Wandering traders selling biome maps is an amazing way to introduce that mechanic to the vanilla game.

for me, what minecraft survival is missing is buildings being actually useful for defense, not only environment, but the players

The Farmer’s Delight mod showed me just how much better Minecraft’s food system could be. Simply allowing the base-game food items to be combined in more complex ways for greater benefits would go a long way to helping fix the hunger system.

Giving reason to make Villagers Move Freely is the greatest thing

Out of all languages he chose to speak in facts...

42:17 I still find it ridiculous how they decided to remove this mechanic because it was "too laggy," because they programmed it so that all mobs would constantly check for exploding creepers every tick, instead of doing the much more efficient method of having the game detect a creeper exploding and cause nearby mobs to run within a radius of that specific creeper. So basically only the creeper would do the check, and only _during_ the fuse timer.

These 2 videos really opened my eyes to how much potential Minecraft has that is just waiting to be tapped into. Seeing the development of the mod also gave me inspiration to learn modding myself. Awesome video man, good luck on you and your team with the mod!

There were a couple mechanics i wasn't quite sold on but he is so great at explaining the features and reasoning behind them and they are so well throught out that he pretty much convinced me of all of it.

You should be able to get slime balls from fishing. In a lot of people’s worlds you’ll never come across a swamp or a slime chunk, and finding slime in a natural body of water just makes sense. Rivers can be gross sometimes and it shows a slime drowned there

The idea of giving horses potions before breeding to give buffs used to (not sure if it still does) actually work in bedrock edition but only worked with leaping and swiftness

Most of your ideas are actually awesome. It's nice to see someone who understands minecraft (and its problems) at a deeper level than whining something about good ol' days. I always keep forward for your next videos on this topic. Keep a good work and have a great day!

I always thought that making fish swim away when the player approached them would be a nice feature to add

The 1.22 blogpost was a joke, but unironically if this was 1.22 it would be the greatest update.

Idk, to be honest, the netherite anvil is a clever solution, but I also feel like it undermines the limitations you put on enchanting in the first place. The curses opening up more enchantment slots feels more elegant imo.

Another thing is the current loot tables, for example the end city loot still has beetroot seeds for no reason because they were added in the same update. Maybe add tipped arrows, or even normal potions to loot so they are exciting to come across

I love the enchantment idea because theres also the idea that if you have more of the same book it has a better chance so have to balance consistency with power if you don't have enough books

villager slavery has got to go in every way, it is fucking insane that enslaving people is part of the main most optimal progression of minecraft. Iron farms should come from another mob.

a sandbox allows the players to find creative solutions to their problems but in minecraft all the solutions r already made for u

"if we can teach people that villagers require exercising and socialization to be happy, maybe it would teach them that we need it too" if those kids could read they would be very offended

I have a document with all the changes I think Minecraft needs and its crazy how similar some of these are to my ideas. I feel like you generally understand the balance between difficulty, vanilla feeling, and creative freedom that is needed. Well thought through.

I really think in addition to all that, it really needs to be said, please for the love of god Mojang ADD A TUTORIAL. A specific tutorial world; or a guidebook that you spawn with that gives information as you come across one entity, item, location or biome; or even just a pop-up with it's own UI to tell players what is going on. You can't expect ALL players to be fully aware about everything in the game, why does it matter if you fix fishing, if any new player wouldn't understand or even know fishing exist. Minecraft has had a "Wiki Game" problem for so long we really need it.

What a great follow up video! The atlas is amazing. Ready to ship. No notes. Mojang hire this man. I think the enchanting ideas are going in a great direction. I'm still not sold on biome specific trades for both gameplay and astetic reasons. I like the idea of enchantments leveling up with villagers instead of combining books because 3+3=4? What if librarians didnt know any magic but instead had slots to 'learn' from the player placing an enchanted book into a lecturn and trading them a book and quill to lock it in and leveling them up increases the enchantment level. I think the chiseled shelf should remove all rng from the table. 14 regular and 1 chiseled you could control what you put on for an increased cost. The goal being to create a magical library as you explore and loot and really feel and see your progression as your collection grows in size and power.

I love your suggestions! Minecraft's community are great with idea-making

I remember that a mod Map Atlas exists, this is basically exactly what I wanted from minecraft maps like in this video.

