Originally posted by warrenchmobile:

I don't want to pee in anyone's cornflakes. (That is an expression we used in the Army to warn someone that you were about to pee in their cornflakes.)

But an armor stand is very inefficient in terms of space required. In the space occupied by two armor stands, I could build a tiered rack of three chests. Two armor stands, two four piece sets of armor. Three chests, seven four piece sets of armor with two inventory slots left over.

Sure an armor stand looks cool. In 1969, my college roommate could have bought a Plymouth Roadrunner. It looked really cool with the fake hood scoop, the fancy racing stripe, and the cartoon Roadrunner decal. Instead he bought a Plymouth Sport Satellite. Same car, same engine, same drive train but without all the cool cosmetics. His auto insurance was half of what he would have paid if he bought the Roadrunner.

Some will argue that including an armor stand represents a diversion of resources better spent on fleshing out the remaining biomes. Again, I don't want to pee in anyone's cornflakes but I think that is incorrect. Too many cooks can spoil the broth. Having one of them baking bread sticks can make the meal.

I like the way you word things here, it's very humorous. But yeah, an Armor Stand obviously isn't the most /efficient/ way of storing your armor and weapons, but it's certainly a lot cooler than just stowing your outdated gear sets in a chest somewhere to mold. Let me put it like this: An armor stand will probably not occupy the same kind of space as a stack of chests. For example, it's very easy to work an armor stand or two into your bedroom, your smithing area, or even into the windows of your shops or homes. You would probably not display a chest of armor quite as proudly as a model that shows off that +3 silver armor you worked so hard for! Besides, who doesn't want to dress up a mannequin with all of the coolest and newest viking fashions? Sure your friend might have picked the more efficient car, but I'll bet you they would have gotten so many more chicks with the more expensive car.

As for armor stands taking away development time from other features, I say meh. Not everyone on the team is working on the same thing at the same time. The Biome developer is probably not the same person as the Item developer, and so on. I understand it is a relatively small team but these things are all planned out and work is divided evenly, so as far as I'm concerned, I don't really see how it COULD slow down the pace of a more major update. It's as you say, having cooks work on different dishes helps to balance out a Square Meal rather than idly diluting the broth, as it were.