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Treasure room, Ores (was: (April/May 2018) Featured Topic: Underground!)

Every miner wants a treasure room. And no treasure room is complete without the following: silver, gold, diamonds, emeralds, amethyst, rubies, sapphires, topaz and pearls.

Keep the gems, amethyst, rubies, sapphires, topaz and emeralds below 16 and in 1 block size. Let the new ores, tin, copper, silver, fluctuate in height and block size.

Pearls should have been in the Aquatic update found in oysters. What can we do?

Obviously, there are many uses to these materials.

These materials can be used to make bronze armor, weapons, wands and jewelry.

Also, more importantly, the gems and metals can be put in redstone contraptions to enhance their capabilities. One idea is to have a gem block that can be spit out by a piston, as if it was given a 1 tick pulse. This can fix broken builds. Lots of fancy sensors can be made with rare materials if they have 1 special property. Don't make entire logic gates with them just one special property each.

Some may say we need to look at the infinite number of possible interaction that can occur when adding new blocks. However, if we did that we would never improve this game. Glitches are going to happen. Sadly these are these are the types of things that should have been added at the start. Mining for just a few ores is a little anemic. I thought the first part of the title was mine. 

But texturing for crafted gem and diamond blocks should be more transparent with shadowing to give them shape as if they were cut.

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    These are all nice ore ideas, but for the most part, they are just going to be a nuisance if they are only useful for decoration or collecting. Tell us how you would integrate all of these minerals and metals into the rest of the game!

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    Remember, that for each item added, all of it's forms, textures and world interactions need to be taken into account, as well as how it's availability impacts all the other items in the world.
    That's not to say that one should or shouldn't add additional ores and gems, but that given the work and potential for problems when something new is added and begins interacting with the rest of the established game, firm justification should be given for each new item/block type.

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    Yes yes yes yes!

     

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    Definitely add new gems!!

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    To complicated and specific to one area.

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    Also other metals and alloys could be added like 

    raw Metals

    Zinc, tin, nickel, chromium, and copper.

    Copper alloys

    copper also has items needed to mine zinc which is alloyed with copper to make brass which is used to mine tin which is alloyed with copper to get bronze which can mine iron

    Iron alloys

    Iron could be alloyed with coal to get steel which can mine diamonds steel can be alloyed with chromium and nickel to create stainless steel which is faster than iron and steel when mining and in combat and cannot corrode iron copper and iron corrode and steel corrodes slower but it still corrodes.

    Tungsten alloys

    tungsten could be used for making items like netherite but only protect them from burning and add some protection it is also super rare.

    Rarity

    The higher level metals are found lower underground meaning

    1. All of the progression in my alloy parts show the deeper and stronger ores
    2. The metals that don't make tool have other ways to use them but cannot be crafted into tools but are still found deeper underground
    3. I mention them in rarity order in the alloys section
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    Gem blocks should make all undead mobs not attack you but act like wolfs they never despawn and don't burn up in sunlight.