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Make Ceramic Shards Collectable Like Playing Cards

This Suggestion is from "Is Archaeology Right for Minecraft", a Youtube video by SimplySarc and I loved it so much that I had to suggest it here, in Minecraft Feedback.

Basically, right now, putting ceramic shards on pots is cool and all but a lot of players, including me, will probably only do it like once or twice and forget about it. I don't even really see builders using it in the future. Therefore, I think that there should be a wide variety of ceramic shards with variating rarities, like playing cards. I think it'd be cool for in survival servers with your friends to collect these and maybe trade them with one another.  I know that I would personally really like to run around and collect cool and rare ceramic shards to put on to pots and display at the center of my Minecraft base. Right now, there really isn't anything super rare that only you have on Minecraft servers where everyone has full netherite. It would also add another cool level to the game for Minecraft hardcore completionists. 

Bonus suggestion: I saw the Ender Dragon drawing on a ceramic shard in the trailer and I think it'd be cool to have a rare variant of that shard that had an Ender Dragon with white skin and blue eyes, as a reference to the "Blue-Eyes White Dragon" playing card. 

BTW I still love Minecraft to bits, keep doing what you're doing. I am so excited for the Caves & Cliffs update!

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    This is a very good idea I agree

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    I think it would be cool if some were biome specific, like could only be found in desert dig sites or jungle dig sites. Maybe some could only be obtained by trading with wandering traders.

    Even cooler, if some were enchanted, they could give enchantments to the pot, like making it glow (more glow shards equals brighter glow) or giving a status effect while you’re touching it, like a mini beacon.

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    Finally add the red dragon as a shard.

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    Instead of 'dig sites' it would be great if archaeology paired with an overhaul of the oldest structures in the game (temples, dungeons, stronghold) and the addition of ruins on land to match the ones in the ocean.

    Archaeology could be focused around the many structures in the game. Each structure would offer a pool of common shards (blank, tree, flower, animals..) and one or two shards unique to that structure. To collect all the shards in the game you would need to travel to a variety of structures sometimes visiting multiples of the same structure to claim the rarest shards and giving the player a reason to adventure out even into the late game. Shards then become trophies of your adventures as well as a story telling device allowing you to show off your rarest as pots and maybe also mosaics in item frames.

    That way when you see a ruined portal or underwater ruin in the late game you don't just head their for the loot, you can also dig around for those missing shards from your collection.