I for one am a great fan of your enchanting system changes. The system itself is a big improvement, but also the over-enchanted items do wonders to improve the looting systems for exploring, without adding “new” stuff. In tandem with your other changes like the tool belt, it feels like a great addition

I think instead of putting ingots into fishing loot pools (which tbh doesn't make much sense, even compared to the other fishing items) they should add new types of fish that do different things (whether being a potion ingredient or better food source) which can ONLY be obtained through fishing. I also think that more items than just spider eyes should be usable as bait, such as rotten flesh, phantom membranes, glow ink sacs, rabbits foot, tropical fish, etc. And each type of bait could effect your odds of catching different things (like, what if they had a more expensive item to use as bait, which increases the odds of getting treasure, and other bait increases the chance of fish or junk? That could work nicely I think).

All I'm gonna say is, keep making videos like this. I adore videos that address key issues with the game and it's mechanics and clever ways on how they can be fixed.

I feel like we should provide an alternative for late game iron other than golem farms. Maybe adding a miner villager that can trade iron. And creating underground ore-rich vein underground biome. When a miner regularly visit such a biome, his supplies and prices increase. Finally we should give special tools to guide the miner to their favorite biome

To add to the food changes, more of the expensive or rare or hard to use foods could have some other bonus utility, like extra fast consumption speeds. Pumpkin pie is a good candidate. Gapples give magic effects, garrots give superb saturation, and pie slides right down the gullet.

Just watched part 1 and found out there’s a part 2 love your ideas

36:56 I have another idea for the rearing mechanic: Police horses are trained to tolerate pain and are trained to not be startled as easily. My idea is that, the longer you train a horse in a combat situation, the less it will rear back. Of course, this could also come with the drawback of recently tamed horses being very prone to rearing. Another idea, this time for the coal beacon: Night Vision is amazing, but the beacon should also have the functionality of a torch, acting as a deterrent in a wide radius. Coal beacon range starts at normal beacon range. NV effect has +5 base range compared to the torch function. Tier 1: Night Vision, Medium hostile mob spawn rates. Tier 2: NV, Low Spawn rates. Tier 3: NV, No Spawns. Tier 4+: +5 Range per Tier.

I really liked your fishing ideas. Adding bait is a great way to balance early and late game. And with the autocrafter everything can still be automated for those who want to put in the effort.

the simple paint drawing funilly enough shows the biggest issue with most progression mods, either nerfing everything so heavily it becomes a chore to even progress to stone tools or just uncapping the few limits the game has with minimal effort to reach the modded content. these two videos are honestly the most well thought out critiques of the game i've seen, not just pointing at the problem and saying a suggestion out of obligation but actually considering game design and progression paths throughout, like netherite anvils with over enchanting would never come up in the usual minecraft is too easy video. there is one thing i would like to add though and it isn't so much game balance related as it is feedback related, and that would be mobs interacting with the enviroment naturally. key word on naturally because the only post notch mob to interact with the terrain is the wither which has to be summoned, with one additional interaction given to zombies breaking down doors, with just those 2 exceptions the mobs ability to interact with the terrain has remained the same since beta which is honestly ashame and with mob ai being changed to need line of sight to track it is way way too easy to make them forget you by placing a wall anywhere. something as simple as memorising the cords they last saw the player and having to check the location before deagroing would be great, and with how easy it is to place blocks it should be fair mobs be able to interact with them, the creeper and spider are fine as is but the zombies already break doors so why not have them dig blocks as well? limit it to 1 or two because they're basic but endermen who are easily exploited with a floating ceiling could pick up and place behind them rapidly, enough to slow them down to get hits in but fast enough you need to repair your bunker. and the warden being big and hunking and needing to use a sonic blast to hit the player, save the ranged attack for when the player are above them but when they're on or in the ground, make them dig a chunk out like the wither does, having them be able to dig through the ancient cities walls as they sprint at you would legitimately be terrifying. also small buff to pets to make them more useful, make them proactive instead of reactive, instead of attacking a mob you hit or has hit you, make them react to them agroing directly, have cats chase away agro creepers instead of ignoring them, make parrots sound out when a mob agros onto you when you haven't been in combat for awhile, and then allow mobs to directly agro onto your pets as well, then you could diffrenciate wolves pack behaviour of also reacting when other wolves get agroed much like they do when wild against the player or foxes which only care about themselves cause they sorta just mob together. also beacons should affect tamed mobs not just ridables, regen and resistance are already broken on the player so having them on your pets would stop them randomly dying in your base to a stray mob they decide to attack.

All I want is fun combat and chill time with the homies.

