I mean have you ever encountered pure gold? It’s surprisingly soft and malleable for a metal.
It sucks as a gameplay mechanic but points for realism I suppose.
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most of gold’s values bave been almost entirely unchanged from the start. gold actually has the highest stats in a lot of things. for ex a gold pick is faster than diamond, and all gold tools/armour had the highest enchantibility until netherite, which was equal. I believe the tradeoff was meant to be much better gear but for a much more slim period of time, but they just way overdid the low durability, and it became an iconic/core gameolay thing and so they never touched it.
I dont think gold was genuinely initially designed to be bad on purpose, its just ended up that way and it became such a thing that they couldnt just remove it
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Probably because it’s made of… gold?
I mean have you ever encountered pure gold? It’s surprisingly soft and malleable for a metal.
It sucks as a gameplay mechanic but points for realism I suppose.
most of gold’s values bave been almost entirely unchanged from the start. gold actually has the highest stats in a lot of things. for ex a gold pick is faster than diamond, and all gold tools/armour had the highest enchantibility until netherite, which was equal. I believe the tradeoff was meant to be much better gear but for a much more slim period of time, but they just way overdid the low durability, and it became an iconic/core gameolay thing and so they never touched it.
I dont think gold was genuinely initially designed to be bad on purpose, its just ended up that way and it became such a thing that they couldnt just remove it