There are already gold nuggets, so your idea is out. Also they already made the emeralds, and have no plans of changing them. And then... gold already has important uses. The most important being powered rails. Some people use clocks which require gold. The villagers will then give you gold for... wool, food, and other things? No, that won't work.
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Well, essentially gold already is a currency. There are plenty of "cash 4 gold" villagers who give you emeralds for your gold. Think of the emeralds as paper currency. In fact, change the texture to paper currency.
Well, essentially gold already is a currency. There are plenty of "cash 4 gold" villagers who give you emeralds for your gold. Think of the emeralds as paper currency. In fact, change the texture to paper currency.
I immediately imagined myself finding a block of paper notes in a cave. That, would be awesome.
- They only come from 2 sources. Villagers, and very very rare ore.
- Gold can be farmed from Zombie pigmen, and has significant application in crafting. This ease of farming is the main reason it was disqualified as the basis of an economy system
- There is a reason most economies use bank notes instead of gold, but I don't have time to find the post about it.
I wonder if you are referring to my post, which I'll cut and paste here:
What is the purpose of currency? It is a token of value, traded for goods or services of actual value. True, historically coins were made of precious metals, but we've consistently moved away from that over time. Banknotes have been around for thousands of years, and they have NO intrinsic value themselves. That's by design.
See, here's one of the problems with gold and silver coins. The king who mints them wants them to be useful for exchange, in part so he can use them to buy weapons and supplies for his troops. When they leave the royal mint, people are supposed to be able to trust that this one-ounce coin really is one ounce of pure silver. (That makes them a LOT easier to trade with, because you don't need to weight them or assay the metal alloy. 1 penny is 1 penny is 1 penny. They're what we call "fungible".)
Now, silver and gold are valuable in their own right. So some enterprising criminals would take to shaving coins. Scraping just a little bit of silver or gold off the edges, hoping no one would notice when they then spent the coin at the tavern or perhaps to pay their taxes. It was usually a capital offense, but the odds of getting caught were fairly slim, so people did it because hey, free gold. And the coins eroded in value, and the king had trouble paying his debts.
So sovereigns have always been trying to find ways to make their currency out of something that people wouldn't clip or degrade. That's why most of the world uses paper money, and why the value of the raw base metals of the few coins we DO use is usually less than the face value of the coin. (The value of the materials is less, but the cost of production is more; it OUGHT to cost you more than 10 cents to manufacture a dime, or else counterfeiting them would be profitable).
Now, for all those who are whining that we should have gold coins in Minecraft because it's more "realistic", think about how valuable gold is. Power rails, clocks, highly enchantable equipment and armour. Think through what would happen if Lord Herobrine tried to mint gold coins for use throughout his realm. People would clip those coins in a heartbeat to make armour and weapons to overthrow the tyrant. So it stands to reason he, and every other Minecraftian sovereign, would seek out something else to use for currency, ideally something rare but without much use in crafting. If not emeralds, well, then something else equally as "random".
And so I reiterate: Currency should just be currency. It should have no other use but trade (and ancillary to that, displays of wealth/status).
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If you can't imagine it as currency you just haven't played link.
The use of gems("rupies") in videogames as currency is an old and proud tradition.
Also, it is important that the currency have no use in crafting, which they found out in the earlier versions(before pistons) of the game where slimeballs were used by that exact reason.
I take it good sir that you played "The Legend of Zelda"
what about laps it is one of the least useful items
Lapis is dye that you can also craft into a block. Every other type of dye has 1 use (except ink sacs in the new update) dying wool. So for the most part lapis is more useful than most dyes
I actually always used iron as a "currency" of sorts. It had multiple uses, making it always valuable to everyone. Everyone wanted more iron, because then you could have more armor, tools, etc. By allowing iron as a standard for in-game, vanilla trading, it became a meaningful currency that everyone could use; one that not only became less or more valuable depending on influxes in it (which is why the overlord would tax the wealthy on iron). Emeralds can be useful when trading with villagers, but some of the values are horribly high or low when trading. Adding that you can just give villagers your old crap for emeralds, it seems a little bit counterintuitive to use emeralds for a useable currency that can't be abused.
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That was a bit of an over kill on the text there wouldn't you agree?
If I agreed, I would not have written it.
Sometimes it takes a lot of words to explain a complicated idea. I realize this may be an inconvenience for people who have trouble with complicated ideas, and I try to be as concise as I can, but if it's any consolation, it takes me longer to write these things than it takes to read them.
