Gold nuggets should be obtainable by creating iron bucket like pans and sort of "fishing" in rivers. Thus gold would be easier to get but instead of nuggets you would get flakes of gold rarely but if you are desperate and cant find gold you can pan for it although it is less efficent than mining and you get only flakes
4 flake=nugget
also gold could be used for more redstone conductive devices than clocks etc.
I don't think that anyone would actually use this feature if it was implemented.
If it took 4 flakes to make a nugget, and 9 nuggets to make an ingot, it would require 36 flakes just to make one ingot, and you can only actually make anything with at least 2 ingots, so in order to make anything useful, you would need at least 72 flakes.
A vein of gold ore has a 0.1437% chance of spawning. A vein can have up to 10 ores, so that means that at most each block between levels 2 and 29 would have a 1.437% chance of being a gold ore. You said that it's less likely to find flakes from panning than it is to find ore from mining, so let's assume it's a 1% chance to find a flake each time you go panning. This means that you would need to go panning about 7200 times in order to find enough flakes to create a sword.
If you want to make something that uses more ingots, you would need to go panning about 3600 more times per ingot.
According to the Minecraft wiki, there are about 7.5 gold ores per chunk.
Using this information, we can see that if you're desperate for gold, it would be far more efficient to go mining than to go panning. Sorry, but it's actually far harder to make anything using panning than you seem to have anticipated it would have been.
Edit: Adding more redstone devices shouldn't be in this thread, seeing as it's a separate suggestion. Flesh out the idea a little more, and put it in a new thread.
Well this would be useful in super flat at least. But it should be more than gold, like sand or flint. Flint might actually be useful since you already have to constantly click gravel to get it.
Well this would be useful in super flat at least. But it should be more than gold, like sand or flint. Flint might actually be useful since you already have to constantly click gravel to get it.
Agreed, you should be able to get flint from it too. However in 1.4 they plan to allow ores to generate even in superflat if you choose that option.
Rollback Post to RevisionRollBack
To post a comment, please login or register a new account.
4 flake=nugget
also gold could be used for more redstone conductive devices than clocks etc.
If it took 4 flakes to make a nugget, and 9 nuggets to make an ingot, it would require 36 flakes just to make one ingot, and you can only actually make anything with at least 2 ingots, so in order to make anything useful, you would need at least 72 flakes.
A vein of gold ore has a 0.1437% chance of spawning. A vein can have up to 10 ores, so that means that at most each block between levels 2 and 29 would have a 1.437% chance of being a gold ore. You said that it's less likely to find flakes from panning than it is to find ore from mining, so let's assume it's a 1% chance to find a flake each time you go panning. This means that you would need to go panning about 7200 times in order to find enough flakes to create a sword.
If you want to make something that uses more ingots, you would need to go panning about 3600 more times per ingot.
According to the Minecraft wiki, there are about 7.5 gold ores per chunk.
Using this information, we can see that if you're desperate for gold, it would be far more efficient to go mining than to go panning. Sorry, but it's actually far harder to make anything using panning than you seem to have anticipated it would have been.
Sources: http://www.minecraft...t/wiki/Gold_ore, math
Edit: Adding more redstone devices shouldn't be in this thread, seeing as it's a separate suggestion. Flesh out the idea a little more, and put it in a new thread.
Maybe you should click this?
Agreed, you should be able to get flint from it too. However in 1.4 they plan to allow ores to generate even in superflat if you choose that option.