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1.17 Suggestion: Carbonado Diamonds (And Ore Tier Progession Fork)

With the recently announced 1.17 Caves and Cliffs Update, I think it would be best to introduce an overworld ore that's rarer than diamond and can be used to upgrade your diamond equipment similarly to Netherite.

  • What is carbonado?

Carbonado in the real world is a type of diamond that's the toughest known form of carbon. Because it's related to diamond, It would be the perfect substance to be an overworld upgrade to diamonds.

  • Why add this?

During Minecraft Live, when Agnes and Brandon introduced the Warden, they said that they wanted to recreate the terror a player felt on their first night. Similarly carbonado can recreate that excitement of finding your first diamonds deep underground.

  • How does it work?

Carbonado should be fittingly rarer than diamond.  The ores will require diamond or better to mine. Each ore block will drop one carbonado fragment (potentially more with fortune). With these carbonado fragments, you can use eight in a crafting table surrounding a normal diamond and craft them into a carbonado diamond. With this carbonado diamond, you can use it in a smithing table to upgrade a piece of diamond gear. Overall, carbonado gear would be stronger, but less durable than Netherite and would be susceptible to lava. If losing items bothers you, Netherite would be your go-to. If you want the statistically best gear, then carbonado is what you'd want.

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    I think the name doesn't sound quite like Minecraft, but this is definitely a good idea. Maybe instead of carbonado diamond it could be Reinforced Diamond or something like that. However, we did have a upgrade of gear last update, so maybe not. You still have my vote.

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    My train of thought with the name carbonado was mostly because it's a real material, and recently Mojang have been adding materials that reflect uses they have in the real world for educational purposes (like how scaffolding uses bamboo over sticks and wood to reflect bamboo's usage in construction in some countries).  I will concede that it's a complicated name compared to the rest of the current ores and a name like reinforced diamond would likely be more straightforward. 

    In regards to adding a new material so soon after Netherite, I am aware that the decision to add Netherite was done hesitantly, but I assume that the difficulty in that decision was more about adding a new material tier to the game.  Given that I suggest that this "super diamond" wouldn't belong to its own tier, but rather share a tier with Netherite, its implementation wouldn't "rock the boat" as much. The only issue with its addition then would be how recently Netherite has been added.  Yes, it is quite awkward to get a new material so soon after Netherite, however I believe a cave update is the perfect opportunity for something like this.

    I appreciate you sharing your thoughts on this and voting for my suggestion regardless.