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Leather based iron armour

Leather armour serves no decent use in Minecraft anymore apart from aesthetics. It takes longer to get and is much worse.

 

My idea is to make iron and diamond armour require leather armour as a base. Any iron/diamond armour piece should require a leather piece to be crafted.

 

Not only will this make getting leather armour first make sense, but it could also have extra benefits.

 

For example, enchanted leather armour passes on it's enchant to the armour you craft with it. Not only would this mean you could make more use of enchanted leather armour you find, it also means you could enchant leather armour in an enchantment table until you get the enchantment you want, and then craft your final armour with it. With a cow farm mid-game this will mean not wasting iron/diamonds.

 

If you have dyed leather amour that could translate in some way to the iron/diamond armour you have. Of course iron and diamond armour still need to look like iron and diamond, but they could have some kind of colour on them based on the dye.

 

It's also quite realistic, which makes it make more sense IMO.

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    I just wanted to comment on this. It's such a shame to have an entire dye-ing system and not allow it to affect armour. It'd be really something special if you could add dyed leather to current gear as TristanKing989  suggests and end up with an embellished effect. Or, add overlaying dye-able artifacts like robes. Ta.