Metal Wolf Solid: Wolf Armor

Metal Wolf Solid: Wolf Armor

You've got a diamond chestplate and netherite boots — and your wolf still runs into a skeleton fight wearing nothing but armadillo scutes and loyalty. Man's best friend deserves better.

Metal Wolf Solid: Wolf Armor lets you outfit your pack in the same metal ages you wear: leather for the early journey, iron and copper for the midgame grind, gold when you're feeling fancy, diamond when the fights get serious, and netherite when you're ready to take them into the fire with you.

Same fight. Same armor. Same pack.

Fabric only

Armor-only Fabric fork of RevampedWolf by bagu_chan, with equipment textures, recipes, and villager trades. See NOTICE and LICENSE for LGPL lineage and compliance.

Vanilla Wolf Armor (minecraft:wolf_armor) is unchanged. This mod adds separate mws armor items.

Armor Stats

Vanilla wolf armor (minecraft:wolf_armor) works differently from this mod's metal/leather tiers: it absorbs all damage from most sources until its durability runs out (1 durability per damage point absorbed). Tooltip "+11 Armor" is a known vanilla bug and should be ignored. Max durability is 64. Repair with armadillo scutes (8 durability when used on the wolf; 16 per scute on an anvil).

This mod's armors use normal body-slot defense / toughness / knockback like other animal armor, with vanilla body-slot values for each material. Durability is the material multiplier × 16 (BODY unit durability — same base as a chestplate), from WolfArmorMaterials on 1.21.4+ / 26.x jars.

Vs vanilla player armor materials: durability multipliers and enchantability match leather/copper/gold/iron/diamond/netherite.

*Vanilla scute absorbs ~all damage until broken; ignore tooltip armor.

Shear cost is durability lost from shears when removing armor from a wolf (vanilla shears max 238). Diamond and netherite destroy a fresh pair in one removal; lower tiers scale down (iron 50%, copper 30%, gold 20%, leather 10%). Vanilla scute stays 1.

On 1.21 / 1.21.1, defense/toughness use the same vanilla material holders (stats align with the table above). Copper is omitted from those jars. Copper is available on 1.21.9+ and 26.x only.

Crafting Recipes

Vanilla Wolf Armor

Vanilla recipe (not from this mod) — 6× armadillo scute in a U-shape. Item: minecraft:wolf_armor.

┌────────────┬────────────┬────────────┐
│Arm. Scute  │Arm. Scute  │Arm. Scute  │
├────────────┼────────────┼────────────┤
│Arm. Scute  │            │Arm. Scute  │
├────────────┼────────────┼────────────┤
│Arm. Scute  │            │            │
└────────────┴────────────┴────────────┘
→ 1× Wolf Armor (vanilla)

This mod

Shaped JSON files live under data/mws/recipe/. Metal and leather armors share the same 2-row shape (empty bottom row):

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"I I"

Leather Wolf Armor

4× leather:

┌────────────┬────────────┬────────────┐
│            │  Leather   │  Leather   │
├────────────┼────────────┼────────────┤
│  Leather   │            │  Leather   │
├────────────┼────────────┼────────────┤
│            │            │            │
└────────────┴────────────┴────────────┘
→ 1× Leather Wolf Armor

Iron Wolf Armor

4× iron ingots (same layout as leather):

┌────────────┬────────────┬────────────┐
│            │ Iron Ingot │ Iron Ingot │
├────────────┼────────────┼────────────┤
│ Iron Ingot │            │ Iron Ingot │
├────────────┼────────────┼────────────┤
│            │            │            │
└────────────┴────────────┴────────────┘
→ 1× Iron Wolf Armor

Copper Wolf Armor

4× copper ingots (same layout). Available on jars for 1.21.9–1.21.11 and 26.x only — omitted from 1.21 / 1.21.1 and 1.21.4–1.21.8 builds.

┌────────────┬────────────┬────────────┐
│            │Copper Ingot│Copper Ingot│
├────────────┼────────────┼────────────┤
│Copper Ingot│            │Copper Ingot│
├────────────┼────────────┼────────────┤
│            │            │            │
└────────────┴────────────┴────────────┘
→ 1× Copper Wolf Armor

Golden Wolf Armor

4× gold ingots:

┌────────────┬────────────┬────────────┐
│            │ Gold Ingot │ Gold Ingot │
├────────────┼────────────┼────────────┤
│ Gold Ingot │            │ Gold Ingot │
├────────────┼────────────┼────────────┤
│            │            │            │
└────────────┴────────────┴────────────┘
→ 1× Golden Wolf Armor

Diamond Wolf Armor

4× diamonds:

┌────────────┬────────────┬────────────┐
│            │  Diamond   │  Diamond   │
├────────────┼────────────┼────────────┤
│  Diamond   │            │  Diamond   │
├────────────┼────────────┼────────────┤
│            │            │            │
└────────────┴────────────┴────────────┘
→ 1× Diamond Wolf Armor

Netherite Wolf Armor (smithing)

Not a crafting table recipe. Use a Smithing Table with a Netherite Upgrade template (same idea as vanilla diamond → netherite gear):

┌──────────────────────┬──────────────────────┬──────────────────────┐
│ Netherite Upgrade    │ Diamond Wolf Armor   │ Netherite Ingot      │
│ (smithing template)  │                      │                      │
└──────────────────────┴──────────────────────┴──────────────────────┘
→ 1× Netherite Wolf Armor

Recipe type: minecraft:smithing_transform (data/mws/recipe/netherite_wolf_armor.json).

Compatibility & installation

Use a JAR built for your Minecraft line:

Skipped: 1.21.2, 1.21.3.

Requirements: Fabric Loader 0.19.3+, Fabric API for that game version, Java 21 (1.21.x) or Java 25 (26.x).

Do not use a +1.21.x JAR on 26.x (or the reverse).

Build with Stonecutter, e.g. ./gradlew :26.2.x:build — jars land under build/libs/.

Potential Improvements

• Wolf armor stands

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