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Forget carbon. Add a way to convert coal and diamonds to carbon, with a higher conversion rate for diamonds.

And then you could make steel, it might be able to balance armor a bit.

Right now, you have leather armor, which is basically useless protection wise, then you have gold armor. Gold armor is hard to get and it doesn't offer good protection or durability. The only upside to it is enchantability, and if you get protection 4 on your gold chestplate the chestplate is going to wear out even faster. And then iron. It's easy to get and offers a 4 point jump from gold (which is ironically harder to get). It has decent durability too. If steel armor was added, iron could be bumped down a bit. and steel armor could make the jump from gold/leather to iron/diamond a bit less severe.

But forget the Titanium Carbide. It sounds way to complex for minecraft. Industrial stuff like that belongs in IC2.

Coal and diamonds are forms of carbon, as is graphite. You don't typically see pure carbon (straight up C) as it likes to form chemical bonds, especially with other carbon molecules (which is how things like coal and diamonds come about - the carbon atoms rearrange themselves into certain structures).

Regardless, steel isn't made of pure carbon. It's iron and cokes, which are a special kind of coal (again, . Those two are heated under high pressure in a blast furnace. I think the suggestion for steel would make far, far more sense if it were based around heating coal and iron an advanced furnace of sorts, but then, plenty of mods already have things like that, and there needs to be some justification for why steel is needed beyond armor and weapons.

We already have Carbon; it's just called Coal.

How about graphite instead of carbon? Naturally carbon is a gas (in the normal C2 form), while graphite is solid. Also, you should be able to get it by smelting a diamond (because if you heat up a pure diamond enough, it will turn into carbon (in the form of C2 and quickly reacting with the oxygen to get CO2). Don't ask me why you would do that.

Also, you should be able to craft 1 carbon nanotube (if you replace the coal with graphite) by crafting this:
. Carbon nanotubes could be used on a crafted onto tool (making the toolhead out of carbon nanotubes, placing the tool beneath it, and a stick beneath that) to up it one tier (wood becomes stone, stone and gold become iron, iron becomes diamond, diamond becomes titanium carbide tipped-diamond, and titanium carbide tipped-diamond gets 4,092 durability, ability to collect any resource (that can be collected with a titanium carbide-tipped diamond tool of that type), and ability to mine everything 2 times faster than titanium carbide-tipped diamond tools (but not faster than 0.05 seconds).

Also, it should be very rare.

Quote from Mulan15262

How about graphite instead of carbon? Naturally carbon is a gas (in the normal C2 form), while graphite is solid. Also, you should be able to get it by smelting a diamond (because if you heat up a pure diamond enough, it will turn into carbon (in the form of C2 and quickly reacting with the oxygen to get CO2). Don't ask me why you would do that.

Also, you should be able to craft 1 carbon nanotube (if you replace the coal with graphite) by crafting this:
. Carbon nanotubes could be used on a crafted onto tool (making the toolhead out of carbon nanotubes, placing the tool beneath it, and a stick beneath that) to up it one tier (wood becomes stone, stone and gold become iron, iron becomes diamond, diamond becomes titanium carbide tipped-diamond, and titanium carbide tipped-diamond gets 4,092 durability, ability to collect any resource (that can be collected with a titanium carbide-tipped diamond tool of that type), and ability to mine everything 2 times faster than titanium carbide-tipped diamond tools (but not faster than 0.05 seconds).

Also, it should be very rare.

You do realize carbon nanotubes are freaking tiny, a very recent technology, and pretty much impossible to make by hand by every stretch of the imagination?

Quote from Cobalt32

You do realize carbon nanotubes are freaking tiny, a very recent technology, and pretty much impossible to make by hand by every stretch of the imagination?

In reality yes, but this isn't reality.

Also, maybe carbon militubes would be a better name, and multiplying their size by over 1,000.

Quote from Raymond1996

I seen copying OUTSIDE of Minecraft. Its no longer bad. People naturally deal with it. Besides Total Miner: Forge IS NOT a major game so its not technically bad.

Yes it would be bad! Minecraft is supposed to be ORIGINAL, not copying stuff from minor games.

Quote from Deonyi

Let's couyt shall we?

Coal, diamond, Steve, mobs, fire smoke, lava

6 things that have carbon. And the uses for carbon? A few measly tools.

Exactly. We have diamonds, which are almost completely pure carbon.

Why don't you just extract the carbon from coal or something? I doubt that carbon is seriously found in ores IRL.

Quote from Javster

Maybe if you combine iron with coal (or diamond?) you get your steel ingots.

that would be a pretty insane recipe for steel. and for it to be WEAKER then diamonds. LOL. anyway. No support as Diamonds are pure carbon. so you have your carbon tools.

Quote from WaveJones

Hmm... Here's what my knowledge can give you.
Carbon is a non-metallic and also radioactive object. It can be made into Coal, Diamond, or either Graphite. It is a SOLID ROCK (Not a Metal!). It could be made into Steel by combining it with Alloy of Iron and some other materials. And Titanium cannot be made by combining elements. Maybe Titanium Ores?

Anyways. Sorry. But.
Salf Hupport. Woops. Mis-typed it.
Half Support

Your talking about Carbon-12. Regular carbon is not a radioactive substance. it is used in alot of things (Carbon fibers) anyway. carbon doesnt need to be made into steel. it is Lighter and stronger. why made it weaker?