Studded Armor: Lost Tier & Chainmail Rework

The mod brings back the forgotten Studded armor set and gives Chainmail the recipes it was meant to have. Studded pieces are crafted from leather strips, iron nuggets, leather and diamonds, using a Studded Upgrade Smithing Template that is cloned like the vanilla templates. The central material is the leather strip, and the values keep the vanilla ratios between helmet, chestplate, leggings and boots.

Indev, the early development branch, carried a Studded armor set during a short window running from late December 2009 into early February 2010. Its sprites were copied directly from the Legend Chambered 2 resource pack, and the textures were deleted once real armor mechanics arrived. This mod recreates the missing tier with balanced stats and an authentic progression path, and it notes that the sprite origin is shared with that pack.

Studded Armor: Lost Tier & Chainmail Rework is a Forge addon for Minecraft 1.20.1 that falls under the GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 or later, which makes its source code open. Every player and the server need a copy of the mod. Because the items were once only spawned in starting inventories, they are now obtained through crafting and can be found in the world.