Gathering, smelting and oxydizing large quantities of copper for your big survival projects can be a very long and unpleasant process. This data pack adds new ways to obtain, smelt, oxydize, wax and unwax copper rapidly, allowing you to process stacks of copper at once. All the features of this pack are focused on immersiveness, visual effects, balance and integration to vanilla features (gives new and cool uses to vanilla cauldrons). This pack is designed to give survival players more time for big projects (less grinding, more building), not to make the game easier.
How to make your copper renewable?
This pack includes three different ways to obtain copper and/or make it renewable in your world.
First, sniffers can dig in gravel to excavate copper ore. On rarer occasions, sniffer will excavate other resources such as iron and gold ore, coal, lapis or even diamond but keep in mind that these occurences will remain very rare and they will not provide an efficient way to farm other resources than copper.
Second, a new enchantment "prospector" can be obtained by throwing a Fortune III book into a wax cauldron. Once on a pickaxe, this enchantment will allow you to occasionally exacavate copper (and rarely other ores and minerals) while mining stone. Keep in mind that this enchant is not compatible with Fortune, Silk Touch or Mending!
Last, copper drops more abundantly from drowned, in order to make small drowned farms (e.g. zombie spawner based farm) more interesting. More precisely, the chances of a drowned dropping copper upon death remain vanilla, but the amount dropped now varries between 1 and 3. In average, killing drowned will give twice as much copper as in vanilla.
⚠️ These additions are new and I didn't have much time to play with it yet. It is unlikely that these features are perflectly balanced and they will probably require tweaks in the future. Suggestions and Feedback are much appreciated!
How to oxydize your copper?
Right click a water cauldron while directly in front of it with up to a stack of any copper block (e.g. cut blocks, stairs, chests, bars, lanterns or chains) at any incomplete oxydation stage. Your block appears under water inside cauldron, oxydation has started. It takes 5 min for each oxydation stage to occur (15 min for full oxydation). You can monitor oxydation visually by looking at the block in the cauldron. You can remove your blocks at any stage of oxydation by left-clicking them, which will sometimes empty the cauldron and require a refill. Bubbles will pop out of cauldrons to indicate full oxydation.
How to smelt your copper (also works with other ores)?
Craft your raw ores into blocks. While in front of a lava cauldron, right click it with a batch of raw ore blocks (up to a full stack). The raw ore block appears inside the cauldron. After 10 seconds, it visually changes into it's metal block counterpart and starts to emit smoke and noises (it's cooked). Left click on the metal block in the cauldron to drop your batch of metal blocks. You have 50 seconds to pick it up when cooked before it burns and disapears. Cauldron is ready to re-use although cooking process can sometimes empty the lava and require a refill. The items you just picked up are too hot and now apply fire damage to you if kept in your inventory! To cool them down, simply place them or drop them in the water, under the rain or on snow/ice.
This pack also adds a recipe to cook raw ore blocks in a classic way via a blast furnace. Cooking a raw block ore will take 9 times longer and give 9 times more xp than cooking a raw ore item.
How to wax/unwax your copper?
To wax your copper, start by creating a cauldron of wax. To do so, right-click an empty cauldron with a honeycomb block to place it inside. If a source of heat is present under the cauldron (lava, campfire, fire...), the honeycomb block will turn into a wax cauldron after a few seconds. From there, simply drop your copper items in the cauldron to wax them. The wax cauldrons empties and needs to be refilled regularly
To unwax, simply drop waxed items in a water cauldron. The water cauldron will empty little by little and will need to be refilled.
Why this datapack?
This datapack is first and foremost done as a personal effort to customise my 8 years survival world. On one hand, this means that I built this datapack to be future and update proof (I hope) and that it is likely going to be regularly updated in the future. As such, you can easily add this pack to your long-term worlds without being too scared of future world corruption or malfunctions. On the other hand, it means that although I am very open to feedback and suggestions, I will only add the features that I see fit for my world and my long-term vision for it.
