Let's talk about the "Netherite Upgrade" 

Thanks so much for all the cool ideas in the comments! I am seeing some negativity towards Mojang and I want to remind you all to try and keep it constructive! They work very hard to make the game awesome for us. 💖 Keep in mind it's only a snapshot and everything is a work in progress, and everything in the video is just my personal opinions and feedback. 🙂 Keep these amazing suggestions coming, I am having so much fun reading them.

The statement about Minecraft not being an exploration game hits me hard. I lost my 3 year world to corruption and it all started when I got a message saying that my world was too big. I lost my world because I explored too much.

Diamond need to be more usable, in terms of crafting usage, diamond is less useful than iron. Diamonds are primarily used to make diamond tools and armor, which are the strongest and most durable tools and armor in the game (netherite is just a upgrade that make more stronger). However, these items are not necessary for most gameplay and can be replaced with iron tools and armor, which are more easily obtainable and still provide adequate protection and efficiency. Iron is also used to make a wider variety of items such as rails, minecarts, and buckets. Additionally, diamonds can be used to make certain enchanting items, but iron can also be used to make anvils, which are essential for enchanting items.

Just gonna say... Netherite is NOT overpowered. Its actually not that much stronger than diamond, especially for how much harder it is to get.

“ we should also add the nether star to the recipe! “ Java players: 😊 Bedrock players: ☠️

Now I’m imagining a server where the starting players took every netherite upgrade and refuse to share it, then there becomes a sorta black market for upgrading your armor.

To be fair to the developers, this probably isn’t intended to be the items final state. The concept has probably been going around the developer circle for a while now and want player feedback on the idea.

What I feel is that the use of diamonds doesn't feel justified, it just feels as an artificial way to increase its value/worth

I feel like the best way to add the netherite upgrade into the game would be where you only need to find one, and then could add it into a special slot that allows that smithing table to permanently be able to combine netherite with tools and armor

Honestly I think the idea of using magma cream somehow is great. It works really well. Not sure how I feel about the nether star though, and the "nether stardust" or some new adhesive item kinda seems like something you had an issue with near the start of the video, being some random item that just exists to make a crafting tree more complex

The netherite upgrade feels like it should be an actual item like “ancient adhesive” or “infernal binding”, not “netherite upgrade” cause that isn’t a thing. Edit: To clarify I wasn’t just complaining about the name, I was complaining that the item doesn’t feel like it’s an actual item. Rn it feels more like a little card that says you’re allowed to upgrade your gear instead of an actual object or substance that is something you’d physically need to upgrade the diamond into netherite.

I’d love to see an end/final dimension update much like the cave update. Completely overhaul how the islands are generated, add some new structures (maybe include a new end stronghold that has a key item needed for the ancient city portal…) and add a new end animal. Perhaps a chorus tree with a dull purple wood color with magenta leaves that have a slight glow? Think azalea leaves but magenta with little chorus flowers sprinkled around. Oh and add a craftable backpack that increases your inventory space by 2 bars.

I think something that would make some sense lore wise is to still require you to go to bastions, but functional as a different thing completely. One thing that’s always bugged me is that this infernal metal that is completely fire proof and immune to molten rock can be smelted in your furnace and crafted on gold. My idea is to scrap the netherite upgrade and make it so rarely in bastions you can find an internal forge, like a blast furnace but with textures of ancient debris that only Piglins know how to make. You would have to fill it with lava and fuel it with blaze powder to turn scraps(now directly dropped from debris) into netherite after adding gold. Then the same tough smelting process would be needed to coat your armor with netherite. This would need a very large amount of blaze powder, giving it more use, and additionally the intense heat would have a small chance to cause an explosion, which doesn’t break blocks or itself, but can cause a lot of damage and burn your house if you’re not careful, which adds more character to the process as you’ll ideally build like a forge area for it. Lmkwyt

I feel like they should rename the 'netherite upgrade' to something more intruigeing like 'mysterious tablet' or something, then when a new player find one they will think "oh, that must be important, i'm gonna keep it!" and so then when they use a smithing table they'll see the outline and go "oooohh, that's what that's for". Just an idea...

Initially I thought the original method to make netherite stuff was simple enough. Interesting analysis

I swear Mojang never missed until the upgrade template. Netherite is already such a grind from my experience and i feel like they’re messing with something that’s already rlly good. Plus bastions are already a good source of it. To encourage exploration I think they should just increase Netherite amounts in bastions, and maybe add an additional good loot item to find. But don’t change Netherite it’s so iconic and well done already.

