i interpreted "gold armor" to be a gold coated armor because its so brittle, and brittle gold is usually in sheets used by weird rich people to eat which are light.

Chainmail should provide more protection from swords specifically, as it’s main purpose in real life was to protect the wearer from sharp blades.

Maybe chainmail armor can be placed under other types of armor to create a small protection buff

Gold armors are useful on very early game or for speedrunner. You find them on loot chest & sometimes get decent enchantments

Also the armors are unbalanced because of the protection they give, the first four armors (leather,chainmail,gold,iron) give so much less protection than diamond and netherite. The jumps in protection from leather, chainmail, gold and iron are miniscule and so insignificant that you might as well skip to iron, not to mention the absolute MASSIVE jump from iron to diamond.

My general idea for each armor set would probably be similar, although, I find it odd that there are enchants that exclusive to an item type, but not to a resource type. Like what if leather armor had access to exclusive enchants which boosted movement speed and maneuverability? Or slow the rate hunger decayed, effectively increasing stamina while sprinting so it functions like travel or casual wear, which would fit with leather allowing you to walk on top of snow blocks, or just had it as an extra feature that improved with each piece worn in a set? The core issue, is that there is little to no differentiation in the applications of each resource, even when it should be logical that different materials would be better at different things. Leather could be for added agility, with an exclusive enchant that allows for a player to have a permanent leaping or swiftness effect enchanted on their armor that could also stack with the existing potion? Iron could have a strength boosting effect making it decently good at defense but much better at offense, with the implication that the added weight of iron is making each melee hit heavier and deal bonus damage, or some passive level of fire resistance, like still being able to burn in lava, but being immune to open flames and soul fire. Diamond could have an exclusive enchantment version of the "luck" status effect that works similar to the potion and fishing enchantment, increasing the odds for higher tier loot in opened chests or while fishing, or maybe if that's too powerful, it could have some sort of effect like a sparkling trail that can lead players to find ores (specifically ores that have been placed naturally, it wouldn't track ores that have been mined and replaced with silk touch) allowing players to essentially navigate easier without the need for memorizing the ideal spawn levels for various ores, making it easier to find more resources after you've done things the traditional way, like a built in quality of life improvement. Chain mail could have a minor passive protection buff against all forms of melee damage, making it more situational, as well as giving it some realism with the implication of projectiles like arrows being more of a counter to it, or make it a hybrid between the previously mentioned benefits to leather and iron, where it moves faster than other armors due to being lighter weight, but not as light as leather, and more protective against fire, but not as much as iron, making it sort of a jack of all trades, master of none, general purpose armor if you can get your hands on it. Netherite can still remain the undisputed toughest armor in the game, and honestly...I would avoid adding buffs to it simply because the defensive ability of it is already WAY too good if someone gets their hands on it, especially in PVP, if anything, I'd argue it should have a speed debuff to counter how good it is defensively, otherwise, it's still just broken in PVP scenarios, and if that's too extreme, maybe give it a mild health increase...also make it immune to lava, and give it exclusive enchants that increases visibility and movement speed in lava, people have wanted to swim in the nether for actual ages at this point, and it would up the cool factor of netherite without being game breaking, making it more reasonable to establish a permanent base in the nether just imagine someone raising out of lava to ambush you, it'd make netherite equally as situational, and can both nerf it on land, but make it much more terrifying in a lava base or the nether itself. As for the problem Golden child...double down on the enchantment gimmick, possibly make it so that it doesn't have exclusive enchants, BUT make it so that the enchants that DO exist universally, and are leveled, can have their level cap increased by 2-3 levels, so instead of being capped at Unbreaking 3, you can get golden gear up to unbreaking 5 or 6, through combining enchanted golden items, making it weaker in the earlier stages of the game, with the capacity to scale like no other armor or equipment can if you put the work in. The numbers of course may need some tweaking, but it always seemed weird to me that the selling point of gold was that it could "be enchanted better" when EVERY other armor set could be just as well enchanted as gold, and be MORE EFFECTIVE, therefore defeating the point of enchanting it in the first place. Increasing the peak of scaled enchantments on gold makes much more sense, and while it would of course need to be tailored properly so that gold doesn't say, completely invalidate netherite's strength or something, I think it's an idea with some promise to it.

