Talk:Emerald

PLEASE only make decent contributions. Do not say "there is no known use". It should be generally left alone until it is released.

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I was playing around and I put them in the crafting table. Before they said emerald but after i put them in the crafting table their name changed diamond. It seems like a bug but does anyone else have this problem? Killrbladez 21:57, 24 May 2012 (UTC)

Uses
Do you think that you will ever be able to make armor and tools with these? They don't do much right now, and i would love a green pickaxe! ZeCraftyMiner 01:21, 25 May 2012 (UTC)

No offence, but that is the worst idea ive ever heard. Emerald armor would look terrible, plus it would be really wasteful. Emeralds are perfect the way they are (as money).

But that's your opinion. If they added them as tools and armor, you would not have to use them for that purpose. You make think that Green pants would look bad, but i think they would look cool. I don't care too much if it is an impractical use, because it is still a use. And isn't that the overall idea of Minecraft? To do what you want, how you want to do it? I am just saying that it could be in the game at some point in the future, and that i am not the only one who thinks this is a good idea, just like you are not the only one who thinks this is a bad idea. ZeCraftyMiner 01:43, 26 May 2012 (UTC)

It's only the people who only play on creative who think this, us survival people care about practicality more than pretty green pants. 68.2.171.84 19:08, 26 May 2012 (UTC)

I only play survival. I haven't loaded a creative world in months. But i still want to have another use for emeralds because what if i don't want to do trading? ZeCraftyMiner 16:31, 28 May 2012 (UTC)

Alright, look. Lets forget about Tools and armor, because everyone but me thinks it is a terrible idea. Instead what do you think about emerald blocks? they could be used as storage, and as a building material. ZeCraftyMiner 18:13, 28 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Next time, I think it helps to read (hint hint look down a bit) :P Funky3000 22:45, 28 May 2012 (UTC)

If u want emerald armor and tools why not create a MOD? If you don't know how why don't you just ask someone by 1.3 release? PokeRED123 00:37, 29 May 2012 (UTC)

Yea, i noticed the article below. I was trying to change the subject. And i asked what you think about the addition of emerald blocks, not if they where going to be added. But forget it. I give up. ZeCraftyMiner 04:09, 29 May 2012 (UTC)

PLEASE ADD EMERALD ARMOR AND TOOLS! MarioBrandon P.S. (Still By MarioBrandon) They Should Be 2x Stronger Than Diamonds!!!

DONT ADD EMERALD ARMOR/TOOLS 68.2.171.84 05:46, 29 May 2012 (UTC) P.S. THAT EMERALD BLOCK IDEA WAS MADE BY ME!!!!

@ZeCraftyMiner, The equipment would be weird to balance due to how much emeralds snowball when you have villagers. Currency in Minecraft is an odd concept that we should let even out some before we state what we want from it. That being said, I agree uses for Emeralds would be neat. Emerald Blocks alone are pretty cool, and it's nice to add a little more green to the solid block palette. It also looks like a great way to store the many emeralds people could easily get through farming. Trading doesn't feel completely finished, but after it is, I can't wait to see what they'll do with them. Pognet 11:17, 30 May 2012 (UTC)

Emerald Blocks!
Emerald blocks would be great for storing large amounts of emeralds. 68.2.171.84 05:47, 29 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Wish granted. http://i.imgur.com/iyB3O.png Funky3000 16:36, 28 May 2012 (UTC)

Zelda?
I think emeralds look very similar to green gems used as currency in Zelda Avdenture in AdventureCraft. Jeb may have inspired them from it. Xeoxer 14:30, 25 May 2012 (UTC)

I think they just looks stupid (no offense to Zelda) ,they shall look more 'rough' --79.47.163.57 17:23, 25 May 2012 (UTC)

Who cares about Zelda! I kind of agree with 79.47.163.57. When you mine them, emeralds should look uncut and raw. But you should be able to smelt them and turn them into the versions of emeralds that there are now.68.2.171.84 00:26, 26 May 2012 (UTC)

You can't smelt an emerald, you have to chisle(cut) it.

Did i do something wrong? Because i put up trivia referencing on emeralds and it was gone the next day Heres exactly what i put on the trivia section put up by me: The Emerald has a small resemblance to the rupees from the legend of zelda series. anything wrong about that? PokeRED123 00:28, 29 May 2012 (UTC) I know about the chieseling, but that would be too complex for minecrraft68.2.171.84 05:48, 29 May 2012 (UTC)

I don't understand the problem with perfectly cut emeralds. It's a similar thing with diamonds, and a texture pack would be an easy fix for both of them. If you really want to add a step to the process, then you should make a mod, because naturally occurring emerald is going to be enough of a hassle already. Also, while they are reminiscent of Zelda rupees, emeralds are less oblong, come in one color so far, and seem to be worth a bit more. Also, to quote the person who deleted the "Zelda Trivia," "The design is in no way specific to any media. It is an extremely common gem design." Pognet 11:55, 30 May 2012 (UTC)

It's preatty obvious that they look like rupees, maybe the flavour text will reference that (it would be fun if you could craft 5 into a blue rupee, 10 into a red rupee, 50 into a silver rupee and 100 into a gold one, would make them awesome for decorative purpouses).

Diamonds called emeralds in code = false
Diamonds are not technically called "emeralds" in Minecraft's original source code as it is when you buy it. They are called something like "ccb" or otherwise, because the code is obfuscated.

The mistake of calling diamonds Emeralds in the code is the people who did Minecraft Coder Pack. If I remember correctly Notch didn't tell us how to de-obfuscate the code nor did he provide an answer key, so for all we know the code he originally made (pre-obfuscation) could have called diamonds "thoseShinyBlueThings". (not that it did, we just don't know for sure) 216.175.102.133 02:15, 1 June 2012 (UTC)

Ahem. minecraft.jar/lang/en_us.lang 60.241.224.44 10:55, 12 June 2012 (UTC)

Emerald
well i think armour and tools made out of emerald is a great idea because emerald can only be used as blocks and its twice as hard to find than diamond which makes no sence at all, and green is an awsome colour and i think it would look great, and yes beacuse it is twice as hard to find if you do make armour and tools out of emerald they should be twice as strong and last longer, not saying that your going to do that, but i think more people would like emerald to do more than just decoration than people just wanting it to do nothing but blocks.

p.s gold and diamonds both are used for tools/armour and emerald is a valible ore as well even viable than diamond so it to should be made into tools and armour. 15/6/2012 thanks sincerely Tizza.

Actually,it would be hard to balance out due to the fact just spamming bonemeal in an NPC village and get you emeralds pretty fast,it would be OP(Over Powered) plus it is also used to trade with villagers(that was before it was a block and it still is trade! Russell4 16:20, 4 July 2012 (UTC)

Why Not Gold?
I have something to bring up, why are emeralds being added as money? there is a much better/easier/more needed thing to use already. GOLD. Gold has almost no use other than clocks, powered mine tracks, gold apples, and some really bad armor. Plus, gold just makes more sense. It would seem so much more normal if villagers were asking for gold and gold nuggets than emeralds. I just don't understand why they would pass that up. Adding a whole new block to spawn with an awkward concept seems useless to me.