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A Better way to Scrap Equipment than Smelting them into Nuggets

A gold chestplate is crafted with 8 gold ingots (72 nuggets). If you smelt a gold chestplate that has full durability, you only get a single nugget in return.

What a waste.

I propose at least two new items: Iron Scrap and Gold Scrap.

Instead of directly smelting a piece of equipment in the furnace, the player will place it on a crafting table (or a hypothetical new work station) to receive a number of scraps according to the durability and crafting cost of the item, with a 20~25% material loss.

Example:

[CraftingCost] * 9(nuggets) * 0.8 * ([CurrentDurability]/[MaxDurability]) =RoundedDown=> Number of Scraps Recieved

 

A full-durability chestplate will, with this, give 57 scraps that can then be smelted into 57 nuggets in a furnace (or 54 at a 25% loss).

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    i like that this kind of goes along with netherite scrap, too.

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    Diamond, Leather and Chainmail scrap? Stone Rubble?

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    yeah that could be where netherite  scrap came from. lots of players scraping there armour

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    @Macaroonuget I have thought about leather and diamond scraps, but I'm thinking in baby steps. The game already lets you melt down iron and gold equipment, so a change like this wouldn't be that outrageous. If it were to be implemented, it might be easier to convince mojang to follow up with leather.

    That said, I don't know how I feel about the idea of diamond "scraps." For the most part, the idea behind this suggestion is to cannibalize mob drops. Leather scraps would fit right into that, but mobs seldom spawn with diamond, so you'd only be able to scrap things you crafted yourself or got from other players. I suppose chainmail would just give you iron scraps, but less than platemail.

    Likewise, netherite, wood, and stone wouldn't really make much sense to give you scraps either. Ultimately I suppose it would depend on the devs though.