🛡️ The Rose-Gold Expansion

Enhance your Minecraft journey with some beautiful, functional rose-golden equipment! The Rose-Gold Expansion introduces the brand-new Rose-Gold Ingot, seamlessly crafted from copper and gold ingots. It is specifically designed to bridge the gap between iron and diamond armor, while offering unique utility buffs that keep it relevant even into the endgame.

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⚒️ How it Works

• The Ingot: To get started, combine copper and gold to forge the Rose-Gold Ingot. The recipe is intuitive and will automatically appear in your vanilla crafting table.

  !Crafting recipe for the rose-gold ingot, made from 4 copper and 4 gold ingots.

• The Equipment: Crafting follows standard vanilla patterns. For example, replacing iron ingots with rose-gold ingots yields the Rose-Gold Chestplate.

  !Crafting recipe for the rose-gold chestplate using the standard layout.

• Advancements: Track your blacksmithing achievements with a custom set of in-game advancements.

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💎 Featured Items

Here is a full showcase of the newly added gear, weapons, tools, and consumables:

!Rose-Gold: A complete set including Armor, Sword, Pickaxe, Axe, Shovel, Hoe and an Apple.

🔍 Spoilers (Click to preview Item Stats & Buffs)

Rose-Gold Armor Stats

• Unique Set Bonus: Each armor piece increases your Block Break Speed (+0.5 per piece). Equipping the full set lets you mine and clear areas significantly faster – making it highly useful for large-scale building projects, even if you already own Netherite.

• Rose-Gold Helmet: 2.5 Armor / 1.5 Armor Toughness / +0.5 Block Break Speed !Stats of the rose-gold helmet

• Rose-Gold Chestplate: 7.5 Armor / 1.5 Armor Toughness / +0.5 Block Break Speed !Stats of the rose-gold chestplate

• Rose-Gold Leggings: 5.5 Armor / 1.5 Armor Toughness / +0.5 Block Break Speed !Stats of the rose-gold leggings

• Rose-Gold Boots: 2.5 Armor / 1.5 Armor Toughness / +0.5 Block Break Speed !Stats of the rose-gold boots

The Rose-Golden Apple

A luxurious alternative to the classic golden apple, granting a potent defensive utility buff:

• Health Boost I (60 seconds)
• Regeneration I (10 seconds)
• Absorption I (120 seconds)

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⚠️ IMPORTANT REQUIREMENTS

This datapack requires its corresponding Resource Pack to display textures correctly. Without it, items will appear as default vanilla objects or broken textures.

• 💡 Note on Recipe Previews: Due to technical limitations, checking a recipe in the crafting book without having the required rose-gold ingots in your actual inventory will temporarily display the underlying vanilla base item instead of the custom rose-gold texture.

!Crafting recipe of the rose-gold chestplate without ingots in the inventory.

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🛠️ Installation

1. Datapack: Place the .zip file into your world/datapacks folder.
2. Resource Pack: Place the .zip file into your resourcepacks folder and enable it in your in-game settings.

• 💡 Note: Ensure you download both files. You can find them under the Versions tab inside your preferred release:

!This image shows where to download the Datapack and Resource Pack (Versions tab).

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⚙️ Compatibility & Technical Notes

• Expansion Compatibility: Fully compatible with my Armor & Tools Expansion.

• 🚨 CRITICAL SECURITY NOTE FOR ADMINS: The Rose-Gold Ingot uses the vanilla Command Block item combined with a custom item_model.

  !The rose-gold ingot is based on the command block item.

  While the item cannot be placed down in Survival Mode, please exercise extra caution with Creative Mode permissions or custom plugins/mods that interact with block placements to prevent potential player exploits.

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📝 Behind the Scenes

• This project is a modernized, standalone version of a feature originally developed for a private Minecraft server between late 2024 and 2025 (for versions 1.21.3–1.21.4). It has now been completely overhauled for newer Minecraft versions.
• It was originally slated to debut as part of the Armor & Tools Expansion Part 2, but has been decoupled to give vanilla-loving players a dedicated choice.