Staying Alive
I’ve always thought that cloth armour was one of the most underrated pieces of equipment in the game, so I thought I would make a post about it. Maybe I can turn this into a series of some sort with some more play tips. If I can think of anything else that I think is worth talking about.
Ok, so the first negative of cloth armour are that it does not offer as much protection as say studded leather or chainmail armour. The second is that it wears out and takes damage faster than cloth armour. For these reasons, most players prefer studded or chain, which is fair enough, if your about to tangle with a monster that may prove to be above your ability, then you want every advantage you can get. I’m not disputing this, & I’m not suggesting that cotton should replace either of these fine armours, however, Cloth has one decided advantage over cotton, speed. Not speed of attacks, unfortunately, but speed of movement, so there are 2 main groups of people who should reconsider cotton armour.
The first group are those players who have no interest in this games form of combat & find themselves running whenever they encounter something tougher than a rat. The second are those who get sick of the reduced movement rates of heavier armours & tend to wander around the game bare as the day they were born.
If your a runner, then your only interest is getting out of range of the beastie before it causes too much damage & you can’t run anymore. What I suggest is that you get yourself a set of cloth armour. You only lose about 2kmh on cobblestones which seems pretty painful at first, but you get used to it to the point that after a while it just seems normal.
If your a streaker, then you probably only put your armour on before you fight something tough, if so, then your out of luck, sorry. You’d quickly get sick of taking off one suit to put on another. If you only put your armour on when your leaving home to go hunting or to visit another town etc, Then you’ve probably already had the experience where you just popped out to grab another felled tree & got jumped by something & never made it back to safety. Afterwards you probably promised yourself that you would never leave safety without your armour again, but have probably already done so. If you get some cloth armour & just wear it all the time around home, you wont really notice any speed difference after a while. Then the next time you get ambushed by something when you pop out to grab some more clay, you stand a much better chance of survival.
Unfortunately, I can’t practice what I preach since I’m lucky enough to own a set of drake armour which already has the best of both worlds. The speed of cloth & the protection of chain. I have however opened commenting on this post so that people can offer their own opinions, or hopefully post the results of using cloth armour, if they can find someone to make them some that is.
Last time I made a post, I mentioned one of this game’s easter eggs, so I thought I would point you towards the other one this time. There’s something you can do as an action with some eggs in your inventory, but don’t do it if eggs are precious to you since the egg will get used in the process.
Happy Wurming.
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