Minecraft Should Introduce Rose Gold Equipment

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When copper was first introduced in Minecraft in its 1.17 version, the usefulness of the new resource was very limited. While it provided an additional range of building blocks and a unique dynamic of colors due to oxygen exposure ranging from bronze to teal, there were only two other uses for copper: a lightning rod and a spyglass. Since then, two new updates have been given to Minecraft with no further additions to copper despite player demand. Specifically, the Caves and Cliffs update expanded Minecraft's y-axis capacity and increased the frequency of ore generation, leaving players with lots of copper and little to do with it.

But Mojang could actually pull off a «two birds, one stone» solution if it revisited the functionality of copper and combined it with the use of gold equipment. Gold armor, tools, and weapons have some very slight edges over other alternatives, such as gold pickaxes and axes being faster than diamond by a fraction of a second and gold armor can help protect against Piglin hostility. But gold's overall durability makes gear functionally worthless compared to the likes of iron and diamond. If copper gear isn't going to exist in Minecraft, Mojang could instead consider using copper to improve gold and create rose gold gear in its place.

Minecraft's Next Update Should Push the Boundaries of Enchanting

Though most people who hear «rose gold» think of the trendy metallic pink color popular in the tech world and across every gadget or device available, rose gold is an actual alloy that exists. It is created through the combination of both copper and gold, typically as a fifty-fifty split, and rose to prominence among jewelers as an alternative to the older white and yellow gold coloration traditionally