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Copper armor and tools don't make sense... But bronze...

In real life copper isn't good for armor and tools because it deforms very quickly, even being less convenient than stone, that's why people used bronze instead. Also, there's so little space between stone and iron to fill but a lot of space between iron and diamond, and some alloys of copper and tin are stronger than iron. So... I suggest to add tin, being rarer than iron but more common than diamond, so we can combine it with copper to make bronze and make bronze gear with it. Bronze armor and tools would have around twice the durability of iron and between 2 and 3 more armor points but without armor thougness. Maybe you can find more uses to tin in the future. Also you can keep the copper gear if you want since it actually adds a little to the game (I personally love it and even found it useful to save iron for other things) but maybe giving it something more unique like oxidation based on durability would be cool too.

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    I think that the main issue with bronze (or any tier with higher durability than iron) is that diamond itself is very easy to get. If diamond was much rarer than it would be worth it a new higher ranking set, but as diamond gets more uses and villager trade rebalances aren´t out yet, I highly doubt we see any future high ranking gear. Maybe they will add a new gear with the end update and we could see a rebalance in the gears, maybe diamond taking the place of bronze and netherite the one of diamond and the "enderite" taking the place of netherite.

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    ^^^
    Honestly I thought the same, but considering that you need diamonds for duplicating armor trims and the netherite upgrade I thought it could be a good idea to save diamonds at least until you eventually have enough or just want the netherite set. Still, you're right, with diamonds being so common and villagers being so op it isn't that useful. I still would like to see this in the game tho.

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    ^^^

    Me too! I think that bronze, or any other tier above diamond, can be a great game changer. Maybe we get a harder mode than hard, diamonds become rarer and villagers give bronze armor instead of diamond! I think that would fix it all but it is such a bigger update.