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Quote from TheMasterCaver»

IMO, gold (and leather) armor is largely a way to give mobs armor that most players would not want to use (it would be OP if instead they wore iron and diamond just as often unless drop chances were nerfed); durability only matters for the helmet (when exposed to sunlight).

That makes sense.

Quote from TheMasterCaver»
Of course, mobs were not given armor until 1.4.2 while all the current armor tiers were added in InDev so that was not the main reason they were added (not that they can't make an old item more useful, such as lapis)

That no longer makes sense.

This thread was made to ask about some of the only completely useless items I have found in Minecraft:

GOLD TOOLS!

This stuff is completely useless for these reasons:

• Durability. Any golden tool or armor has the worst durability in the game besides leather.
• Obtainability. Gold is rarer than iron and only obtainable by an iron pickaxe, but anything that is made of iron is better than anything made of gold.
• Protection. A full set of golden armor gives you the exact amount of protection as a full set of leather armor. You're better off getting the leather because it is more obtainable.

Now, there is 1 good thing about golden tools and armor, and that is enchantability. However, if you get your gold stuff enchanted, it doesn't even matter because it will break almost immediately. What's more, you can't repair it that much because gold is very rare.

I realize that they added the gold to make golden apples, but why golden tools and armor? They are completely useless!

Quote from Mastermined»

The new system isn't any more or less intense and fast paced than the old system.

Sure, it's a tiny bit slower.

But the trade of that is that it feels a lot better, a lot more intense.

Attacks actually feel like you have some weight behind them. And the shield makes it so that bows are no longer by definition the best way to PvP, because players can your shot

4.6 hours on my main survival world. My most surprising stat is either 1051.1 damage dealt or 4937 jumps.

The video has also been added to the OP.

This is a seed that spawns you directly next to an ocean that has a guardian temple in it! The temple is so close, you can see it from your spawn point!

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Quote from RayHaskell»

Cinematic to help showcase the seed:

Quote from Geneo»

Some prefer to live in the past, some don't.

What would you do it you owned Mojang? Just keep on keeping on and let it die on the vine as people move on due to boredom? As I see it, it will take years for MS to recover their investment, and they know it. Some are only thinking about today, but MS's concern is how can they keep MC viable 1-5 years from now.... and that long-term future doesn't (and shouldn't) include the java version.

(BTW, eventually you'll have to upgrade to the Windows 10 OS).

I said a year and a half ago that Win10 will become the flagship MC. People poo-pooed me and called me crazy. Whatever. Here's another prediction of mine: virtually everyone will move on to Win10 and quit playing the java version. Not because they have to, but because they want to.

Quote from AugiteSoul»

Oh, and I don't know costumes who can make Steve have invisible legs.

If you try to make any of your skins invisible in any way, the game will just cover the invisible parts with black.

I guess there was one good thing abut 1.9. It's that they made axes more powerful than swords. That is a good idea because a diamond axe is more expensive than a diamond sword both in sticks and in diamonds, so the axe should be more powerful.

I know I'm four years late, but I hope this can help.

You would want to create a scoreboard objective called health that is a dummy

For the entity you want to damage, have it put its health on the scoreboard

Decrease that value by the damage you want

Re-assign the scoreboard value to the entities health

For a particle trail, we can use /tp facing and ^ ^ ^

Summon an invisible armor stand at the turret with the tag "trail" and give the target the tag "target"

run /execute as @e[tag=trail] run tp @s ~ ~ ~ facing entity @e[tag=target,limit=1,sort=nearest]

then /execute as @e[tag=trail] run tp @s ^ ^ ^.5

then /execute as @e[tag=trail] run particle [your particle stuff of choice]

then /execute as @e[tag=trail] if [email protected][tag=target,limit=1,sort=nearest,distance=..0.6]

set those up in repeating command blocks

for the particle, i would choose dust

dust has some special parameters, they are: /particle dust [R] [G] [B] [Size] [X] [Y] [Z] [DX] [DY] [DZ] [Speed] [Count]

This is helpful because we can change the color and size. RGB ranges from 0 to 1 for each.

If you want a big red particle, do /particle dust 1 0 0 100 ~ ~ ~ 0 0 0 0 1

Hope this helps!

Since shulkers hold the bulk of your items in the endgame, and netherrite can protect things from lava, I propose that if you surround a shulker by netherrite ingots in a crafting table, you get a netherrite shulker box

I love having so many wooden things that can be made in such a wide variety of appearances, and I want even more of them. There's no limit here, everything made of wood should have variants.

But it's annoying sometimes when I have mixed planks I can't get rid of by crafting a thing that I want. I often just wind up making sticks when I already have too many, or sticking one lonely plank in a chest somewhere. It'd be nice if I could always mix wood types in every recipe.

The simplest way to implement this is to have mixes always produce an oak item. That wouldn't be a particularly big deal as oak wood is so abundant. Alternatively whichever wood type is used most could determine the resulting item's type, or perhaps it determines it by position in the crafting grid. Or there could be special mixed-wood variants. In some cases it may even be prudent to enable wood mixes to apply various appearance combinations to the item based on the specific combination of woods. I'd accept any of these, as long as I can mix wood to make the things.

Can’t you just go into spectator mode or press F1 to do this? I don’t think we need a whole key bind for this.

Quote from Badprenup»

I have a question in response to the thread:

So?

Not everything has to have a special use or even be useful. Tons of games have items that have no real use. This tier is basically just decorative, and that is fine since nobody forces you to use or make it.

