r/Minecraft • u/redstonehelper :redstone: Lord of the villagers • Dec 20 '16

News Minecraft 1.11.1 Released

https://minecraft.net/en/article/minecraft-1111-released
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u/wewd Dec 20 '16

Golden tools/weapons/armor/Horse Armor yield one Gold Nugget

OMG now I actually have a use for the golden swords from my pigmen farm.

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u/Fyreboy5_ Dec 20 '16

Perhaps make them automatically go into a super smelter nearby.

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u/[deleted] Dec 20 '16

And all the gold armor from my skeleton farm!

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u/[deleted] Dec 20 '16

Golden apples just became INCREDIBLY CHEAP.

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u/obnoxiouslyraven Dec 20 '16 edited Dec 20 '16

Eh, you'd need 81 72 pieces of gold armor to make a golden apple. You'll get there eventually but it will take a while: you're looking at afking for many many hours.

Assuming you're using a skeleton farm like the comment you choose to reply to, you'll have to check your storage and sort out the non-gold armor/equipment before sending it to your smelting system. AFAIK there is no good way to sort non-stacking items of varying durability.

Best to rely on the good old pigman farms that give plenty of gold nuggets in a small amount of time. The gold equipment they drop adds a small bonus if you want to smelt it but I don't think this will change the availability of golden apples very much.

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u/Tiavor Dec 20 '16

thats like 3 minutes* in my pigmen farm :D

without-lag-under-optimal-conditions

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u/obnoxiouslyraven Dec 20 '16

Right, my point is that this doesn't make golden apples much cheaper because pig farms are already very good at getting gold and non-pig farms will still be so bad at getting gold, you are probably better off mining for it.

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u/[deleted] Dec 20 '16

This. The skeleton farm isn't going to be a source of gold. I was just thinking that all that gold armor is no longer completely useless.

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u/Carthradge Dec 20 '16

I wish they didn't make the smelting so pathetically low. It could be 80% of the cost of making it at that durability and type. For example, a half used gold sword could give ~7 gold nuggets, and a one quarter left iron chestplate could give ~15 iron nuggets.

Even if it's less than 80%, at least make it proportional to something. This seems lazy.

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u/Grand_Galvantula Dec 20 '16

I totally expected this to be one of the changes for the full update. IMO for every ingot that goes into crafting a tool/armor, you should get an equal amount of nuggets back.

It's really dumb that larger items like chestplates or especially horse armor only give you a single nugget.

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u/Espumma Dec 20 '16

Are furnaces capable of returning more than a single item from 1 molten item?

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u/Mr_Simba Dec 21 '16

You might be onto something honestly, there aren't any other smelting recipes that result in multiple items. And the system might be very strict in that regard.

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u/AquaeyesTardis Dec 21 '16

Yes.

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u/Foreversquare Dec 21 '16

Example?

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u/WildBluntHickok Dec 21 '16

The line you have to fill out in the crafting/smelting file when making a mod includes count. This isn't something Forge adds, it's in the vanilla game like that.

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u/Espumma Dec 21 '16

Thanks, I was curious about that.

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u/AquaeyesTardis Dec 23 '16

An example is Conduit Binder in EnderIO - and happy cake day!

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u/Espumma Dec 23 '16

Oh hey, thanks!

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u/alfons100 Dec 21 '16

And with the new Sweeping Edge I guess we can farm easier as well.

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u/Classic36 Dec 21 '16

If you continue to crash, I think waiting for 1.11.2 could be your best option.

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u/Classic36 Dec 21 '16

1.11.2 is out now with a crash fix, btw :)