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Depth Meter/Multitool

With the Caves and Cliffs update right around the corner, It's more important than ever to be able to tell your Y level when mining. Since the debug menu isn't the most intuitive thing to access, an actual item in game would be helpful. Of course, it would be crafted by surrounding a piece of redstone with copper ingots, but the actual display is more difficult. I believe that it should be similar to the clock, with a display at the top half showing your current Y level. This display, in my opinion, should be color coded to the ores that generate most commonly at that level or a related color,, with white being above the clouds, light blue for slightly above the surface, green for the surface, black-ish for coal, orange for copper, green for iron, and so on and so forth, with a small gray line where deepslate begins generating.

Another suggestion that I have is the addition of a multitool. This item would be crafted from a compass, clock, depth meter, and a piece of string. This item would start functioning as the compass with a slightly changed texture (the addition of a knot at the top), but when the player holding it right clicks, it switches to the clock. If right click is pressed again, it switches to the depth meter, and after that, it switches back to the compass. I believe that this will encourage use of the information items, as they will all take up less space in the inventory and can all be accessed in one slot, making it useful to hold in your non dominant hand.

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    Dude, I think this is a great idea. You really thought of a way to make some items that are not as wanted as others to be something really cool and even more useful than they were before. 

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    Not sure about the multitool but would love an altimeter that doesn't require use of the debug screen - much more immersive. The recipe works like the clock or the map, but instead of a circular display I think it'd be better to have a vertical one like a thermometer with a depth bar, if it can fit.

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    This would be a wonderful addition to the immersive caving experience. I have some improvisation suggestions:

    The top half of the Altimeter display should show your Y level as previously stated, clarifying if it's positive or negative with a + or -, respectively.

    On top of this, I believe that it should have two icons on the bottom half of the display. The left side of the display would show whether you are above or below sea level, using white or blue indicators, respectively.

    The right side of the display would show the colour codes for the most common ore at that Y level, as previously suggested.

    For the Multitool, it would retain the Y level on the top half, however, the bottom half would have three slits akin to the front of a Blast Furnace.

    The left slit would indicate whether you're able to sleep or not - based on time, not thunderstorms - with yellow for daytime and a light grey for nighttime. The centre slit would once again indicate the most common ores, as previously described. The right slit would contain the sea level indicator with the prior colour code described.

    Finally, around the Multitool, in a circle, there would be a red indicator that travels around in a circle around the texture, always pointing towards North (or, more accurately, 0,0).

    I do think that the Multitool would be best implemented with individual overlay layers for each variation over the base texture, rather than many individual textures.