Hamster Armor and Acorn Accessories Guide

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Hamster armor and acorn accessories in Adorable Hamster Pets provide defensive plating for rodent companions and grant utility perks during exploration. Equipping your small pets with tailored armor sets and playing soothing musical flutes ensures they survive hazardous dungeon delves and creeper ambushes.

Foraging and Carving Acorns

The foundation of hamster gear relies on harvesting acorns from oak canopies and forest foliage:

Acorns fall naturally when harvesting oak leaves or can be collected while exploring forest floors.
Placing an acorn into a Stonecutter provides multiple shaping options. You can carve one acorn into an Acorn Hat, or cut it into Acorn Shards (yielding two shards per acorn in modern game versions).
Smelting an acorn in a standard furnace produces one piece of Charcoal.

Assembling Acorn Hamster Armor

Before upgrading to heavy metal plating, you must construct the basic organic armor suit:

Open a crafting table and place one Acorn Hat in the top center slot.
Fill the entire middle row and bottom row with six Acorn Shards.
This creates one suit of Acorn Hamster Armor, which can be equipped directly into the armor slot of your hamster's companion screen.
Wearing an Acorn Hat also grants the Arboreal Affinity perk to hamsters foraging in tree tops, doubling their yield during canopy heists.

Upgrading Armor with Smithing Templates

Upgrading your hamster's protection from organic acorn shells to hardened metal requires specialized smithing templates:

Hamster armor upgrade templates can be found during woodland exploration.
Template duplication: You can duplicate an existing template at a crafting table by placing the template in the center, placing the corresponding metal ingot or diamond below it, and surrounding them with seven Acorn Shards. This outputs two templates.
Smithing table upgrades: Place the hamster armor template in the left slot of a Smithing Table, place the existing piece of Hamster Armor in the center slot, and add the appropriate upgrade material in the right slot:
- Add an Iron Ingot to forge Iron Hamster Armor.
- Add a Gold Ingot to forge Gold Hamster Armor.
- Add a Diamond to forge Diamond Hamster Armor.
- Add a Netherite Ingot to forge Netherite Hamster Armor, granting extreme knockback resilience and fire resistance.

Crafting Acorn Flutes and Shoulder Mounts

Acorn Flutes allow players to control hamster behavior and mount them safely onto their shoulders:

Flutes are crafted using six Acorn Shards across the top and bottom rows, one String in the center slot, and rare Sniffer flowers flanking the string in the middle row:
- Acorn Flute (Ember): Crafted using two Torchflowers flanking the central string.
- Acorn Flute (Harmony): Crafted using one Pitcher Plant on one side and one Torchflower on the other.
- Acorn Flute (Lush): Crafted using two Pitcher Plants flanking the central string.
Looking directly at your tamed hamster and playing any of the three flutes coaxes the hamster into jumping directly onto your shoulder.
Shoulder-riding hamsters cannot be struck by wandering hazards and will chirp in warning when creepers sneak up behind you.
Playing the flute also plays a melodic riff that interrupts nearby creeper fuses and calms agitated rodents.

Preventing Friendly Fire with Acorn Rings

In multiplayer worlds, cooperative pet safety is essential:

Craft an Acorn Ring by placing one Acorn Hat in the center of a crafting table surrounded by four Copper Ingots on the north, south, east, and west slots. This recipe crafts two Acorn Rings.
When two cooperating players each equip an Acorn Ring in their accessory slots, their respective pet hamsters will never attack each other, either player, or any livestock owned by those players, ensuring peaceful cohabitation.