I think it should take durability from the template to apply the netherite and can be repaired with diamonds or ancient debris. That way you can certainly use it forever, but you need to keep an eye on it.

Just the idea of something called a netherite upgrade with that rectangular look and the icon on it feels really modded, and I feel like it doesn’t mesh with the rest of the game well. I’m glad diamonds have a new use, but they might have to rethink the implementation slightly.

The magma cream idea to be more more accurate is really neat. I like the idea of having a high cost and using nether stars but not sure how piglins fit into that since they can have netherite items in chests. Maybe they just stockpile the netherite items from past players they have slain?

I would say that the main problem with the netherite template is in servers that have a smaller world boarder. If one or two players get all of the available templates then no one else can make netherite themselves.

fun fact: mojang added Netherite Upgrade Smithing Template so Waxed weathered cut copper stairs would have a worthy opponent

I really love the magma cream idea! Seems to fit very well with the lore and just makes so much sense. Plus, it gives another use to magma cream, which is generally under-used.

For the armorr trim templates I see the recipe's lore as the diamonds being the carving tool to etch out the place where those materials should be lined up and the material block in the center as the cast's back board, as if the player is pressing the templates' pattern into the material for new material to be added. This could imply that netherite is being stuck as a layer on top the diamond armor, attached in plates (maybe by rivets) as shown by the texture, instead of being infused to the diamond armor itself. So the netherite upgrade is merely an item that punches holes into your diamond armor for a layer of netherite plating to be riveted on top. Maybe the netherite provides shock absorbption and heat resistance to the armor but it has little to no hardness by itself which is why it needs the diamond armor as a base and it only adds less than 50 additional durability. My only proof of this theory is that netherite armor has plates but diamond does not so it doesn't make sense for it to be infused and change into something plated unless the plating goes on top of the armor rather than netherite infused into it.

My main issue with it is the diamonds. It's really expensive, for something that is non renewable.... I think it should be 4 diamonds, 3 magma cream (as you suggested) and something instead of netherrack, like Blackstone or basalt.

Not gonna lie I kinda like the new grind, or at least the sound of it! It makes diamonds more special again!

I feel like Having a recipe including magma cream and diamonds would probably be better

The crafting system as a whole needs a revamp. Imagine a Smithing Table designed around discovering blueprints for various upgrades to your equipment; the blueprints themselves are never consumed, but provide a step-by-step guide on what materials to add to an item via the smithing table in order to get the upgrade. For netherite armor, you'd need to: Find the blueprints Go to a smithing table with the armor and blueprints Apply diamonds (equal to the amount used to make the diamond item) Apply magma cream Apply netherite ingot And done. It'd even be able to support more upgrades. Want water breathing? Use glass, slime, and turtle scutes. Want the effects of leather armor in snow on normal armor? Use wool, string, and leather. Want a basic buff? Use string, iron nuggets, and chainmail armor. There is so much depth that Mojang was THIS close to adding.

Star dust is actually a nice idea. This item would help the game overall. For example, it could be used in brewing, for, I don't know, luck potions (for those who don't know, that effect exists in Java minecraft, but is unused), maybe it could be used to duplicate armor trims, as diamonds are relatively cheap, or for crafting end crystals (again, if you don't know, they can be crafted, but I think the recipe is too cheap). It could also used for removing curses from items (It would probably use like 10 levels and have a like 50% chance to destroy the item and turn into something, probably, glowstone instead removing the curse, as that would be too owerpowered), but while removing the curse, it will get cursed itself and turn into a completely new item, that again, could be used for potions such as blindness (that would probably be an overhaul to PvP). I might have gone too far, but it could also be used to make glowing armor trims, as it makes more sense than a glow ink sac or to craft experience bottles. Also, but as grindstones were kinda forgotten since 1.14, it would be cool if you could craft a nether star into dust with a grindstone instead of a crafting table, as you can't craft it back, unlike most (yes, sugar, I know) powders. I have been trying to come up with ideas for like an hour now. Got to go, I might edit this comment later.

This pattern thing is a neat idea but the upgrade to netherite thing is going to be a massive pita on multiplayer, because items that can only be found in chests are usually first come first serve. It won't be uncommon for bastions to already be empty because someone hogged (pun intended) all of the loot. If you're lucky someone might be generous enough to duplicate some for you.

I love this. its so well thought out, and i feel makes a lot of sense (the crafting recipe that you made). Although I don't play Survival much, I always love seeing new stuff like this added in. Great video mog. 🥰

Worst thing is is that netherite armor doesn't actually give more defensive properties it just boasts higher durability and knockback resistance.

