Extra Emeralds Please!

Extra Emeralds Please! is an all-new mod designed to bring new features to the game's emeralds. It introduces emerald tools, blocks, and items. These are inteded to fill in the distant gap from between the time that a player discovers iron and acquires their first diamond tools. 

This mod gives you a new type of emerald, Fortified Emerald. They are the base for subsequent things:

• Smelt emeralds in a furnace to get fortified emeralds.
• Then, craft emerald weapons or tools using the fortified emeralds.
• Fortified emeralds can be crafted into Blocks of Fortified Emerald. These are harder to break and more blast resistant than Blocks of Emerald!