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Gold Veins in Rivers (Pan for Gold and Iron Nuggets, and More Treasures)

Aren't you tired of fishing and all you get is junk, even in real life, when you can never catch anything. What if you could go gold panning in minecraft and get gold and iron easily when you get bored. It'll be more common to find gold than iron, because iron is a lot stronger. You can also find treasure maps, cobblestones, sticks, and you can find bones, and also skeleton and wither skeleton skulls. Finally, a way to get a mob heads the easy way! The gold pan can be crafted with a cauldron with a web on top and iron nuggets on the sides, and a stick as the handle. The web would act as a sifter and the cauldron would be where the sand and stones drop into. The treasure will remain on top of the web. You can also obtain the heart of the sea, and the nautalis shell when doing this. This is all you need to do when you're short on iron and gold.

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• June 08, 2018 23:28
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  FireThunder4656 commented

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  • June 09, 2018 16:25
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  For iron and gold you should get gold nuggets and iron nuggets not the full ingot

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  Bilbo Baggins commented

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  • August 01, 2018 01:20
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  A good idea.  I have thought of some elaborations.  When a bucket of water is placed by a player, it has a 1% chance of dropping a gold nugget.

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  wizkid744 commented

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  • February 04, 2019 10:19
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  I like the idea of finding gold nuggets in streams, but I would propose a different method:

  • In river biomes (only), any sand mined had the same chance to convert into a gold nugget as gravel does to turn into flint.

  (I initially thought on a prospecting pan where you would craft it and use it on water within rivers to get loot (similar to fishing) however I couldn't think on a good game mechanic for it to work)

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  GarrotCarrot578 commented

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  • August 21, 2019 03:16
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  Yes! This is great! Although, I was thinking of using a bowl with a cobweb or an iron bar in a crafting table, and I don’t agree with the mob heads. You gotta work for those.

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  skelud commented

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  • September 06, 2019 01:20
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  Awesome, made a post about combining all the gold features into one update, Gold and Glory, if it's alright I'll add your idea and give you credit. https://feedback.minecraft.net/hc/en-us/community/posts/360050506192-Gold-and-Glory-Update

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  dragon051581 commented

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  • April 19, 2020 21:01
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  I was thinking that a good idea would be: You have to have sand in your iventory, then you use a bowl on a water block (possibly a moving water block) and it uses one sand block from your inventory and gives a chance to receive a gold nugget or two. 

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  Jatniel Aviles commented

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  • July 10, 2020 14:50
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  I agree with this idea, but just one thing. Maybe You shouldn't have a special pan for this, maybe you should just use a regular plate, you know, the one we use for soups. AND, instead of gold being common, you should make it really hard to find the nuggets, because in real life it takes a long time. So everything you can collect with the pan should be hard to get, like in real life. So maybe like a 10% chance or something. But anyways, love the idea, but just saying what I was going to post.