One little thing I love about this update is that it adds new crafting recipes that uses diamonds. The last time a new recipe used diamonds was 1.4.6

Someone in xisumavoid’s livestream had a great idea all of these patterns should have a durability and can be used a set amount of time before needing to be repaired with diamonds (to keep that new use for diamonds) personally I think this is a better idea that way it’s not so costly if you have a specific pattern that you like (for me I really love helmet: tide chest: snout legs: tide and boots: sentry) it would at least save me a fair amount of trouble and diamonds if they had multiple uses

Maybe there could be gilded blackstone in the recipe. I'm not sure how but it would be pretty cool and have an actual use for the block.

"won't create the same issue as the elytra does" silence armor trim: "allow me to introduce myself"

Bedrock Players when he said "Nether Star" 💀

Netherite armor and tools being more expensive is great thing (my opinion) but the item itself could be improved

Honestly, this makes diamonds more valuable again. Which I think returns some balance to the game

0:51 this issue is fixed in a mod called Lootr where chests are player unique and you could do the same for framed items. should definitely be something Minecraft should have as a setting in the server property file. or loot regen after a certain period of time if the chest still exists.

"I'm no game dev expert" *proceeds to spit the hardest facts I have ever heard*

It’s not called a “Netherite Upgrade”. It’s called a Smithing Template with the label Netherite Upgrade so you know what it does. It’s like how the other Smithing Templates aren’t called “Armor Trims”. It’s a description.

I love the idea of needing magma cream for it. It just fits netherite so well.

I love the idea you had for the crafting recipe with netherite stardust and it would put the hammer on the workbench to use

a cool consept I made is where theres a Nether Eye, crafted with magma cream surrounding an eye of ender that works as an eye of ender, for a nether structure used with Nether Bricks, well the brighter version idk what they are called, and they contain an ancient scroll that turns your armor to netherite, at the cost of it having random enchants, (excluding curses), that cannot be removed in a grindstone, however you can use a netherite ingot and a grindstone in an anvil to create an Advanced Grindstone, which can remove curses, custom names, and even armor trims

I feel like netherite it tedious and thats the problem, adding more tedium doesn't help

I think for most average players that netherite is too much of a hassle to upgrade to with not enough obvious benefit. It already does take time to find some of the rarer generating blocks in the world, in a relatively dangerous part of the world, and needing 4 of those blocks per upgrade seems like enough to me. I feel like including the need to find an upgrade pattern and use extra diamonds (which are harder to obtain with new caves) could put players off of netherite all together. I love the trim designs though, and think it is a great use for diamonds to duplicate them.

Being able to duplicate the item seems really interesting to me. It reminds me of yeast, in the past people would have a ball of yeast they would use for bread and then make a new ball of yeast from that bread for the next batch. When you find one netherite upgrade it becomes really important because if you lose it you have to find another one which is not easy.

Wow Another Mog.. 🤘😎 found you looking for info on the Update. Keep up the good work man .. got a new sub.

Honestly I was thinking the same thing (that it’s a weird item/doesn’t make sense), but I’m glad there’s another requirement that makes full Netherite harder to get, and it matches all of the other trims now

I have an idea for that "bonder" you talked about. It'd be the "Magmatic Glue" (not really cool name, but I'm too lazy to find a better name). You would find the Ancient Glue (to continue with the "ancient" part of the netherite) in bastions, but it wouldn't work as a bonder yet. You would have to combine it with 4 blaze rods in the corners (we know these work as fuel, and blazes are fire resistant, so it'd make sense) and 4 magma cream around the Ancient Glue (again, the magma cubes are fire resistant, and the magma cream is used for fire resistance potions). After that you would be able to use the Magmatic Glue as a bonder for upgrading diamond to netherite gear)

The netherite upgrade could be some sort of binding material since diamond is the only item to be upgraded by anything. The smithing template simply works like glue

Honestly this item fixed a problem no one ever had, if anything it actually created a new problem. Now if we want everything from our tools to our armor to be netherite, we need basically a stack of diamonds, 9 of those upgrades, 9 netherrack (not really a problem) and we need diamond tools and armor in order to be covered in debris and have our tools plated with debris. All in all this item made getting netherite armor more annoying.

