How to Craft Unobtainable Items and Chainmail Armor

Crafting Chainmail Armor

Dark Bindings introduces recipes for full chainmail gear, allowing you to produce armor pieces using common iron items rather than hunting for rare mob drops.

1. Gather iron chains and place down a standard 3x3 crafting table.

2. Open the crafting grid and arrange the iron chains into standard vanilla armor patterns.

3. To craft a chainmail helmet, place five iron chains in a helmet shape: fill the entire top row (three chains) and place one chain on the far-left and far-right slots of the middle row.

4. Remove the finished chainmail helmet from the output slot.

Making Unobtainable Vanilla Items

The mod makes several items craftable that normally have no crafting recipe in vanilla survival:

• Mount Gear: Craft saddles and horse armor at a crafting table instead of relying exclusively on dungeon chests.
• Boss and End Items: Craft dragon eggs and End Portal frames directly using their dedicated grid recipes.
• Mob Drops and Skulls: Assemble totems of undying, ghast tears, mob heads, and wither skeleton skulls directly in the crafting table without needing to farm the Nether or woodland mansions. Use an in-game viewer like JEI, REI, or EMI to verify the exact pattern for each item.