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Skeletons and Strays Dropping Copper instead of Drowned

Instead of Drowned losing the ability to drop gold in 1.17 in place of Copper, Skeletons and Strays should be given the ability to drop Copper Ingots instead while Drowned retain their ability to drop Gold.

 

Gold is currently tied to the sea between the Gold Ingots Drowned Drop and the Ocean Monument. Having Drowned drop copper instead makes no sense as there is nothing to tie it to. Skeletons and Strays dropping Copper ingots however can make some form of sense. Drowned are Atlantis themed to an extent and drop Gold Ingots due to that reason (As well as being partially preserved due to the water) with the idea of being tied to crystal (Prismarine) and conductive Gold. Zombies can be recently dead for one reason or another and drop Iron Ingots due to that.

 

Skeletons and Strays there is no telling how old they are, and can be from an older time potentially, especially Strays being frozen skeletons if you will. Giving Skeletons a 2.25% chance to drop a Copper Ingot on Death, and a Stray a 7.5% chance on death would make sense. This would incentify people to hunt Strays and Skeletons more and add to the mob's character, not to mention incentify people to use powdered snow to convert Skeletons into Strays.   

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• March 08, 2021 01:20
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  • March 08, 2021 05:40
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  Why not Husks, instead?

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  • March 08, 2021 06:55
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  Zeffi Toto well, I am giving off an idea/suggestion that logically makes sense. The husk works too, as there is a separate suggestion for that here (It's based on each zombie type dropping a different metal ingot). If you like that idea instead of mine, you can vote for that there. I figured I would offer an alternative based upon environment instead of mob type.

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  • March 08, 2021 07:07
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  Nah, Drowneds dropping Copper is definitely much more interesting and contributes more to the mob itself since Zombified Piglins already serve the purpose of being a renewable source of Gold! Drowneds dropping gold makes them more unique and farming them more relevant

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  • March 10, 2021 10:32
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  We already discussed this on Discord, I do agree with you, but it looks like Jeb isn't going to change his mind and gold farms will continue to receive repeated nerfs.

  Why did they give Drowned Zombies a gold ingot drop feature only to be taking it away later on? I don't like it when developers do insane stuff like this, as it just adds confusion and annoys people.

   

  I'm definitely not in the camp of people who support the gold drop removal from Drowned Zombies. If it were up to me I would have instead given Drowned Zombies the ability to drop either gold or copper ingots, but be entirely chance based, meaning sometimes they will drop nothing which is a sensible balancing decision. On topic of your opinion I'd be okay with Strays dropping copper instead, but this isn't going to happen and it isn't up to us because it isn't our intellectual property unfortunately, although us paying for a copy of it does mean our desires for content should be respected.