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Improving Gold Tools

Gold gear is bad. Make gold tools and armor able to have an additional level of enchantments that have several levels. Sharpness VI, Fortune IV etc. This improvement has a similar effect to the effect the high enchatability of gold had before anvils were added. Also, it doesn't make sense that a stone pick can mine stone blocks, but a gold pick can't mine gold blocks. It would be a welcome improvement if a gold pick could mine everything an iron pick can. Neither of these improvements would make gold as good as diamond. But it wouldn't be horrendously bad anymore
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    Now this is a cool idea. It gives golden tools a unique use while also not making them directly stronger than any of the other tools. The quality of life change to thw pickaxe mining level is really nice too.

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    I actually had this same idea a couple of days ago with extra enchantment levels, but I think it'd be better if the existing enchantments just affected gold more. For example, Sharpness V gives a sword 3 more attack damage, but on a Gold Sword, you could make it so it increases the damage by 4 or 5. Still a good idea and I  hope it gets added to the game!

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    Perhaps gold tools could have exclusive enchantments. For instance, a golden pickaxe could convert iron/gold ore into several items of dust, which could be smelted into ingots. You would receive around 2-4 dust per 1 iron/gold ore. 

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    I would also like the gold tools to have more durability than stone, but less than iron of course. It just doesn't make any sense that they're worse than wood tools now.

    Exclusive enchanting for gold also seems cool. If gold had some crazy enchants that would explain the durability level, then and only then I would be satisfied with current durability.

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    I agree with increasing the mining level of gold tools. Gold tools can't even mine gold ore! Fortune IV would also be useless if you could only use it on coal.

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    Gold tools get better enchantments, so I had the idea to make that actually useful.

    Make it so gold tools can't be forged with enchanted books anymore, instead make it so the book can be forged with the gold tool. That would make it possible to enchant a golden tool, see if the enchantments are good and if so forge it on a book to be used on a diamond/netherite tool.