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Fixing the Iron Deficiency

NOTE: I noticed that this feedback could go in either Blocks, Tools, and Items or Gameplay, but I have decided to place this suggestions In Gameplay as it addresses a meta ‘issue’ with the game

Apart from looting and smelting old iron gear into nuggets, mining is the main way to gather iron. But what about Iron Golem farms? Iron golem farms are different because they were never intended to be a source of iron, yet players have found ways to farm their drops. 

With more iron needed in crafting items such as like lanterns, chains, blast furnaces, hoppers, beacons, and so on, iron becomes higher in demand and mining becomes less viable. With that said, here are my suggestions for making iron more accessible without the chore of building a golem farm (cont. in comments)

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    1: Make some crafting recipes cheaper.

    I will only suggest this for the decorative chains and lanterns. Chains can take three iron nuggets in a vertical line to craft, and lanterns could only take 4 nuggets in a diamond pattern around a torch/soul torch to craft.

    2: Make iron ores more common

    This is pretty straightforward, but to add flavour, perhaps they could be more common specifically in abandoned mine shafts or a select few biomes.

    2a: If more iron is boring, perhaps a variant ore could be added that still outputs iron when smelted, such as Hematite, which could be a dark red, darker than redstone as a raw ore.

    3: Underground Structures with iron ingot in its chest loot table.

    I mean, who doesn’t want a cave update? Offtopic aside, they can be generated within caves as abandoned bases, with a bed, torch, blast furnace, and most importantly, a chest with loot similar to the mineshaft minecart if not the same.

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    I think adding a cave specific mob that drops iron nuggets/ ingots would go a long way to fix this problem and help to satisfy everyone's need for a cave update as well.