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[Ngosp Umbabok]

Hello fellow dwarf fortressors

One of my big pet peeves about adventure mode is that enemies never seem to wear any armor. When I do see armor it's usually only on bandit leaders or goblin captains but even then it's never more then 2 pieces at a time.

Would there possibly be a way to increase the rate at which adv. mode enemies wore armor and to make them individually wear many pieces at a time? (possibly coupled with increased armor skill)
That would make combat way more interesting, Ecspecially when combined with mods that aim for realistic weapons/armor properties like Stahls mod.

Thanks

[Vattic]

You could try going into the entity file and making the armor types FORCED instead of COMMON or whatever.

[Ladygolem]

Doesn't that make civilians wear armor too?

[Vattic]

Probably, not sure if that would be a problem though.

[Ngosp Umbabok]

Is there a frequent tag between common and forced?

And would making it forced cause everyone to have the exact same identical armor setup or would they still all have armor but with the peices and metal types randomized?

I would check myself but I'm posting with an iphone and don't have my computer. If someone dosnt know the answer but knows enough to guess I'd welcome that too.

[Nahere]

Those tags only determine whether the entity itself has access to the item, not the individuals of that entity. Making an item [FORCED] will mean it is always available for members of that entity to use, but will not force them to use it.

[Ngosp Umbabok]

Thanks!

Would it be possible to give everyone in the world a certain level of skill in armor-wearing or even any amount of skill in it above none?

[Vattic]

Giving a creature [NATURAL_SKILL:ARMOR:16] will make them legendary at that.

Those tags only determine whether the entity itself has access to the item, not the individuals of that entity. Making an item [FORCED] will mean it is always available for members of that entity to use, but will not force them to use it.

Fair enough. It was worth a try.

[McFeel]

  Don't know if this helps, but if you give [ARMORLEVEL:0] to one piece, the civilians will wear it. If you give [ARMORLEVEL:1] I think it will be more common, but I haven't tried. ARMORLEVEL only changes general purpose of the item, so you can give the breastplate [ARMORLEVEL:1] and it will have the same protection levels of the vanilla one.

[Ngosp Umbabok]

Cool. I will try doing what people recommended and post results when I can.

[vjmdhzgr]

Changing the armor level will have very significant effects on fortress mode however, as armor will be subject to wear meaning about every other year you need to re-armor your entire military. I've never seen wear in adventurer mode so it should be fine aside from making random farmers wear armor.

[StagnantSoul]

Armour doesn't wear.

[Ladygolem]

Indeed, but is that an inherent quality of the item itself or a result of its armour level specified in the entity raws?

[scamtank]

The armor level. Zero means clothes that get scuffled and ratty from normal use, anything above that is only hurt by extreme temperatures.

[Ladygolem]

So that's another thing to consider - I don't think I'd want to play a fort in which my military's uniform rots off their body in the middle of combat, unless I was really in the mood for some !!FUN!!.