Just like there are renewable ways to get iron and gold via washing, and redstone via spout, I suggest there be similar ways to get copper, zinc, and lapis (maybe netherrack too)

Edit: removed copper & zinc

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Similar to #1204

Okay, scratch the copper and/or the zinc, but the rest of the suggestion still stands.