Two Materials, Equal Strength

Every emerald item has an amethyst counterpart with the same protection, durability, damage, speed, mining ability, and enchantability.

• Craft emerald equipment with emeralds.
• Craft amethyst equipment with amethyst shards.
• Armor uses familiar vanilla armor shapes.
• Tools and weapons use sticks just like normal equipment.
• A complete armor set costs 24 emeralds or 24 amethyst shards.

Where Gem Equipment Fits

Gem armor sits between iron and diamond. A complete set provides more protection and durability than iron, but less protection and toughness than diamond.

Gem armor does not add extra health, knockback resistance, or movement penalties.

Armor Statistics

Piece	Armor points	Toughness	Durability
Helmet	3	1	264
Chestplate	7	1	384
Leggings	5	1	360
Boots	3	1	312
Full set	18	4	—

Armor Durability

Each gem armor piece lasts approximately 1.6 times as long as its iron counterpart and 3.43 times as long as gold armor. Diamond armor still has greater durability.

Equipment Statistics

Item	Durability	Attack damage	Attack speed	Crafting cost
Pickaxe	900	4.5	1.2	3 gems + 2 sticks
Axe	900	9	0.95	3 gems + 2 sticks
Shovel	900	5	1	1 gem + 2 sticks
Hoe	900	1	3.5	2 gems + 2 sticks
Sword	900	6.5	1.6	2 gems + 1 stick
Spear	900	3.75 jab	1	1 gem + 2 sticks

Damage figures show your total unenchanted attack damage, including the player’s base 1 damage. Attack speed is the number of attacks per second under Java combat rules.

Spear charge damage changes with motion, so the listed 3.75 damage applies to its normal jab rather than every charged attack. Both gem spears use charge behavior between Minecraft 26.2 iron and diamond spears, with a 20-tick stab animation matching one attack per second.

Mining Performance

• Pickaxes, axes, shovels, and hoes have mining speed 7 on their matching blocks—between iron’s 6 and diamond’s 8.
• Gem tools retain iron’s harvest tier.
• Gem pickaxes can harvest diamond ore.
• Gem pickaxes cannot harvest obsidian or ancient debris.
• Axes can strip logs, shovels can create paths, and hoes can till soil normally.
• Swords inherit iron sword block-breaking behavior.

Crafting Key

View all 20 recipes with grids and quantities →

G means an emerald or amethyst shard, S means a stick, and . means an empty crafting slot. Recipes accept normal mirrored or shifted vanilla placements where appropriate.

Armor Recipes

Helmet       Chestplate    Leggings     Boots
G G G        G . G         G G G        G . G
G . G        G G G         G . G        G . G
             G G G         G . G

Tool & Weapon Recipes

Pickaxe      Axe           Shovel      Hoe
G G G        G G .         . G .       G G .
. S .        G S .         . S .       . S .
. S .        . S .         . S .       . S .

Sword        Spear
. G .        . . G
. G .        . S .
. S .        S . .

Enchanting and Repairing

• Gem armor has enchantability 10.
• Gem tools and weapons have enchantability 12.
• Normal compatible vanilla enchantments can be applied.
• Unbreaking and Mending work normally.
• Repair emerald equipment with emeralds in an anvil.
• Repair amethyst equipment with amethyst shards in an anvil.

Requirements

• Paper 26.3 and Java 25
• Packforge and the supplied content.
• A current Geyser build supporting v2 custom items and spear components

No extra gameplay plugin or datapack is required. The Complete download includes content definitions, Java resources, a Geyser mapping, the Bedrock pack, instructions and license notices.

Packforge and Java

1. Install the bundle’s egw_gems folder in plugins/Packforge/contents/.
2. Run /pf zip and confirm the console reports no egw_gems errors.
3. Publish the resulting combined pack through the server’s normal resource-pack setup.
4. Have Java players accept the current combined pack.

The separate Java ZIP contains the same visual assets for manual testing or pack stacking. It does not need to replace the server’s combined pack.

Geyser and Bedrock

1. Place egw_gems.json in the active Geyser instance’s custom_mappings directory.
2. Place GrimsGemEquipment-Bedrock-1.0.3.mcpack in that Geyser instance’s packs directory. Keep only one copy of this pack/version.
3. Enable gameplay.enable-custom-content in the existing Geyser configuration.
4. Optionally enable gameplay.force-resource-packs when pack acceptance should be required.
5. Fully restart Geyser and reconnect Bedrock test clients.

When Geyser runs on a proxy, install the mapping and Bedrock pack on the proxy’s Geyser instance. Do not create a second gameplay section in its configuration.

Getting Test Items

Administrators can use /pf give <player> egw_gems:emerald_helmet or /pf give <player> egw_gems:amethyst_pickaxe. Both materials support these suffixes:

helmet chestplate leggings boots
pickaxe axe shovel hoe sword spear

Updating from 1.0.0

1. Replace both files under egw_gems/configs/ and run /pf zip.
2. Replace the old Geyser mapping and Bedrock pack with the 1.0.3 copies.
3. Restart Geyser and reconnect clients.
4. Check a fresh amethyst pickaxe. Its tooltip should show 4.5 attack damage and 1.2 attack speed.

Crossplay Notes and Limits

• The mapping registers all 20 items, durability values, repairs, mining rules, armor points, and spear behavior.
• The Bedrock pack provides 20 inventory icons, eight armor attachables, and two spear attachables.
• Recipes come from Paper and Packforge through Geyser; no Bedrock behavior pack is used.
• Java retains the source armor-trim item models and equipment layers.
• Bedrock currently shows the base gem armor texture and enchantment glint; custom trim overlays are not included.
• Horse and nautilus armor are outside this release.

Troubleshooting

• Java shows iron or missing textures: verify Packforge loaded egw_gems, rerun /pf zip, and refresh the served pack.
• Bedrock shows iron: verify the mapping loaded, custom content is enabled, and no older mapping duplicates these identifiers.
• Bedrock icons work but worn armor does not: confirm the current pack was accepted, clear the cached pack, and reconnect.
• Protection or repairs are wrong: test a freshly issued item and check whether another item-stat plugin replaces its components.