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As zinc is necessary for brass age tecnologies, I find it often the bottleneck of brass age industry. Setting up a factory to produce factory-making parts like brass funnels and deployers should not be constrained by one's ability to sift through dirt!

For people who might want to play Create on a skyblock map, or for people like me who rather spend 6hrs figuring out how to automatically set it up than spend 6 minutes mining it, it would be great to have zinc as a renewable resource.

As Iron, Gold and Copper are metals dropped by Zombies/Zombified Piglins, that would be consistent.
Maybe make Tuff or Azurite renewable, as they are already sources of zinc.
Maybe add it to some Villager or Piglin trades.
Make it an alchemical manipulation using potions like the creation of redstone (as we're on it, renewable netherrack? haunting stone maybe?)

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+1 for this

I recently started on a skyblock create and realised we couldn't get zinc some time in. We're currently debating how to solve this while not making it too easy to get.

The simplest way we were looking at would be to make some mob drop zinc nuggets - I've seen some skyblock worlds where Husks drop these.

Another option that would make sense is if skeletons/strays drop these when dying underwater... Cause they sink... anyway..

We were also considering haunting ghast tears for zinc as it would require a lot of work setting up the ghast farm and overworld haunting thing.

Another option would be if they would be available from trader/villager trades, tho this feels a bit cheap.

Preferably there would be some way to extract zinc nuggets or ore from some create contraption. That being said outside of skyblock this would invalidate mining completely as everything could be automated from a cobble generator.

Not sure if there is a best way to solve this for both regular mc and skyblock as they are very different games.

I think for now we're gonna try and setup the haunted ghast tear way as it feels the least cheaty / most 'vanilla' create and would also feel valid if setup outside of skyblock.