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[Tombozo]

I have recently taken an interest to playing in adventure mode, and have two goals for my adventurer:

1. I want to play as a dwarf
2. I want to be able to obtain small-sized armor, preferably with at least a chance of getting steel

I wouldn't think that this would be very hard, but fulfilling the second goal is proving to be quite elusive. I've seen several forum posts that suggest that if you can make dwarves live in cities, then they will have shops that sell dwarf-sized gear. This is false - I've changed the civilization raws to make dwarves use and prefer cities for their default sites. They make walled cities with fortresses and shops, and every single shop sells 100% large-sized, 100% non-steel gear. There is the odd piece of armor strewn about the fortress floors which is correctly small, but again there is no steel - even though I have confirmed that I can start a dwarf adventurer with a steel weapon or shield.

I've even tried building a fortress with the express purpose of filling it with armor and abandoning it, and have not been successful at finding any armor (whether in adventure mode or reclaiming the fortress to check what's there). Modding seems to be the best solution, but I'm not really sure what files affect shops ingame so I'm at a loss as to what else I can do. Does anyone know a good way to get small-sized gear readily available in adventure mode?

Hopefully this isn't an inappropriate spot to post this, I have a similar post in the modding forum and am not getting any replies so I thought a forum with more adventure-interested people might turn up some solutions.

Thanks in advance for the help!

[Hotaru]

Noticed this earlier as I normally mod all races making cities in various biomes and building roads so they exist on the map (except currently have dwarves living in mountain caves, interestingly their civilization could flourish there according to legends - have yet to find them). Elven shop always sell human gear, even if they themselves have current gear. Furthermore the dungeons under elf towns are filled with humans and human gear.

Haven't been able to find a tag in the wiki at least that would affect it. I'm afraid I have the same problem as you.

However, to find small armor you can kill goblins or dwarves or visit an older fort. Things scatter on abandon, so you won't find them where you left them. This can be counteracted with the utility DFhack.

[Berserkenstein]

I have recently taken an interest to playing in adventure mode, and have two goals for my adventurer:

1. I want to play as a dwarf
2. I want to be able to obtain small-sized armor, preferably with at least a chance of getting steel

I wouldn't think that this would be very hard, but fulfilling the second goal is proving to be quite elusive. I've seen several forum posts that suggest that if you can make dwarves live in cities, then they will have shops that sell dwarf-sized gear. This is false - I've changed the civilization raws to make dwarves use and prefer cities for their default sites. They make walled cities with fortresses and shops, and every single shop sells 100% large-sized, 100% non-steel gear. There is the odd piece of armor strewn about the fortress floors which is correctly small, but again there is no steel - even though I have confirmed that I can start a dwarf adventurer with a steel weapon or shield.

I've even tried building a fortress with the express purpose of filling it with armor and abandoning it, and have not been successful at finding any armor (whether in adventure mode or reclaiming the fortress to check what's there). Modding seems to be the best solution, but I'm not really sure what files affect shops ingame so I'm at a loss as to what else I can do. Does anyone know a good way to get small-sized gear readily available in adventure mode?

Hopefully this isn't an inappropriate spot to post this, I have a similar post in the modding forum and am not getting any replies so I thought a forum with more adventure-interested people might turn up some solutions.

Thanks in advance for the help!

If you want to find dwarf-sized gear, ask locals about surrounding and try to locate a megabeast lair.  The equipment of the heroes that the beast has slain will be there.  If you are lucky, some dwarves will have died with armor and you will be able to pick them up. 

If the goblins in your world have access to iron, you can either wander around near a dark fortress and try to find goblins.  You can also try to locate bandit camps near goblin forts which will have goblins.  Kill them and take their gear.

Another option is to make a fort and produce armor that your adventurer can use then abandon the fort.

If you want to edit the raws, you can change creature_standard.txt so that dwarves are the same size as humans and therefore use the same size equipment.

Under the dwarf entry, change

Code: [Select]

[BODY_SIZE:12:0:60000]to

Code: [Select]

[BODY_SIZE:12:0:70000]
and dwarves can now use human-sized armor.  You will probably have to make a new world for this.

[zombie urist]

I've noticed that labyrinths and nests sometimes have steel armor. Beware the BC and rocs that inhibit these places though.

[Flying Dice]

Also note that if you fast travel around in circles near Mountainhome locations, you'll trigger bandits that (IIRC) are more likely to include dwarves.

[redwallzyl]

i found a full set of dwarf sized steel Armour in the upper levels of a fortress

[Doro]

Some small steel equipment can be found in shrines and i suppose in some megabeast lairs aswell.
I found one small steel cap from one shrine of titan. Titan was of that useless sort (a glob of mud with TAIL) so it didnt have many kills, I think if he had killed more dwarves, he could have had more steel equipment lying around


EDIT: also kobolds and goblins wear small armors, though usually copper, if they have any at all.