Grimstone insta-mine - Beacon Update

I am all for making a netherite picaxe and a beacon with haste 2 to insta-mine grimstone. Especially since there will be so much of it it seems.

However, this would be a great time to consider updating the beacon. The idea would be that there are now tiers of the effect's given by the beacon's choice of blocks.

There are a few ways this could be done. All blocks are their own tier, potentially from lowest to highest, iron, gold, emerald, diamond, and then netherite. Maybe a full diamond beacon would give haste 3 and could intsa-mine grimstone, and a nertherite beacon would give haste 4 and could insta-mine nearly anything if not everything, since it is so rare.

Or perhaps lump ores together in a tier, iron + gold, emerald + diamond, and netherite as it's own tier with similar effects.

Any mix of blocks, would still work but just provide the lower tier effects.

The logistics of all the different effects, as in different beacons provide different enhancements or just better enhancements, could all be worked out later and by the mojang team. But this Cave and Cliffs update would be a great time to consider reworking the beacon. This would give a great end game type of journey, and to have something long term to always strive for as a full netherite beacon would take some work and time, and should be rewarded thusly.

I hope this will gain traction over just insta-mining with a normal beacon and netherite pic-axe, but ill take ether or!

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February 24, 2021 23:43
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Melly Dow Grimstone can be as hard as you want it to be. But updating the beacon to have a tier that could yield you haste 3 or 4 to insta-mine grimstone is a well sought out reward for spending the time to collect such a large amount of resources to build a full pyramid of a rarer resource as well a seemingly better option than just allowing a netherite pick-axe to insta-mine it as the beacon currently is. This idea potentially helps technical players, such that they can insta-mine perimeters. I can only assume that dupping TNT will eventually be fixed, resulting in a very grind-like process. This idea also adds another long term end game goal, which in my opinion, the game needs a few more of.

February 24, 2021 23:50
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Considering a full netherite beacon takes like 150+ hours of ingame time it doesnt really make sense for it to have a real use cause only like 0.0001% of players will ever get one.
However, It would probably be fine if a full diamond beacon gave the ability to instamine deepslate (grimstone) since you would have to be far into lategame to get a 164 diamond blocks and beacon mining isnt so much an option until then

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Grimstone insta-mine - Beacon Update

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