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[Tizer]

I'm being "sieged" by an goblin ambush and because I have no military besides 1 in training crossbowdwarf I'm using my new steel bars to make some weapons and and 2 sets of plate level armor. But I want to make high boots but can't seem to find any command to make them at the forge only low boots. The wiki says that high boots can be made out a mettle. So I ask you thus. What gives?

And any recommendations on what weapons to make?

[zchris13]

High boots are in the metalsmith's forge.

Swords take off limbs.
Axes are high powered swords.
Maces deal heavy damage.
Hammers are better maces.
Crsbows are pwnage.
Spears get stuck.  Not worth it for goblins.  Only worth it for big baddies.

[Tizer]

Thanks but (I'm probably be a colossus idiot) I'm going to Armor>Steel> then all there is chain/plate mail, leggings, greaves, helm, cap, gauntlet, low boot, buckler, shield. Sorry but I just can't find it.

[Walliard]

That's odd, it should be between low boot and buckler. Is it possible that the game's been modded somehow?

Come to think of it, can modding even remove armor types?

[Mook]

This has happened to me before, as well.  The forge lists an option for low boots, but not high boots.  I've tested out a few fortresses, and I can't get any answers.  Maybe it has something to do with your home civ?  Kind of like how human civs will wear different articles of clothing based on the terrain of their original city, maybe some dwarven civs just don't learn how to use high boots.

What's the difference in high and low boots, as far as the game is concerned? 

[Raz]

High boots offer more damage resistance, are heavier and are grouped in plate armour, while low boots go with chain and are lighter.

[Jim Groovester]

From the wiki page on armor, low boots and high boots are functionally identical, except high boots weigh a little more.

And why you can't make high boots probably has to do with your civ, like how sometimes goblins wear masks instead of helms. It's just semi-random civ preference towards certain clothing types.

[Rysith]

Swords take off limbs.
Axes are high powered swords.
Maces deal heavy damage.
Hammers are better maces.
Crsbows are pwnage.
Spears get stuck.  Not worth it for goblins.  Only worth it for big baddies.

Swords take off limbs
Axes take off limbs less often than swords, but do more damage whenever they hit.
Warhammers and Maces are functionally identical, except that crossbows use hammer skill in melee
Crossbows are deadly, but you need to worry about your crossbowdwarves running out of ammo and running into melee.
Spears can do instakills on anything with organs, but will get stuck often and kill many of your recruits. Not worth it.

[zchris13]

Swords take off limbs.
Axes are high powered swords.
Maces deal heavy damage.
Hammers are better maces.
Crsbows are pwnage.
Spears get stuck.  Not worth it for goblins.  Only worth it for big baddies.

Swords take off limbs
Axes take off limbs less often than swords, but do more damage whenever they hit.
Warhammers and Maces are functionally identical, except that crossbows use hammer skill in melee
Crossbows are deadly, but you need to worry about your crossbowdwarves running out of ammo and running into melee.
Spears can do instakills on anything with organs, but will get stuck often and kill many of your recruits. Not worth it.

I read somewhere that maces do less damage or something. You say they are identical.

[The Doctor]

I know from modding clothing that clothes with the [UNCOMMON] tag sometimes are not able to be made by you.

I recall that High Boots are UNCOMMON

[LegoLord]

Spears do not always get stuck.  There are several factors affecting stick chance, including skill, quality, and raws.  A legendary spearman can be devastating, even with a low-quality wooden spear.

In one of my forts, my best warrior is a spearman.  She's the longest lasting of them.

[Greiger]

High boots do have a small advantage over low boots, High boots have an ubstep of 1 in the raws, which makes them offer some protection (usually less than the main area) to the body part directly above it which means they should add to the protection gained by leggings and greaves as well as protecting the lower legs and feet.  Low boots don't have an upstep which means they only protect the spot they are worn.  I'm actually suprised the wiki page dosn't mention the ubstep and lbstep of the armor.

Oddly though it seems they are both below "chain level" in armor.  Which dosn't make sence.  With chainmail being 2 and platemail being 3, both varieties of boot are 1.  Which I think makes them be treated as leather?   

[Albedo]

Recruits that are scheduled to wear "leather" armor will not wear metal boots.  Metal boots are MUCH better protection, and high much better than low (tho' perhaps not MUCH better.)

But metal is much heavier, if speed is any concern (pro'ly not with a siege, unless you're mopping up).  I had a relatively new dorf run down a cougar in leather armor, he couldn't have done that in chain, much less plate.

(I can't explain what the cougar was doing wearing leather armor... sorry.) 

[Walliard]

(I can't explain what the cougar was doing wearing leather armor... sorry.) 

I once shot an elephant in my pyjamas. How he got in my pyjamas I'll never know.

[zooeyglass]

(I can't explain what the cougar was doing wearing leather armor... sorry.) 

did you also have a grizzly in chain and an alligator in plate mail? carp in low boots and cape?