akkamaddi's Golden Glitter
An add-on for Simple Ores that introduces three new gold-based alloys into the game. These materials are designed for the early game stage and have moderate durability, with two of them potentially useful for players working with redstone circuits.
Alloys and Their Features
Rose Gold is a copper-gold alloy for the initial game stage with universal application. The Erubescent Gold, Scarlatite Gold, and Hephaestan Gold alloys allow creating powerful, though quite brittle swords, pickaxes, axes, and shovels (but not hoes or armor). All four alloys are oriented towards early game, so they are easy to craft. They are all produced only as large ingots without medium or small variants.
Crafting Recipes
- Rose Gold: Copper + Gold Nugget (only with rose dye)
- Erubescent Gold: Gold Ingot catalyst + two Redstone Dust (large ingots only)
- Scarlatite Gold: Erubescent Gold Ingot catalyst + two Redstone Dust (large ingots only)
- Hephaestan Gold: Scarlatite Gold Ingot catalyst + two Lava Buckets (large ingots only)
These recipes create exclusively large ingots, which are then smelted into ingots.
Alloy Characteristics
Rose Gold is copper with a small addition of gold, which increases corrosion resistance and durability, and allows maintaining a sharp blade edge. Crafting requires combining a copper ingot with a gold nugget (not ingot) using rose dye as a catalyst. This allows one gold ingot to produce nine Rose Gold ingots. Durability is close to iron, working speed is slightly higher, and enchantability is better than copper. However, tools have the same mining level as copper, and armor is only slightly more effective (but better suited for enchanting).
Erubescent Gold is created by combining one gold ingot with two portions of redstone. By absorbing redstone, the gold becomes very energy-saturated. It can hold a very sharp edge, although energy bursts during use make it brittle and prone to breaking. Despite brittleness, Erubescent Gold can mine obsidian. For those who cannot find diamonds or spare them for a pickaxe, a pickaxe made from this alloy will mine enough obsidian for a Nether portal with some extra pieces. However, it also mines stone very quickly, damaging the tool. This unstable energy makes a sword from Erubescent Gold very powerful but prone to breaking during extended combat.
Scarlatite Gold is produced by recombining an Erubescent Gold ingot with two additional portions of redstone. It is even more powerful than Erubescent Gold but much more stable. It can mine resources very quickly and has sufficient strength to easily mine most known ores.
Hephaestan Gold is a powerful alloy with amazing cutting ability but low durability (though significantly higher than Scarlatite). It is crafted by combining a Scarlatite Gold ingot with two buckets of lava. Because of this, large ingots must be crafted individually.
Erubescent, Scarlatite, and Hephaestan Gold cannot be used to create armor as they are too brittle. Additionally, they are not used to make hoes as that would be wasteful.
Additional Applications
Erubescent and Scarlatite Gold can be used to infuse rails with redstone energy. Using a shapeless recipe, mix three regular rail blocks with one Erubescent Gold ingot or seven with one Scarlatite Gold ingot. Red Gold Powered Rails function like regular rails—they do not change minecart speed or activate special minecarts. However, they emit a constant redstone charge up to 15 blocks away. They can activate adjacent activator or powered rails, as well as other redstone circuits and items. Additionally, Red Gold Rails emit light as bright as a Jack-o-lantern (luminance 1.0), which helps keep rail tunnels well-lit. Red Gold Rails can be straight or curved, unlike other special rails, but they cannot be switched (they are sources of redstone power, so any corners are permanently powered by the rail itself and cannot be turned 'off').
Additional Features
Storage blocks for Erubescent and Scarlatite Gold glow. Erubescent Gold blocks glow only dimly, being slightly brighter than moonlight. However, Scarlatite Gold blocks glow as bright as a Jack-o-lantern and thus prevent nearby mob spawning. All four blocks, as well as the rails, have particles. These can be configured in the configuration file. By default, the "Make Rose Gold Blocks Hideous" option is false. If enabled, Rose Gold blocks will be surrounded by a cloud of hearts. This is really intended for creative mode, unless you want to build your villagers a Tunnel of Love. The three options for "sparkle" make the Erubescent Gold block emit a small cloud of redstone particles, the Scarlatite Gold block will emit a larger cloud of redstone particles along with a smaller cloud of white sparkles, while Hephaestan Gold emits redstone particles and flames. These can be disabled if it helps computer performance, but they are set to true by default.
For those who enjoy redstone circuits: Erubescent, Scarlatite, and Hephaestan Gold blocks emit a permanent redstone pulse. A Scarlatite Gold block emits a pulse up to eleven (11) blocks away, while Erubescent Gold emits up to seven (7) blocks. Hephaestan only emits a charge for five (5) blocks. For comparison, a redstone block emits a pulse 15 blocks away.
The Hephaestan Gold sword harnesses the power of the forge's flame. Being struck by this sword ignites targets for a short time (this is similar to the Fyrite sword from Netherrocks, but the fire does not last as long, and it cannot be used like flint and steel).
