Why Copper Tools SHOULD be added to Minecraft! 

an idea i saw that i like more than just copper tools is the abiity to upgrade gold tools in a smithing table using copper to turn them into Rose Gold tools, giving them the speed of gold with the durability of iron tools

i agree on the idea, it would be nice to have a new set of tools that could change their look over time and have a unique role between wood and iron.... especially my luck on survival island worlds where there's no mountains and just ocean for miles in all directions.

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would be usefull and it will just be like terraria, a tool used for early game that later gets outshined by easier to get materials you can mine and also so people would get used to the new material generation so instead of getting an ore you can mine but is mostly useless like lapis before you hit diamonds, you can use that one for a small step up to the newer tools with a small boost i do wonder how they would integrate the oxidizing of the ore then becouse leaving them out to oxidize and then mine to make better armour sounds something you need to find out to do like placing bookcases near an enchantment table, i can see a diffecoult way of making like a timer on tools so after being made it starts to tick down from shining copper to oxidised copper, lets say from like 100, every 20 or so points going down, it gets more oxidiced, and you can stop it if you put the item in the grind stone or something to lower the oxidetion and if you add that honey thing, then the timer freezes until like 100 durrability gets lost

i can imagine copper gear being pretty decent to start with (somewhere between the stone-iron range), but can become weaker overtime due to oxidization (lower durability, weaker attack, etc.). And like normal copper blocks, you can use honeycomb wax to keep it from rusting. It'd make sense, considering the abundance of copper you can find pretty early off the bat.

that would either end with you being bits and pieces all over the ground, or we'll end up being able to use the skyward strike which would make PVP a lot more interesting

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That could be a funny enchantment, heh. Actually, that'd be really cool if maybe some enchantments were exclusive to certain materials. Though I dunno what the others could get

​@@Fanboy_of_everything bud, he didn't limit it to women or humans

To add up on this. If ever Copper can be used for alloys ala crafting Netherite Ingots and placing earlygame tools on a smithing table - this also opens up Rose Gold and Bronze tools. A slight upgrade/sidegrade to Iron tools for the former and a set of items that's between iron and diamond for the latter.

@@frostbitex23 they can have a lil less durability but but be faster, that sounds great

@@frostbitex23 oh Yeah, bronze would be easier to make than iron, and it wouldn't be too op

and just like gold tools, they'll never be used more than once, if at all.

Plus, they could make a roman style aesthetic to the gear, at least the armor?

It stretches the early game slightly which was what the core Minecraft experience used to be centered around anyways, good fun survival. One of the biggest complaints of the game is how abundant everything became and quickly becomes creative mode with extra steps.

@@KovoriaTheConquerer honestly i think its the giant caves, they make ore harvesting way too simple, also strip mining but you cant really control that unless you make ores spawn only inside of caves

​@freeguy3894 yeah, your right, they should Def make the stone take longer to break to prevent strip mining... OHH WAIT, THEY DID FOR DIAMONDS AND LOOK AT THE BACKLASH THAT BROUGHT

Iron is not even made rarer, it's simply redistributed, I'd argue Iron is more common now than it is back then as a whole (without even including Iron Veins, which has like 700+ or even 1000+ Iron with just a single vein).

​@@CraftingOnCommand Ultimately I think Mojang is going to get backlash no matter what they do sadly because it's hard to balance or fix something broken when the cats already put of the bag. Make Enchantments biome specific to encourage exploration? Backlash. Make ores have specific sweet spot levels to encourage multiple mines or strip mines? Backlash. Sadly with the enchantments it's clear they're not willing to just ignore it if enough people complain

Tbf, like 60% of the player base starts shitting themselves screaming at them anytime they do anything. I'd be afraid too.

tfw ignores literally every single update in the past few years plus 1.21 that adds a new structure, unique weapon, and useful redstone features.

I think there’s a decent chance they prioritize what might sell merch, and do the bare minimum for anything else. If they don’t make an “event” out of a new mob people won’t care.

one word: netherite they can be bold and creative when they want to, the problem is that they had to work on all the stuff they promised with 1.16-1.17 while also adding stuff from previous biome votes alongside the mob votes (which i believe are now a thing of the past), its why 1.21 was a success compared to 1.19 and 1.20, because they had more liberty on what to work on instead of being stuck with features that werent as good past concept (looking at you archaeology), and even then 1.21 was still stuck with the armadillo, and why everything related to it was so bland and just filler to bloat the game more. when mojang can work on something that works, oh boy its fire, but the moment they do something thats outside of the core of the game (EXP, automation, realistic animals, RPG mechanics, bosses), they tend to make things that either break the game or are so worthless that people will judge it for years to come, so it does make sense why they would do the lesser things first, after all, thats what they were doing past b1.9/release 1.0, with the occasional 'big' updates here and there sometimes (anvils, horses, wither, ocean monuments, singleplayer chances to a local server/LAN support)

​@@jacehackworth6413 Mojang is, however, willing to put in the effort to ban gun mods.