Good video. I'm really on board with the run stamina system. I've been theory crafting my own potential changes to the game and my thought was to boost the hunger drain of heavy armours (especially iron), but separating the ability to sprint into a simple adjacent "stamina" mechanic is brilliant. I can envision sweet berries and honey bottles becoming a niche item rather than being entirely useless under this mechanic

A note on removing the ability to enchant books from the table, maybe allow the grindstone, which is used to "Repair and Disenchant" to disenchant by moving some of the enchantments onto a book

I think all of the ideas you have presented here have great merit! These changes would do a lot to encourage fun gameplay loops instead of tedium (in my opinion). I get the feeling that a version/mod with these changes would be exploration focused and players would be encouraged to engage meaningfully with the game world! I'm going to spend a while thinking over all of the ideas you presented here!

I really hope all these changes become mods. I doubt theyll be official, but I absolute adore these ideas. They really do feel vanilla, or atleast vanilla ftom a universe where the game went a different path.

Small pushback on having bigger food cost more use time; I added that system and it sucks. All it does is make your finger hurt from having to hold down the button for so long. It was removed milliseconds into playtesting from just being such an annoyance. There was also an issue where some of the smaller food items became really overtuned as they provided more saturation per second.

Sense so many people want to add more food to the game, I've actually had an idea that would give a point to that. You see, the thing about adding more food to the game Is that the only things food affects are hunger and saturation (which is pretty much just an extra layer of hunger in its current system), making there be not a lot of room for food to serve different nieces, which would make having a variety of food sources do nothing but take up more space. This ultimately leads the only point of adding more food to be for immersion reasons. My solution: Make it so that food can heal hunger _and_ health. This would make it so that different foods can have different niches depending upon how much they emphasize healing versus hunger restoration. Since healing is more useful, these would largely be balanced by being less stackable, unless they're harder to attain. Items like soups/stews, beet roots, and pork chops could be more focused on healing, while other items can be more focused around hunger. Instant heel potions could maintain their relevance by being the most stackable way to heal In high amounts, at the cost of being more expensive, or just give more uses for potions that instant heel potions can be integrated into. The healing effects of hunger would have to be nerf or removed in order to make this work, but I think this will give space for more food variety, while also bringing back some of the old game design older fans have been missing.

First, I was like bro is yappin. Then, I realized... Nah, bro is cooking 🔥🔥🔥

1:04 "I'll give you a second to go do that." *Meanwhile the first video is almost an hour long...* XD

i still maintain that minecraft, like most games, would benefit from implementing Warframe's modular upgrade system.

Re: Totems Make totems from mansions the same as current vanilla totems and ones dropped from raids have to be activated like a shield. A defective totem or smth

21:40 I have seen in a mod for Minecraft alpha called NSSS, a running mechanic where depending on how much health the player has, they will have more or less time to run and then have a rest. And if we can add that now the hunger bar will only decrease if the player is regenerating health, but does not regenerate health when he is running, meaning that the less life he has, the faster he stops running he will be able to regenerate his health until the hunger bar Stamina is full (as far as the health bar is full) I don't know if you understood me correctly, I only recommend you see the mod.

loved all of these, glad projects like this exist

really looking forward for the mod !

Your first video is probably the best critique of Minecraft I've ever seen.

Mojang need to hire this man instantly

These really are some great points. Working with what is already there instead of adding more and more one use features. It is strange how much survival isn’t really survival anymore. Maybe if they had a “true survival mode” as a bridge between survival and hardcore. Maybe including more actual progression locked features in said mode.

You are 100% right about saturation not being clearly told to the player, I have been playing since release on console and I always thought it was just heal when full hunger. Didn't know saturation existed till I used a java client, I don't remember which one but it showed saturation, back in 2022

awesome! the ides for the map system sound great! :)

Good videos, I agree with pretty much most of your points, also unexpected Truman Show at the end

then theres that one guy making a mod with all these changes

I forget if this was talked about in the first video, but I feel like structures spawn too frequently, I wish the game felt more lonely and felt more like your own world. but to expand onto difficulty structure rate could change depending on how hard you set the game, and I feel like it would be nice to have full control of what structures spawned and at what rate. it would be kinda similar to creating a superflat world in legacy console edition where you could control the frequency and if villages spawned, but in this case it would apply to all structures. Oh and if we're talking about customizing structure frequency and stuff why not be able to control many more world parameters, similar to how you could back in 1.12, but maybe this time if possible the ability to mess with world height and world border. And for the people who don't feel like making their own presets there could be premade world presets to go along with that.