Well, now leggings do have the swift sneak enchantment

I think they should make the armor fit better on the player. Most of the armor pieces look weird when wearing them because they are more like puffed out when wearing them and it looks weird to me because you can see right through the top of the chest plate the leggings and boots under the helmet it just looks weird. I think they should just make it fit perfectly like in all the animations people watch of minecraft. The armor fits perfectly and actually looks good. But in game it just looks disappointing. I feel like minecraft should fit it.

A cool way to also fix the armor problem is adding speed values to different types of armor. Examples include no armor, chainmail, and leather giving 1.5x speed, gold giving 1.25x speed, as well as iron, diamond and Netherite giving 1x speed. Despite these changes, an argument made is that Gold would still be useless, as even though you'd lose hunger slower, sprint jumping is still 1.3x base movement speed, so unless you can increase speed past that mark, any speed upgrade is virtually useless. To fix this, Gold Armor could be buffed in the nether, being a set of armor designed for Netherite mining with it's low-enchant cost, as well as stats that make it rival, yet be weaker than diamond armor in the nether. I think that this would fix Minecraft's armor balancing, making chainmail armor one of the better armor sets, with it's rarity also being enticing, balancing both Singleplayer and PvP gamemodes.

give armor weight.....the stronger the armor the slower you move while wearing it.....also nerf chain mail by like half and make it so u can wear it underneath other armors...so u can have chainmail under your iron armor for added protection.....that would instantly make chain mail extremely useful. i also think they need to add weapon types like two handed swords and battleaxes.

Armor Trims in 1.20: I don't think so dude.

i wouldnt consider gold a light material especially for armor - it is VERY dense/heavy

Never thought of giving better enchantments to specific materials. That'd make me actually want to use different types of armor.. imagine having soul speed IV gold boots for travelling, or respiration IV leather helmet for diving, so useful :D I also could see a minecraft without gold tools. They are useless, and just act as a bait for new players who don't know how fragile they are

i think they should just redesign the armor so i can look realistic and look satisfying to the player

Fun fact: full prot V armor is the same with full prot IV + one piece of prot V

My balancing idea ( no numbers just rebalancing) Leather : + durability, + gives speed Chain mail : + gives more loot from mob Gol armour : + gives more ore, - is crafted with gold block instead of ingot. Iron : good mid game armour is balanced Diamond : good late game armour is balanced Netherite : - gives slowness The idea of this balancing is to give each armour a use case, leather diamond and netherite are for fighting but for different needs , leather is scout/assasin, diamond all puorpuse fight, netherite is the tank. The iron is good as a cheap otion for each case. Gold and chain stop being fight armour but become utility, chain because is obtained by mobs gives more loot and gold becuase is a rare mtal gives more ore when mining. This would give more option to chose based on situation and playstile. I think that in general having just 1 best thing in a progression is not good as a game design. Also coold thing about this rebalancing is that every armour would actually have a use case even in late game. Meaning we would need to have each of every set or at least 3.

I personally think wood armor should be added, it'd make the early game much better.

maybe sum little changes, but why grind for diamonds when that gold chestplate u found in a chest is as good in the way u like? why mine for so long to get ancient debri, when its slower and less fast paced and u dont like that? it disincourages ppl to get better armour, or makes the pvp to be long fights cuz with an iron or gold farm u can just get good enough armour to dont care if u die 16 times

Id say a good use for chainmail could-be adding it under other armor like irl. That protects you more. Maybe slowing you down.