Honestly, I feel like part of the design choices behind the multipart Caves and Cliffs was the exploration of caves rather than branch mining from the older versions, and balanced out with the potential of going too deep and stumbling across sculk biomes. Which, honestly I'm *not* complaining about, it's made me love mining again, but at the same time branch mining shouldn't be overly nerfed as an option either.

Yeah, I haven’t had a huge issue with finding iron in my worlds. If anything, I've struggled more with coal of all things.

instead of getting coal i usually just get lava from the nether.

@@flowey3956 You don't even need to go to the nether, just go deep enough and you'd find a lava lake

@@mdbgamer556 Branch Mining isn't even nerfed though, it's simply changed. While yeah you get less variety of each material from branch mining-- in return you get even more of the specific ore you are branch mining for, which is much more useful than just getting random and equal amount of ores you don't even need. Don't even get me started with Iron Veins, you can't tell me that they nerfed Iron Branch mining in particular when this gives you a trail of Iron Veins that can grant you hundreds of Iron.

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I think the difference is he makes a mine and we just find a cave.

I’ve had some trouble myself. Not so much with finding iron, but more so with gathering a substantial amount of it. There’s the ore vein distribution, limited early game mobility, hostile mobs (skeletons are frightening when you have no armor).

@@GGBlaster absolutely the thing for me, I can never get enough iron for a sustainable amount of tools because I mine and spelunk so I still mine a lot of blocks which is just unsustainable with irons horrible lifespan

@@user-tp8pf5ke8o That's the point of Unbreaking. You can use two diamonds, a book, and four obsidian to get enchantments for your tools on-demand with the appropriate experience threshold so that iron generally lasts longer. Even if bookshelves are a major investment, once you have a cow farm and sugar cane farm to make them, it's only a matter of time.

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I absolutely adore this idea. Anything that makes you rethink an existing game mechanic you take for granted is a fantastic idea

Hambat from Don't Starve moment

@hajimehinata5854 I've played Don't Starve but I've never played enough to get that item. I completely forgot that was how the item works.

given that minecraft sometimes reverses stuff from real world (obsidian and gold durability),oxidization giving more durability kinda does make sense

maybe waxing could slowly degrade over uses alongside durability and once completely gone the tools would begin to oxidize, slowing down efficiency and making it more blunt, maybe it could boost sword and axe damage at the cost of removing sweeping edge or, in the case of axes, making durability degrade quicker. maybe in the new catacombs or whatever theyre called there could be enchanted books like swift sneak called "thick skin" which would somewhat negate negative potion effects if put on armor (slowing poison, making harming do less damage, making slowness do less) or slow down oxidization when put on copper tools

Same! Normally I don’t have much of a problem finding it- From my experience it’s easiest to get the bigger caves which are relatively easy to find. Those caves typically have a bunch of iron in it, especially on the border of deep slate. And if you find a mineshaft it’ll be littered all over the place Same goes with lapis honestly- I find it just as often as Redstone, but that could just be me. Then again, I like to play the game rather slow at my own pace, so it could be possible the drive of progression is the main difference

@@funzythefox5126 yeah I think that exposed big caves are now even a bit TOO common. I mean entrance to really big cave should IMO be rather a rare occurrence but now they are like everywhere.

The problem is that going into a big cave to find iron typially involves dealing with a bunch of mobs, so you need armor or at least a shield to stand a decent chance at surviving. But you will need to have already found at least one piece of iron to craft a shield, so it's kind of a circular dependency thing unless you get lucky with finding a deposit on the surface or in a cliffisde, or alternately digging a staircase down to the y-level 16 with stone tools while specifically avoiding caves until you've found your first bits of iron.

