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Redefine armors and weapon mechanics

One of the biggest flaws imo when it comes to armor and tools in Minecraft is that once you have diamonds pretty much every equipment of lesser materials become obsolete which means that the leather color mechanic is useless other than for role playing, iron becomes usable only if you die far away and need some quick cheap armor to retrieve your items, and don't even get me started on gold items. These flaws have been okay considering that combat is very basic in Minecraft but it begs the question why even bother with gold tools or leather at all?

>To make armor more useful I would suggest that all armor starts with a base leather one to which you could add color and potentially use banners to further customize the look.

>The base armor could then be upgrade with Iron, gold or lapis (or any of the materials in the game to be fair this isn't written in stone). Iron increasing protection, gold making the armor lighter (higher speed, jumping, and flying abilities at the expense of protection), and lapis giving the armor more room for a potential magic system enhancement (kinda like a magician having robes, but this goes into magic system territory so I'll leave this to your imagination).

>diamonds and emerald could then be used to get the higher tiers for the armor, diamonds increasing durability and protection further, and emeralds enhancing any potential effects of any prior armor effects.(the way the materials are use, you guys decide, the main point is the tiered system is to make all material less obsolete)

 

>For the tools the same is applied but instead of using wood as the base (wood tool should still be there for the very beginning ) Iron should be the base. 

> to upgrade tools and weapons, items like blaze rods or other mob drops could be used. Blaze rods obviously giving the weapon fire aspect. Nautilus shells adding some water effect, ETC. weapon attack and speed can be upgraded with EXP points.

>of course as with armor, diamonds can increase the durability and Maximum Attack, emeralds can be used to increase the effects like the fire aspect of a weapon or multishot of a crossbow (say from 2 bolts to 3 after emeralds are used).

 

These changes would give new life to some of the materials but also give each armor and weapon a personal touch since you actually have to put effort in making the higher tier equipment plus now you have more options in how you decide to make your own armor and weapons.

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    I personally see the need for something like this but what you described just doesn't seem to give it to me. Also, Gold is heavy, it would slow you down.

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    Tbf I'm just giving an idea of how a tiered system would work, I don't think it should be exactly as I propose. I'm just providing a possible solution to:

    1) Give the game a more integrated blacksmith aspect, which could relate to the blacksmith and Fletcher villagers and their corresponding blocks (which currently have no use)

    2) give more purpose to using leather and gold. Again leather is useless as armor to the point that I don't even bother making them I just wait for iron to make armor. Gold is pretty much useless, unless you're making apples or powered rails. instead of asking for new items I simply want to give more use to the ones available.

    3) Give a personal touch and more options in how you decide to make your own armor and tool sets, by the time everyone in a world has diamonds, everyone is just wearing blue armor and that's it.

    My main point is that lower tier items become obsolete too fast, instead of them just being weaker version of diamonds they could add effects or different stats to your equipment specially when you add mod drops to the mix, rotten flesh could add a poison effect to weapons, wither roses a wither effect (that last as long as the flower itself, could be enhanced with emeralds or something).

    As for the gold I'm aware that gold is a dense metal lol, I was just going by the fact that gold has already a higher efficiency than diamond, so I was just going from that. The items don't exactly have to follow the manner as I proposed them. I'm more interested in the tier system and customization. Considering that a big aspect of Minecraft is the "Build your own world" aspect I don't see how the items themself can't reflect that.

    If you like the idea what would you change to make it more appealing to everyone? 

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    I thought about giving a limit of enchantment for each armor type, with the Golden gear having the possibility to have many enchantment, while Netherite and Diamond would have the least. Iron, leather and chain mail would stay in between. also, Gold can't make you lighter, because gold is even heavier than iron and copper...