
Maybe wood has iron in it in Minecraft? Why is it that Blazes spawn like vermin in spawning rings of fortresses when they appear to be the (former) owners of the fortresses? Guess that makes the wither skeletons the owners, even if withies are less intelligent and seemingly (a little) less sentient. We get a contradiction otherwise, but maybe it's just our understanding of how mobs relate in the game that's not adapted and it's perfectly normal in Minecraft-world for people to spawn and de-spawn out of thin air and still be sentient and individual. We only know the conclusion, and must guess at a hypothesis half-blindly.
Have you ever taken a good look at the pillager beast textures?
if you have, you would have noticed the blueish grey metal on its back and ankles.
This metal cannot by diamond or iron, as iron is all grey/white, and diamond is a sort of teal.
will this metal be obtainable?
what might this metal be?
(Common) Blue-green colorblindness (Yes, colorblindness is real, No, I don't - seem to - have it [and there are multiple kinds of colorblindness]) might render "light blue" as "teal" (which last I checked contains green). I actually thought that - normal, ordinary(-enough) - iron /steel itself /themselves is said to have blue in it, at least on occasion: "blue steel," "gunmetal blue," et. al.
But, slightly-less Fictional than the above pretty-obviously Is (previous comment in-between using "word," "ficatian"), there are a couple of big, main candidates from the Periodic Table: one is "Rare Earth Elements," some of which are known - since they're lower in it, anyway - to be denser (read: harder to take-apart with floatier stuff; can't use a gas to carve a metal, Generally). Another is more-specific stuff like Cobalt ("Cobalt blue"), even copper (cheaper, Less-dense, but Also, possibly more-malleable, so more-flexible, as after-all even an Elephantine, Pillager Beast might have limits on its ability to bend-metal, to be more-comfortable) - which while it corrodes to green, it can also seem blue - see again about colorblindness mattering to what something Is, not-just how it's Perceived.
Have you ever taken a good look at the pillager beast textures?
if you have, you would have noticed the blueish grey metal on its back and ankles.
This metal cannot by diamond or iron, as iron is all grey/white, and diamond is a sort of teal.
will this metal be obtainable?
what might this metal be?
It's called ficatian (as in testificate) steel. It's a gold-iron alloy that's been infused with a strength potion, imparting greater durability to tools and retaining fine edges for longer (which means it just does 2 points more damage, not that tool damage will one day be tied to tool durability). The process does not impart any greater magical ability to the tool, so it's really just a nifty iron-level variation unique to the illager community. It will not be available to the player, both for lore reasons (hello, secretive and highly unethical badguy group here) and for functionality reasons (we already have iron tools, no real reason to add more), but you will see references to it in future "builds".
Do you have a source for any of this?
Your not the first to ask. It's purely cosmetic. Jappa replied to others asking this.
The quickest way to my heart is with a smile.
Oh, and a white-oak stake.
It's a joke, I'm guessing.
Which seems obvious and logical in a limited representation of the real world such as Minecraft (and even so it gets much further with open-world ideas than most games). Even so, small details do bother people sometimes if they stand out too much and are never clarified. It's always bothered me how you get the steely saw and hatchet textures on crafting tables from pure wood materials.
Of course, you can always pull a Sherlock and use the weird, seemingly unrelated facts, to reverse engineer a reasoning. That goes for any work of fiction and it justifies nearly all mistakes and omissions that an artist inevitably makes. Since it's fiction, you don't have to prove or justify what you start with because you only see the end result, very opposite from the real world where we start with stuff and try to get a proper end to it.
Maybe wood has iron in it in Minecraft? Why is it that Blazes spawn like vermin in spawning rings of fortresses when they appear to be the (former) owners of the fortresses? Guess that makes the wither skeletons the owners, even if withies are less intelligent and seemingly (a little) less sentient. We get a contradiction otherwise, but maybe it's just our understanding of how mobs relate in the game that's not adapted and it's perfectly normal in Minecraft-world for people to spawn and de-spawn out of thin air and still be sentient and individual. We only know the conclusion, and must guess at a hypothesis half-blindly.
(Common) Blue-green colorblindness (Yes, colorblindness is real, No, I don't - seem to - have it [and there are multiple kinds of colorblindness]) might render "light blue" as "teal" (which last I checked contains green). I actually thought that - normal, ordinary(-enough) - iron /steel itself /themselves is said to have blue in it, at least on occasion: "blue steel," "gunmetal blue," et. al.
But, slightly-less Fictional than the above pretty-obviously Is (previous comment in-between using "word," "ficatian"), there are a couple of big, main candidates from the Periodic Table: one is "Rare Earth Elements," some of which are known - since they're lower in it, anyway - to be denser (read: harder to take-apart with floatier stuff; can't use a gas to carve a metal, Generally). Another is more-specific stuff like Cobalt ("Cobalt blue"), even copper (cheaper, Less-dense, but Also, possibly more-malleable, so more-flexible, as after-all even an Elephantine, Pillager Beast might have limits on its ability to bend-metal, to be more-comfortable) - which while it corrodes to green, it can also seem blue - see again about colorblindness mattering to what something Is, not-just how it's Perceived.