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Copper Pans (River Panning)

Copper ingots could be used to make a copper pan. (Crafted like the bucket recipe).

When you go to a river biome, you can set the pan down like a block in the water, and it will fill up with minerals from the river. 

The minerals you could pan would be:

  • Iron Nugget (15%)
  • Gold Nugget (15%)
  • Sand (24%)
  • Gravel (12%)
  • Clay (24%)
  • Emerald (8%)
  • Diamond (2%)

This would be a way to get renewable sand, and renewable clay! - And it allows passive players to get certain minerals without going too much into the caves. (Although it would take a long time as nuggets require 9 to make an ingot and the diamond outcome would be rare.)

I think this would be a brilliant use for copper, and also a way to introduce a new type of gameplay to vanilla with Caves and Cliffs!

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    I love it plus it would fit with archeology thats being added to 1.17

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    I suggested this once, although that was before copper existed and i suggested a pan that  you must sit there and hold like a fishing rod

     

    either way I'd be happy to see it

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    this is great but the diamonds should be like .5% instead. 2% is kinda easy

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    lets go an actual good idea

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    Great idea. I'm super surprised this is not in Minecraft already. 

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    I like this idea a lot. It would be a good compliment to fishing as well. My only concern is that (as you mentioned) iron and gold take 9 nuggets, yet at a rate of 8% for emerlad and 2% for diamond, these two are far too easy to get relative to the difficulty in getting a full ingot.

    E.g. on average it would take 9/.15 = 60 trials to get 1 iron or gold ingot, while a diamond could be obtained in 1 / .02 = 50 trials. So diamond and emerald would end up being less rare in a sense... Also, I think gold should be a little more rare than iron to keep with the current ore rarity balance... maybe halve diamond and emerald to 4 and 1 percent then put iron up to 20%... or maybe put it to 17% and raise sand gravel and clay by 1%.

    Balance aside I think this is a great idea!