I don't think it's fine. There must be meaning. Just like there must be meaning to anything added onto a story, even if it's as shallow as "i wrote it because it was cool" it's still an acceptable reason to do so. It's called good game design.

Quote from Leed»

Their is no point in mending if you remove basic EXP farms.

Really? I do not use XP farms at all yet I have absolutely no issues spending far more XP than you have to with Mending - currently, I'm playing on an old world where I used an Efficiency V, Fortune III, Unbreaking III diamond pickaxe for all mining while caving (aside from using a Silk Touch pickaxe on Ender chests and emerald ore). How much does it cost to repair?

48 levels is 3012 XP under the pre-1.8 leveling system:



The only difference from a vanilla diamond sword (1.6.4) is that it has 3 times the durability, but since you can only repair it with one unit at a time instead of another sword the durability restored per repair is only 3/4 as high; the diamond sword costs as low as 38 levels or 1517 XP for a full repair (using a slightly damaged sword to take advantage of the durability bonus, which only applies when repairing with an item) - this means that my amethyst sword is 8 times more expensive, costing a staggering 12048 XP to fully repair it (it is still entirely practical to use though - assuming 2 hits to kill a mob and 5 XP per mob (which is slightly low due to mobs with equipment adding 1-3 XP per piece; skeletons average 7 because of this) and 1171 durability/4684 uses restored per repair you get 11710 back from the mobs killed by the next partial repair, a profit margin of nearly 4:1, leaving enough to repair armor. For comparison, the diamond sword has a profit margin of more than 10:1):


Here are the costs for the items I sued while caving in TMCWv4:

Max cost for amethyst items = 49 levels, other items = 39

Sword: Sharpness V, Knockback II, Unbreaking III, Mending - 48 levels (amethyst)
Main pickaxe: Efficiency V, Unbreaking III, Mending - 43 levels (amethyst)
Ender chest pickaxe: Efficiency V, Silk Touch, Unbreaking III, Mending - 34 levels (diamond)
Shears: Efficiency V, Silk Touch, Unbreaking III, Mending - 29 levels
Bow: Power V, Infinity, Unbreaking III, Mending - 33 levels
Chestplate+leggings: Protection IV, Mending - 35 levels (amethyst)
Boots: Protection IV, Feather Falling IV, Mending - 44 levels (amethyst)

All are for one unit, except for shears and bow. Cost without Mending is 8 levels less for an item repair and 9 less for a unit repair.

Quote from Leed»

I never said it was pointless. What I am saying is that it can give some good items like a good bow or fishing rod, but you only need one of each. Any gained from their on out is a waste of space.

As I said earlier, the only pro to AFK fishing is the EXP for mending tools, a good book once in a while, and maybe a stack of fish to cook if you need it. That is it.

Good books, food, and XP which would otherwise require skill or grind to attain, but have now been granted to the player in exchange for keeping their computer on all night.

Why should the game encourage AFKing at all regardless of what items are given?

It is simply not a big deal. Considering I just spent only 2 hours today building a mob farm that gets be 9,000+ drops per hour, it is obvious that AFK fishing is nowhere near game breaking.

You keep using other farms as an example as if there's some kind of arbitrary limit which separates "good AFK farms" and "bad AFK farms", but you've never actually defined this limit.

Honestly, it has got to the point that sand is more vulnerable to me then all of the AFK fishing books I get. My base is 2,000 blocks from the nearest desert and I need a ton of sand for a project. I simply don't need anymore books since the mismatched enchantments doesn't allow me to put it on my Armour or I don't have enough levels to add them anyways.

This is anecdotal evidence. At the same time, I could easily give hypothetical examples of where AFK Fish Farms would come in very handy.

Every MC world and play through is too unique to accuse something of being a exploit without mountains of evidence.

Even though I get a ton of books, I simply do not need mostly all of them which makes them worthless.

There is no point in mending if you remove basic EXP farms.

I don't get the whole anti-AFK fish farm idea. I repair my tools overnight and then work the next day and repeat. I am having fun and removing this free EXP would simply make the game way more annoying with it comes to difficulty. I would need to constantly mine to repair my tools or try to build some big EXP farm from day 5 with no resources.

Quote from McNubberson (I couldn't be bothered to figure out how to quote properly since these responses are on two different pages)

The same arguments being made today in the present, have been made before. You want this to change? I suggest new material. I also suggest making actual ways of fixing it, then to just argue whether it is an exploit, or if you like it or not.

We have suggested "actual ways of fixing it" multiple times throughout this argument. In my first post, for example, I suggested bait items be required in order to fish. This is beyond the scope of the current suggestion, however, which simply suggests an end to AFK Fish Farms in general.

Also, trying to prove the worthiness of an item to a person whom sees no value in a particular item, isn't making a point.

He was the one who initiated an argument for AFK Fish Farms in that they should stay because they're not "super totally game-breaking", but even if what you were saying was true, then trying to convince us the non-worth of an item is also not making a point.

I mean how did this thread even become a thing. It was a blanket statement saying it was bad. I remember when suggestions here had to have an outlined idea for implementing or fixing things followed with ideas and/or steps to improve it. It mitigated most arguing and actually talked about the real suggestion.

A valid point, but from what we've seen perhaps it's better that this suggestion was made anyway because if someone were to suggest actual ideas, people would attack them for getting rid of AFK Fish Farming instead of critiquing the ideas.