Cronite

**Cronite** replaces Lapis Lazuli on the Bumpkincraft Server thanks to the server's Custom Resource Pack.

## Implementation

Cronite is a purely visual change. Cronite is a light blue mineral dust.

### Lore

Cronite has magical properties that seem to relate to time, as well as the time god Kronos. It is said that in Bumpkin's past, wizards used to create magical clocks, working on naught but cogs and Cronite to determine the time. Cronite is often considered to be "The Commoner's Magic".

The incredibly concentrated amounts of Cronite Ore veins found underneath the Airplains eventually caused the land to shatter and ascend into the skies. Nowadays the skyline around of area is filled with many floating islands. The layer of Bedrock at the bottom of the world stays afloat above the void due to the Cronite in between the Bedrock.

Cronite Ore is described as having glowing crystals inside. When converted to Cronite, the crystals are pulverised into dust. This makes the surface area is bigger and causes the Cronite to become more reactive, making the magic stronger, allowing for less Cronite to be used, saving on resources.

## Obtaining

### Mining

When mined with a stone pickaxe or better, Cronite Ore or Deepslate Cronite Ore drops 4–9 Cronite. With the Fortune III enchantment, a single ore block has a chance of dropping up to 36 Cronite.

### Natural Generation

Cronite can be found as loot inside of Mineshafts (4–9 pieces), Shipwrecks (1–10 pieces) and Villages (1–4 pieces).

### Mob Loot

Endermen have a 50% chance to drop 1 Cronite upon death (as of 12 July 2023). The Looting enchantment can increase these odds up to 62.5%, and with Looting III there is also a 6.25% chance to get 2 pieces of Cronite. This was not always the case, for more information on the history of Endermen drop rates check out the History section of this article.

### Trading

Apprentice level cleric villagers sell one Cronite for an emerald. Cleric villagers give players Cronite if they have the Hero of the Village effect.

### Crafting

Cronite can be obtained by converting a Cronite Block back into Cronite.

### Smelting

Smelting Cronite Ore is technically also a way to obtain Cronite, however this method is highly inefficient as you only receive a single Cronite per Ore. You really shouldn't do this.

## Usage

### Crafting

Cronite is used as a crafting ingredient in two special recipes. It is used to craft Cronite Blocks and Void Rail. It can also be converted into Blue Dye. As of 1.20 it will also be able to be used as a Smithing ingredient for making armor trims.

### Enchanting

Depending on the enchant level, 1–3 pieces of Cronite are required to use an Enchanting Table to enchant an item. This functions the same as Lapis Lazuli would.

## History

Originally known as Magic Ore, Cronite has seen a couple of changes since its first conceptualisation.

 18 May 2019
The earliest design for the item later known as Cronite is darker, closer to Lapis Lazuli, in colour.
 8 June 2019
The Cronite Block texture has been rotated 90 degrees clockwise. This Cronite Block texture is still used to this day.
The Cronite Ore texture is still very different to the eventual final texture.
 10 November 2019
 31 January 2023

### Enderman Looting Bug

For a long time, the Looting enchantment had barely any effect on Cronite drops from Endermen due to a coding oversight in the loottable. This oversight was fixed on 12 July 2023.

#### Background (Pre 3 July 2022)

Endermen used to have a 1/3 chance to drop Cronite for every Ender Pearl they dropped. This was eventually changed on 3 July 2022, with the intention of buffing the drop rates. This however did not work as intended.

#### Base Calculations (July 2022 - July 2023)

The new calculation for Cronite drops had 2 "count" calls. One is always invoked, the other only with Looting. The base call generated a random float between 0.0 and 1.0 (inclusive) to decide the item drop count, which for Cronite is either 0 or 1. If the generated number was equal or lower than 0.4, the roll failed and 0 Cronite is dropped. If the number is 0.5-1.0, the enderman dropped the 1 Cronite.

Base Odds Calculation
 ≥0.5

This made the base chance 6/11 (about 55%) or 12/22.

#### Looting (July 2022 - July 2023)

Looting I, added a 50% chance for an unsuccessful roll of 0.4 (a 1/11 chance) to be raised to 0.5 therefore making it a successful roll. So, if the second call managed to beat the coin flip, it allowed a roll of 0.4 to give out the 1 Cronite anyways.

Every level of looting did this a little better. Looting II added another 50% chance to raise a roll of 0.3 to be raised to 0.5 meaning that if the second call won the coin flip twice, it allowed a roll of 0.3 to give out the 1 Cronite anyways.

This actually meant however, that each level of looting barely added to the chance of getting the 1 Cronite dropped after a failed roll at all, as the amount of successful coin flips required increased alongside with the level.

Cronite Drop chance with different Looting levels (from July 2022 - July 2023)
 Looting I
 Looting II
 Looting III

#### Third Time's the Charm (Post July 2023)

On 12 July 2023 Qalculate changed the loottables for a third time.

## Trivia

* Endermen used to have a 1/3 chance to drop Cronite for every Ender Pearl they dropped. Since Endermen drop 0-1 Enderpearls and can drop up to 4 with Looting III, this made for a theoretical maximum amount of 4 Ender Pearls and 4 Cronite with Looting III, if the player was lucky enough. This was eventually changed on 3 July 2022.