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Gemstones and Customizing Equipment

Placing a tool/piece of armor in an Anvil with a specific item allows the player to customize their equipment with bright colors using existing materials and new gemstones found beneath the earth.

The issue for some colors is that minerals of these colors already exist, namely Redstone. This was the reason rubies weren't added, so I suggest Redstone Crystals. Redstone Ore has a small chance of also dropping a Redstone Crystal, which could also potentially have some special uses in Redstone machinery, much like Nether Quartz.

Color	Material
Red	Redstone Crystal
Orange	Topaz
Yellow	Gold Nugget
Green	Emerald
Cyan	Diamond
Blue	Lapis Lazuli
Purple	Amethyst
Magenta	Garnet
Black	Obsidian
Grey	Iron Nugget
White	Nether Quartz

Redstone Crystal-Embedded Iron Sword

Emerald-Embedded DIamond Pickaxe

Garnet-Embedded Golden Helmet

Wouldn't this result in hundreds of additional textures?

This could be avoided by having hard-coded overlay textures that change color based on the material used. So the overlay textures would just be grey images that have different shapes to go over different items and armors.

This system of embedding gems in equipment items would provide players with the ability of customizing and personalizing their stuff.

(excess spacing removed ~nb)

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• June 26, 2018 02:03
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  SummerDogDawson commented

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  • June 29, 2018 00:34
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  The gems might also add abilities to the armor. Let’s add:

  • White with rainbow all over=opal
  • Light gray with gray pattern=howlite
  • Milky, Smokey, grayish =moonstone
  • pink=rose quartz
  • light green with blueish tinge=jade

  Howlite would mine faster, opal would provide farther sight, moonstone gives night vision, Jade gives water breathing, emerald gives luck, redstone Crystal gives sharpness, topaz gives fire protection, obsidian gives Unbreaking X, and other than obsidian, red stone crystal and howlite the effects only last for a few seconds when added to the armor

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  WolveReigner781 commented

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  • June 29, 2018 17:27
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  This could be a fun addition.  It would be a nice mapmaking feature in having custom armor more accessible.  Some people might disagree though and would want to have their own textures in data packs overriding these. I don't know, but I still give you my vote for this idea.

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  Wolftopia commented

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  • November 04, 2018 07:37
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  This is a brilliant idea. Most aesthetic uses for new ores are pointless, but your tools and armor are on you at all times, so your customized stuff would always be visible.

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  Icyartillary commented

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  • November 26, 2018 21:00
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  This would be amazing, one use for customized armor could be team/clan identifications in battle, since currently Leather is the only type of armor that can be color-coded

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  RetroXZ / commented

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  • December 23, 2018 15:36
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  well if customized equipment are only vanity and not special (mining faster, more damage etc) this idea would be great. but (this part is my personal opnion) i think this must only work for iron tools, because the other type tools (diamond, stone etc) have their own color but iron tools are white. also i think the textures of different embedded tools must vary. i mean i dislike overlay. also i think there must be another gemstones for each color. you must add for simple turquoise and use it insteed of diamond for cyan color. AND the best! the biome u can find each gemstone must vary!! etc u can find garnet only in savana! HOHOHO!

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  RSRedstonier commented

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  • December 27, 2018 23:07
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  I like the ability to "dye" your tools and armor with gemstones. It adds personality and helps keep items apart aswell as being a simple cosmetic change. However special effects dont seem very vanilla

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  natattack900 commented

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  • December 30, 2018 13:48
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  Please add this. It would make mining even more interesting 

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  Pkmnpasser16 commented

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  • January 21, 2019 06:40
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  I absolutely adore this idea!

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  yoop gim commented

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  • May 31, 2019 19:03
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  let me guess this person has used tinkerers construct and/ or silent's gems

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  Waterlilypool commented

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  • July 23, 2019 23:08
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  Yaassssssss omg love this idea i've always wanted amethysts to be in Minecraft and putting them in stuff is even better

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  Tristan Pratomo commented

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  • July 26, 2019 02:16
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  What if you use the obsidian to make it almost indestructible? And maybe for the swords they will have extra damage. Anyways.. this is a really great idea so I give you my vote for this

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  Gabe Sonderman commented

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  • July 30, 2019 17:26
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  It would be  cool if we could have or make amour like in story mode give the player the more options for customization

  instead of the same shape just with more colors plus the amour covers most player skins defeating the purpose.  

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  Joseph Striker commented

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  • August 24, 2019 13:29
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  this is a great idea and would add more variety and would be an easy way to add more weapons and armor in to minecraft

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  Rossinininini commented

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  • March 10, 2020 10:52
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  I really like this idea! - It should be done within the new smithing table too. Each 'upgrade' should have an effect to the specified tool/armour. This should be done with 5 new crystals, which can be found deep underground in the overworld.

  For example:

  • Any weapon + Ruby Gemstone = +0.5 Attack speed
  • Any weapon + Amethyst Gemstone = +0.5 Attack range
  • Any armour + Opal Gemstone = +1 Armour Toughness
  • Any armour + Sunstone Gemstone = +1 Knockback Resistance
  • Any Tool + Topaz Gemstone = +1 Extraction (ores that need to be smelted will drop the ingot instead of the block)

  Only 1 gemstone can be applied to a piece of gear, but can be removed in a grindstone. (You do not get the gem back)

  It adds another layer of exploration in the overworld and an additional layer on top of enhantments!