Introducing a New Way to Trade

This mod adds a new currency system between players. The original problem being the fact that the way most players do economy in a server is through gold, iron, diamonds, and emeralds. This is bad because they aren't meant to be currency. Just resources. And resources have their uses, meaning that an economy based around this is inefficient because the values flucuate. At points, gold might be more valuable than diamonds for certain players because they have none yet lots of diamonds. This is an unbalance for which I offer a solution which keeps the general ideal of this system with changes to incorporate a balance of some kind, thus backing up the economy.

Since this is my first mod, as well as one that took several days in MCreator including the animated sprites I painstakingly created frame-by-frame, I can't add photos in the description. But I will explain the mod.

The idea is simple. Three tiers of gemstone, each with a more powerful variant. Using a new table called the Packing Pit, you can take six of the same stone and forge it into either a packed variant or simply the next tier of gemstone. The economy is backed by the fact that these gemstones can be creafted into resources themselves. You can pack the lowest tier of gemstone, that being Dirtonium, to get Packed Dirtonium. With four Packed Dirtonium stones, you can either use cobblestone or dirt to craft either twelve copper ingots or twelve coal pieces.

This increases in value with tier. Four Packed Pierconite cane make Iron or Gold. And four packed Jagstone can make Diamonds or Emeralds. This is extremely balanced as well. Gold requires cobbled deepslate, iron requires a block of copper, diamonds require a coal block, on top of the high expense of Packed Jagstone, and emeralds require a gold block.

The content, however, doesn't end there, because I have added two new tools (also balanced) of which can aid in convenience as well as power. For example, Pierconite and Jagstone can be made into a core which then can be crafted into a pickaxe with a thousand more uses than netherite but at the cost that it mines with stone eifficiency on iron tier. Dirtonium has a similar functionality, however it creates a sword with twenty attack damage but with a durability of gold. Here are the mining tiers:

Dirtonium requires stone tier to mine

Pierconite requires iron tier

Jagstone requires diamond tier

However, each can be crafted into its superior tier using the Packing Pit. I am publishing this mod for me and a friend to use, thus the singular version, but if I get enough feedback, I will update to newer and older versions.

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