Some of these are really good! I tend to feel like some core systems of minecraft need to be rebuilt from scratch to be truly 'fixed' but there are some really good compromises here!

I initially hated your enchantment system from the previous video, but the more i thought about it, the more I liked it. I like the choices that it forces you to make, however the main part of it I disagreed with was the cost/limit, as it felt too low. This is something that would require playtesting and balancing, but after thinking about it, this was pretty much my only issue with your system. Now I have to think about how the netherite anvil changes things, and I'm not sure how to feel about it. On one hand, I like that it removes the cap, but on the other, I also have an initial negative reaction to losing mending. One thing I LOVE, though, is the chiseled bookshelf idea. I've wanted the enchantment table to be more useful for AGES, and this idea both makes sense, feels like it would fit in the game, AND makes the enchantment table more useful. I feel like the stamina system could be helped by some extra enchantments, too. Maybe something that makes you recharge stamina faster or makes your stamina get consumed slower. That way, the player would have means to negate the effects of the system in the endgame, which when combined with the enchanting system, would offer the player a choice between whether they want more protection, stamina uptime, or more durability (maybe two of these, but again, that just goes back to balancing needing to be done). Really good stuff again! I really like these ideas, and I appreciate how you're making me think about all these things in the game that I haven't really considered that much

haha your enchantment fix is what i agreed with the most. can't believe that was the most hated part!

I can't help but compare Minecraft's villager system to the NPC system in Terraria. I hate that I can't see the villagers as people but only resources. I wish this game had something similar. Mechanically similar, too. You shouldn't have ANY control over what they sell. What they sell is what you get

for the maps it's wierd how they haven't added the lagacy console feature of displaying cordinates on the map and starting with a map. Like having a map in the offhand was something i always did back on ps3 and having cordinates on a map just makes sense

Also an idea I had is armor trims giving certain effects for example costal trims making u swim faster or something

Honestly I think Netherite in general is very poorly implemented. They released an update that everyone was begging for, which overhauled cave generation and made exploration so much more exciting. Yet ancient debris is implemented in such a way that the best way to get it is to simply strip mine the bottom of the Nether. It's bafflingly awful.

This is the first video of these "I fixed Mincraft" ones that I'll give a like. You are not trying to turn MC into some other game, or make it harder because "I WANT HARDCORE SURVIVING!", you are improving it while keeping it's heart of the ultimate freedom. I liked a lot of the ideas and would totally try them in a mod. I still have an issue with the word "fix". Minecraft is not broken and doesn't need fixing. However some improvements are always welcome. And special thanx for Skyrim music!!

For the beacons segment, I like the concept but i feel that they should need 1 layer for teir 1 and 2 layers for teir 2 since a netherite beacon is practically unattainable

Dude this is a small detail but I LOVE the way that you credit the music as it appears in the video in a non intrusive way so that people like me can find it easily. A very chad move. I also really appreciate going out of your way to add custom subtitles, I always get a little sad when I see videos lacking this level of quality and attention to detail.

I think making the map similar to what Animal Well has could be a good idea, just let the player draw and erase over the map, maybe with ink sacs or dyes to have different colors

Amazing videos. I didn't really think I'd be able to find the patience to watch these two 1 hour videos back to back, but here I am, astonished. Your ideas are great and I hope they get more wide spread recognition!

honestly my favorite change is the stamina. no longer is the way to end fights durability

I keep hearing about how people want a tutorial, and wanting a sort of guide book, but like, The console Tutorial world would be perfect! So you arent giving things to players that they would throw away if they were vets of the game.

For the enchanting 2 segment, I do partially disagree with the flat-out removal of enchanted books. You could make them low level enchants (level 1 or 2) and then make players use an idea I've seen about combining 2 same level books in an anvil to push it 1 level higher for a great cost. It would fix the abundance of high level enchants and make it more of an effort. You are absolutely cooking though, great job!

I absolutley LOVED the ferris buelers day off and portal references. Also, this video is AMAZING!

i LOVE that map book idea. genius

Something on the Fishing Section that I think could be cool, is make there be "effect fish" that give very little in the way of food, but give you say, 10-30 seconds of an effect. Make them uncommon but not rare, and I honestly think they'd be a fun addition to the game, maybe even let certain fish be fished up in certain biomes. The effect that comes to mind immediately for me is Fire Resistance maybe being fished up out of water in the Desert (If possible maybe even make them fished up out of Desert Wells), and things like Strength, Night Vision, and other things that could be nice little tools throughout the game. This is just an idea that came to mind because Terraria exists and I love that game, and I like Fishing in Minecraft when it feels rewarding.