I also feel like netherite just isn’t endgame. Endgame for me personally is stuff like shulkers and elytra. They are locked behind the end boss. The armor customization is cool, but needing extra items to upgrade to netherite just doesn’t feel right. One thing I would love to see implemented is an endgame armor post dragon, using something like cosmic debris found in the outer end islands and dragon scales that are dropped from the dragon or found near fossil structures buried in the end islands. This would be more end game and give the barren end wasteland more of a purpose and more of a resource gathering role. Also cosmic debris should be used to upgrade the elytra for more durability and like a half of an armor unit of defense. Dragon scale gear would be cool as heck. Edit: Cosmic debris is found and smelted to refined cosmic scraps. They are then combined with dragon scales dropped by the dragon or found rarely near cosmic debris deposits. The final product is a dragon scale alloy, which is combined with netherite for dragon scale gear.

From the title and thumbnail, I was expecting another person to be complaining that game was changed or they didn't like the changes and wanted it removed or something similar. This was really well done, saying that you like the concept but thought an aspect of it needed to be changed or altered and opened it up to discussion, all while being positive about it. Really well done video!

Community: “Diamonds don’t feel special anymore and Netherite is too easy to obtain.” Mojang: “Bet.” **Shows Netherite Upgrade** Community: o_o

Maybe instead of it being a one use item that could be duplicated it can brake after a few uses and the you need to repair. But you can still use the crafting recipe so you can duplicate it and gift it to your friend in multiplayer. The same thing could be applied to cosmetic one to.

Your idea is great!! It adds so much lore and more meaning to netherite! And also prevents the problem the elytra has. Great video as always!

I wish they made diamond hoppers that had more space for automated kelp farms and bonemeal farms.(and other farms oc)

I feel like Mojang could add a scarecrow into the game where you place a carved pumpkin on a block of white wool to scare off phantoms that would be a great addition!

Some great ideas for a better implementation. Hope something like these get done.

I'm surprised you didn't mention how difficult it is to duplicate the tablets in superflat, since the only way you can get diamonds is from end cities

Armor trims are cool, definitely agree with the stance on the Netherite Upgrade

Welp, my luck with finding ancient debris was already trash, i guess this brings my chance of ever getting a legit set of netherite stuff to 0

I think your idea of the magma cream and nether star bonding agent would be a lot better than what it is now

Yeah the cosmetic stuff's really cool but I also hated the netherite "nerf" since its already barely an upgrade to diamonds with adding slight durability and the arguably most crucial feature only comes in if you die and only if you do it in fire If anything it needs a buff for how tedius it is to get, not a nerf

10/10 video. I love how you summarized and explained everything. Great job!

I do think you are right. From a Lore perspective it feels like it doesn't make sense. The Design looks lazy which is depressing as I miss some of the old designs (Gapples) and (Netherack) the former more than the latter so seeing things like this doesn't help and I think doesn't fix the problem in a way that doesn't start a bigger one or comparable one. I think you did this a lot.

I love your idea of using items that make sense lore-wise to craft the recipes.

the netherite upgrade smithing template thing feels very tacked on (because it is) and just clunky. I don’t like the duplicating mechanic either (yes i know servers would run out of un looted bastions) so what i think should be the process is going to a bastion and mining the gilded black stone and when surround the gilded black stone with 4 diamonds you would get the netherite upgrade template. This would give gilded blacks tone a use and it can be rare but if you’re looking for it then you’ll find it. they could also make piglin brutes drop gilded black stone and the smithing template RARELY! This would feel a lot better than some chest loot which i think the bastion already has a great balance of it!

Combing the colors and trimming patterns would be awesome and the smithing table having another tab for the combinations like the banner customization

great video as always. you have such a positive tone and everything you said made sense!

Dude, i am just so so happy for your success. the channel has been growing a lot, when i find a Channel that is about to blow up i usually take a screenshot, and so i did. got a screenshot of when i found your channel a couple months ago and got sad that it had so little subscribers than i expected for the video quality... congratulations!!!!

I prefer this manner of netherite cause it feels way more applicable and more like proper progression, i like netherite but damn was it boring to use cause it's so easy to get. For me personally at least, but I'm also the type that likes to make paths rather than flying.

I like the use of diamonds (specially for the trim recipes) as in the endgame i cant even find enough uses for the stacks of diamonds i have over years of playing, but the netherite upgrade seems weird as you said having diamonds in the recipe and no lore at all, I really hope they make it more interesting, the item looks like it came from a minecraft mod and not minecraft itself

Just wanted to say I really enjoyed the video, especially the Bari sax jazz background music in the first minute. Great choice for the ambient sound!