@@GenuineLolotov Thing is, going to big caves to find iron early-game is... completely unnecessary...? Just go to a regular cave where less mobs spawn or go to the very obvious mountain/high elevation cave which has lots of iron and less mobs I seriously don't even remotely see any kind of "difficulty" of finding iron apart from if you are in a Swamp (which are small in general anyways) where caves are waterlogged.

Back before the terrain generation update, I used to find iron with no real difficulty. With the newer terrain generation, I'll usually find hundreds if not thousands of blocks of copper [ore] before I find even one iron unless I'm strip-mining. Combining that with the fact that they removed the ability to defend yourself at all without a shield (both by removing sword blocking and by changes to mobs/combat itself, like making swords ineffective against killing creepers and giving skeletons outright aimbot.. I get they needed a buff but they went too far), and it has become tedious to so much as ACCESS one of the core parts of the game (combat/exploration/adventuring). At the very least, copper should be able to be used for shields. I can deal without the armor, even if there's a viable niche for it.

The way I see a good progression system would be Wood Stone Copper Iron/Gold (Gold as enchant) Steel (iron+charcoal)/Rose Gold (Copper+Gold, sturdy and enchantment rich but only has Stone tier durability) Diamond Then maybe a diamond steel blend before we hit Netherite

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Or letting them slowly oxidize and then wax them to set the speed, with more levels of oxidization allowing for slower speeds.

@@mdbgamer556 That's a fantastic idea.

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Can even be extended for other common metals like aluminum, brass, bronze, cobalt, electrum, lead, nickel, silver, steel, tin, uranium, and zinc

good idea, but not vanilla styled at all

Yeah, true. But when you think about it, what was added to Minecraft in updates wasn't vanilla styled either; aquatic exploration, a material stronger than diamond, or a mob stronger than the wither. Each idea added in an update started out as non-vanilla from the modding community until Mojang got working on it officially. Obviously, there'd be major differences to this idea like maybe having the charged copper run on a durability timer before the charged power disappeared, but the possibilities of copper's usage is still up in the air for Mojang to decide. Who knows, maybe in 1.21.1, copper may just turn into a new, stronger power source than redstone people will use.

@GetComfyTV a lot of those are just expansions to the game using preexisting stuff. The Warden is just a BS mob with its stats cranked all the way up. The aquatic update is just new biomes, a few mobs, and a new weapon. Netherite is the least vanilla of them all mainly because it's the only armor with knockback resistance as well as needing a template, but otherwise, it's still just a set of armor. What you're suggesting is an early game set of armor with an entirely unique system that of which is built off being struck by lightning, which I still agree is a cool idea but is besides the point.

I guess it is. Yeah, the charged armor idea does sound very different when putting it a smidge above iron and below diamond. But with every update being added to Minecraft, vanilla doesn't exactly sound like just defeating the Ender dragon anymore.

More realistically it would insta kill you which would be funny

To be fair if 60% of the fan base starts screaming at any change, I’d be afraid to add game changing stuff too

its because they want copper to fill a different niche than the rest of the ores. Copper is primarily for building, which is unique to the other ores already in the game.

Because there's hard to imagine more pointless thing than adding some middle-tier.

@@Gamer_Dylan_6that fact it’s for building is pretty nice but I would love it to have some more uses, even if it’s something small like water proofing redstone or making alloys for more building blocks

@@seandorama5932 more uses will come over time. Its usefulness rn is on the same level as lapis, but as time goes on its gonna be added to more recipes like in the most recent update with all of the new decor blocks.

They didn't even make it for that at all, they made Iron and such drop as items so the player's inventory isn't filled with two different types of blocks of the same Ore, which is an issue when there's not even bundles yet, fortune is simply a by-product.

@@user-tzzglsstle585e38 Aka the copper problem in modded Minecraft

You're so right, and it hurts... TwT

And also a thing between iron and diamond via gold tools with copper using the smithing table,i mean you need iron to mine gold so why not? It gives both gold tools AND copper as a whole,another use Slightly more durability than iron (like around 400,similar durability to the bow not anywhere near diamond) ,and slightly faster than even diamond but slower than netherite,unlike gold where its the fastest tool but barely holds itself together,its not the fastest,but isn't nearly as useless because it doesn't commit break after you mine 30 blocks with it

Yeah, that and make Leather protect a bit better (because actual leather armor's protectiveness IRL can even match that of regular Iron if it's purposed as armor). They could make it so Leather drops could be crafted to make leather pieces which would then be able to craft armor and such, OR just change the Book's recipe by requiring more leather to compensate for it being more common.

