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Dwarf Fortress => DF Gameplay Questions => Topic started by: Argus_Mccray on October 05, 2014, 03:22:56 am

Title: Unusual piece of armor
Post by: Argus_Mccray on October 05, 2014, 03:22:56 am
I had a dwarf go into a strange mood a few minutes ago and he produced something rather odd. The mood resulted in "Rounded Iron Greaves". Has anyone encountered this? I checked the stock screen and they seem to be distinctly different from regular greaves. I can't find any info on the wiki about this type of armor either. Any idea of how its different?
Title: Re: Unusual piece of armor
Post by: StagnantSoul on October 05, 2014, 03:28:29 am
I believe it's just flavour text. I got a segmented steel breastplate once.
Title: Re: Unusual piece of armor
Post by: Orange Wizard on October 05, 2014, 03:31:29 am
This is part of the varied cultures that Toady is working on. Certain armours and weapons made by some entities will have variations, such as rounded greaves in place of regular greaves. In my current fort I have ornate gauntlets, as another example.
I don't think there's any notable difference between the variant items and the raw ones. I also remember a thread a while back where someone posted the (memory-hacked) raws for a variant war hammer - it was identical to a regular warhammer in all but the name. So odds are that rounded greaves are no better or worse.
Title: Re: Unusual piece of armor
Post by: wuphonsreach on October 05, 2014, 12:54:35 pm
I had a "square" breastplate in a previous fortress as a result of a strange mood.
Title: Re: Unusual piece of armor
Post by: Cptn Kaladin Anrizlokum on October 05, 2014, 05:43:20 pm
I assumed it was randomly generated names for weapons/armour. Just as a flavour thing...
Title: Re: Unusual piece of armor
Post by: Orange Wizard on October 05, 2014, 07:31:53 pm
Kind of. The game makes entirely new items (well, copies existing ones) and gives them some flavour text. We don't know if they're in any way different.
Title: Re: Unusual piece of armor
Post by: Linkxsc on October 05, 2014, 09:46:59 pm
Cant wait for the flavor text to be fleshed out more, because it is quite nifty. And in the case of someone like myself. I've been... I guess, relearning to draw. Used to do it all the time 6-8 years ago (coincidentally when I was in highschool with lots of notebooks that should have had other things written in them) and want to illustrate the events in my games (to go along with a lets play or something).
Flavortext is quite helpful for fleshing out what a character should look like/their equipment.
Title: Re: Unusual piece of armor
Post by: Cptn Kaladin Anrizlokum on October 05, 2014, 09:58:40 pm
Quote from: InsanityIncarnate on October 05, 2014, 07:31:53 pm
Kind of. The game makes entirely new items (well, copies existing ones) and gives them some flavour text. We don't know if they're in any way different.
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Title: Re: Unusual piece of armor
Post by: Orange Wizard on October 05, 2014, 10:07:07 pm
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