Amethyst Tools

About

Its core purpose is to lessen the pressure to rush for diamond tools. Amethyst tools have enough durability to act as long-term tools, unlike iron. It also rewards exploration in the early game by giving a solid tool upgrade for finding a geode.

Its stats fit between iron and diamond, with some careful tuning to give it a unique identity as a material. Less impactful additions, such as armor, are purposely left out to avoid unnecessary bloat to the game.

Spear not yet implemented (WIP)

Mechanics

• Crafted using amethyst clusters
• Breaking a budding amethyst block with any pickaxe now drops 1 amethyst cluster
• Amethyst tools have the mining level of iron, so they can’t mine obsidian
• Increased enchantability compared to most other tool materials

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Stats

| Material | Durability | Speed | Level | Damage | Enchantability |
|:———:|:———-:|:—–:|:—–:|:——:|:————–:|
| Wood | 59 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 15 |
| Stone | 131 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| Copper | 191 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 13 |
| Iron | 250 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 14 |
| Amethyst | 1061 | 7 | 2 | 2.5 | 19 |
| Diamond | 1561 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 10 |
| Netherite | 2031 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 15 |
| — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Gold | 32 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 22 |

Q&A

• _Why craft using Amethyst Clusters instead of Amethyst Shards?_

I like the gameplay loop with it. It feels like there are some hoops to jump through that justify the highly enchantible, near-diamond performance. Either sacrifice budding amethyst blocks or getting lucky with some way to get silk touch early.

Other amethyst equipment mods I saw used shards or their own custom amethyst material, but I felt these were each imbalanced approaches in their own ways.

• _Why limit it to only tools?_

I still prefer vanilla-like gameplay, so I only want to add things that have a clear positive impact on the vanilla gameplay loop to me. Imo, tools were all that were necessary to fill the progression gap.

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