Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-29934954-20170124170016

Chain armor is relatively useless and ignored at the moment. Minecraft still hasn't done anything with it in newer versions, so I'm suggesting an expansion.

Iron in a normal crafting table crafted like a block except with nothing in the middle would give you 8 chainlinks. Chainlinks can be used in a normal crafting table to create chain armor.

Iron and coal smelted together in an alloy forge would create Steel which you can use anywhere in the crafting table in a 4x4 square to make Steel Plating. The same can be done to make Bronze and Iron plating respectively.

Chain armor surrounded by steel plating in a normal crafting table would create Steel Plated Chain Armor which would have a low enchantability but high arrow resistance. Same with iron and bronze.

Each faction armor could be crafted together with chain armor to create a variant with chain underneath the armor (not the armor itself turned to chain) to give it better arrow resistance. 