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Functional Armor Trims

Adds small but meaningful effects to wearing armor trims of different materials

FabricNeoForgeQuilt
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FabricNeoForgeQuilt
Downloads on Modrinth
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Followers on Modrinth
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versions
27
Updated
October 9, 2026Oct 9
Published
in 2025
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At a glance

Runs on Fabric, NeoForge and Quilt
For Minecraft 1.21.1, 1.21.8–26.2
Needed in the game and on the server
Latest version — 2.3.0+26.2-neoforge from October 9, 2026
Requires Forgified Fabric API
License MIT — free
Where it's needed
In gamerequiredOn serverrequired

Needed both in the game and on the server

Game versions1.21.1, 1.21.8–26.2

Functional Armor Trims title

A mod that gives purpose to every armor trim.
Functional Trims reimagines Minecraft’s armor trims by turning them into unique, gameplay-affecting abilities — each material grants a distinct passive or triggered effect when worn on a full set of armor.

Overview

Tired of trims being purely cosmetic?
This mod makes them functional by assigning fun, balanced abilities that encourage strategic equipment choices.
Every trim material brings something new to the table, from survival perks to combat mechanics.

Trim Effects

Click a material below to view its effect in detail.

Gold
Gold Ingot

Effect: “Lord of the Nether”


When wearing a full set of armor trimmed with this material:

  • Piglins and Piglin Brutes will become completely passive around you, even while mining gold ore, looting bastion chests, and even attacking them.
Diamond
Diamond

Effect: “Shattering Resilience”


When wearing a full set of armor trimmed with this material:

  • Your armor will take the full force of a fatal attack, shattering itself in the process. When this happens a massive burst of energy is released, knocking back and damaging enemies nearby to give the user room to get to safety.
Netherite
Netherite Ingot

Effect: “Immoveable Object”


When wearing a full set of armor trimmed with this material:

  • You become completely* immune to knockback. Strikes, projectiles, and explosions have no effect on your position. Doesn't effect fluids, pistons, and status efects like Levitation.
Iron
Iron Ingot

Effect: “Unyielding Defense”


When wearing a full set of armor trimmed with this material:

  • Incoming projectiles have a 50% chance to be completely nullified, dropped as items, critical hits do significantly less damage, and shields have no cooldown and knock back the attacker when struck.
Copper
Copper Ingot

Effect: “Supercharged Strike”


When wearing a full set of armor trimmed with this material:

  • Lightning is more likely to strike you. But when it does, for the next 60s you become charged, similar to a charged creeper. Your next attack does double damage and is accompanied by a lightning strike and sets your target ablaze.
Amethyst
Amethyst Shard

Effect: “Resonating Vision”


When wearing a full set of armor trimmed with this material:

  • You gain the ability to see all entities in a 25m radius through walls by sitting still for 3 seconds or crouching for 1.5 seconds. The effect goes away when you start moving again.
Redstone
Redstone Dust

Effect: “Fully Conductive”


When wearing a full set of armor trimmed with this material:

  • The blocks you step on will receive a strong redstone signal, powering neighboring blocks. The signal goes away when you step off of the block.
Emerald
Emerald

Effect: “Explorer’s Fortune”


When wearing a full set of armor trimmed with this material:

  • Loot chests with randomized loot tables grant more loot per chest. This makes rarer finds easier to obtain, simulating luck (note: not related to the vanilla “luck” effect).
Resin
Resin Brick

Effect: “Adhesive Grip”


When wearing a full set of armor trimmed with this material:

  • You gain the ability to stick to walls by crouching next to a block. The faster you are falling, you will slide a little bit farther when attaching to the wall. This resets your fall height to zero, making it a handy way to slide down walls.
Quartz
Nether Quartz

Effect: “Enriched Vitality”


When wearing a full set of armor trimmed with this material:

  • Every potion and food item you consume will grant longer lasting positive effects, more saturation, and more hunger points restored. The default is a 25% increase for all three bonuses.
Lapis Lazuli
Lapis Lazuli

Effect: “Scholar’s Insight”


When wearing a full set of armor trimmed with this material:

  • Experience orbs will grant a whopping 50% more experience to the player. This does not apply to sources of experience that don’t spawn orbs.

Compatibility

  • Built for Minecraft 1.21.8+
  • Requires Fabric API and Cloth Config API
  • Tested with most common modpacks
  • Loosely tested with Quilt Loader. Use at your own risk

Installation

  1. Download the latest .jar from the Files tab
  2. Place it in your mods folder
  3. Launch Minecraft with either Fabric or Quilt

Feedback & Support

Report bugs on the GitHub Issues) page.

Credits

Created by RubberToe

Support

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FAQ

How to install Functional Armor Trims?

Install Fabric for your Minecraft version, download Functional Armor Trims for the same version and loader, put the file into the mods folder and launch the game with the loader profile.

Which Minecraft versions does Functional Armor Trims support?

Functional Armor Trims has builds for Minecraft 1.21.1, 1.21.8–26.2.

Is Functional Armor Trims needed on the server?

Needed in the game and on the server

License and source
MIT Licensefree to use and share with credit to the author
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