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Uncraft leather armour using shears!

It's quite a simple idea. Using shears in the 2x2 or 3x3 crafting grid, You can craft leather using leather armour. Depending on the durability of the item, You could get... 
1-4 leather from a cap,

1-7 leather from a tunic,

1-6 leather from trousers,

and 1-3 leather from boots.

Or if the item is at full durability, you could get the full amount of leather from the item (Maybe???).

My reason for this suggestion is that we can accumulate a lot of leather armour from mobs over the course of our time in a world, Which we never use. We can already smelt down iron, chain and gold into nuggets so I feel cutting up leather armour with shears could be a good addition to the game.

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    With a little work, I think this could actually make a good addition.

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    I agree, maybe also add more use to leather

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    I just got into setting up farms in my Survival mode, and I've been having trouble with having too much leather armor. An option to turn them back into leather would be great, especially using shears (which don't seem to have much use outside of getting wool and making jack-o-lanterns).

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    I think you should get the shears back, as long as they don't break.

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    Good Idea I hope the devs see it but they are hard at work

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    I love recycling my items and "junk" loot in this game and I believe this game could use more recycling not only as an environmental message but to help us declutter chest. De-crafting our Leather armor & Horse armor into regular Leather similar to how you can already recycle Iron/Gold armor and tools from mob loot is a great way to acquire excess Iron and Gold for other projects. Players could smelt rails to iron nuggets to turn items the player don't want or don't use into ones they do like turning rail iron nuggets into redstone components. Not every player wants the same thing.

    I hope this would apply to not only Leather armor but Diamond armor too so we may recycle out end city and ancient city loot. The issue is that once you acquire a ton of good sets of armor, you have no need for extra sets. Being able to turn diamond armor/tools into diamond shards and craft those up into diamonds would enable diamond blocks and all diamond made items to be renewable (especially with villagers) this way we can build with diamond blocks easier once we're end-game.