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Chainmail Armor:

Creating Chains: you can create chain our of many materials by crafting 5 ingots in the below recipe "__X" "XX_" "XX_" where X is nuggets of the material used

Chainmail Armor: you can create chainmail armor in the normal way except for the helmets which the recipes for are below (the helmet is used "ZYZ" "X_X" "X_X" where Y is ingots of the material used, Z is nuggets of the material used, and X is chain of the material used.

Reinforced Chainmail: this is slightly more powerful than chainmail, but less powerful than iron. Their is no helmet as the iron chain helmet (different from chain helmet) fills this role. the recipes are (from top down) "C_C" "CIC" "ICI" where C is iron chain, and I is iron ingots (chest) "CIC" "C_C" "C_C" with the same components (legs) "___" "C_C" "I_I" with the same components (boots)

Layered Armor: you can craft the appropriate cloth armor with any chain armor and any metal plate armor. This armor would impose a slowness 1 penalty on the wearer but have a large defense bonus and gain special effects conferred by any of the armor pieces. Layered armor may be an overpowered item.

Sources: Chainmail with some plates in addition is common during the historical period matching up to the 3rd age in other ways, during the end of that period/the end of the third age plate was becoming more and more common, but was often found layered with leather protection and chainmail underneath. From tolkiens works it is also evidenced that the characters did were chainmail. 