Hardcore- This might be the run

Hey guys, gals and everything in between and outside.

I am currently trying for hardcore completion of RLCraft. I am on run 50, so still somewhat nwe to the concept of hardcore playing wise.
I have so far had two runs that made it to full gold armor prot IV, with some pretty nice diamond nunchucks to go. One of these runs even had a tamed roc to boot.

Obviously they were ended; One by a seasnake, one by a purple-star shambler.
This current run though - might be the one.

For only the second time i found a port city early in my run. The first time i found a supreme sharpness II trade, and right after found a mending trade. Awesome - but i was careless about armor, so i was killed by a zombie a few minutes later. I learned my lesson and will equip the best armor i can as soon as i can.
I went around the port city this run, looted, traded with every armorer and got a diamond chestplate with unbreaking III and prot III after combining some stuff.
I even found the static mending villager. I just traded with him and lo and FREAKING behold; The last booktrade he had was Advanced Protection III for 13 emeralds. Hot damn!!! You bet your bottom dollar that i will throw that shit on every diamond armor piece i can get my hands on as soon as possible!

Happy hunting!