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Ancient Fragments, Ancient Cores, & Ancient Armour

Ancient Fragments are a crafting item with two crafting recipes associated with it, the Ancient Core & the Ancient Horse Armour. The Ancient Horse Armour is crafted from six copper ingots, one Ancient Fragment, & one saddle. It's only equipable by the Skeleton Horse & acts as both a saddle as well as light armour. The appearance is that of expertly carved weathered copper with a glowing cube in the centre of the ribcage. (Hence who only Skeleton Horses can wear it.) The Ancient Core is crafted from three Ancient Fragments & six Copper Ingots in a recipe alike the Respawn Anchor. The Ancient Core has three uses, the first as being a decorative block as it resembles a sort of Chiseled Prismarine made from the same material as the Elder Guardians with a big eye on its four faces in the X & Z coordinates. This block also when powered by redstone can fore a laser beam not too dissimilar to the Guardian beams at any mob not wearing a form of Ancient Armour as well as Guardians. The Ancient Core can also be used in a Smithing Table with Diamond Leggings to create ancient Armour which appears as decorated Prismarine Leggings with two Gauntlets which aren't so decorative. The Ancient Armour actually provides multiple effects including being ignored by Guardians, granting no speed impairment when wading through water (not swimming though) and also grants two extra armour points though you cannot exceed the normal limit of twenty points.

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  • July 02, 2022 08:23
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  Additional notes since there wasn't enough space:

  This is technically multiple ideas however they are all incredibly interwoven together & do not work on their own, instead acting like a miniature system.

  The specific reason Leggings were decided upon was so that they didn't compromise Leather Boots' own utility & is instead designed to work alongside it & other utility based equipment like Elytras & Turtle Shells. This is why it has the extra armour points yet doesn't have the same benefits as something like Netherite Armour.

  The Ancient Fragments are dropped by Elder Guardians but I couldn't fit that in the character limit. That is the reason why the items are much more powerful than average items, they're a hard to obtain item set that is dropped by a boss mob. That being said though, the Elder Guardians may need to be buffed in some way such as making them immune to projectiles if this were to be added as this may be too easy to obtain given the ease when using Tridents & Axolotls.

  The Ancient Core can be moved by pistons aswell.

  The reason to add gauntlets specifically was to communicate the extra armour buff, that being said it was added to the design when it was originally going to be a pair of boots so it doesn't really fit as well but it still looks cool so I kept it.

  The speed buff in water does stack with depth strider but not when swimming, only when wading through it, useful for water that's one block deep that you can't swim through.

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  • July 02, 2022 08:32
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  Additionally, the reason for this specifically was no both add use to the Elder Guardians as well as give a viable alternative to Netherite as the current meta is Netherite Boots, Leggings, Helmet, & Elytra simply because they're too useful. This armour despite having this many uses, it's as protective as a full set of Netherite but is instead more useful when in an incomplete set of armour. This also gives another use to the Smithing Table as it's significantly underdeveloped compared to the other workstations, only being used to make Netherite Weapons, Tools, & Armour & aside from that, being a block for one villager type which isn't as useful as some others anyways.