More mechanical blocks are *always* a welcome addition to the scene. Copper is a prime resource for this, in both abundance and realistic use. Copper could be used instead of the far rarer gold in powered rails, and could potentially have other redstone related uses.

@mdbgamer556 actually... this isn't bad... well... using copper in redstone builds... I did just learn you could use copper bulbs to make a fully functional "hard drive..." very interesting stuff...

Copper is better off being useful in other areas than items that are only gonna be used for 3 minutes throughout the entire game, Copper Bulb (a T-flip flop) is legitimately more useful and has more significance to the game's Redstone compared to the miniscule impact Copper Tools will give.

@@user-tzzglsstle585e38 agreed... and besides... it wouldn't be like mojang to add a whole new set of armor and tools... they are more interested in making combat slightly more different...

yeah ace hurt his voice super hard, it’s permanent afaik (also it made like 30% of his viewers think he was transitioning lmfao)

@@potatorat2508 Throat injury. Man, I know that.

@@potatorat2508 HE ISN'T TRANS?

​@@artisan2906 Nope. Fucked his voice to the point of actual damage doing the toad voice or something

​@@artisan2906 for the last time no lmao he is a straight man and has zero interest in any of it. He just happens to sound like a twink

To be honest Terraria progression does have it's issues as well. Most players won't bother making ore armour and weapons early game unless thy focus on melee weapons (and even then they'll go for something that can be found instead of crafted). They'll just go with the starter tools up until they get the evil ore pick, then go to hellstone. Then in hardmode, the ore progression is a speed bump, no one makes palladium or orichalcum armors for example, nor their respective weapons, unless they are playing with the Calamity mod's progression tweak. They just go straight to titanium/adamantium, or ignore it entirely and get straight to hallowed gear if they're really tryharding.

As an example of sandbox tool progression done right, I always point to Vintage Story. I think it's due to the mentality that the game promotes, that of "building with what you can" rather than starting huge projects. You are NOT going to have a mansion in the stone age. You will most likely have a little hut. In the copper age, sure you could try and make a massive castle, but you're better off making something smaller-scale. The bronze age opens things up a bit more, with the enhanced tools allowing for larger builds. Iron and steel then finally allow you to start getting things going on a larger scale, if you wanted to that is. The early progression takes time and is a journey all to it's own. You don't have to "get the best tools to begin the real game" because the real game IS the journey, and what you do along the way. Steel tools are just a nice bonus.

@@genericusername5671 Ehhh Vintage Story is something that I have issues with. The journey of being stuck _without_ ores as opposed to having an overabundance of ores everywhere. You're not gonna get past stone tools without spending several hours jsut looking for ore unless you crank up the spawnrate in the settings to not have a miserable time with it (and it ain't something you're gonna do on a whim in multiplayer).

@@simplysmiley4670 Personally I have never had any real gripes obtaining ores. Copper is easy to spot if you go into a desert and look for the pebbles. (No pesky plants to get in the way!) Worst comes to worst, you can always pan sand and gravel for copper nuggets. From then on you will at least have metal tools like picks and saws, provided you know that underneath copper pebbles are large copper deposits. Tin isn't too bad, and you can also find tin nuggets in cracked ore vessels. You don't need much to make bronze. After that, iron can be a pain sometimes, but if you prospect around a bit you shouldn't struggle too much. Steel is an extra step for the really committed. It's not necessary, so I'll often hold off on steelmaking for a long time. Also I know it's kinda cliche, but it makes it feel super rewarding when you get that first metal pick, or first saw. I get that ore finding can be an issue, and in my first world I had a really tough time getting copper, but that didn't really bother me. I played at my own pace and ended up panning for the nuggets, before eventually finding some deposits.

@@simplysmiley4670 im not sure what you mean by that; i dont think anyone sticks with like a wooden bow or the copper shortsword or something. most of the decent early game equipment is made with bars. the only ores that really get ignored are copper and tin since that's what you start with anyway. most players still grab iron for its multitude of uses for things like buckets and ironskin potions, and then grab tungsten/silver until they can find enough gold/platinum to cover everything. i guess you could just ignore ores outright if you want to rush orbs or use only chest loot from the desert/snow biome, but it's way easier to do if you actually interact with ores, which is what i feel most early game players DO do; there's no reason not to. the same can be said for palladium and orichalcum. you can't legitimately tell me people unironically brave master mode underground and get enough titanium and adamantite to make their full tool sets without also making the previous sets. you still need them anyway to get the pickaxes, and you can easily fight the mechs in palladium and orichalcum. cobalt and mythril on the other hand... but my point still stands that people DO use them, just not for as long as in something like calamity, like you mentioned. im not saying terraria progression doesn't have issues, but they're not what you're saying they are.

