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Copper - Filling the Gap Between Stone and Iron

 With the addition of Copper Ore, Iron Ore would generate at lower Y-levels underground. Copper Ore would likewise generate at the same frequency but at the higher levels underground.

 Smelting Copper Ore yields a Copper Ingot, which of course is then crafted into different Copper equipment items, which have 172 durability points.

Copper would replace Stone tools in being necessary to mine Iron Ore.

Copper oxidizes when in contact with water. Copper equipment items would be only half as effective when used on water-related blocks and mobs. Example: a Copper Sword would take twice as many durability points if used to kill a Guardian, Squid, Drowned, etc. When Copper items are in contact with water, they get a sort of green overlay, like the Enchantment glint, but less shimmering and more "noise."

Copper blocks also oxidize in contact with water, which could be a nice decorative block.

The oxidation can be removed from blocks by right-clicking with a new "Steel Wool" item, which is made with a block of Wool surrounded by eight Iron Nuggets.

Oxidation would also happen to Iron items and blocks, as stated in this separate post about Zinc.

Copper could also be used to make simpler Redstone machinery blocks. Example: Hoppers made from Copper rather Iron, but they run slower; these could add some progression to the types of machines players make with Redstone, so over time, the player replaces the Copper with Iron and their machines become better.

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    Iron should be rarer it is so common I start survival world I have a full set of the 2nd best stuff in game and this is my first time in a survival world ever.

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    Copper should be needed to mine zinc which could alloy with copper to make brass which could mine tin which could mine tin which could alloy with copper to make bronze which is needed to mine iron

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    What about 170 durability points

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    Maybe copper as a new metal. For example Redstone + copper = Restone lines which can be placed underwater and on walls.

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    There Must be a Copper cable I think. It Works like Redstone, but Not only 15 Blocks.

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    With Copper now being confirmed to be in Minecraft it’d be awesome to have Copper tools.

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    With copper having been announced I feel like the features in this suggestion still fit extremely well. Copper makes a great intermediary tier between stone and iron and most importantly stone should lose the ability to mine iron.

    With the extended progression system present in 1.17 caves the addition of a new intermediate material tier would help extend gameplay potential and ultimately allow for expanded 'tiered' progression.

    I'm not too sure about copper becoming weaker underwater however I wouldn't mind either way.

    To expand on the progression side of things I think copper should not become an intermediary between stone and iron but should instead entirely inherit iron's current stats. Copper gets 250 durability, iron gets 500. Diamond is still 3x better than iron in this case and damage values and mining speeds for iron and onwards gets increased too to allow for copper to fit in nicely. Iron should also become rarer and copper should gain iron's current rarity as iron is incredibly common as of currently. This adds a whole new progression tier that I think will fit well with the new cave biomes and more progression-based underground.

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    Guys, please check out my post called "copper ore needs a reskin"! I'm doing everything I can to make sure copper ore gets a malachite reskin that it deserves. Most of you seem to know about copper and minerals, so you should understand why I'm going for this idea.

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    TheRedRazor5112 I really really hope they do that with copper and iron. I feel like it would be such a huge change to survival (especially speedruns), and I think minecraft lost it's survival aspect during these years. This is a much needed feature for survival and im all for it
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    There's a gap between stone and iron?

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    Copper: *exists*

    Reporting to be closed.

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    To those saying that a tier between stone and iron would be "useless" in survival Minecraft, remember that regular survival isn't everything.
    Copper tools and armor would be great both for decoration and role-play in creative mode, as well as for very hard challenges where getting iron armor would be difficult.

    Everything in the game doesn't need to have an use for the main type of playstyle.

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    Well, this happened!  Yay!  Still waiting for some of these ideas, like copper hoppers and copper tools required to mine iron, but this idea was pretty well implemented, thanks Mojang.