Leathered Boots

📝 Description

Tired of leather boots being the only way to walk safely on powdered snow? With Leathered Boots, you can upgrade your existing armor boots with leather — keeping full protection and gaining snow safety!
No more freezing, no more falling through powdered snow — and yes, your new leathered boots are dyeable and stylish too!

✨ Features

• 🥾 Leathered versions of every Vanilla boot.
• ❄️ Walk safely on powdered snow — no more sinking or freezing!
• 🎨 Dye your leathered boots to your favorite color!
  
• 🧼 Remove color by right-clicking a cauldron.
  
• ✂️ Trim support (Minecraft 1.20+)
  
• 📦 Loot & Trades (Minecraft 1.20+): leathered boots appear in igloos, snowy villages, and are tradeable with Leatherworkers.
• 🧭 Smithing Template (1.20+): found in igloos, outposts, shipwrecks, and trail ruins in snowy/frozen biomes.
• 🏆 Advancement compatibility: Vanilla advancements like Suit Up, Oh Shiny, and Cover Me in Debris now support leathered boots.
• 🤝 Mod compatibility — see below

🛠️ Crafting

⬆️ Minecraft 1.20+

• 🧬 Duplicate the Leather Upgrade Smithing Template as usual.
  
• ⚒️ Upgrade regular boots to leathered boots using the template.
  
• 🔥 Upgrade diamond to netherite leathered boots.
  

⬇️ Before 1.20

• 🧵 Combine normal boots + leather boots in the crafting table.
  
• ⚒️ Smite diamond leathered boots into netherite leathered boots.
  
• 🔨 Use a smithing table to upgrade to netherite — keeps enchantments.
  

🤝 Compatibility

Want modded boots to work like leathered boots?

• 🧊 Use the Soft Step enchantment for snow walking.
• 🧩 Developers can use the provided API to register their own leathered boots (see For Developers).
• 🗣️ Want support for another mod’s boots? Open an issue on that mod’s tracker — we provide the API, it’s up to them to use it!

✅ Out-of-the-box compatibility with Detail Armor Bar (Fabric only)

🔗 Dependencies

📜 License and right of use

Feel free to use this mod for any modpack or video, just be sure to give credit and possibly link here.
This project is published under the Crystal Nest Community License v1.

💻 For Developers

Want to add leathered versions of your custom boots?

• 🧰 Use the built-in API for easy support
• 📚 Follow the setup guide in the Developer Wiki

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