Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-28479713-20160612034611

So, lapis lazuli only spawns in harad right? Well, northern middle earth may have blue bells, but you can’t use them to make blocks or trimmed bricks (Yes, I also realize that sarlluin is a block, but this is different). However, cobalt could be an alternative to lapis lazuli as it would be found in northern regions. To balance this out a little more, lapis could be obtained more southwards than it currently can be found. Anyway, let’s begin!

 ·         Spawning and obtaining- Cobalt would be found in veins of 2-5 in all of middle earth (Same spawn rate and level as lapis). When mined, it would drop not ore, but a chunk of cobalt metal. Cobalt as a metal is greyish brown and turns blue when oxidized and heated with aluminum oxide. However, since there’s no aluminum in this mod and that would just make the process way to complicated I suggest that you should just be able to heat cobalt up in any forge to obtain cobalt blue. Cobalt blue is the form of cobalt that has a blue pigment. The texture could appear as a blue powder and it could of course be crafted into a block with nine pieces.

 ·         Applications- A block of regular cobalt metal could be made to and used for storage and decoration and the cobalt blue block could be used for storage and decoration as well. I was also thinking that it would be nice to have trimmed elven bricks with cobalt linings and designs. They would come in the three elven brick varieties and could also be combined with gold nuggets to make a double trimmed block. I think this would be very nice for building elven structures.

 ·         Other stuffs- Currently IRL cobalt metal is used to alloy with copper, tin, iron and some other non-important metals to make super alloys which are extremely strong and can withstand extreme heat. Maybe a new equipment set, but it’s not really needed.

If you have any other ideas for this, please tell me. That’s about it, hope you enjoyed!  