But here's something for the tl;dr crowd to ponder. You can read a few, long pieces of text that contain well-thought out perspectives on an issue so that you gain useful insights into the problem, or you can read a hundred really short but uninformative "YEAH! I HATE EMERALDS TOO!" or "EMERALDS ROCK!" posts. Which kind of post actually wastes more of your precious time?
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It makes minecraft unique, and I already am heavily taxed on gold. Using emeralds frees my gold for other uses (decorational blocks in gardens, powered rails for my 2,500 block long minecart track, potions, golden apples, etc...) I am tired of people saying gold is useless as I am constantly struggling to find more, even though I have probably already accumulated 2.5 stacks, and using gold as currency is way to cliche.
Could of made it so using gold ingots makes X Amount of Gold Coins.
*facepalm*
There are already gold nuggets, so your idea is out. Also they already made the emeralds, and have no plans of changing them. And then... gold already has important uses. The most important being powered rails. Some people use clocks which require gold. The villagers will then give you gold for... wool, food, and other things? No, that won't work.
You can use gold to get emeralds, by trading gold.
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I immediately imagined myself finding a block of paper notes in a cave. That, would be awesome.
- They only come from 2 sources. Villagers, and very very rare ore.
- Gold can be farmed from Zombie pigmen, and has significant application in crafting. This ease of farming is the main reason it was disqualified as the basis of an economy system
- There is a reason most economies use bank notes instead of gold, but I don't have time to find the post about it.
What is the purpose of currency? It is a token of value, traded for goods or services of actual value. True, historically coins were made of precious metals, but we've consistently moved away from that over time. Banknotes have been around for thousands of years, and they have NO intrinsic value themselves. That's by design.
See, here's one of the problems with gold and silver coins. The king who mints them wants them to be useful for exchange, in part so he can use them to buy weapons and supplies for his troops. When they leave the royal mint, people are supposed to be able to trust that this one-ounce coin really is one ounce of pure silver. (That makes them a LOT easier to trade with, because you don't need to weight them or assay the metal alloy. 1 penny is 1 penny is 1 penny. They're what we call "fungible".)
Now, silver and gold are valuable in their own right. So some enterprising criminals would take to shaving coins. Scraping just a little bit of silver or gold off the edges, hoping no one would notice when they then spent the coin at the tavern or perhaps to pay their taxes. It was usually a capital offense, but the odds of getting caught were fairly slim, so people did it because hey, free gold. And the coins eroded in value, and the king had trouble paying his debts.
So sovereigns have always been trying to find ways to make their currency out of something that people wouldn't clip or degrade. That's why most of the world uses paper money, and why the value of the raw base metals of the few coins we DO use is usually less than the face value of the coin. (The value of the materials is less, but the cost of production is more; it OUGHT to cost you more than 10 cents to manufacture a dime, or else counterfeiting them would be profitable).
Now, for all those who are whining that we should have gold coins in Minecraft because it's more "realistic", think about how valuable gold is. Power rails, clocks, highly enchantable equipment and armour. Think through what would happen if Lord Herobrine tried to mint gold coins for use throughout his realm. People would clip those coins in a heartbeat to make armour and weapons to overthrow the tyrant. So it stands to reason he, and every other Minecraftian sovereign, would seek out something else to use for currency, ideally something rare but without much use in crafting. If not emeralds, well, then something else equally as "random".
And so I reiterate: Currency should just be currency. It should have no other use but trade (and ancillary to that, displays of wealth/status).
I take it good sir that you played "The Legend of Zelda"
Lapis is dye that you can also craft into a block. Every other type of dye has 1 use (except ink sacs in the new update) dying wool. So for the most part lapis is more useful than most dyes
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I could actually see how this could be played out, They're a miners old notes in the cave, And for some reason he decided to put his money there.
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That was a bit of an over kill on the text there wouldn't you agree?
If I agreed, I would not have written it.
Sometimes it takes a lot of words to explain a complicated idea. I realize this may be an inconvenience for people who have trouble with complicated ideas, and I try to be as concise as I can, but if it's any consolation, it takes me longer to write these things than it takes to read them.
But here's something for the tl;dr crowd to ponder. You can read a few, long pieces of text that contain well-thought out perspectives on an issue so that you gain useful insights into the problem, or you can read a hundred really short but uninformative "YEAH! I HATE EMERALDS TOO!" or "EMERALDS ROCK!" posts. Which kind of post actually wastes more of your precious time?