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[Zaik]

It's my first time really playing with a certain blueish metal and i had some question(s):

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#1: Does an Adamantine Robe really cover all the areas armor doesn't get? I've had some lower armor skill units(in particular ranged and this one time i tried a wrestler for "fun") take damage from things like iron arrows and whatnot that obviously can't pierce Adamantine so i was wondering if this would offer additional protection from the RNG monster.
#2: Is it significant enough to make one, assuming a raw adamantine to military unit ratio of 45.5 to 1(i'm keeping a smaller military this go around)
#3: Can they wear a mail shirt, breastplate, and robe at the same time, and if not, is the robe worth sacrificing the mail shirt or breastplate?
#4:Does the quality of the woven cloth affect the performance of the robe?
#5: Does making the robe use Clothesmaking or Armorer?

[Gearheart]

Two adamantine mail shirts beats an adamantine robe any day, I would think.

Breatsplates provide a lot of defense, but leave the arms exposed.

[Hyndis]

You can wear an adamantine shirt, adamantine breastplate, and adamantine robe all at the same time.

[iceball3]

And now to ask a question that is sort of off topic...
do bluemetal thread scarves protect the neck?

[Funk]

yes but even adamantine is still weak when used as cloth.

[Flaede]

Two adamantine mail shirts beats an adamantine robe any day, I would think.

Breatsplates provide a lot of defense, but leave the arms exposed.

Robes (and better, dresses) cover the face. (and fingers?) Nothing else does. Note the Armor entry in the wiki. The UB/LB step MAX is coverage of those areas regular armor just can't reach.

dresses have a smaller SIZE than robes, if it matters. It's hard to figure out this release, the permit numbers aren't always work how you'd expect, but my testing in adventure mode had two dresses under 2xMail shirts, where only one robe would fit. I don't know if Fort dwarves can equip two dresses at once (or two mail shirts, for that matter).

Note the superiority of Chausses (only foot protection to go up the leg) and Long Skirts (LBSTEP:MAX) as well. Both of which you probably can't make. Unfortunately. You can (in adventure mode, again YMMV for fort mode) layer WAY more long skirts in than trousers.

Perfect world scenario (if layering is allowed)?
 a helmet under as many hoods as possible.
 2 dresses under 2 mail shirts^*, as many cloaks as can fit
 multiple long skirts (Can't be blue I don't think dwarves can make them) under greaves (maybe also a loincloth, but if you're wearing a kilt...)
 chausses (definitely not blue, probably traded-for rope reed) under High Boots
 gloves, under Gauntlets.

^* breastplates may be better, if you've got the dresses, since breatplates have an armor rating of 3 vs. 2 for mail shirts, but I have yet to get an explanation on what that does; aou can layer mail shirts with and they have UB & LBSTEPs of 1 vs. Breatplates utter lack of coverage of arms.

[Hyndis]

I have a question about hand and feet protection. I have modded clothing out of the raws to greatly reduce clutter from sieges, so everyone is naked.

However I find that many, many dwarves are having broken fingers or toes. In danger room training with no quality feathertree training spears I very frequently have dwarves with broken fingers and toes.

Is there any good way to protect fingers and toes from being so easily broken?

I give my dwarves exception or masterwork steel shirts, gauntlets, breastplates, helmets, greaves, and high boots.

[Zaik]

Two adamantine mail shirts beats an adamantine robe any day, I would think.

Breatsplates provide a lot of defense, but leave the arms exposed.

Thing is, looking through combat logs and i've got people with lower defensive skills and no shields taking hits on cloth underclothes or ears/cheeks, fingers, and necks. I've lost two elite crossbowmen to military-goes-retarded-itis and one of 6 guys shows up and the other 5 are chilling in the dining hall or in bed or whatever when a climbing/flying fb attacks(gets past my fortifications in the caverns).

Looking for something to defend against it at least somewhat.

[Gnauga]

I would advise to use station instead of kill, when facing something dangerous. It gets your troops all together, rather than each rushing the target one at a time, whenever they get their lazy dwarven asses up.

[Flaede]

I have a question about hand and feet protection. I have modded clothing out of the raws to greatly reduce clutter from sieges, so everyone is naked.

However I find that many, many dwarves are having broken fingers or toes. In danger room training with no quality feathertree training spears I very frequently have dwarves with broken fingers and toes.

Is there any good way to protect fingers and toes from being so easily broken?

I give my dwarves exception or masterwork steel shirts, gauntlets, breastplates, helmets, greaves, and high boots.

Robes (and better, dresses) cover the face. (and fingers?) Nothing else does. Note the Armor entry in the wiki. The UB/LB step MAX is coverage of those areas regular armor just can't reach.

Check the wiki link there. If you mod out clothing, without changing armor to cover the affected areas, then the fingers and faces and whatnot will be bare. This is obviously a glitch of the games' current understanding of attached bodyparts, but so be it. Dresses are actually weird ninja suit things.