I know this has been suggested before, but, I found no active suggestions this month, so I can post this.
First things first, make iron rarer.
The reason this has something to do with this is because, if you can craft iron armor in just two ingame days, I don't think it would make sense, what about other armor? Why are you able to craft the second strongest armor in the game in just two days?
Chain: Can be crafted with one iron ingot. You get three chains per iron ingot
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I like it, But I think it should be made out of iron bars, as;
In your idea,
one iron ingot makes 3 chains.
witch means you will need 8 ingots to make 24 chains. witch makes 1/3 of iron armor cost
In my idea,
6 iron ingots makes 16 iron bars.
witch means you would need 12 ingots to craft 32 iron bars.
witch makes 1/2 of iron armor cost + 8 iron bars (witch you might think it is a waste.)
Note that: a full set of armor cost 24 minerals.
So using chains make it 1/3 of iron armor, (witch is kind of obvious) and i think that's too cheap. so making it half seems better to me.
I don't really like the idea of nerfing iron spawn rate. Sure, you get way more than enough iron for tools and armor, but when crafting rails or hoppers you need all the iron you can get.
Iron rarity is balanced for non-tool purposes, but iron is too common for tool-purposes. Meaning, the problem isn't that iron is too common; it's that iron equipment is too cheap for it's power.
Given that chains have literally no purpose except to make iron armor (or if you want to get REALLY technical, activating wooden pressure plates, but everything else can do that), it makes the most sense to me to just make the current iron armor recipe craft chainmail instead of iron armor, nerf iron swords (maybe nerf wooden and stone ones while we're at it because stone swords are pretty powerful for their price and all swords were buffed for no reason recently anyway). The tools don't really need to be nerfed. Then, add in some harder, more expensive method of crafting iron armor or something. It should ideally require something beyond "use more iron than in chainmail" because all that will do is make people skip chainmail and just mine the extra iron.
First things first, make iron rarer.
The reason this has something to do with this is because, if you can craft iron armor in just two ingame days, I don't think it would make sense, what about other armor? Why are you able to craft the second strongest armor in the game in just two days?
Chain: Can be crafted with one iron ingot. You get three chains per iron ingot
Chainmail armor: Basically how you craft armor.
Perfectly balanced idea that makes chainmail armor more useful in the game? Me likey. Full support.
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In your idea,
one iron ingot makes 3 chains.
witch means you will need 8 ingots to make 24 chains.
witch makes 1/3 of iron armor cost
In my idea,
6 iron ingots makes 16 iron bars.
witch means you would need 12 ingots to craft 32 iron bars.
witch makes 1/2 of iron armor cost + 8 iron bars (witch you might think it is a waste.)
Note that: a full set of armor cost 24 minerals.
So using chains make it 1/3 of iron armor, (witch is kind of obvious) and i think that's too cheap. so making it half seems better to me.
Iron rarity is balanced for non-tool purposes, but iron is too common for tool-purposes. Meaning, the problem isn't that iron is too common; it's that iron equipment is too cheap for it's power.
Given that chains have literally no purpose except to make iron armor (or if you want to get REALLY technical, activating wooden pressure plates, but everything else can do that), it makes the most sense to me to just make the current iron armor recipe craft chainmail instead of iron armor, nerf iron swords (maybe nerf wooden and stone ones while we're at it because stone swords are pretty powerful for their price and all swords were buffed for no reason recently anyway). The tools don't really need to be nerfed. Then, add in some harder, more expensive method of crafting iron armor or something. It should ideally require something beyond "use more iron than in chainmail" because all that will do is make people skip chainmail and just mine the extra iron.
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