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Personalizable/Upgradable Weapons Using Smithing and Fletcher Table

With the functionality of the smithing and fletching table being held back for 1.15, I have an idea for a type of functionality that would be useful and fun.

Perhaps if you had a diamond sword and an extra diamond (or any sword and tool material really), you could go to your smithing table, put the diamond and diamond sword in two different slots, and then choose one of the upgrades that would pop up as an icon (similar to the buttons on a loom). You could use the diamond to make a longer blade, which would improve attack distance, but perhaps lower attack speed. You could add a larger hand-guard, which could add a little more defense when the sword is held.

Also, maybe you could use the smithing table to change the shape of the sword. For a couple examples, this could turn a sword's blade into a thinner, sharper katana-type blade, or a bigger, heavier, thick-blade. A thinner blade could do greater damage and have faster attack speed. A larger blade could do more damage than the thinner blade, but be much slower and make you character walk more slowly.

Also, with this idea, you could also allow materials to be mixed. For instance, maybe with a stone sword, you could change the hand-guard to gold for decorative purposes, or maybe the pommel wood.

And with the fletching table, there could be modifying of bows, such as adding another stick and string to make a longbow, which could have a longer load, farther distance, and greater damage. Also, maybe you could change the material and function of arrows, such as making an iron arrow, which could go a shorter distance, but do greater damage and weigh the target down for a while (until the arrow disappears); or a gold arrow, which could be lighter, easier to load, go farther and straighter, but have less damage. Also, maybe you could upgrade arrows with things such as redstone, which could have an effect of making the arrows fly faster through the air, thus hitting it's target faster (this would be particularly useful when the target is far away).

And finally, it would be fun to have different designs to add to weapons (bows in particular) to make use of in teams, décor, or just plain 'this is my special weapon' displays or use. These could be color-related patterns like terracotta or carpet on llamas.

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    Holy cow this is an amazing idea for Minecraft for the Smithing table and fletching tables! This really should be added and/or considered.

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    I would like to add that maybe have the longbow able to knockback more.

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    Maybe you could also dye the hilt of a sword or that gray part on the bow with leather and a dye

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    This should go well with the new upgrade function of the smithing table. Maybe they have to add an extra window for the different types of upgrades/customization.

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    i liked the idea of smithing and fletching tables being used to upgrade weapons, this idea was kinda that implemented in the newest snapshot(20w10a), where it's now used to upgrade diamond gear to netherite, i guess it could be used to upgrade other weapons, tools and armor by adding a material, like adding string to a weapon or tool to increase it's durability, iron ingot(or iron block) to increase it's damage, we could add the same material more than 1 time, just like it's done to maps in cartographer table, but we can only add the same item which we added first to a weapon to increase it's stats.

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    I like this idea! I think that crossbows could have an upgrade to the firework feature where the arrow explodes on impact and has a circle of damage. Bows could also have an upgrade as a bow and teather from Grian's 7 features I'd love to see in Minecraft. While I personally don't agree with the non-leather-dying I really think this is an amazing idea that could have lot's of possibilities!