2:38 Netherite is not overpowered lol, it's just a slight upgrade from diamond. Netherite upgrades make the effectiveness of netherite items not worth making, and instead you're off better making more diamond items

The scroll idea along with the magma Cream glue makes a lot of sense to me. Great idea!

you are making a good point here. Diamonds are known for their hardness which allows them to cut most of the existing materials. While you could argue that having diamonds in the patterns allows to cut the armor and insert the color, what about the netherite upgrade ? what does this upgrade do ? do you use it to cut the netherite ingot ? It feels like they just "magically" upgrade it which doesnt feel right in a game like minecraft.

If Mojang is trying to get you to explore your world, then heck yeah they did it well with the netherite upgrade. I will never forget how I wanted my maxed up diamond gear to be netherited in my 1.20 new survival world, and as I previousely got all the netherite ingots for it, I entered the nether to search for a bastion that could have it. In that inmersion, I found and looted three diferent bastions, and none of them had any single netherite upgrade. Just gold and obsidian that I used to craft an ender chest with the ender pearls from the warped forest and the blaze rods from a fortress that I also found in the way, all of that in order to solve the problem of inventory management that I was having due to the overloading items that I was founding in my journey. I got to the point that I started to use the materials around me in a way that I didin't even thought it could be posible, like when I ran out of wood and had to move on to the crimson forest to get wood for a crafting table, wich then I used to craft all the gold nuggets I was mining to get the gold that I used to trade with piglins, and then for those trades I got things like fire resistance potions, enderpearls and strings that later I would use to move from the third bastion (that was almost surrounded by a lava lake) to a set of crimson islands at the high of the lava, wich made me able to reach a strider with a warped fungus on a stick (that I previousley crafted with the strings and the wood from the crimson), only to realize that I didn't have a saddle to ride it, so I returned to the bastion with the enderpearls that I traded with piglins, only to fail my first pearl and ending up falling in the lava lake, forcing me to drink the fire resistance potion that I previousely got from piglins, then once arriving to the ender chest that I placed in the top of the bastion (because I didn't carried a silk touch picaxe with me) I got the saddle and I returned with pearls to the portion of crimson forest that was in the middle of the lava lake, finally getting to ride an strider and start moving trough the nether with much more eficiency, until I arrived to a fourth bastion that was intercalated with a basalt delta biome (wich made me freak out cuz bastions don't naturally generate in that biome and I don't know why because parkour between the basalt columns and the bastions was great), and hopefully I found two netherite upgrades in one random chest in the bastion (like, it didn't even had a treasure chest or anything, and I still got it from a random chest). Then I returned where I had parked the strider in blocks to get it away from it's family and friends forever and make a portal with the obsidian from the piglins to get back to the Overwordl, and the very first thing that apeared in my screen was "randomname has just earned the achievment [Black Hole]", wich meant that I had traveled more than seven kilometers from my first nether portal, and the second thing that I saw was almost total darkess, as I had appeared in a deepslate cave, without torches, and making up circular stairs to get up was damaging my eyes for all the darkess, so I got back to the nether and got lava buckets to iluminate the way, having to get back for more every time I placed in one point an then got up until I happen to mine a coal ore, that get me acces to torches. Although, once I got up, I ended up in an aquifer, so all of the torches that I had placed were gone. Once I got to the surface I thougth to myself: "alright, I have the inventory full, so no more exploring. I don't recognice the terrain, but if I get some redstone from the cave where the nether portal spawned and make a compass I will be able to get to the...", and I couldn't finish because my sight just caught up a rose glipse, and inmediately thought: "holy shit, the new cherryblossom biome that it's said is extremedly rare! I have to get at least a sappling for home!" I don't remember much about the journey to the spawn, but I remember that after finding lots of cool biomes like the ice spikes and the snow mountains with goats and trap snow, I got to the spawn only to get all my things in a double chest and inmediately kill myself to get to my home, and then go back to the spawn to get my things and know the way to my home. So yeah, I don't have any concern with the netherite upgrade, as it made me enjoy the cube game in a way that I could never thought it could be possible. For the lore thing, it is said in Minecraft Legends that piglins almost took entirely the Overworld, so that could explain why the netherite upgrade is made out of diamonds and works to upgrade the diamond to netherite armour, alongside with all the loot in the bastion chests that are exclusively from the Overworld like the iron, and also the thing with baby zombie piglins riding chickens.