Neth protects you (though post-game you sacrifice the most protective piece for an elytra for 90% of the time after you get one), diamond upgrades to neth while still keeping any enchants, naughty custom names based on the name of the tilling-and-leaf-cutting implement or the sword’s general shape, or the trims that’ll be added tomorrow, gold helmets keep piglins from attacking you, leather boots and horse armor keep you from sinking into powdered snow, and chainmail should disappear with you when using an invis potion. Perhaps they should also add copper gear that is slightly better than iron but slowly rusts away, automatically breaking an ingame week after being crafted regardless of durability or the mending enchantment. (Or at least implement copper in redstone somehow so bedrock can have JE’s redstone mechanics and vice versa through it. The recently-added use for leather armor is especially good now that it’s no longer the only armor that can be customized and up until 1.18 I’d usually play a world from start to finish without even touching any leather armor. Now chainmail should get a use.

i really like your solution to gold armor (exclusive enchants) it's a 9/10, the others are a bit eh(though probably still better than what we have rn, i just think that there would be better options

during the medival era chainmail was used agenst slashing attacks because it reduced the amount if damage taken and normaly had leather/wool under it to buffer impact damage while still being reletivly light compaired to iron so i am thinking you should give iron armor a speed debuff and a chainmail + leather armor crafting that offers slightly better protection but withouyt a speed debuff

awesome video! keep it up really great ideas with the chainmail fixes!

I just wish that the Chainmail armor set was crafted from chains, and it should give the wearer 1.5x more defence, and also it will increase your attacks by 4x.

Leather should increase your speed or some sort of mobility, because it is more aerodynamic (like a nod to leather jackets of bikers, even if those aren't for increasing speed) Chainmail should be able to be combined with the "lesser" Armours (Leather, Gold and Iron), I mean historically you have Chainmail in places plates can't protect Gold should decrease the price of trades or increase your luck overall, like someshort of goldrush

Fun fact: Armor and weapon materials DO affect enchant power, the order is as follows Gold armor at 25 enchantability Gold tools at 22 Netherite Armor, Netherite Tools, Leather armor, and Wooden tools at 15 (why wood and leather are on par with NETHERITE is beyond me) Iron Tools at 14 Chainmail armor at 12 Diamond armor and Diamond tools at 10 Turtle Helmet and iron armor at 9 Last, and certainly least, Stone tools, at a whopping 5 Enchantments are calculated by B + R1 + R2 + 1 B is the base enchantment level and R1/R2 are random integers followed by 0, E / 4 where E is the enchantability Each enchantment has a "Weight" just like with loot, the better the enchant, the higher the weight If you understood none of this, or didn't know this, I don't blame you! because NOWHERE in the game is this told to the player! Nor is it explained in an easily digestible way! We already have a way of making weaker, lesser used armors better, and the "gold getting unique enchants" would make huge amounts of sense thematically because it already gets absolutely insane enchants! Tl;Dr: Your suggestion of giving gold armor better enchants is already half functional and established in game, it just needs to be added

what if chainmail armour would give you a bonus while using bows or something, as bows are quite lackluster and the only way you can upgrade it is with enchantments

Chain mail should have a feature were it can be used under other armor

I dont think Minecraft would add this. The feature are more like RPG elements. Like wearing this Armor boosts your Health. You would find sth like this in wynncraft but in Minecraft Itself

I wish Minecraft can do these changes more or less. These concepts are awesome.

Minecraft should do these things for the 3 uselss armors to make them make semse without changing them too much. 1.Make leather armor so easy to get like make villages and cow drop a bit more leather. 2:Chainmail should be craft able and be combined with iron plates to make a decorative knight armor witht he same protection as iron but look way cooler. 3:Stop making gold realistic where its weak because it's real life counterpart.Make gold where it gives you the protection sightly higher then diamond but the downside is that you become more heaveier and slower the more pieces you wear

wish you can revert leather armor back to plain leather. have so many from my zombie farm. i smelt the gold armor back to ingots there should be a way to convert the leather armor to rabbits hide at least

Gold should protect more but last less, since gold deforms when hot and absorbs the impact more than other metals, which just bounce back

I think another change should be made by switching Gold and irons rarity since Iron is better than gold and also make gold tools and armor deal slightly more damage and better durability

I have a enchanted golden leggings in my chest and it lost so many health compared to my iron leggings and it use to have full health including my iron armour when i found a broken portal but the problem is it was weak like literally its way rarer then finding iron and is way weaker then iron

Does anyone remember Studded armor?

