Great work with this. I had to have it as soon as I saw it.

Though I do have 2 suggestions/requests...
(As a fellow developer it kills me a little bit inside just to type those words. I know how frequent/annoying they can be.)

1. I love the idea of having my apes throw things. But I find the barrels to be a bit silly. Any chance you could add "Rocks" as a third option? Ideally they would just use stone as ammo. But if not, you could just make a new item that costs 1 stone to craft. If you are REALLY feeling like stepping it up, maybe adding a "stone pile" object that we can place, that nearby apes can pull their ammo from. Feels thematic, but I also understand that it's more work on the back end. (The "piles" idea could easily be extended to the barrels too.)

2. Other Tiers of armor? Shiny Ape Knights are awesome. But the other tiers would be cool too.

Thanks for the time you took to make your mod. Even if nothing above get's implemented, you have already made my ARK experience better.