So lets get right into it: ever think that minecraft did not have enough stuff to mine and find? well i prepose that we should be able to find and use gems!
Gem info:
Gems will be uncommon to very rare in terms of finding, sometimes you find chipped gems but if you put 4 of them into a workbench you get a full gem.
Gem types:
For your conviance, instead of listing them here, i shall provide a link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemstone but we can also make up our own custom gems as well, if we need to, that is.
Cosmetic uses:
Gems can be used for gem blocks (much like how you make iron blocks) and could be placed into gem display cases (made useing glass and planks, this also includes necklaces and rings)
practical uses:
You may combine gems with armour or weapons to give you a certain enchantment, for example if you put a ruby in a sword, you'd get fire effenity when you enchant your blade, needless to say you can't put gems in pre-enchanted things, weapons have 2 gem slots, armour has 2-4 depending on what kind of armour it is.
You can also make rings and necklaces that and be impowered or you can just wear them for the looks, necklaces and rings have different effects, such as +1 protection as a perminate bonus but some other stuff has only 4-8 uses such as a necklace that teleports you to spawn when your low hp or something simular, jewlery with perminate bonuses won't ever be lost unless you die but you can pick them up like normal.
Useing gems with stone blocks, you can create aura stones, now theese are somewhat like potions, but have very different effects and a cool down time and a downside, for example: gluttony aura it fills your hunger bar every time you kill something, but when you kill soemthing it won't drop any items or xp.
Combineing each gem would create the "gEMERLD" which can be made into a sword but not armour or tools the gemerld sword deals 2 more hearts then a dimond sword AND it inflicts the person/creature with a negitive effect apon each attack, it cannot be enchanted or repaired when it runs out of uses it inflicts the user with all the negitive effects! (for about 2 mintues or so) it also can deal random crits without jumping.
Gems can be put into iron golems to repair/upgrade them to power them up a little, and they become passive if you do so (so if you attack them they won't attack you)
Gems can also change the colour of the collar on animals that you have tamed necks.
You can give rings/necklaces/gems to npc's for reputation and tradeing.
You would be able to convert enderpearls into normal pearls by useing a bucket of water and a ender pearl in the crafting table. (you'd also be able to get pearls from the bottem of oceans from clams)
Stuff like Onix, bloodstone, jet, would be found in the nether.
Dragonstone would be found in the end and dropped by the Enderdragon.
A frost gem would upgrade snow golems to shoot ice bolts which cause slowness and deal minimal damage (which are dropped by frosts, the polar opposite of a blaze which could be found in and under tundras/taigas)
F.A.Q
Q. Why is there no earrings, bracelets, anklets, etc?
A. Beause that would be silly.
Q. what happens if you use up all the charges in a ring?
A. It gets destoryed.
Q. Do some auras have limited uses?
A. No, but they all have a flaw and a cool down.
Q. Will aura's have the same effects as potions?
A. Only a few but remember each aura has a flaw unless the aura isn't very good.
Q. can a piece of jewerly have a permitnate effect and limited use of something?
A. Yes, but very rarely.
Well, that about covers everything, if you feel something is missing feel free to point it out.
Interesting idea! I had a suggestion for new gemstones,look at it in my content,jet onyx and bloodstone sound like things that would be in the nether,the fact that makes jet one of those things is that its actually pretrified wood- (apparently) These gems are a good idea,but kind of redundant,considering gemstones are just like diamonds,but different colors,no real magical affects,but this sounds like soemthing to put in a mod,my gemstones idea is more of a mod thing as well.
Interesting idea! I had a suggestion for new gemstones,look at it in my content,jet onyx and bloodstone sound like things that would be in the nether,the fact that makes jet one of those things is that its actually pretrified wood- (apparently) These gems are a good idea,but kind of redundant,considering gemstones are just like diamonds,but different colors,no real magical affects,but this sounds like soemthing to put in a mod,my gemstones idea is more of a mod thing as well.
I suppose gems could also be used for gem powder and that could be for potions.
So lets get right into it: ever think that minecraft did not have enough stuff to mine and find? well i prepose that we should be able to find and use gems!
Gem info:
Gems will be uncommon to very rare in terms of finding, sometimes you find chipped gems but if you put 4 of them into a workbench you get a full gem.
Gem types:
For your conviance, instead of listing them here, i shall provide a link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemstone but we can also make up our own custom gems as well, if we need to, that is.
Cosmetic uses:
Gems can be used for gem blocks (much like how you make iron blocks) and could be placed into gem display cases (made useing glass and planks, this also includes necklaces and rings)
practical uses:
You may combine gems with armour or weapons to give you a certain enchantment, for example if you put a ruby in a sword, you'd get fire effenity when you enchant your blade, needless to say you can't put gems in pre-enchanted things, weapons have 2 gem slots, armour has 2-4 depending on what kind of armour it is.
You can also make rings and necklaces that and be impowered or you can just wear them for the looks, necklaces and rings have different effects, such as +1 protection as a perminate bonus but some other stuff has only 4-8 uses such as a necklace that teleports you to spawn when your low hp or something simular, jewlery with perminate bonuses won't ever be lost unless you die but you can pick them up like normal.
Useing gems with stone blocks, you can create aura stones, now theese are somewhat like potions, but have very different effects and a cool down time and a downside, for example: gluttony aura it fills your hunger bar every time you kill something, but when you kill soemthing it won't drop any items or xp.
Combineing each gem would create the "gEMERLD" which can be made into a sword but not armour or tools the gemerld sword deals 2 more hearts then a dimond sword AND it inflicts the person/creature with a negitive effect apon each attack, it cannot be enchanted or repaired when it runs out of uses it inflicts the user with all the negitive effects! (for about 2 mintues or so) it also can deal random crits without jumping.
Gems can be put into iron golems to repair/upgrade them to power them up a little, and they become passive if you do so (so if you attack them they won't attack you)
Gems can also change the colour of the collar on animals that you have tamed necks.
You can give rings/necklaces/gems to npc's for reputation and tradeing.
You would be able to convert enderpearls into normal pearls by useing a bucket of water and a ender pearl in the crafting table. (you'd also be able to get pearls from the bottem of oceans from clams)
Stuff like Onix, bloodstone, jet, would be found in the nether.
Dragonstone would be found in the end and dropped by the Enderdragon.
A frost gem would upgrade snow golems to shoot ice bolts which cause slowness and deal minimal damage (which are dropped by frosts, the polar opposite of a blaze which could be found in and under tundras/taigas)
F.A.Q
Q. Why is there no earrings, bracelets, anklets, etc?
A. Beause that would be silly.
Q. what happens if you use up all the charges in a ring?
A. It gets destoryed.
Q. Do some auras have limited uses?
A. No, but they all have a flaw and a cool down.
Q. Will aura's have the same effects as potions?
A. Only a few but remember each aura has a flaw unless the aura isn't very good.
Q. can a piece of jewerly have a permitnate effect and limited use of something?
A. Yes, but very rarely.
Well, that about covers everything, if you feel something is missing feel free to point it out.
I had a suggestion for new gemstones,look at it in my content,jet onyx and bloodstone sound like things that would be in the nether,the fact that makes jet one of those things is that its actually pretrified wood- (apparently)
These gems are a good idea,but kind of redundant,considering gemstones are just like diamonds,but different colors,no real magical affects,but this sounds like soemthing to put in a mod,my gemstones idea is more of a mod thing as well.
I suppose gems could also be used for gem powder and that could be for potions.