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Emerald armor & weapons (was: Emerald Weapons)

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I think it would be cool if there was emerald weapons and armor. Its weapon strength should be in the middle of wood and gold. Its armor protection should be in the middle of leather and gold.

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    In all honesty, Emerald gear should be better in some ways than iron & diamond, but worse in others. Perhaps it's like low durability, but higher efficiency, like an upgraded sort of gold.

     

    In addition, villagers could trade emerald gear and potentially even use it if they ever were given a different variety of guard.

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    it has more duration than iron but isn´t more stronger than diamond

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    This armour should be a unique trade from the wandering trader only. He needs some love

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    Since emeralds are super rare, the should be better than diamond and villagers should charge more for them. also it would be nice for some other uses for emeralds.

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    With the addition of Netherite, I think having it as a rival to Diamond is not an option. I think Emerald armor and tools should be a higher tier than Iron, but not close enough to Diamond. Currently, there is a minor gap between Iron and Diamond. Emerald armor should have more protection than Iron, more durability (between Iron and Diamond), but less enchantability. They should in no way outclass Diamond for that is Netherite's job and should instead be the upgrade after Iron armor. To make it seem unique, it should have a special property like lower trade deals or maybe let the player recieve buffs when in a raid or something similar. It's a work in progress that I'm sure someone will come up with a better idea. This is after all a suggestion so anything can change.

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    frio.

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    Damage closer to diamond, durability a fraction higher than diamond and speed really fast

     

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    A few years ago I would’ve said yes but emerald is in a I dense now so making armor for it wouldn’t be a smart choice

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    Sorry, but for me, is a no. I mean, emerald was born from the ruby, that was changed into emerald to not be confused with redstone, and the ruby was intended to be used as a coin. At least, you should be able to use the emerald to upgrade diamond gear, like mount an emerald in the center of a sword, maybe in the smithing table, so you will have to chose from two paths: netherite (that will grant you better damage and durability) or by mount an Emerald (that will grant you… better attack speed and reach?)

    So, for me, no Emerald armor/weapon/tools. And I hate green ;)

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    There was a smaller idea on the same topic,but with an idea to make 2 types of emerald.There would be regular emeralds that you could trade with villagers,but the second type would be pure emeralds,which would be the mined type.The pure emeralds could be crafted into armor and tools slightly higher than diamond,but not by much.

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    The thing many people say that netherite is to be better than diamond and this is true but diamond armor is part of the crafting recipe for netherite so the netherite should be to augment all armor and emerald be better than diamonds and netherite be even better if you augment the emeralds and diamond that is augmented be equal to emerald and make it so villagers no longer trade for and with emeralds and trade with gold nuggets instead. that makes more sense anyway cause that is something that they would more likely have anyway 

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    In the middle of Diamond and Netherite*

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    Emeralda are currency, so I dont think emerald armor and tools are nessesary. But they could add a new material and make tools and armor out of that. But also... WHY DOES THE TRAVELLING MERCHANT HAVE A BIRCH SAPLING FOR 5 EMERALDS!?!?!?!

     

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    I agree with the low stats but I feel as though emeralds are still too easily reproduced with villager trading halls and raid farms. Also by the time players have enough emeralds to make the gear they will proably already have diamonds.

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    this should simpl never happen, emeralds are so rare, AND useless because they exist only to be traded with villagers

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    Since emeralds are so rare they should be like netherite or have specific  uses. One such use could be that when you're wearing emerald armor you get 50% off every purchase in a village. Or another one could be that emerald weapons deal 25% more damage than other weapons when attacking illager mobs (pillagers,evokers, ect).

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    Since emeralds are so rare they should be like netherite or have specific  uses. One such use could be that when you're wearing emerald armor you get 50% off every purchase in a village. Or another one could be that emerald weapons deal 25% more damage than other weapons when attacking illager mobs (pillagers,evokers, ect).

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    I am seeing a lot of comments about how it should be closer to diamond, but you have to think about other ways that you could get emeralds, not just mining, but villagers, before I had iron tools, I was trading with villagers, and I would have had emerald armor before iron armor. I think that emeralds should be closer to iron in durability, not lower though, but tool speed as good as, or closer to, diamond.

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    Agreed, but it will be cool if the durability was higher then diamond, and that all of he emerald tools and armor will be as good as iron armor.

    but still i like your idea

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    My + Idea to Emerald Armors an Tools :

    When you will wear full armor or minimum chesplate and leggings :

     

    Villagers will give you between 3 and 5 more trade options and will give only one discount (discount : -25%) 

     

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    seeing how that emeralds are like a currency, this is perfect, and can be used to flex how rich you are

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    The whole point of Emeralds are to be used as currency, not to be used as an independent (and redundant) resource.

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    Emeralds, although rare in the environment, can be obtained quite easily in villages. Giving emerald a higher mining speed & durability slightly better than iron (drawing mainly off of what Cephalosquid said earlier) would help balance things out. However, I would also make sure that Emerald tools and armor would have higher chances to get good enchantments, similar to wooden and golden tools. 

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    why dont we have this we have emeralds also make emeralds easier to find but not to easy and the emerald gear dosent have to give us ablities just give more weapons and gear so we can work better and play more thats why we should have more gear and weapons so everybody let me know if im right or wrong 

     

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    Emeralds are far too easy to acquire, even without mining

    I've likely mined about >15 emeralds in my whole playing of Minecraft, but I have well over 200 in one world

    If you have a few really good farms you could easily get loads of emeralds, and therefore it wouldn't make a good armour/tool set

    But, I do agree with it's positioning on this list, if it were to be implemented

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    I'm not a fan of emerald armors/weapons, with netherite coming up it will be less useful and equipment wise, there will be too much options, I think we should stay in the simplicity. Plus, I think gold armors/weapons will be more used (not useful) with gold implemented in the nether.

     

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    Should be more above iron considering that it's rare and giving them another use than just trading and a beacon

     

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    Now that the smithing table has an upgrading like function to it, it would be great to upgrade your iron or diamond gear with an emerald to give it something like luck or maybe fortune and looting for your tools and weapons. The smithing table had lots of potential and this is a perfect way to bring in emerald items without them being just another useless set of tools and armor that no one would use.

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    Einen Fulsetbonus bei Villagern wäre dabei noch cool(z.b etwas Rabat auf einige Sachen) oder auch dafür eine verzauberung

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    *COUGH*NETHERITE*COUGH*