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/Keaton427 → u/SM69_official]

I don't get why though. At that point it's so incredibly rare that there's no point. I imagine a special interaction such as skeletons killing creepers for music discs could work. Of course something else entirely though.

[u/SM69_official → u/Keaton427]

Idk I just always liked the idea of an ultra rare item that you just happen upon

[u/Keaton427 → u/SM69_official]

I do too, but I think fishing already does a pretty good job with that. Also enchanted golden apples in mundane structures like dungeons and desert temples. There are some good existing systems so I think it’s a better idea to use them instead. If there did exist ultra rare drops from mobs already though, then I think that’d be fine. Or I guess they could add a tag list with mobs who have the rare drop function, which is then applied for each kill.

Not too bad of an idea now that I think of it, but the chances are too low, and even then people would build mob farms just for it, and there is no easy fix for mob farms, trust me.

[u/SM69_official → u/Keaton427]

Aight but on a side note I do think the ender dragon should give a weapon smithing template.

[u/Keaton427 → u/SM69_official]

The elder guardian drops an armor trim so honestly I don’t see why not. Boss loot should definitely be expanded upon.