Game Theory: Minecraft, Stop Using Diamonds!

and one of the most anticipated things in this update is the addition of netherright now netherright is essentially a level up from

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equipment is better than diamond everything that is better than diamond and obviously all weapons hello internet welcome to the

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the program that reminds you to never waste your

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on hoes during the last year. We've talked a lot about Minecraft history on the channel, from the history of the endermen to the withered, the drowned, the piglens and the illidars, like I said, there's been a lot of lore gathered for this

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, but today I wanted to talk about something a little different, something that came about as part of the big The Nether update that happened back in June.

You see, we finally have it. we ourselves are a new neterrite mineral and that alone would be a big problem. I mean, the last mineral really introduced into the game was nether quartz in 2013 and the last mineral people really cared about introduced into the game was emerald in 2012. Sure minerals over the years have gotten texture improvements here and there, but nothing new has really shaken up Minecraft's mineral hierarchy for the better part of seven years, but that's not all that makes Netherrite special, not only is it new, it completely changes the game, to quote. From the official Nether update page, discover Netherrite, a powerful new material that makes diamond look like cobblestone.

Oh, dive into the diamond. There's a new stone in town and it's ugly, but it's rare and powerful, and you can use it to upgrade your diamond-based equipment. then it is stronger, more durable and floating lava, so yes, after 10 years of diamond domination, be the undisputed champion or in Minecraft, the cyan blue stone that defined this game in its visual style, the mineral with which Everyone was running to show off their mining and crafting skills. now fallen from the top of the heap, the stone that launched a thousand cosplay and parody videos is, as the update says, no better than the cobblestone.

It was a big shock to the Minecraft community when it was announced, but not to me, you see. I've known for a long time that diamond tools aren't all they're cracked up to be, and that for years the Minecraft community has been overlooking the true best material in the game, one that's been hiding in plain sight from the beginning, so get yourself to the side at the bottom right, hand over the diamond from your crown, there is a new ancient ore that is the best of the kind that all true miners and craftsmen will be running with from today, today we are going to reverse the hierarchy of ore to show you the latest of players should really use it while wandering around the world of Minecraft.

It's easy to understand why diamond has been the reigning champion of the Minecraft world for a decade. Diamonds have that air of being super rare and super valuable in the game. This is absolutely true. and while it's not so true in real life, it's actually all a bunch of marketing hype and artificially limited supply lines by the diamond cartel to drive up prices and demand, which is a story for another day or I guess for a different channel, but anyway in At least real life diamonds are marketed as super rare and super valuable, but perhaps most important for our discussion today is that diamonds are the hardest material in the world. world.

No joke, the word diamond actually originates from a Greek word meaning invincible and the scale used to measure hardness the Mohs hardness scale invented by mineralogist Friedrich Mose was established as a 10 point scale based on that diamond's maximum hardness is 10 out of 10. Now, technically speaking, there are some chemical compounds that have been discovered to be harder than diamond in 2009. Scientists discovered that when materials like wurtzite boron nitride and lonsdaleite were exposed to certain laboratory conditions, they actually had a higher hardness rating than diamond, but you know that was only under specific laboratory conditions, which means that the claim that nothing is harder than diamond remains absolutely true.

It is further argued, who would walk around the world of Minecraft wearing something called wurtzite boron nitride armor? I probably would anyway. All of this is actually a big part of the reason why diamond jewelry is so sought after these days. The jewelry industry has done a good job of taking the hardness of the diamond and

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it as a marketing slogan. Diamonds are forever, so it is the stone you should gift someone if you truly love them forever. What is this tanzanite? Get your shitty tanzanite out of here, so tldr here. is that diamonds are really hard and that hardness makes them incredibly useful for things like mining and I'm not just talking about Minecraft but real life where diamond tools are used to cut hard rock surfaces, drill bits for industrial drills massive or devils.

Even some of the basic drill bits in your home are covered in diamonds. They are also great because drilling into rock creates a lot of friction and the friction generates enough heat to melt or warp a carbide tip, but a diamond casing bit can deal with that. type of heat is fine because diamond has an extremely high melting point, so if diamonds are good enough for real world miners

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industrial equipment, then why am I making a

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that screws them up? Surely they must be good enough for an intrepid Minecraft adventurer, right, no diamonds. in fact harder than any other substance on earth or I guess in the world of Minecraft before the introduction of netherrite and its ability to withstand high temperatures is useful for many applications but the fact that diamonds are harder does not It means they are more resistant. the diamond, the absolute hardest, is the diamond, the toughest, not at all, and you will see that that is the real problem here.

Hardness is an actual scientific term defined as the ability of a material to resist fracture when force is applied and the two are actually inversely related. For an easy demonstration of this consider two bottles, one made of glass and one made of plastic. , clearly the plastic bottle is not as hard as the glass one, if you squeeze you can probably deform the plastic and it hurts much less if you hit your head with a piece of plastic. bottle than a glass one, the glass bottle is therefore sturdier, well not so fast, think about what happens if you drop both bottles on the floor or throw them against a wall, the plastic bottle will probably bounce a little, but overall it won't damage the glass.