I agree 100%, just tried to go back to minecraft and found this changes and I was like huh?? it doesn't make sense neither affects me, but seems odd

Maybe there could be an item dropped by piglin brutes that would explain why the wrist guard they have makes them so powerful and why it could be used to upgrade diamonds to netherite.

I initially thought this was the best update to once again utilize spare diamonds, but I forgot you play superflat. The solution is pretty simple: remove the netherite template, but keep the other templates. If you want to customize, work more (by mining more diamonds or exploring the structures). Much like if you want to get some cool skins, you gotta pay. I mean c'mon, they're only 30% more durable and slightly stronger, why do we need an extra effort to get those.

Well to a new player or one that came back to minecraft recently, netherite upgrades can be confusing. So having the name "Netherite Upgrade" is actually helpful. :P

I can 100% agree with you, I don't understand why it is like this, why can't it be an interesting item like an ore only found in bastion treasure chests that CAN'T be replicated...(maybe an alloy of gold because since netherite is an alloy maybe combine it with netherite to make a brand new type of metal, then when combined with gold in a smithing table makes it turn into netherite)

Although with this, and even yout idea(which might be a good alternative) it does still have the elytra problem, because to duplicate it, you need one in the first place, and it might require a lot of nether travel to find an unlooted bastion on a multiplayer server (and also the other crafting idea is good, but i think the nether star is a bit of exaggeration, needing to beat the wither (also 7 times) to get full netherite

The biggest issue i have with the new snapshot is that there's not really any indication the trim gets consumed by adding it. You know a bunch of people will struggle through a woodland mansion for one and end up accidentally losing it on one armor piece

I went back and played Java beta 1.7.3 and it was actually so fun I highly recommend. Yes the movement speed was slower but it suited the way the game was balanced back then and also I had so many flashbacks. Like for example you spawn on the beach which in my opinion was a much better and guaranteed good starting point. Also the the old hunger mechanic was very fun to use how like one pork chop would heal you and you can’t over stack them. And also at night time looking up to the night sky for some reason the stars just hit different back then. Some other things I appreciated were the old water it looked more blue which I prefer and also the game made diamonds feel more precious. I guess this is also due to there not being netherite but also the game made you feel like you had to collect as many diamonds as you could to flex. So yeah highly recommended. ( I had the idea after playing fortnite og) by the way you can research what a good version would be but I did enjoy beta 1.7.3

It baffles me how Mojang looks at their game, the lack of inventory slots compared to the massive amounts of items and blocks they keep adding, and they go “What if we took a current system, but added more required items to use it?”

completely agree, i feel awkward criticising this snapshot at all bc everyone i've talked to seems to love it. the whole thing feels too modded for me, especially the upgrade and trim pattern item textures. i bet it's really hard for mojang to find a balance between adding too much new content and letting the game stagnate too much, but at this point i'd prefer a year or two with only minor updates bc things feel way too rushed.

I think the idea was compensating for the greater availability of diamond. Not needing diamonds for armor because of villagers means that you don’t even need to go caving in the overworld to get netherite. This update makes you work harder to get netherite and gives diamonds more value

your ideas are the best ive heard of in a while

Maybe the recipe requires an item (or book) with the curse of binding to justify binding the netherite with diamond

A binding agent would actually be a way better idea now that I think about it

The idea of adding more customization into Minecraft is much-needed, but it's too much effort to just make your armor more aesthetic. It would be much more interesting if the trims had certain qualities, such as the gold trim armor could make the piglins neutral towards the player, emerald-trim could give a slight discount in villager trading, and lapis better luck or discounts in enchanting

For some reason I really feel like you could get another use of Phantom Membrane in this recipe as well. Magma cream and membrane acting as bonding agents for the nether armor. Though I also think it'd be neat if there was additional things that could be found with the deep dark that could merge with any armor, not just netherite. Since we're allowing customizing armor now, why not some enemy detection, night vision, etc, permanent effects.

hey Mogswamp! i love your videos man! when your done with you build it could be fun if you gave us a copy of the world where we can go around exploring. i would really like to explore your map! Keep going love watching your videos

I feel that the new item might just be a hassle to get like you said and sometimes getting nethirite is hard enough on its own for casual players not on some large pvp smp. The new design changes for the armor shown off at the beginning look really cool but feel more like a mod than anything else. Thanks for the video I didn't even know this snapshot was out.

2:28 definitely saving these inforgraphics!

Yeah using nether stars is cool and all but getting those is gonna be HELL

Maybe the netherite upgrade can be use like banner patterns you use it one time and don't disappear that will make it better and maybe should called upgrade template