Maybe if copper tools were crafted with copper blocks?

Welp never found one anyways

I agree on the general idea but NOT on the specific of rose gold. I think it should KEEP enchantability of gold, also just slightly more durable than stone is not enough. At least halfway between stone and iron is absolute minimum to make this feature worthwhile. Also it should be able to mine all that iron tools can (rose gold is pretty durable alloy after all). Maybe even they could got 1-2 points to their speed (outpacing netherrite even more). Also rose gold armor would give the same level of protection that iron currently gives BUT iron armor would get 1 hardness point per element(half what diamond have and 1/3 what netherite have).

I think one of the biggest issues with this argument is the game was meant to be a sandbox. It gave you incentives to build in alpha/beta by making the night difficult to handle without structures and torches placed all over the place, and that in turn would trigger encouragement to be creative. With a simple palette of blocks to build with and no bosses to defeat, we had nothing but ourselves and our own goals to set out to complete, and that was our progression besides getting the occasional full set of diamond and whatnot. On the flipside, progression is absolutely a good thing to have, even in a survival sandbox game. I feel like durability is a needless hassle, personally, and is long overdue for removal or replacement. When it comes to the enchantment system, we should definitely have a less *rng* focused mechanic(blergh, rng bad), and instead have a more exploration and emphasized on building based mechanic for enchanting. For example: Imagine changing out your bookshelves for various other versions of bookshelves(different wood types, or even the new chiseled shelf with enchanted books) or other blocks(gold, lapis, skulls, candles(different colors)) you name it, as well as proper material components(mob drops) to affect what enchantments you get. More unique weapons should be added to mix up combat a little more(tridents and crossbows now exist, but is that really enough?), combat could use an overhaul(Better Combat is an excellent example of this). Bosses could use an overhaul, and more could be added as well as making the pseudoboss(poor elder guardian) a more proper boss with proper preparation being available to combat it(take a couple milk bottles, perhaps, to stave off mining fatigue and specifically mining fatigue, as these new milk bottles would target one single effect and target negative effects first). I'm pretty sure shields don't work against the guardian lasers, so going for a trident before going after the elder guardian would be a preparation component, as well as enchanting it with drops from guardians to make it more useful altogether. Villagers could require being able to freely move around on grass blocks and see the sky and be able to gossip with other villagers of differing professions, have proper limitations as to what counts as a proper bedroom, and require specific multiple block setups for their professions to function well. This combined with a randomized restocking of items each day could break down the villager trading prisons literally everyone and their mothers build these days, and encourage more proper builds that look genuinely good and slow down the "farming simulator" aspects of villager grinding. There's many unique ways to put more focus back on what Minecraft had originally been intended for. Mojang, unfortunately, is not allowed to/won't do anything because of a frankly ridiculous fear of changing anything and thus ruining the game and plummeting the player count and sales. Thank you, Microcrap.

​@@mdbgamer556I'll be honest I don't think it's ridiculous I think they should definitely change more but with every update people always go "this feels modded" and like actively changing a lot of the foundations of Minecraft could bring a far more negative response

Copper isn't meant to be an ore with a bunch of versatile uses. It's supposed to be decorative.

It still is. 50% faster than diamonds and 33% than netherite. That's why instead of adding pointless middle-tier with copper tools, we should use copper to upgrade gold tools into rose gold ones(similar to how we upgrade to netherrite. And yes rose gold is real thing - alloy of gold and copper). With ability to mine all that iron can and somewhat similar durability. But merchantability and speed(well maybe moved 1 or 2 points) of gold. Because even with unbreaking III and mending golden tools are just to brittle to be usefull.

