This mod allows you to upgrade wood tools to stone, stone to iron, iron to gold (or skip to diamond) gold to diamond
It is the same thing with armor.
I didn't feel like making a good description as I was only uploading this for a mod pack I'm making and curseforge only lets you use mods on curseforge for modpacks.
It still works by itself though if you really want to download it.
This will only have 1 version (forge 1.16.5) unless there are major issues.