These are some ideas for gold and lapis do give them more value in the game.
Okay i admit most of the items are useful so these are just normal suggestions.
Golden rods can be used as a replacement for sticks in making tools/weapons to give them a 40 % chance of mining twice the loot when mining ores.
Golden Arrow
Golden Arrows are faster and slightly stronger than normal arrows and have 40 % chance of making the mobs it kills drop twice the item they drop.
Lapis Rod
While the lapis rod is being held,right-clicking a lava source block will cause it to turn to light obsidian and yes golden rods can replace the sticks.
Light Obsidian is as hard as obsidian but it gives out light and is collectable by diamond pick in 10 secs but is unable to be used to for a nether portal.
Lava Rod
While lava rod is being held,right-clicking a water source will turn it into light obsidian.
Block Modifier
Block Modifier has the same menu as the furnace but the fire icon is replaced with 4 vertical lines.
Block Modifier Recipes:
1.By putting redstone at the top,the machine will generate lapis lazuli.
2.By putting a water block at the top,the machine generates ice.
3.By putting fire at the top,the machine generates lava.
4.By putting gold block at the top,the machine generates golden apple.(uses up the most fuel.)
5.By putting moss stone at the top,the machine generates glowing moss stone.(Its just looks like moss stone but glows)
6.By putting blaze rod at the top,the machine generates fire magic.(25 % of working)(Fire magic can be use to craft with swords to give them the fire aspect enchanctment)
7.By putting Diamond Sword at the top,the machines generates Diamond Longsword.
Block Modifier Fuels/Power Source:
1.Water Bucket
2.Ice
3.Snow
4.Charcoal
5.Gold nugget(weakest)
6.Flint
7.Lapis Lazuli
8.Diamond
Lapis Rod
Lapis rod while being held,right-clicking on a fire or water while cause it to drop itself into a pickable item.
Lapis Bow
The lapis bow when firing arrows cause the mob to be frozen for 1 second.The lapis bow has 60 % durability as the normal bow.
The useless ones are,gold,clay,lapis and stone.
Well maybe not stone...
gold is used in many things such as clocks and powered rails. other than novelty items like gold armour.
clay? are you ****ing kidding me? clay is used for bricks. bricks are used for brick blocks. brick blocks are used to build houses. what's useless about houses?
as for lapis, it's used as a dye. duh
stone is used in building as well as buttons, pressure plates, stone slabs and bricks and red stone repeaters.
Gold is probably one of the most useful resources, they just all happen to be luxury items. The most useless item is rotten flesh.... no wait that's food.
It's probably the dead shrub and the music disks(you can't use the majority of them so they are technically useless unless you're in creative mode). The pig saddle, once you think about it, is probably the king of useless items next to the dead shrub. Proposing uses for things that already have all the uses that they logically already have will get you nowhere however.
Okay i admit most of the items are useful so these are just normal suggestions.
Golden rods can be used as a replacement for sticks in making tools/weapons to give them a 40 % chance of mining twice the loot when mining ores.
Golden Arrow
Golden Arrows are faster and slightly stronger than normal arrows and have 40 % chance of making the mobs it kills drop twice the item they drop.
Lapis Rod
While the lapis rod is being held,right-clicking a lava source block will cause it to turn to light obsidian and yes golden rods can replace the sticks.
Light Obsidian is as hard as obsidian but it gives out light and is collectable by diamond pick in 10 secs but is unable to be used to for a nether portal.
Lava Rod
While lava rod is being held,right-clicking a water source will turn it into light obsidian.
Block Modifier
Block Modifier has the same menu as the furnace but the fire icon is replaced with 4 vertical lines.
Block Modifier Recipes:
1.By putting redstone at the top,the machine will generate lapis lazuli.
2.By putting a water block at the top,the machine generates ice.
3.By putting fire at the top,the machine generates lava.
4.By putting gold block at the top,the machine generates golden apple.(uses up the most fuel.)
5.By putting moss stone at the top,the machine generates glowing moss stone.(Its just looks like moss stone but glows)
6.By putting blaze rod at the top,the machine generates fire magic.(25 % of working)(Fire magic can be use to craft with swords to give them the fire aspect enchanctment)
7.By putting Diamond Sword at the top,the machines generates Diamond Longsword.
Block Modifier Fuels/Power Source:
1.Water Bucket
2.Ice
3.Snow
4.Charcoal
5.Gold nugget(weakest)
6.Flint
7.Lapis Lazuli
8.Diamond
Lapis Rod
Lapis rod while being held,right-clicking on a fire or water while cause it to drop itself into a pickable item.
Lapis Bow
The lapis bow when firing arrows cause the mob to be frozen for 1 second.The lapis bow has 60 % durability as the normal bow.
Diamond long sword can hit mobs 5 tiles away.
Click them or they will click you
Well maybe not stone...
gold is used in many things such as clocks and powered rails. other than novelty items like gold armour.
clay? are you ****ing kidding me? clay is used for bricks. bricks are used for brick blocks. brick blocks are used to build houses. what's useless about houses?
as for lapis, it's used as a dye. duh
stone is used in building as well as buttons, pressure plates, stone slabs and bricks and red stone repeaters.
nothing you listed there is useless.
Why does everyone think I don't have an avatar? Is there anyone who can see the one black pixel.
It's probably the dead shrub and the music disks(you can't use the majority of them so they are technically useless unless you're in creative mode). The pig saddle, once you think about it, is probably the king of useless items next to the dead shrub. Proposing uses for things that already have all the uses that they logically already have will get you nowhere however.