Keep up the good work (also just boosting the algorithm o-o)

Wow, this video is filled with amazing ideas! I love your analysis of the current playstyle meta and suggestions for improvements, let's hope someone at Mojang sees this!

The idea of a map book/atlas really resonated with me. i love that and would love that near exact implementation in a mod.

While I do agree survival should have some more focus on the survival aspect, I actually feel like Minecraft's best attributes come out through building, even while in survival. You talk about hollow knight, which is a tight metroidvania game with really good combat mechanics. Minecraft currently just doesn't have anything even close to as satisfying to master. But building IS something that Minecraft can be good at. I really enjoy the create mod for that aspect. It really forces you to think spatially, and if you choose to you can also design things to look much better as well. It feels quite satisfying when you set up these factories as well. Obviously Minecraft isn't just about automation, but at the core of the game it is about building things, and if somehow that were to be incentivized more (like what you said about the bed requirements) in a way like Valheim does, it would benefit greatly. Also side note, speaking of Valheim, I think nether portal travel is a tad bit OP, and think there should be some trade off just like how Valheim has it for its portals. This would incentivize traveling in the overworld more and maybe setting up railways. At least before the elytra is obtained.

Amazing video and that innovative hunger sistem is amazing!

I usually watch hour long KZfaq videos in 5-10 minute increments.... Not this time. Setting aside 1 hour tonight to absorb this all at once. I can't wait.

I searched on yt for your first video then was very pleasantly surprised to see you've expanded on your already amazing ideas!! Very inspiring stuff, I'm even working on my own similar video :)

Why are the chapters not showing up on the seekbar? It's definitely formatted correctly in the description... I swear if KZfaq removes another useful feature for the fun of it...

What my fix to enchantments would be? Simple! Make, them, CRAFTABLE! There are so many useless items in minecraft and with this we can knock two birds out with one stone

I feel like these "changes" that all KZfaqrs make misses the point of what makes a game fun to play beyond finishing the game. The main way to get players coming back to your game is through 2 important aspects of game design: Skill Expression and Limitations An example of Skill Expression is the updated combat back in the Combat Update; adding more techniques, rewarding the player for improved skill and their execution of that skill. The upcoming Mace also falls under this term, as its power is directly impacted by the player's skill with movement. An example of Limitations is actually in this video, with the Phantoms change. Adding a limitation to skipping the night; that being needing to create some sort of safe structure; incentivizes interacting with base building, an aspect to Minecraft that's very appealing to newer gamers but is seemingly unnecessary at higher-level play. (For instance, my "base" in my hardcore world is a bed and a bunch of chests out in the open desert air; why make a base when it doesn't benefit me?) See, the way Minecraft rewards the player is by optimizing things that were once difficult, and this is great for progression, but the problem comes when there's nothing more to optimize. You have the best gear, you have all the resources in the world, you have full beacons, a bunch of farms, and can defeat any boss or raid or anything the game throws at you. THAT is where Minecraft falters. Because it has optimized all of the skill and limiting factors out of the game. You can't die. Resources are easy as ever to collect. So, what do people do to express their skill? Make crazy bases and redstone contraptions and farms; but those things are not core parts of the game, so if you aren't interested in redstone, or building overly optimized farms, or spending weeks on end creating a bonkers base, then you will be left with nothing to do. So you quit. Mojang understands this problem and has tried to address it with the addition of the Deep Dark, and the upcoming Trial Chambers. Especially the Ancient Cities. The process of finding an Ancient City, tensely crawling your way trying to get rid of all the shriekers just to inevitably spawn the Warden is incredibly well done, and can keep even veteran players on their toes. And, hopefully, the Trial Chambers will continue this trend. They also improved mining with the Caves and Cliffs update; now, if you want more resources like Diamonds, going and finding a big cave to explore is just as efficient as strip mining. Strip mining is boring, let's be real, but exploring caves is fun, as you get to gather extra resources, find new biomes, and engage in combat. You get your Diamonds, but you also get a bunch of other cool stuff to do in the process, making it far less tedious. In terms of changes in this video; 31 Netherite Ingots for an anvil that will break is ridiculous. Diamond armor is easy to get, but each piece upgraded to Netherite is a massive achievement, a showcase of your triumph over Piglin Bastions and the Nether itself. Now, make it something that the player has to repeat over and over even after they got what they want, and you've created an incredibly tedious mechanic. Just make Netherite anvils not break (which would make sense, its stronger than Diamond). This makes the anvil also an achievement that won't turn into a tedious task; the anvil that unlocks the TRUE late-game armor, even if it does need extra maintaining. Getting Netherite is something you should not overdo, since gathering Netherite Scrap is extremely out-of-the-way and doesn't give the player much else to do, unless they REALLY like Netherrack or REALLY like finding and looting Piglin Bastions over and over and over. The limitation on enchanting is nice, but there's a difference between a good limitation, and just pure tedium. The Librarian change also falls under this, as levelling a villager up to max level takes a lot of time and resources, especially finding the biome you need can be super annoying, and the player doesn't get any alternative experiences from the process. This would be especially bad if those enchantments were random; each biome should have only ONE high-level enchant. Overall, I think that a lot of these changes have a good concept behind them, limiting some things to give the player more dynamic choices. But you need to make sure and avoid tedium, and allow skill expression within those limitations, which some of these ideas miss by just a bit. They could all definitely be tweaked to be improved, though. I know you've made two videos already, but I'd love to see a third :) Keep up the good work! (And, thanks for reading my massive word vomit of a comment, if you're seeing this lol)

