FOSS gamedev and creative worlds

I have finally mined deep enough to find Gold, Diamond, and Mese. So now that I have plenty of gold ignots what do I do with them? I tried to make tools but cannot seem make them out of gold.

So my question is:
How do you use gold?

on default minetest gold is pretty much useless you can only make blocks using ingot

I made a gold tools mod for my world

What's the use of gold in real life?

For jewellry and for keeping it in the bank = not useful to dig or to make fire...

In the vanilla Minetest you can use gold only for 2 things: Creating gold blocks and bragging around how much gold you have. Seriously, gold is fucking rare, I even find mese more often.

The following mods use gold:

• default: gold block (3×3 gold ingot)
• colormachine: color machine
• factory: conveyor belt, arm, small gold gear, taker
• moreblocks: additional recipe for locked chest: 1 chest + 1 gold ingot
• technic: energy crystals, control logic unit, gold chest

Look up the respective mod pages for more info.