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Expanded Smithing Table Upgrades

As of writing this, the Smithing Table has one use: to upgrade Diamond tools to their Netherite counterparts. But what if we could upgrade any tool to the next tier of resource?

For example, take a stone pickaxe and an iron ingot and upgrade your stone pickaxe to a iron pickaxe. The "tiers" would go something like this: Stone -> Iron -> Gold -> Diamond -> Netherite. The reason why included gold in the list is to give gold an additional use, in that gold has a higher chance of receiving better enchantments. Wood and Leather don't make the tier list because I don't think it would make sense to be able to upgrade a wood pickaxe into stone, and have leather armor be upgraded straight into iron armor

To balance this feature? Use Experience levels: the more you upgrade a tool, the more expensive it gets, kind of like repairing in an anvil. Crafting pickaxes would still be viable because crafting a Diamond pick and upgrading it to Netherite would cost less overall Experience than upgrading stone to the tiers leading up to Netherite.

I would like to see this get implemented because it would give more use to the Smithing Table and add another interesting aspect to Minecraft's crafting system.

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    Yes! This will make smithing tables actually have a use in the overworld.

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    This sounds interesting, but how would you balance the fact that you now only need one diamond for a diamond pick?

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    This sounds a bit overpowered in my opinion... People would just go make stone tools then upgrade them for way cheaper than the usual price.

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    I really wish there was a reply function on here. 

    After chatting with a few friends about this idea, I'm thinking that maybe the smithing table should require the same number of resources as crafting the respective tool. For instance: a stone pickaxe requires 3 stone, so to upgrade it to an iron pick, you need to obtain 3 iron ingots to upgrade it to an iron pick. If you want to upgrade an iron sword to a gold sword, you would need two gold ingots in the smithing table to upgrade it. The one exception would be Diamond to Netherite due to how rare netherite is. With this change in mind, I think it would be best if the smithing table requires experience levels to upgrade if and only if the tool has enchantments on it.

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    yes that looks like a good one. I also really need it.

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    I think this is a great idea, but I do agree with the concerns over balancing the amount of resource used in upgrading.

    I think the simplest solution that would keep the smithing table functioning mostly the same is to make all upgrades besides netherite require an entire block of the upgrade material.

    Stone to iron needs an iron block, gold to diamond needs a diamond block, but diamond to netherite would still only need an ingot.

    This will make smithing tables purely a tool for moving good enchantments to a higher material tier (maybe making enchanted iron loot actually useful).