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Material Rebalance: Gold Should Not Be Renewable, Sand Should

I think it’s time we reevaluate the intended value and scarcity of materials in Minecraft. We are at a point where sand now holds great in game value due to it being a completely finite material, whereas “precious” materials such as gold and emerald are infinitely renewable. Even enchanted diamond gear is infinitely renewable, leaving little value and use for the already overly abundant diamond ore.

This is obviously quite backwards, and undermines the whole concept of having precious materials like gold and emerald and diamonds in the first place. I think precious materials should be treated as a strictly finite resource, whereas more common materials like sand, rooted dirt, coarse dirt, etc. should be much more readily renewable.

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    Sand is renewable with a wandering trader.

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    I think almost everything should be renewable, and the more powerful the item is, the harder it should be to renew that item. Or at least have the items that are created from that item be renewable. Exceptions would only be vanity things like armor trims. Or items that are used very commonly (like sand) should be so abundant that they almost cannot be visibly depleted. Which it can in the case of sand because deserts quickly become stone wastelands on servers especially.