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In Adventure mode, NPCs by default only use two items of armor only:

Helms & Breastplates.

This is pretty dull and does not allow for even weaponmasters to stand up to the player.

It would be nice to see weapon masters, lords, bosses of all kinds in full armor, bandits automatically assigned whatever armor is in their stashes, soldiers assigned gloves, boots etc  etc

The ability to define the likelihood of armor on a race in the raws same as clothing would also be great

Some questions for people who know their way around the entity raws:

Is it possible to limit a race to copper weapons? What needs to be done to do so?

Is it possible to make a race use bone or stone weapons/armor? I can put the reactions into their entity raw, so they can theoretically make the items, but they turn up with metal instead. Setting them to [wooden_armor] causes them to turn up with wooden armor, not the bone/rock I was hoping for.

Anyone remember the ambush frequency of df_34_01?
It was mad brutal, making venturing beyond towns virtually impossible.
But then it got nerfed, and now ambushes are very very rare.

I think this is sad, because passing through large tracts of land without fear of ambushes is boring. It was cool seeing so many Elites and high ranking members of various civilizations out in the world, and the constant challenge was FUN!

I think it would be pretty cool if ambush frequency was increased again - not to df_34_01 levels - but somewhere higher than it is now.

Simple question: is there a tag which can change the relative thickness of armor? eg, a breastplate that is 2x as thick/resistant as normal?

Hi all,

I was wondering if anyone has found a way to make weapons & ammunition deliver syndromes? I'm attempting to create poisoned arrows and have not yet found a tag that works..

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seemingly only works with creatures.

if it cant be done with tags, I suppose the next step would be do it by having the arrow itself constructed from somthing poisonous..

So I spent a long time adventuring and areana-ing and decided to give feedback.. I appreciate this might have been given elsewhere but just incase. there is so much I like that its way too long to list, so I'll just list what I didnt like on the off chance that it is helpful to development 

31.18 feedback:

pommels bashing is overpowered, esp with dagger pommel (insta kill if on head)

striking with staff of spears/pikes is useless, and seemingly no chance of knocking people back or over

spears/pikes need to stick in more and for much longer than one round.. these weapons lack the fearsome organ penetrating power they used to have, which is saddening- I liked how the pike would punch straight through people and get jammed in there more or less permamently in 40d

blunt weapons are very hard to kill with if they lack instakill power since breaking bones dosnt seem to kill people even when they are thoughroughly mangled.. it would be nice if hits caused more falling over, unconciousness, stunned, and if broken bones had a more meaningful effect (more pain)

bows still function perfectly with 80 maxvelocity instead of 1000, and if you make their head 25 size instead of 2 they can be deflected by breastplates (sometimes)

stranging causes insta-unconcious

bashing people on the head dosnt seem to knock them out, it either kills them or does little

if a solider wearing a bronze helmet passes out and an enemy has a crappy weapon, will attempt to deliver a coup de grace to his head every found and be deflected by the helmet, even if the rest of the body is unarmoured.

people die much much slower than in 40d.. broken bones dont seem to slow them down much and in general injuries dont seem to debilitate people like they used to... broken bones dont seem to cause pain sometimes and puncturing the lung dosnt seem to do a great deal

puncturing lung causes MORTAL WOUND! to flash even though it isnt remotely dangerous

at higher skill levels of dodge and block combat lasts FOREVER and aimed attacks become tedious and pointless

why do all the armours have 100% coverage? if they have eg 75% coverage there is always a chance of a crap weapon 'finding the joints' , is that undesirable?

enemies dont seem to blow apart, fall over or get knocked away by powerful blunt hits anymore... getting hit by an 85000 tall orcs huge mace should send smaller creatures flying

bows seem useless against enemies with decent dodge/block now, esp with the long reload times

killing little creatures, like vultures, takes a suprisingly long time... one swing from a battleaxe, instead of cleaving the little bird through, just fractures or broke bone & opened arteries.. in rl the bird would've gibbed

vultures attack living creatures en masse for silliness

creatures starting with dagger skill in adventurer mode spawn with a spear instead of a daggery loadout

pretty simple suggestion- glass added to the easily modified raws so it can be user modded, rather than being hardcoded.