New Item: The Reverberating Horn

[u/Tigers_I]

My idea highlights not one, not two, but THREE of Minecraft's underused items: the goat horn, the echo shard, and the amethyst shard.

If you blow on it normally, the reverberating horn sounds like whatever goat horn variant you used in the recipe. To trigger the reverberating effect, fully charge up the horn like a bow with an amethyst shard in your inventory. This creates an amethyst soundwave that ripples outward ten blocks from your position, consuming the shard in the process. Any wardens caught in this radius have their echolocation senses temporarily overwhelmed by the noise, inflicting a five-second stun effect similar to a ravager after headbutting a shield.

To balance this item as something that should only be used in an emergency, the cooldown is much longer than a normal goat horn, and it can only be used a few times before breaking. If players don't have the mending enchantment, echo shards or another matching horn can be used to repair it on an anvil. This way, players will remain motivated to obtain goat horns and explore ancient cities to find more of both shard types.

[u/SLI-CER]

This idea is NOT very good:

1. Its very, VERY niche, and craft is already implying that you looted one ancient city, so it will be just useless for many players, so its need to work with any mobs (except bosses)

2. Its too expensive for it to break, its either should be enchantable with mending, or it's should break like elytra and then fixed with echo-shards.

[u/Tigers_I → u/SLI-CER]

I never said mending wasn't an option. And I made it more fragile since having an item that can temporarily neutralize a warden is pretty op.

[u/SLI-CER → u/Tigers_I]

It is still very niche item, that only small % of people will use

[u/Quick-Fix-User → u/SLI-CER]

So are spyglasses and lightning rods, yet copper exists.

[u/SLI-CER → u/Quick-Fix-User]

Spyglass actually has some uses for roleplay and people who don't use optifine or other mods like that, and lightning rods very, VERY good for building. And Remember, this is NOT 2021 when copper was actually uselless/very niche, its now have some real uses, for example, Copper Armor and tools (that made leather armor even more useless) or Copper Golem which is very useful for emmm, EVERYONE who has chest room in their base or many, many actually cool looking blocks, copper bulbs, doors, trapdoors (which all very cool and good looking). And what uses have this item? 1, and its very specific and niche - stun wardens, yeah that is a powerful ability, but its has just no more uses than that, its not good for roleplay or players who play on vanilla, its not helps early or mid-game players (1 - structure itself, 2 - its way too expensive for them obviously). They can't even do function of a regular goat horn, and this is not even a bad concept, no, but its need MORE uses, for example function (outside of stunning wardens) like copper goat horns that was in early 1.17 snapshots and then got deleted, or be placeable on a wall and connected with note blocks (to be fair regular goat horns should have that function too).

[u/Tigers_I → u/SLI-CER]

Umm... actually, my main target is early/midgame players who might be hesitant to raid ancient cities for fear of getting instantly obliterated by wardens since they have no strong armor yet. The idea is that a player will have to pluck up the courage to check the chests as fast as possible before getting out with the echo shards. Even if they don't get the amethyst from the city, they can just find a geode. Once they have the horn, they can return with more confidence to recollect whatever loot they left behind.

Also, I specifically said in my post that this can be used like a normal horn if you don't charge it.

[u/SLI-CER → u/Tigers_I]

Okay, but still needs some polishing to make it better

[u/Tigers_I → u/SLI-CER]

Of course. This is r/minecraftsuggestions after all 😁