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The Armor page on the wiki doesn't have the actual volumes of the armor pieces and I couldn't find information on their weight anywhere, despite lots of people talking about encumbrance. I decided to use the formula from this talk page on the wiki http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2012_Talk:Weight to make an excel sheet. This is all for armor constructed by dwarfs, for dwarfs. Goblinite and immigrant gear will be way off. Let me know if you see any obvious mistakes.


and here's a table with just the results


Low boots don't seem to be worth cutting corners for light-weight uniforms, but this makes me think steel caps might be more useful than I realized. Especially for civilian or marksdwarfs.

How do weapon attacks get chosen? How often is a short sword a slashing weapon vs a piercing weapon, for example? Is it just as likely to be a blunt weapon because it also has a pommel attack?