I think your on the right track, but maybe not the increased attack speed with the armor and swords. This just seems like it would be to OP and it would be really frustrating to grind a netherite sword just for it to attack really slow and you have this gold sword going vrrrrr.

I think chainmail should provide protect your melee hits of weapons of Zombie pigmen or piglins and piglin brutes abd tridents but weaker to other types of damage as for gold you should be able to enchant it with like unbreaking five or four or protection 5 and to compensate so for its weakness and have exclusive enchantments like electro metal as name for an enchantment that can only be used for gold armor that shocks some hostile mobs with electric current whenever you get hit as for leather armor it should be cheaper and slightly more protective

My solution: 1# Furnace require harder components to craft, thus delay Iron armor potential to get early on. Clays maybe? 2# Makes Leather armor appears on Zombies and Skeleton more often, increase their drops rates, same thing with Chains mails. For a lore perspectives, leather was common back when, and chains mails armor crafting knowledge are unknown to the players, but the villagers should knows how's to make them, as they are descendants of some of the old builder civilization.

Idk whats the point of chainmail armor cause its replaced by iron and you can craft it

Man I think I agreed with just about every point you made. Wish mojang would watch this lol. Great vid man definitely subbed

if just mojang would use new item which is made of diamond for give durability and protection of diamond to these armor even iron armor and have a. balance when you want a specific style with these decorations and coloura in your character but you dont want it affect the gameplay like uae gold and iron and maybe 1 diamond piece because look cool with a style but be weaker than a full diamond. I see this new update like that opportunity to do relevant those armors, and it wont break game considering that are 28 diamond which you could use for a diamond set and weapons or become your armor only look cool.

The real question is when are they gonna give us emerald armor

Can we all agree that leather armor is 100% useless, and making iron hard to find to craft iron armor is NOT a solution by a long shot, especially since leather has very little enchantments. Also copper replaced iron spawns so screw copper!

Your asking to change the damaged formula, armor formula, and toughness formula, and some other formulas. This alone would break mods from updating. Resulting in new mod structures. Not that it matters. So I assume until a very scheduled update comes along to change combat once more. We are stuck with this system.

60 HOLY SH&T 60 VIEWS IN 12 HOURS?!?!?! NAH

Why my equipment take loooooot of damage even i didn"t take any hit from anything?

Are you going to make a video about the new armor trims?

Swift Sneak only works on leggings, you can't use it on boots

good points

I love leather boots... IRL !

Cows should just drop more leather.

dude, if you'll continue making videos, you should consider investing in a good mic !! I feel like it's holding you a little back Your narration and energy are great, the script is well made, and the video overall is really entertaining, keep it up =)

Swift sneek was changed to be place on leggings

They keeping it real

gold is heavy

Gold,leather and chain armor are useless!Gold isn't durable,leather is weaker and harder to get than iron armor and chain is a weaker version of iron armor and it is too hard to get. The armor structure is iron to diamond to netherite.

correction gold is much heavier than iron. its comparable to tungsten in terms of density.

underrated vid

sorry you are the best youtuber i ever seen!

Aahahhahahahaha unbreaking 3 with mending on gold go brrrr

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Making more armor each with individual specialties and effects would be way healthier for the experience, Terraria did this. Imagine if we had copper armor, a bit below iron but gives you a boost in speed that ramps up the more you run or walk. Or make netherite armor actually give you fire resistance, or add some special underwater armor or armor that gives you some boost in certain weapons.

“Amour”🤣

no it doesn’t, if you think they are useless just because the other ones are better than don’t even bother playing games if you don’t know what “game” means

"'"'"'"'"''"Mojang is tying to make everything useful"'"'"'"'"''" Copper.

Bro u cute bro

This reminds me of Among Us

The intro sucks to be honest Why so long and emotional? Get your feelings outta my FAYCE

Hi second

you're trying way too hard