RPG Armor Upgrades

Armor follows a classic upgrade chain instead of the usual one-step recipes. A player places a piece of armor in a table, and from there the piece can be upgraded through successive tiers, each one adding power. Power grows exponentially: each tier multiplies the level, and the mod describes a seven-times increase in power as the goal of a full upgrade path.

Vanilla armor recipes are disabled, except for leather. The leather start is intended to make early play harder and the progression more interesting. Some upgrade materials can only be obtained by crawling through dungeons or defeating bosses, so reaching the later tiers means exploring and fighting. Armor Crafter is required and is the first thing to install, since it provides the basic crafting it builds on. A table lists the materials needed for each upgrade, so a player knows what to gather before reaching the next tier.

The mod is inspired by the armor system of Monster Hunter, where armor is improved in stages. Each upgrade is fairly expensive, and the cost is the trade-off for the power it opens up. Armor from other mods can also be upgraded: when a mod adds its own armor types, the upgrade uses generic recipes rather than vanilla ones. Servers that run it need every player to install it too. It is published for Forge only, with one file, 1.0 for 1.16.5, released on 2023-10-16. The license is All rights reserved, and the mod is not open source, though public links exist for the source code and the issue tracker.