Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-29927221-20160910000306

Remember that one scene when Frodo got pierced by a spear in the Mines of Moria, but he was wearing Bilbo's mithril ringmail underneath his clothes? Yeah.

Ringmail should be able to be made out of mithril, iron, and gold. It should be crafted with the 4 of the respective ingots in a diamond shape, as in, ingots everywhere but the corners and the center. That yields 4 pieces of the respective material of ringmail. Place the pieces of ringmail in a normal crafting table in the design to make the piece of armor, for instance a ringmail shirt. There would be four new armor slots next to the normal ones, where you would place the armor piece. Since it would be stupid to, for instance, wear a Rohirric hauberk under another hauberk, only leather armor and ringmail armor should be able to be placed in the new slots. All ringmail can deflect a weapon blow from a bladed weapon, but not blunt weapons like warhammers. Mithril ringmail would have a 1 in 4 chance of deflecting a blow from aforementioned weapons and would have pretty good durability, but not enough to be overpowered. Iron ringmail would have a 1 in 6 chance and a lower durability than mithril. Gold ringmail should have less durability than iron but still a 1 in 6 chance of deflecting a blow from a bladed weapon. Ringmail doesn't deflect crushing blows from hammers or stop crossbow bolts or arrows. A hammer would crush you no matter if you had ringmail on or not. Leather under armor would have a 1 in 5 chance of deflecting an arrow or crossbow bolt. When it deflects an arrow or bolt, its durability should decrease, say, 20 points. 