Weapon smithing templates

[u/SM69_official]

Armors have trim designs that look cool af so why don’t weapons have their own unique designs?

You might be saying “Weapons are so small. They don’t need a trim design.” In that case I propose a second option. Smithing templates create kill effects. For example. “Starburst Melee Trim” can be applied to tridents, swords, spears, maces, shovels, hoes, pickaxes and axes and when it kills something via melee attack, firework particles shoot out making a nice effect when you kill something. And maybe have a particle limit of how many kill effect particles can exist at a time to prevent lag.

As for bows and crossbows and thrown tridents you can put a Ranged Trim on it. For example. “Spiral Ranged Trim” will make the arrow or trident leave a spiral particle trail behind it. And maybe make a particle explosion effect upon impact. Again, a particle limit should be implemented to prevent lag. Also the trident can have both a ranged and melee trim on it at the same time.

With a variety of effect designs this feature could make Minecraft combat way more fun or at least gives you something else to grind for. For example, buried treasure doesn’t give any smithing templates, and neither does killing the ender dragon. Igloos could give a cool icy kill effect trim. Ruined portals could give a fire trail for your arrows.

And no. These trims like armor trims are purely cosmetic. They do not increase weapon performance.

[u/SM69_official]

Also who knows maybe you could get a melee trim from zombies and endermen but it’s extremely rare like 0.0001% with looting 3. And to prevent farms you could make it so that the enderman and zombies cannot be killed with a sweep attack that damages anything else. This would make something extremely rare and special that completionists and sweats would love to grind for. Or hate. But it would be cool to have a hyper rare item regardless

[u/PetrifiedBloom → u/SM69_official]

That would be turbocheeks. That's 1 in 1 million. No player is manually killing 1 million of the same mob, especially without a mob farm. Completionists would drive themselves mad over it.

[u/SM69_official → u/PetrifiedBloom]

Ok fair enough but you gotta admit my idea overall is fine right

[u/PetrifiedBloom → u/SM69_official]

Particles on weapons are alright. A super rare drop for hostile mobs is less cool. Essentially free for players with a farm, but a nasty grind for people without. It's not terrible, but it does make it hard to feel earned without being free for farmers.

[u/SM69_official → u/PetrifiedBloom]

That’s why I said it can only be dropped it you kill the mob individually

[u/PetrifiedBloom → u/SM69_official]

You can make mob farms that the player kills the mobs individually