After reading the wiki recently about how many points of protection chainmail offers, I wondered if we could actually implement it into the normal game. It's been around so long and already has it's amount of protection already coded, why not give an idea to help fuel it's actual full addition to the game? Here's a rough idea of mine:
A special block, maybe an iron anvil, could be crafted or appears in a NPC Village Blacksmith building. It could have more potential uses, but for right now lets just consider it's use for crafting chainmail armor. At an anvil, you'd place iron ingots in no real particular fashion and get a certain amount of iron loops. You could craft iron loops at the anvil into bulkier pieces which could then be suffice-able to craft at a workbench in the same fashion as all the other armors. Perhaps special material would be required to make the anvil, or it only spawns in Blacksmith buildings?
All-in-all, it would be a decent middle-grade armor that would save more iron ingots at the cost of finding/creating an anvil, and being slightly worse than iron armor.
Any other helpful ideas would be appreciated. Thanks for any contributions!
That's a good idea too. Actually, it works nice alongside my idea. Maybe just make it a rare, special armor? Hmm. More discussion will have to be done before we boil it down.
Ok, not real set-in-stone, but I came up with a rough idea of how the crafting process should work. (I'm going to be saying alot of stuff like it's in the game, when it's not, just a heads up.)
First, right-click an anvil and place a iron ingot on the anvil's crafting grid. With that, you are able to craft six iron loops. With the loops, access the anvil again and fill the entire grid with iron loops. From that you get a chain strip. After you have obtained chain strips, you are able to craft the armor with chain strips the same way you would with any other armor.
Again, rough idea, but it will get more finalized over time.
A better solution would be making chainmail from Blaze Rods.
Another good idea, but I can't quite confirm that due to minor amounts of time spent in the Nether. However, a problem arises with this; Nether is more end-game, and you should enter with either iron or diamond, expecting the worst. At that point I'd imagine you'd have plenty of materials to make the higher quality armors, and chainmail would be somewhat obsolete by that point. Unless, however, you could make a considerable amount of chainmail-making material from a small amount of rods, then it would be a bit more understandable. Again, good idea though.
Another good idea, but I can't quite confirm that due to minor amounts of time spent in the Nether. However, a problem arises with this; Nether is more end-game, and you should enter with either iron or diamond, expecting the worst. At that point I'd imagine you'd have plenty of materials to make the higher quality armors, and chainmail would be somewhat obsolete by that point. Unless, however, you could make a considerable amount of chainmail-making material from a small amount of rods, then it would be a bit more understandable. Again, good idea though.
End game? I usually go to the Nether after a few Minecraft days, and I only bring leather armor. Blaze Rods are easy to obtain with some snow golems. :smile.gif:
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A special block, maybe an iron anvil, could be crafted or appears in a NPC Village Blacksmith building. It could have more potential uses, but for right now lets just consider it's use for crafting chainmail armor. At an anvil, you'd place iron ingots in no real particular fashion and get a certain amount of iron loops. You could craft iron loops at the anvil into bulkier pieces which could then be suffice-able to craft at a workbench in the same fashion as all the other armors. Perhaps special material would be required to make the anvil, or it only spawns in Blacksmith buildings?
All-in-all, it would be a decent middle-grade armor that would save more iron ingots at the cost of finding/creating an anvil, and being slightly worse than iron armor.
Any other helpful ideas would be appreciated. Thanks for any contributions!
DooM is like crack, but better for you.
That's a good idea too. Actually, it works nice alongside my idea. Maybe just make it a rare, special armor? Hmm. More discussion will have to be done before we boil it down.
DooM is like crack, but better for you.
First, right-click an anvil and place a iron ingot on the anvil's crafting grid. With that, you are able to craft six iron loops. With the loops, access the anvil again and fill the entire grid with iron loops. From that you get a chain strip. After you have obtained chain strips, you are able to craft the armor with chain strips the same way you would with any other armor.
Again, rough idea, but it will get more finalized over time.
DooM is like crack, but better for you.
Another good idea, but I can't quite confirm that due to minor amounts of time spent in the Nether. However, a problem arises with this; Nether is more end-game, and you should enter with either iron or diamond, expecting the worst. At that point I'd imagine you'd have plenty of materials to make the higher quality armors, and chainmail would be somewhat obsolete by that point. Unless, however, you could make a considerable amount of chainmail-making material from a small amount of rods, then it would be a bit more understandable. Again, good idea though.
DooM is like crack, but better for you.
End game? I usually go to the Nether after a few Minecraft days, and I only bring leather armor. Blaze Rods are easy to obtain with some snow golems. :smile.gif: