Armor

Usage

The armor system in TFC+ is completely different than vanilla Minecraft. When a player is hit, a weighted random roll is made to choose a body part (feet, legs, torso, arms, or head) to take the hit. Feet and head have lowest chance to be hit and torso has the greatest. If the player has no armor on that body part they will take the full amount of damage. If the body part has armor (or clothing with armor value), a face of the selected body part is chosen. The face is chosen based on the angle of attack. Ex: an attack from above is more likely to strike the top face of the body part. The armor's coverage is checked to see if the attack will connect with armor or bypass it. If the attack lands on the armor, the damage will be reduced according to the armor's stats and then passed to the next layer of clothing/armor (if any) beneath. This process is repeated until the damage is either reduced to 0 or it reaches the player.

The tool tip shows Armor Threshold. Pressing Shift will show detailed stats, including Body Part Coverage (for both the selected item and a sum for all armor on that body part) and Armor Rating for the selected Item.

Body Part Coverage

Armor rarely covers 100% of a player's body, so even if a body part has armor equipped, there's a chance that a hit might not connect with the armor on that body part. An overall percentage of coverage is shown to the player in the tool tip, but Body Part Coverage is modeled more extensively behind the scenes. Each armor is given a coverage map for the player's body parts and each weapon or mob is given a unique hit shape. When coverage is checked, a random pixel on the face of the player's body part is selected and the hit shape is centered on that pixel. The hit shape is compared with the coverage map to see if it collides with the armor coverage. If it completely avoids the covered area, the attack is treated as if the body part were unarmored. Weapons with smaller hit shapes (ex: Arrows, Javelins) are more likely to find gaps in coverage while larger hit shapes (ex: Mace, Sword) are more likely to collide with the armor. If the hit collides with the armor, the damage is blocked according to the armor's stats. Partial collisions are possible (ex: half the hit shape collides with your armor) and will result in the armor blocking at a reduced Armor Threshold. Hits on the edge of a body part may wrap around to another side. Ex: a hit that strikes the edge of a player's face may check for armor coverage on the side of his head as well.

Armor Rating

Armor does not block 100% of damage (unless the incoming amount is small enough to round to 0). Instead, a percentage of incoming damage will be blocked depending on the Damage Type (Crushing, Piercing, and Slashing). The percentages are based on the material the armor is made of and are not effected by the durability of the armor.

Armor Threshold

This is the maximum amount of incoming damage a piece of armor can block from a hit. If the Armor Threshold is not reached, the armor will block (Armor Rating)% of incoming damage, then convert the unblocked damage into Crushing and pass it to the next layer, and will lose no durability. If the Armor Threshold is reached, all remaining damage passes to the next layer unchanged and the armor loses durability. Armor Threshold is reduced as durability decreases, so low durability armor will offer less protection.

Obtaining

Clothing and Leather Armor

Main article: Clothing

Clothing is used primarily to manage Body Temperature, but it does provide light armor. Leather Armor gives more protection than cloth, but has no temperature resistance. Clothing and Leather Armor are crafted by cutting pieces of Cloth or Leather and Sewing them together.

Metal Armor

Metal Sheets and Metal Double Sheets are the base components of metal armor, which is smithed at an Anvil.

Work Double Ingot = Metal Sheet	Weld 2 Metal Sheets = Double Sheet

Smithing

Making metal armor is done in three steps on an anvil.

• First is to work out the basic shape selecting the plan for that specific armor piece.
• Second is to weld more metal to the basic shape of the armor.
• Finally you work the piece to seal all the seams and make it into a usable armor section.

Unfinished metal armor can be recycled back into molten metal in a Crucible, or in a Forge that has ceramic molds in the side slots.

Helmet	Chestplate
Work Sheet = "Unf. Helmet Stage 1"	Work Double Sheet = "Unf. Chest. Stage 1"
Weld "Unf. Helmet Stage 1" + Sheet = "Unf. Helmet Stage 2"	Weld "Unf. Chest. Stage 1" + Double Sheet = "Unf. Chest. Stage 2"
Work "Unf. Helmet Stage 2" = Helmet	Work "Unf. Chest. Stage 2" = Chestplate

Greaves	Boots
Work Double Sheet = "Unf. Greaves Stage 1"	Work Sheet = "Unf. Boots Stage 1"
Weld "Unf. Greaves Stage 1" + Sheet = "Unf. Greaves Stage 2"	Weld "Unf. Boots Stage 1" + Sheet = "Unf. Boots Stage 2"
Work "Unf. Greaves Stage 2" = Greaves	Work "Unf. Boots Stage 2" = Boots

Tiers

This page needs to be updated for the newest version of TFC+. Armor Tiers are not relevant for damage calculations in current version.

Tier 0	Tier 1	Tier 2
Leather	Copper	Bismuth Bronze	Black Bronze	Bronze
Tier 3	Tier 4	Tier 5	Tier 6
Wrought Iron	Steel	Black Steel	Blue Steel	Red Steel

Damage Type Protection

This page needs to be updated for the newest version of TFC+. The data below may not be accurate in the current version.

Main article: Damage Type

The damage type protection on a piece of armor can be viewed by pressing ⇧ Shift and hovering over the item to read the tool-tip. These numbers are used in the calculation for decreasing the amount of damage taken (1,000/(1,000 + Armor Rating)). For example: Copper armor has a piercing rating of 400. 1,000/1,400 is about 70%, so a piercing attack which would normally do 100 damage would only do 70 damage if the area is protected with copper armor.

Tier	Armor	Piercing	Slashing	Crushing
0	Straw	25	25	25
0	Wolf Fur	200	250	250
0	Bear Fur	250	300	300
0	Silk	100	100	75
0	Cotton	40	40	14
0	Linen	40	40	15
0	Wool	50	50	25
0	Leather	150	200	200
1	Copper	400	400	250
2	Bismuth Bronze	600	400	330
	Black Bronze	400	600	330
	Bronze	500	500	330
3	Wrought Iron	800	800	528
4	Steel	1000	1200	660
5	Black Steel	2000	1800	1320
6	Blue Steel	2500	2000	2000
	Red Steel	2000	2500	2000

Note that all armor offers zero resistance to General Damage.

History

Beta
v2 Build 13		Added Armor.
Build 67		All armor durability increased.
77.0		Removed the decorative features from the armors.
		Added armor/damage types.
		Armor takes damage at a reduced amount, based upon the damage received.
79.4		Unfinished metal armor is smeltable back into liquid metal.
82.0		Armor values added to Clothing