ARMOR: Cloth, leather & metal

[Swarx]

You should be able to make armor out of leather, wool, cloth and metal. Or, well, at least be able to buy/scavenge it, maybe. Textile-based armors could be crafted at a tailoring workbench, while metal armor could be made at a smithy.


You should be able to make padded armor (or a gambeson, if you wanna get medieval!) from cloth/wool. It would offer minor protection from cuts and stabs, but it would be very effective at cushioning blunt attacks. They would probably be rather hot to wear. A headgear equivalent would be an arming cap.



Then, you could make leather armor from hides of animals. It would offer medium protection against both piercing and blunt attacks, with the headgear equivalent being called a leather skullcap.



Then, of course, metal armor. If RimWorld doesn't add a medieval-type faction, then I think it should look more like the metal armor from Fallout in terms of style. Metal armor would be very slow to move around it, but would offer heavy protection to all forms of attack. It would, of course, come with a helmet version as well.

[sick puppy]

fun fact, there is little to no evidence of the existance of leather and wooden armor

besides, this stuff has been suggested before and wuite honestly i have lost hope that this will ever be a thing in vanilla. mods, definitely, but not vanilla 

the way i look at it is that power armor and to a lesser extent simple and advanced helmets and that metal breast plate thingie are what we got from all this.
i guess you can already make clothing out of cotton but it sucks at everything, so devilstrand is where you should look. leather clothing once again doesnt come close to the power of fallout's leather armor or whatever skyrim had going on.

all this said, you have my fullest support for everything more medieval tech, be it gambeson, plate or mail armor. this would DEFINITELY ve a great addition to rimworld

[Swarx]

Yeah, I'm aware that gambesons/padded jacks were actually far more common than leather armor, at least historically. Though, I don't see a big deal when it comes to adding leather armor to RimWorld, since our colonists will most likely work with whatever they've got on hand. Besides, I believe boiled leather/cuir bouilli armor was historically accurate.