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Sulfur Ore: Gunpowder, potion, light source, decoration

A pretty simple ore that could generate around lava lakes and/or in the nether.

NEW CRAFTS:

-Gunpowder. A shapeless craft with charcoal to make two (2) gunpowders. It will allow peaceful players to acquire gunpowder crafts and prevent the need to create a mob farm to grind creepers. The inexact -while a bit realistic- reciepe will prevent children from making real gunpowder in real world (!). Gunpowder requires niter to work too.

-Sulfur block. A yellow block that will have multiple uses for decoration, gold block bait, and maybe naturally generate in biomes like volcanoes or around lava pools too! It could be indefinitely flammable like netherrack to create nice deep-blue flames!

-New light source. I'm not entirely decided if it would be a torch-like item or a block like the redstone lamp, but it could be used to create a blue-ish light source. We have a yellow light source (glowstone), orange (redstone lamp), greenish-blue (prismarine lamp) so why not a deep blue one?

NEW POTIONS:

Sulfur could be used to brew unused/unobtainable potions like blindness and nausea, that could be incredibly useful in PVP. On mobs, blindness could turn them peaceful the moment they get the effect until we bump into them and nausea could remove any kind of IA, making them run into obvious pits of dirt, just like the old minecraft days. This could be useful to guide more easily mobs into pits or fences for exemple.

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    I'm glad that you too want to see this in game. This has being a suggestion in the website already so if you want this in game go over there and support the idea by giving them a vote: Hot Springs Biome: Sulfur

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    They need to add sulfur to the anticipated Volcano biome!

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    I think sulfur appearing as a new ore would be cool, but it should just spawn like any normal ore, except more commonly in the basalt delta. Perhaps a variant of blackstone could contain the ore, too. They should only craft a single gunpowder, though. 2 is too easy.

    The sulfur block is cool, would be cool if it generated in the basalt delta, giving that biome more block variety. I don't think it should have a special fire color though.

    Not sure about the light source idea, but the potion idea would be interesting. There might be a better material for making those potions though rather than sulfur.

    I think it would be cool if the sulfur could be used as a coal alternative, except being too dangerous to use as furnace fuel, causing furnaces to explode, but it could make torches. However, this explosive nature could be exploited to make minecart furnaces move faster and thus have an actual use.

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    I’m glad I wasn’t the only person with this idea and keeping peaceful players in mind. I don’t play on peaceful very much myself, but late game gunpowder can become an essential material to have with access to elytras, and having a sulfur ore in the game would make it much, much easier for peaceful players to obtain gunpowder, as well as other players too. I think sulfur ore definitely has potential.

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    I love this idea. I would however make gunpowder using coal, sulfur and bone meal, as it is the recipe in Education Edition. It would be weird, if not unfair to change the recipe depending on the version, as they are the one, universal thing in every version of Minecraft.
    I would also add another way to obtain it : eggs. Cook eggs, at which point they would become edible, then use it on your crafting table to extract sulfur.
    Other than that, although the blue fire seens cool on paper, ingame it would only stand out and make sulfur just too awkward. Also, Soul Fire. It would easily get mixed up. The light-source block also seems uninspiring and complicated. I can't picture it in my head.

    But besides everything this is a great idea that I would love to see arrive ingame, should ut get enough attention

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    An idea I have would have sulfur ore generate above Y-0 and exclusively in ore veins. This would encourage late game mining in the stone areas of the underground, so they could make TNT for the deepslate areas underground.

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    Sulfur ore should typically generate near the larger coal veins more frequently because concentrations of sulfur are relatively high in coal so it makes sense that sulfur ore would be near coal. Forms of sulfur in coal are typically not pure and include pyritic, organic and sulfate forms however elemental sulfur also can be found in in coal, albeit only in trace comparatively small quantities often barely qualifying as anything more than trace amounts.

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    lots of thought put into this, love it all! most of all, having an alternative way to get gunpowder which is one of the most crucial resources in the game is super important, especially on peaceful

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    Yes, we need a peaceful way of getting gunpowder.