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Gold armour double XP pickup

Some people say that armour in Minecraft is just about getting diamond. While that is not entirely true, I can see what they mean. Gold armour is almost completely pointless. Leather so much so that I don't even bother making a set. And by the time you find a full set of chain, you already probably have full diamond. Some suggested solutions to this include armour weight where wearing better gear also makes you slower (a horrible idea). I wanted to put my two cents in before the combat update 2.0, in case the armour weight thing is being considered. Here are my suggestions for improving the armour balence.

My idea is simply that, to make gold more desirable, give it double XP pickup while wearing a full set. Less than that while wearing only a few pieces. It would be the perfect miners armour; durable enough not to be completely useless, enchantable, extra XP and besides a miner will have loads of useless gold anyway.

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    A nice simple idea that solves a lot of issues. With mending on gold armour it might even last long enough to be worth using. A slight tweak i might suggest is that instead of all or nothing for a full set of gold it could be a sliding scale.

    1 piece of gold armour gives 1.2x xp
    2 gives 1.4x
    3 gives 1.7x
    4 gives 2x

    Something like that would make it more useful to wear just a gold chest, or a gold hat with iron chest, and make the addition more consistent. What do you think?

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    @MartinWelbourne

    While I didn't elaborate in my post, I was thinking of the same sort of thing. (when I said "Less than that while wearing only a few pieces") The values you specify seem about right. (Also I hadn't thought about the mending thing. That would be really cool, and not unbalenced given how hard it is to get mending)

    Still, I appreciate your support!

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    Gold armor is getting another use as well in 1.16 where the piglins will be passive towards the player.