All these ideas are great, and I would say "They should add them right now!!!!" However, if they did, the the community would literally kill Mojang. You see, the community likes updates, but not really changes to the game. Even when they tried just changing the piston sound, it was immediately reverted because people hated it so much. P.S I think your fishing ideas were good, although I think you should just leave normal fishing as it is and then add the bait fishing separately.

2:38 it’s funny reading those comments and how each side presents themselves (pfp, gramma, attitude)

I’ve always wanted a way to go fight the dragon in peaceful- I like the idea of mob behavior changing in peaceful so hostile mobs become passive and there are non violent ways to obtain materials which still require some level of skill. Like maybe trading with witches to get redstone and bottles instead of killing them, or shearing zombies into skeletons for rotten flesh, or using a fishing rod to pull blaze rods off a blaze. I like Minecraft for mining and building so peaceful fits my play style better haha. The end fight would still be a fight as normal but with different difficulties. Idk lol

any ideas on what should be done about beds skipping night too easily?

This is incredible. I now want to learn modding just to implement this one video

Please please please make all of the changes Into a mod. Mojang will take a ton of time to implement the changes and will probably exlude many changes to "retain the vanila experience". This would actually be an awesome and very welcome mod, which would save the game for many players.

Nowadays MC Normal difficulty should be Very Easy mode, for ones that doesn't seek challenge. And features you were speaking about should gradually take place as difficulty rises.

This is a very simple idea, but sniffers should sniff up new potion ingredients. Maybe they could even give you different plants depending on which biome they're in

I agree with just about everything except stamina. Not because it's a bad idea, but being able to sprint constantly has been engrained in peoples mind for almost 13 nows, the community would throw a fit if that was changed.

Phenomenal ideas!! Hopefully you can find a way to at least make a mod for changes like this. It could end up a must-have for those looking for more longevity for their Minecraft sessions!!

i love these ideas sm. hope mojang listens

42:11 god damn you, how could you do this to me?

The wandering trader only spawning on natural blocks would take him away from skyblock.

i like your idea of the villager changes

I want baby parrots :(

i feel like you should give your items some kind of upgrade so they can be used in the netherite anvil. maybe in an end update you can get an enderite upgrade template which is used with enderite ingots (this is assuming they add a new rare ore in the end) and then used on the tools in a smithing table then they are able to be used in the netherite anvil. I also think lapis should be used in anvils similarly to enchantment tables to give it more use.

Making the game harder is not the way, I think this game should try to stick to it's creative sandbox game roots. That being said here me out on how difficulty could be tweaked in my opinion: So, if you want for example make eating take longer, make it so that this only and gradually applies to harder difficulties, that way the difficulties actually do something. I furthermore think that introducing world difficulties would be a nice addition, similar to Terraria. Harder worlds could have different world generation to make iron farms or other ingenuities mandatory and in the contrary make them unneeded on easy since easy worlds could generate more ores or smelting gives more ingots etc. Giving the different difficulties meaning and maybe even let us tweak them outside of game rules would immediately make a lot of mods redundant, add a huge boost of accessibility and add replay-ability and fix problems like enchanting along the way without changing anything for old worlds that already have been generated many years ago.