How to Unlock Gear Lanes and Progress Through Armor Tiers

Equipment progression goes beyond vanilla materials, introducing five custom gear tiers with passive combat and utility effects. However, you cannot immediately craft or equip everything; higher-tier equipment is gated behind locked lanes in your fifteen-lane skill tree.

Unlocking Locked Gear Lanes

Normal Skill Shards are used for basic upgrades and stats, but they will not unlock restricted equipment tiers. To open locked gear lanes:

1. Locate or place a Bounty Board.

2. Pick up active quests from the board and complete the listed assignments.

3. Claim your Quest Shards from the completed bounties and spend them in the skill tree interface to unlock the higher-tier equipment lanes.

Custom Gear Tiers Overview

As you open up the skill tree, you can work your way through the five custom tiers:

• Hardwood: An early-game tier crafted from tough wood materials.
• Rose Gold: Clears negative status effects from your character and keeps Nether Piglins neutral toward you.
• Steel: A heavy-duty mid-game metal tier made by smelting materials in a furnace.
• Crystalline: Grants passive Strength and Resistance buffs while reflecting melee damage back at attackers.
• Dragon: The top tier. It provides complete immunity to fire, lava, and dragon breath, unlocks a midair dash ability, and lets you combine an Elytra directly with your chestplate.