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Scarcity

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Scarcity

By NotYelkOwner

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Scarcity is a lightweight, server-side Fabric mod designed to rebalance Minecraft's survival economy by severely restricting high-tier resources and structure loot.

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⛏️ Ores & Mining Diamonds: Drop chance heavily reduced to ~1.8% per block (55× rarer).

Ancient Debris: Drop chance reduced to 2% per block (50× rarer).

Lapis Lazuli: Yields reduced by 45×.

Iron: Drop chance reduced to 10% per block (10× rarer).

Copper: Block drop yields cut in half.

Fortune Enchantment: Completely disabled on all ore block drops—Fortune pickaxes will no longer yield extra raw materials or gems.

🏛️ Structure Chests & Loot Tables Bastions: All Netherite Scraps, Netherite Ingots, and Netherite gear are completely removed from all Bastion chests (Treasure, Hoglin Stables, Bridge, and Generic chests).

Trial Chambers: Heavy weapons, bows, golden apples, high-tier armor, and enchanted books are removed from normal Vaults. Heavy Core drop rate nerfed to 1%, Block of Iron to 5%, and Ominous Bottles locked to Level I in Ominous Vaults.

Ancient Cities: Swift Sneak, diamond armor, and all enchanted books are removed.

Buried Treasure, Shipwrecks, Desert Pyramids & Jungle Temples: All diamond drops and diamond gear are completely removed.

Nether Fortresses, Woodland Mansions & Strongholds: All diamonds, diamond tools, and diamond armor are stripped out.

Villages: Diamonds and high-tier equipment removed from blacksmith/weaponsmith chests.