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Golden Underground Rivers

I know it’s a bit of a wacky idea, but hear me out!

You’re exploring the underground when suddenly you come across a magical cave… From afar, a golden glow fills the air and, as you get closer, you realise that you have found an extremely rare kind of underground cave: one that contains a river made from liquid gold…

Appearance:

These caves would generate with a stream of liquid gold on the cave bed. It would emit a dazzling golden glow and maybe particles. It should be downright beautiful.

Use:

Besides their natural beauty, golden rivers would be a renewable source of gold. Similarly to lava, liquid gold would burn the player, but unlike lava, it would also drag the player down into the depths of the river with no hope of escaping alive. The player would be able to pick up the gold in a bucket and transport it. The gold in the bucket can be poured anywhere and it will behave somewhat like lava.

To extract usable gold from this liquid, the player would have to cool it down. How? By pouring it on a cold biome. Over time, source blocks of the liquid poured would turn into solid gold blocks (the change would happen faster the colder the biome is).

I think that this mechanic would be very interesting as it would add a different way of obtaining a metal such as gold. It would add an adventure value to the game (a sort of Minecrafty search for el Dorado). And it would incentivise the players to explore the world (both to find a Golden River and to find a place to cool it).

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• September 22, 2021 13:18
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  • September 26, 2021 18:00
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  Wow! But the gold cave should also have gold variants of normal mobs, and also ruined portals should have an extremely high chance of having a ruined portal, and also zombified piglins weilding golden pickaxes and also partially turned into gold, and if you stay in the gold cave too long, all items in your inventory slowly turn into golden variants (if the item doesn't have a gold variant, it will turn into raw gold, the player will also get a "Golden" effect, causing them slow damage as your vision slowly gets a yellow tint and then they die with a death message saying " 'player' has turned into gold " along with a golden statue in the place you died {the only way to get rid of the gold effect is to exit the gold cave})

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  • October 06, 2021 10:16
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  OP here. I love the suggestion in the comments! A true punishement for being too greedy is an awesome idea. A cursed place where many in the past have fallen for being too greedy! Maybe players would strategize and head down to the cave with a bunch of apples and nothing else to get them to turn golden.

  I think it would be even better if the other items would turn into something utterly useless to make the punishment real for unexperienced explorers, such as poisonous potatoes! Or.... the other items would turn into something else (each item would have an equivalent), and players would go there to do some strange trading with the cave.

  I love the "Golden" effect idea so much!