Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-29927221-20161231181959

In the Mines of Moria, the Fellowship was attacked by orcs. One of the attacker's spears hit Frodo in the side. Then, his mithril "ringmail", as it is called by Tolkien himself, is revealed. The mithril armor, worn under Frodo's traveling clothes, saved Frodo. To wear my proposed ringmail under armor, two new slots would have to be added next to the default armor slots. Mail armor wouldn't be the only thing that you could wear underneath stuff like Rohirric Hauberks. You would also be able to wear leather and boiled leather under armor. The latter two will be talked about later on in the post. Since it would be stupid to wear an iron chestplate under an iron chestplate or something like that, or ringmail armor over ringmail armor, you would only be able to wear ringmail/leather/boiled leather armor under something that is not what is in your default armor slot. When wearing a piece of ringmail under armor, damage from bladed weapons like swords and battle axes will be halved 50%-75% of the time, depending on the material. Iron ringmail will have a 50% chance of halving the damage, gold the same, and mithril a 75% chance. Leather under armor has a 25% of completely stopping an arrow or bolt, and boiled leather a 40% chance. Both leather and boiled leather under armor will have a 25% chance of reducing slashing damage by 25%. To craft ringmail made of iron, gold or mithril, simply put four of the ingot into a diamond shape (everywhere except the corners and the center). This yields 2 rings. Then, put these rings into a normal crafting table in a chestplate or legging shape to get the piece of armor. Leather under armor would be the same as normal leather armor to craft. As previously stated, you wouldn't be able to wear the same armor, for instance, leather armor, over the same type of armor. Boiled leather is the same, but to get boiled leather, you need to smelt a piece of leather in any furnace. However, these new articles of armor won't be overpowered, no siree. First of all, ringmail/chainmail as well as boiled leather and normal leather under armor wouldn't deflect some damage from blunt weapons. Blunt weapons, like war hammers, would be labelled with a "Blunt" or "Crushing" tooltip to show that under armor does not protect from it. Not only that, but every time iron ringmail gets hit by a slashing weapon, its durability will lower by 20 points out of its 260 points. Gold will lose 20 durability points out of its 220 points, and finally mithril ringmail will lose 20 durability points out of its 600 durability points. Not only that, but leather under armor will lose 40 out of its 200 durability points whenever it gets hit by or reduces damage taken from an arrow or crossbow bolt. Boiled leather is the same, but it loses 30 out of its 240 durability points. With the advent of equipping one's own soldiers, you would also be able to place under armor on your hired units. However, in the heat of battle, many arrows will be flying and many swords will be swinging. If it would cause lag to have Minecraft calculate the damage reduction chance and whatnot, then server hosts/players would be able to get rid of this feature for hired units or players and hired units in the configuration file. The texture of iron ringmail should extend one pixel past the neck holes, arm holes, and bottom in an alternating pattern of iron-colored pixel then transparent pixel. These transparent pixels would just show the player's skin. Gold and mithril mail armor would be the same, but with yellow and silvery pixels respectively, as well as the transparent pixels. Thanks for reading my suggestion, and if you want to provide some constructive criticism to make this post better and more likely to be implemented, go right ahead. 