I've always tended to wear diamond armour, occasionally iron armour, so iron armour drops, being quite rare, sometimes go to making spare armour. On the other hand I smelt 99% of my gold armour drops (regardless of enchantments) for the nuggets, for crafting into ingots. Think over all my bases i have two sets of Enchanted Gold Armour on stands for decoration.
Additionally, you can use leather armor to make yourself a nice wardrobe. That's what I've done here:
For gold armor, keep in mind that with 1.16 gold armor has some usefulness against piglins. So it would be worth combining drops to get a few sets of gold armor - if you keep using the drops for this purpose, then you may not need to craft any at all.
Here, I have collected a few sets, which I could then use to put Soul Speed and other enchantments on for Nether travel (except that I'm not playing in 1.16, but if you are, then this is what you might do). None of these were crafted:
Rollback Post to RevisionRollBack
LP series? Not my style! Video series? Closer, but not quite. Survival journal, maybe? That's better. Now in Season 4 of the Legends of Quintropolis Journal (<< click to view)!! World download and more can be found there.
If you end up in a server with MCMMO (which tis most servers), you'll be able to use a Gold block to salvage all those into ingots using the salvage skill.
Posting just incase OP is within one of those servers, and happens to be asking this when playing.
Check attachments for examples of MCMMO salvage
ATTACHMENTS
Screenshot_29
Screenshot_1
Rollback Post to RevisionRollBack
Survival SMP - 1.16+ (Give it a try!) : Fedoria.net
The Meaning of Life, the Universe, and Everything.
Location:
Wakefield, West Yorkshire, UK.
Join Date:
1/10/2015
Posts:
206
Location:
West Yorkshire, UK, Earth
Minecraft:
T1Cybernetic
Xbox:
T1Cybernetic
PSN:
T1Cybernetic
Discord:
T1Cybernetic
PMC:
T1Cybernetic
Member Details
I try to smelt everything Unlimited fuel from whatever means available means that I can smelt all the spare armour and things to stack and store for later
Since durability of the armour the mobs drop is pathetic the only sensible thing to do with them is either put mending on them or smelt them for nuggets, if they don't have any curse enchantments on them.
I wish the iron or gold armour smelted gave ingots instead of nuggets though
and the ingots should be proportional to the durability left on the items IMO.
This would have been a much better mechanic than the iron golem farms people build, but only if the drops came as a result of a direct kill from players.
I seem to remember being able to get iron/gold nuggets from gold/iron armor drops. is there a way to use these drops that makes them useful?
You can disenchant them and smelt them down for 1 nugget per piece, up to you to decide whether it's worth it.
I've always tended to wear diamond armour, occasionally iron armour, so iron armour drops, being quite rare, sometimes go to making spare armour. On the other hand I smelt 99% of my gold armour drops (regardless of enchantments) for the nuggets, for crafting into ingots. Think over all my bases i have two sets of Enchanted Gold Armour on stands for decoration.
Mintutor now works in 1.13!
MrKite & Mc_Etlam ... I salute you!
You can, of course, smelt enchanted armor but if you use a grindstone to remove the enchantments you can get some XP.
(Though if you're getting armor drops you may well already be getting all the XP you need, depends on whether you kill the mobs yourself.)
Just testing.
You could always use them for decoration on armor stands or create a store house with a bunch of spare weapons and armor.
Additionally, you can use leather armor to make yourself a nice wardrobe. That's what I've done here:
For gold armor, keep in mind that with 1.16 gold armor has some usefulness against piglins. So it would be worth combining drops to get a few sets of gold armor - if you keep using the drops for this purpose, then you may not need to craft any at all.
Here, I have collected a few sets, which I could then use to put Soul Speed and other enchantments on for Nether travel (except that I'm not playing in 1.16, but if you are, then this is what you might do). None of these were crafted:
LP series? Not my style! Video series? Closer, but not quite. Survival journal, maybe? That's better. Now in Season 4 of the Legends of Quintropolis Journal (<< click to view)!! World download and more can be found there.
If you end up in a server with MCMMO (which tis most servers), you'll be able to use a Gold block to salvage all those into ingots using the salvage skill.
Posting just incase OP is within one of those servers, and happens to be asking this when playing.
Check attachments for examples of MCMMO salvage
Survival SMP - 1.16+ (Give it a try!) : Fedoria.net
#Seattle - Veteran Server Manager - #CollegeLife
I try to smelt everything Unlimited fuel from whatever means available means that I can smelt all the spare armour and things to stack and store for later
Signature removed by popular demand.
Since durability of the armour the mobs drop is pathetic the only sensible thing to do with them is either put mending on them or smelt them for nuggets, if they don't have any curse enchantments on them.
I wish the iron or gold armour smelted gave ingots instead of nuggets though
and the ingots should be proportional to the durability left on the items IMO.
This would have been a much better mechanic than the iron golem farms people build, but only if the drops came as a result of a direct kill from players.