Unearthing Primal Armor Trims and Banana Archaeology

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Banana plant archaeology along coastal shores yields the rare Primal Armor Trim Smithing Template and unique decorative pottery sherds. Uncovering these historical artifacts requires searching tropical coastlines, excavating fragile sediment deposits beneath wild banana clusters, and duplicating recovered templates on crafting tables for permanent decorative tailoring.

Excavating Coastal Banana Plants

Archaeological brush excavations beneath rare wild banana plants generate exclusively along coastal beaches and stony shores. While common banana plants thrive in inland jungles and bamboo jungles, coastal shore clusters harbor buried historical deposits beneath their sandy root blocks.

Equipping a brush and carefully uncovering suspicious sand blocks beneath coastal banana plants reveals six distinct historical artifacts:

Reflection Pottery Sherd: Excavated with a twenty percent drop chance, displaying symmetrical ancient patterns.
Scream Pottery Sherd: Uncovered with a twenty percent drop chance, depicting stylized ritual expressions.
Snack Pottery Sherd: Recovered with a twenty percent drop chance, illustrating ancient culinary harvesting.
Spider Pottery Sherd: Discovered with a twenty percent drop chance, showcasing arachnid motifs.
Chimpanzee Head: Uncovered with a ten percent drop probability, providing a carved mob head relic.
Smithing Template: The elusive Primal Armor Trim Smithing Template surfaces with a ten percent drop rate, granting access to tribal armor embroidery.

Duplicating and Applying the Primal Armor Trim

Because locating intact coastal banana ruins requires extensive shoreline exploration, duplicating your first Primal Armor Trim Smithing Template protects the pattern from being consumed during smithing modifications.

Duplicating the template requires assembling a dedicated replication grid on a crafting table:

Place one Smithing Template in the top-middle slot.
Place one Banana Stalk directly in the center slot.
Fill the remaining seven outer slots with seven Diamond gems.
The crafting operation produces two identical Smithing Template items, duplicating the pattern while consuming the diamonds and the banana stalk.

To prepare the required duplication core, harvesting nine Banana Frond leaves from banana canopies crafts one Banana Stalk. Placing four Banana Stalk blocks in a two-by-two square further carves them into one Carved Banana Stalk building block in modern editions, or four blocks in earlier releases.

Applying the primal trim to defensive gear takes place at a standard smithing table:

Place the Smithing Template in the leftmost template slot.
Insert any piece of trimmable vanilla or modded armor into the center equipment slot.
Insert one valid trim material, such as an iron ingot, gold ingot, redstone dust, emerald, or diamond, into the rightmost ingot slot.
Finalizing the smithing operation embroiders the primal trim pattern permanently into the armor surface without altering defensive statistics.

Unearthing the carved Chimpanzee Head unlocks custom heraldry for banners and outpost outfitting. Placing one Chimpanzee Head alongside one sheet of Paper anywhere in a crafting grid crafts one Banner Pattern, allowing weavers to imprint the chimpanzee crest across woven banners.