Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-69.14.180.128-20150721053237/@comment-69.14.180.128-20150721074503

Sorry I'm a newb at this. Anyway my idea is for making mail you place the Ingot into a forge/furnace and get 4 mail, use the regular armor recipe and on the appropriate crafting table.

Example:

Ingot: Bronze, forge: 4 bronze mail, Craft: regular

Ingot: Dwarven steel, Forge: 4 Dwarf steel mail, Craft Dwarven

Ingot: Iron, Forge: 4 iron mail, Craft: Rohirric

The mail only replaces the ingots used in crafting the armor so for example use of leather in dunlending mail will be the same as in regular armor. Mail has one armor less than it's plated counterpart (similar to swords and dagers).

Mail may seem pointless but if only mine two mithril ore you can make a mithril mail chest plate. Mail can not make a helmet though.

Also wool in the corners and center, string left-middle and right-middle crafts an overcoat, displaying the banner of the faction of it's crafting.(overcoat gives no protection and can only be worn with the mail chest plate and leggings of that faction)

Mounted NPCs would wear their factions mail, helmet, and overcoat.

Craft leather top, string middle, and wool bottom for three compact material. Used to make compact armor each piece has one more point each leather piece.

Crafting a chest plate and leggings of the same set of mail makes a mail coat worn under any combination of a chest plate and leggings plated armor. It gives half the points that the mail chest plate and leggings added together, and gives 35% resistance to arrows and darts. It's OP but it slows the player 10% when walking, sprinting, and riding, while swimming it slows by 15%. Crafting compact boots, and helmet for compact under-gear. Worn under any combination of boots and a helmet for one armor point and 15% resistance to darts and arrows, but slows by 5% while walking, sprinting, riding, and swimming.