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Support. However, there may be problems with the implementation. For example, what if a cave goes above another cave?

To this topic: More explosion-proof blocks could be useful, like obsidian stairs or slabs.

A while ago, I posted a suggestion proposing replacing enchantments with enhancements, which you didn't like all that much. (It's here if you're curious.) Now I'm proposing a more modest change to enchantment mechanics.

The problem

Minecraft has too many enchantments. Some, like Bane of Arthropods, are rather niche and will never get used. Others, like Fortune and Looting or Flame and Fire Aspect, have the same purpose but are for different tools. Furthermore, some enchantments are limited in scope for no real reason. Why can't you, for example, put Impaling on a sword, Power on a bow, or Quick Charge on a crossbow? And why does Aqua Affinity go on helmets, not tools?

The solution

I propose to merge some enchantments and expand the scope of others. (Note: "Tools" refers to all tools used for breaking blocks, i.e. pickaxes, axes, shovels, hoes, and shears.)

• Aqua Affinity (tools, helmets) - Can now be used on tools.
• Bane of Arthropods (swords, axes, tridents) - Can now be used on tridents.
• Blast Protection (armor, shields) - Can now be used on shields.
• Channeling (swords, axes, tridents) - Can now be used on swords and axes.
• Curse enchantments are unchanged.
• Depth Strider (boots) - Unchanged.
• Efficiency (tools, swords, bows, crossbows) - Unified with Quick Charge. Can now be used on swords. When used on melee weapons, attack cooldown is decreased.
• Feather Falling (boots) - Unchanged.
• Fire Protection (armor, shields) - Can now be used on shields.
• Flame (swords, axes, tridents, bows, crossbows) - Unified with Fire Aspect. Can now be used on axes, tridents, and crossbows.
• Frost Walker (boots) - Unchanged.
• Impaling (swords, axes, tridents) - Can now be used on swords and axes.
• Infinity (bows, crossbows) - Can now be used on crossbows.
• Knockback (swords, axes, tridents, bows, crossbows) - Unified with Punch. Can now be used on axes, tridents, and crossbows.
• Loyalty (tridents) - Unchanged. Debating unification with Infinity.
• Luck (tools, swords, tridents, bows, crossbows, fishing rods) - Unification of Fortune, Looting and Luck of the Sea. Increased effect on fishing rods. Can now be used on tridents, bows, and crossbows.
• Lure (fishing rods) - Unchanged.
• Mending (any) - Unchanged.
• Multishot (bows, crossbows) - Can now be used on bows. Now goes up to level 4; each level shoots one more arrow than the last.
• Piercing (crossbows) - Unchanged. Debating whether it should go on bows as well.
• Projectile Protection (armor, shields) - Can now be used on shields.
• Protection (armor, shields) - Can now be used on shields.
• Respiration (helmets) - Unchanged.
• Riptide (tridents) - Unchanged. Debating whether it should go on bows and crossbows as well.
• Sharpness (swords, axes, tridents, bows, crossbows) - Unified with Power. Can now be used on tridents and crossbows.
• Silk Touch (tools) - Unchanged.
• Smite (swords, axes, tridents, bows, crossbows) - Can now be used on tridents, bows and crossbows.
• Soul Speed (boots) - Unchanged.
• Sweeping Edge (swords) - Unchanged.
• Thorns (armor, shields) - Can now be used on shields.
• Unbreaking (any) - Unchanged.

This gets rid of 6 unnecessary enchantments, while not removing any functionality. Furthermore, mutually exclusive enchantments remain so, but can be stacked anyway in Creative.

Funnily enough I thought of exactly that a while ago. Anyway, support.

Support for the animation, but I'm neutral (currently swinging towards) for the mechanic.

Support. However, it'd make more sense to use chains instead.

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Lamp oil, rope, bombs? You want it?

In my planned Minecraft modpack, daggers function as a "hybrid weapon" that can be used in melee or thrown, useful in stealth; more information is here if you want it. The potion-tipping mechanic I haven't come across before: it could further cement its role as a stealth weapon. Only change I'd make: Potion-tipping wears off after one use and leaves a normal, untipped dagger.

Interesting, more so the second part than the first. Though I'd change the sword, so that left click performs a jab that only deals damage to one mob, and right click performs a swing. Axes could have anon-shield-breaking attack for lef5 click and an attack that disables shields for a brief sindow of time (say 0.5s) for right click, as per double axes in my modpack.

I'm personally not a fan of auto-smelting enchantments. However, I do think players should be able to extract more iron and gold from ores with Fortune, the biggest upside to this suggestion, so I propose: Instead of dropping themselves, iron and gold ores drop iron and gold ore chunks, one per block with out Fortune, more with. thoughts? Does this dserve itsown thread?

Back on topic: Wooden pickaxes (and sometimes swords) serve an important role in th first ten minutes; the rest are there for consistency. In my opinion, that's enough. However, I'm debating about whether wooden tools should be replaced in my planned modpack (yes I've been planning a modpack for ages) with flint. Let's compare:

• Wood is more abdundant
• We've been accustomed to punching trees upon world generation
• Flint is really annoying to obtain (solved in my modpack; gravel can be crafted directly into flint)
• Flint is more realistic and makes more sense

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Yes I've read the rules, but they still don't explain why this arbitrary rule was put into place.

As the title says. Why would I have to wait 30 days to post my suggestion just because someone beat me to it and made a very similar suggestion, even it it's just a single paragraph and mine is fully-blown.