Useful copper

[Rad586]

Think quick! List at least 3 recipes using copper ingot. Spyglass, lightning rod, block of copper... Then, you might not be able to think of other recipes of copper--because there're only 3 recipes using copper ingot, besides the new-added brush.
Copper is easy to be replaced of: iron-made spyglass, iron-made lightning rod, and even the iron brush. And those recipes are all reasonable.
Based on my own experience, I usually get 3 or 4 stacks of raw copper blocks per caving(taking about 2h). It's a modpack but I didn't do much changes in terrain(just terralith).
I cant ignore it, I just want to mine every ore block in the cave, until my inventory was filled up with ores. But everytime I ignore those shi- looking copper ores, I felt something scratching in my heart.

The community is crying, and I'm suffering. It's time to make some changes:

1. Copper xp. Coppers drop xp on break, like coals, but lesser for balancing(about 3/8? ).
2. Copper apple&carrot. Copper apple is a nerfed(about 1/8) version of golden apple, copper carrot is a nerfed version of golden carrot. Crafting golden apples and golden carrots saves gold, I think doing so would do the same to copper. Copper apples and copper carrots encourage(or give reasons for) players to get copper in mid-game. Now players have to think whether to have steaks or copper carrots(lesser hunger, higher saturation).
3. sorry i'm dumb, no more ideas for now.

[vico93]

I like your idea!