I've had a pet idea rattling around in my head for a while now. although maybe I just read it somewhere Basically, basic "food groups" for the food items. Something like Fruits, Veggies, Meat, Carbs, Sweets. These groups are invisible, a hidden mechanic like saturation, and in fact work with saturation Basically, each food group has it's own separate saturation So some examples Basically the optimum feasible diet right now in Minecraft is an all-steak diet. 3 steaks fills your hunger bar out with an extra 12.8 units of saturation However, under the proposed system of my pet idea, a mixed diet is far better On an empty hunger bar, you could have a steak (meats, 12.8 sat), a golden carrot (veggies, 14.4 sat), bread (carbs, 6 sat), and finish off desert with a pumpkin pie (sweets, 4.8 sat), for a grand total of 38 saturation for your well-rounded meal You'll not have to eat for a while after that

Potatoes are easier to farm en mass so baked potatoes are one of the easiest foods to automate. Melon slices are mostly used in potion making. Cookies are cosmetic. We don't make cookies to feed ourselves in real life. They're a treat. Overcomplicating things like this have a chance of completely being a turn off to people who don't want to worry about food too much.

Agree to disagree. I see where Ace is coming from on the copper tools aspect, and iron does tend to be a lot rarer on the RNG spectrum due to the new generation, which is honestly a good thing because of how ridiculously useful iron is in a lot of recipes and such.

I wonder if there should be tin and you can smelt tin and copper ingots together to make bronze. Bronze should be better than iron because for most of history Bronze was generally stronger than iron. I think its possible to make the next grade of metal, steel you need a blast furnace. Then you can mix iron ingot with charcoal or coal in the blast furnace to make steel

And that's only for the breaking level of the pickaxes, you could have the other copper tools be iron competitors like in the mod you've shown

Oh yes, there's so much content announced, cancelled and in other projects... I mean there was so many cool blocks in Dungeons and Legends. And some of Dungoen ones could be great to use for End update. BUT here's the only small issue with that idea. It can't really be done all at once. I mean the end-related blocks without end update wouldn't make so much sense. And while with blocks it is relatively easy (just adding itself doesn't need more than taking textures and configure some basic properties) they still need ways to make them and perhaps be generated somewhere (in new structure? But designing good one isn't just one hour task). With mobs it is even harder, as not always they can just copy AI from another one. Also some mobs could just be redundant - like copper tools are, yes copper needs more uses but copper tools are not the way. There are dozens FAR better and MORE useful ideas, like for example: pipes, sorting hopper(and generally other things to help with minimalization of redstone contraptions), improving powered rails, creating green flames and with that green lanterns, or just copper lanterns, chains etc. And if we are talking about tools then a rose gold one would be a better pick, as they could at least make golden tools somewhat useful.) And other would just not have fitting place in the current state of the game (like the enderman variants from dungeons - they belong rather in the new end, which don't exist yet - but also things like moobloom would be actually better fit to eather-like dimension than overworld).

Right because adding every single one of those canned etc. content would definitely be something you can do in a single update lol

Atleast for java I'd love another performance update. How do people m Without access to the source code make better performance through mods (optifine, sodium) than Mojang itself? They should hire the sodium guy and implement it's changes in the vanilla game (since optifine guy doesn't want to, he was asked afaik)

Except rosegold (which would be great way to finally make gold tools useful) another alloys for tools would be pretty much redundant pointless middletiers. BUT for building and other uses they could be cool. I mean imagine walls, bars, chains, dors, trapdors, lanterns, grates, chiseled, pillar, slabs, stairs... in variety of alloys metallic colors. That would be awesome. And some could be useful for some new utility features (block and items)

Nah. I mean yeah for decorative purpose it would be (but at the same time new ore just for decoration seems pretty underwhelming - I'll admit I have like 5 ideas for new ores just for overworld... neither of them being metal... but more importantly each has more uses than just decoration) but for tools? That would be just pointless middle tier. BUT combining copper with golden tools to make them rose gold with near-iron durability and ability to mine all that iron can... that would be actually cool.

@@Lyokoheros-KLPXTV well Tin is another commonly used ore in modded minecraft which is why I suggested it but I do like the idea of rose gold

Or Chains even. I had thought for the longest time that would be useless because it's more expensive but I found out just last night that chainmail is actually more easily enchantable then Iron.

@@AceTheOcarinaMaker it's useless because then it would be nearly more expensive

i think gold tools should have an ability to get stuff like fortune 4, efficiency 6, etc.

@@derevianne1108 I think we should be able to get them - and more anyway :P But it should just require something more, like bringing enchants over the "max" level would be only available via some new mechanic from the end or even further dimensions... Also way more interesting idea to make gold tools interesting is to upgrade them to rose gold. With copper of course.

Lol yeaaah but Starbound's OST doesn't get randomly false claimed and lock my video's revenue for a month like Minecraft's OST does.