So suppose you are the kind of person who loves wooden houses. Yes, they are nice looking, but creepers can deal a big blow to them. Then, you are forced to make a house out of stone, to prevent big creeper holes. This is a solution!
Tungsten ore is about as common as lapis. Tungsten is black, and the ore is black too. It's hard to confuse with coal, since it is shinier. Tungsten is smelted into ingots.
The main use of tungsten is to create metal framing. The recipe is two tungsten ingots in the shape of a stick's recipe. It returns 16 metal frames. Framing is no ordinary block. When you place one, a thin fence-like block appears. They don't serve as fences though. The thin rods run horizontally too, instead of creating a fence like pattern. You can place blocks in the same place as framing. When a block is placed over a frame, it's blast resistance triples, allowing you to make strong wooden houses, if you want it to be that way. If you break a block that is framed, the block will be removed, but the frame will remain underneath. It's a bit complicated, but that's the fun of it. Framing also holds sand and gravel up in the air, preventing them to fall.
Tungsten also has it's normal uses. It can be crafted into a tungsten block, crafted into tools and armor, and other things I might have missed. The tools have 600 uses, and they are the same speed as diamond. They can't mine obsidian. Yes, I know about the "no more tiers" thing that people say, but I really think we need a tool set between iron and diamond. It makes sense.
It's a very interesting idea. Saying that used it in the application, I've seen it before. Anyways, I like the framing, although I'm not much for the tiers, but I won't judge with that. Keep it up! Support. (Is this a real ore? If it is, I can search up real world uses to add to it's in-game usefulness.)
Tungsten is used in projectiles, light bulb filaments, x-ray tubes, TIG welding, and superalloys. Some of these alloys are types of steels, therefore I think I've found something.
Tungsten ore is about as common as lapis. Tungsten is black, and the ore is black too. It's hard to confuse with coal, since it is shinier. Tungsten is smelted into ingots.
The main use of tungsten is to create metal framing. The recipe is two tungsten ingots in the shape of a stick's recipe. It returns 16 metal frames. Framing is no ordinary block. When you place one, a thin fence-like block appears. They don't serve as fences though. The thin rods run horizontally too, instead of creating a fence like pattern. You can place blocks in the same place as framing. When a block is placed over a frame, it's blast resistance triples, allowing you to make strong wooden houses, if you want it to be that way. If you break a block that is framed, the block will be removed, but the frame will remain underneath. It's a bit complicated, but that's the fun of it. Framing also holds sand and gravel up in the air, preventing them to fall.
Tungsten also has it's normal uses. It can be crafted into a tungsten block, crafted into tools and armor, and other things I might have missed. The tools have 600 uses, and they are the same speed as diamond. They can't mine obsidian. Yes, I know about the "no more tiers" thing that people say, but I really think we need a tool set between iron and diamond. It makes sense.
Thoughts?
Tungsten is an actual Element. There is nothing the OP can do to change it. Complain about the name to the Global Science Administration.