If you want to make your survival experience or a little adventurous on getting your gear.
well I have the mod for you!

my discord if you have any questions or suggestions for the mod; Wenzy.social

This will remove existing recipes and will not be optional as for the purpose of getting the upgrades.

• speaking of adventures, here are the structures you will encounter and find through your journey, better pack up your bundles for this one!
  
• You will be able to craft a block that can duplicate all these smithing templates with ease.
  with the help of the upgrade station, made with 4 planks and 2 gold ingots this block is a workstation for the refiner and a block you can use.
• The gui for this block is simple. you put the block that is used to duplicate the template to the far right slot, the far left slot is for the template and the middle is for your template base which you can craft like this:
  
• upgrading station gui as shown here

• That's basically most of it but i'll show you a few recipes to move you forward with your gear.

You're probably wondering

How does this make sense?

Simply put, these will be your helping hand in every way
After you've crafted a diamond smithing template, and try to upgrade your iron armor and that's probably because you get a different set of tools and gears.

Fragile diamond equipment.

to someone very far away this might be just regular diamond armor, but it comes with a downside to easy gear.
unlike diamond armor this set is very weak and is comparable to golden armor.

Shulkerite equipment

Most likely from the end this is the final armor you are met with. same durability, mining speed and attack damage like netherite. but when you sneak it activates a buff that increases health regen by a bit and gives imunity to shulker bullets.


and finally

Turtle set

As simple as it is this armor set gives resistance and "turtle surf" upon sneaking or equipping it. alike dolphin's grace it will make you faster in water combined with the water breathing from the turtle shell helmet. helmet-water breathing, chestplate-resistance when sneaking, boots-turtle surf.

few changes

1. Chainmail armor recipes
2. mace crafting to smithing
3. diamond and iron tools/equipment removed and moved to smithing
4. trident and turtle shell to smithing