What if there was a way to display your diamond armor? A crafting recipe where you take the item (weapon, armor, etc.) and surrounded it with paper in a crafting bench. It would come out as a 2d skin you can then place on a wall. Then if you needed the armor you would hit the item on the wal and it would pop off! What do you think? Leave comments and suggestions please!
I like the idea of being able to display your armor, but I'm not sure I like the 2D idea. When I think of displaying armor, I think of suits of armor in old castles, which are kind of statue-like. It would be cool to be able to place a suit of armor like a block (it should probably take up the space of 2 stacked blocks). It would have a collider box so it would occupy 3D space. The player would punch it to collect it.
Swords and bows, on the other hand, I would love to be able to hang on the walls as if they were 2D art. I have a nice mantel that is begging for a decorative sword...
An armor or weapon rack wouldn't too hard to create. You would just need to design a 2 height block, use the meta data or a pointer (like chests) to track the stored armor, and display it like a wooden steve.
What would be really neat is to have there be a human statue that you can place and when you right click it, it opens up a box that basically just has the 4 vertically aligned inventory spaces for armor, and then you can equip the statue.
the armour rack has a mod already, so it wouldn't be a hard thing to make, as we already know its possible. I really like the idea, and it should be added to the Vanilla game!
Mojang has already acknowledged this and have it as something they are planning to add, as stated on the Upcoming Features wiki article under "Display cases/racks". The best thing to do now is to remind Mojang of it and send support for it. If they consider it an idea that they agreed too, rather than a new concept, it will probably get a lot more attention from them.
I agree.
BUT
A way to stop people from going into your armor rack/manikin
Only the one whom placed the rack/manikin may enter it.
Admins of servers may break them but not regular people
Its just to stop greif.
This is possible. It is called an Item Frame, and is made with a center leather surrounded by sticks. I am not sure if this was available when the question was first posted, but it is available now. I want mannequins, with the options of full, body only or head only.
Swords and bows, on the other hand, I would love to be able to hang on the walls as if they were 2D art. I have a nice mantel that is begging for a decorative sword...
BUT
A way to stop people from going into your armor rack/manikin
Only the one whom placed the rack/manikin may enter it.
Admins of servers may break them but not regular people
Its just to stop greif.
Way to make it?