On the other hand, the bottle is much more likely to break when dropped. Glass may be harder, but plastic is stronger. The harder something is, the more rigid it is, therefore the easier it is to break. All this to say that diamond is not unbreakable. all your jojo stands out there, in fact, as hard as it is, it's actually surprisingly easy to break, just look on youtube and there are dozens of videos of people breaking diamonds with basic hammers, hardness comes with a trade-off, diamonds They may take a little force before they deform, but when they deform, everything breaks at once.

What this means is that diamonds are great for some things but a terrible choice for others, for example in the real world diamonds are great for cutting, so it might make you think that "It would be ideal for cutting down a tree and you would have Absolutely right if you were using your Minecraft diamonds to cover a saw blade, but as any Minecraft player will tell you, trees aren't something you cut down, they're something you cut down and much of the cutting force of them. a cut comes from impact, something your purely diamond ax head won't take too kindly because a typical person swinging an ax will hit a tree with a blow equivalent to about 80 pounds of force and given the fact that a blow While less than 5 pounds of force may be enough to break a diamond, it's pretty safe to say that when the head of your diamond ax hits the tree, the tree won't be the one to break and we know that for sure.

The fact that the diamond is the only thing inside the ax head because we see the recipe to make it right there displayed on the screen, but hey, what about mining? We talked earlier about diamonds being used in industrial drill bits to help them cut through dirt. At the very least, the diamond pickaxe should be a viable tool for that half of the Minecraft equation, except it's not because of how easily it breaks. Diamond is terrible at breaking things, which is a big problem in the rock-breaking mining world of Minecraft. surfaces by striking them with a pickaxe made of pure diamond, a few misplaced blows of the ax and you will have shattered your bedazzled pickaxe into dust.

The reason it works for real world mining operations is because you're not hitting the rocks with the diamond, you're rubbing the rocks against the diamond, it's like very intense sandpaper, very expensive and of course the idea of Diamond armor is out the window, after all, an arrow that in the real world would travel at a speed of around 225 feet per second or 69 meters per second will have enough kinetic charge to cause damage to your armor and, As I mentioned before, the problem with diamond is that if its structure changes a little, it will break and break again.

The problem with diamond is that it can't be deformed to dent or scratch anything with enough force to bend it, it will break it, including a well-placed skeleton arrow, so, truth be told, diamond tools and armor are never so good to begin with, but at least now we have the right. New stronger material in the game. The fact that crafting Netherrite gear requires you to first have diamond gear implies that Netherright armor is at least part diamond, perhaps it's some sort of Netherrite diamond compound that makes both materials stronger when fused together. , unfortunately that's probably not the case.

While metals can be mixed with other metals to form more powerful alloys, diamond is no longer nice to others, it is a problem with its hardness, the things that make diamonds so hard are also what make them difficult When mixed with other materials, diamonds do not react chemically. which is great if you want a wedding ring that you can take with you to the shower, but terrible if you try to mix it with another material to make the diamond less brittle, which means that the almighty neterrite armor in Minecraft is just a diamond armor with a layer of netherites, which would explain why the color when you upgrade the armor goes from shiny diamond to a dull shade of what it's supposed to be, seriously, if it's supposed to be the prestige armor.

It should look brighter, but netherrite armor is not only a visual downgrade, it's also a terrible functional idea if all you're doing is covering diamond tools with a layer of what's supposed to be netherite, that means that you are not getting any of the benefits. of diamond while maintaining all the disadvantages of diamond, even if the bottom coating of your diamond armor is some kind of wonderful material that has all the good properties of a strong metal and doubles as a good and effective armor if the diamond plate in his chest is still It will be broken if the lower right layer is bent and then the sharp diamond that is only for cutting will not face the enemy, but will be pressed against your body.

Not only is diamond armor a bad idea to begin with, but taking it and then covering it with a layer of netherrite coating is an even worse idea that takes the silly idea of ​​diamond armor and actually makes it potentially more dangerous if that netherite stuff is so cool, just use it to make your armor and tools

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messing with all the stuff. brittle diamond material or maybe the real solution is to go back to basics, the ideal armor or the ideal tool for that matter should be made of a material that is strong and resilient, by strong I mean the scientific term to describe how much stress it can support a material before.

It deforms and is resistant. How much can they resist fracture after being cracked? How about gold? The old butter armor. Well, gold has great tenacity. It is what is known as a soft metal, but it has little strength due to the ease with which it bends. No, it turns out our old standby iron works great on both scales. It is not too soft like gold, but it also does not break easily like diamond. Of all the minerals available in the game, iron will be the best option if you want it even stronger, go back to that crafting table and add a little more carbon to that iron and you will get steel or at least you would in the world really and honestly tooYou should be able to craft steel in Minecraft considering that coal exists in this game and coal is just a big chunk of carbon, not to mention the fact that steel has already been shown to exist in this universe in the form of flint and steel.

I know a lot of mods do steal an actual ore in the game, but the game itself should be accessible and would be stronger than literally any other ore currently in the game. I know what the game mechanics say, but my true allegiance has to be to real science, maybe one of these days we'll get a patch. that makes the crafting system more scientifically precise and the most exciting part of crafting will be deciding if you want a three percent carbon or six percent carbon steel alloy as for all those diamonds, well maybe you should use them on your hose after all. but hey, that's just a theory, a game theory, thanks for watching and well, while diamond may not be the best for cutting down trees, isn't that a good thing?

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