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DWARFFRAWD

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whats role of armorlevel?
« on: November 09, 2020, 07:07:31 pm »

it seems like

armorlevel:0 or non armorlevel = civilians wear this
armorlevel:1 = bowman, xbowman wear this
armorlevel:2 = melee fighters wear this
armorlevel:3 = ????

right??
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Re: whats role of armorlevel?
« Reply #1 on: November 09, 2020, 07:31:05 pm »

0 is cloth, and suffers wear and tear just from existing. Lowest level of defense. basically "not armor" and civilians will wear it (tho it's not necessarily as bad as normal clothes, as clothing has an extra tag that makes it even worse for defense).
1 is leather armor, 2 is chain armor, and 3 is plate armor. Being made of metal or not doesn't necessarily impact the armor level, but if something can be made of both metal and non-metal materials, giving it the METAL_ARMOR_LEVELS tag will cause it's armor level to raise by 1 (tho it can't go over 3)

Also AFAIK armor level only really impacts how good the armor is, and stuff like making armor level 2 actually behave like chain armor still requires you to set the other tags chain armor needs.

TLDR big number better, civilians will only wear tier 0
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