How armor works, and what it does not stop

Checked 2026-10-16. Steam build 25955406. Patch 1.0.47.0.

The equip question people type is usually “why am I still freezing in a full suit.” The freezing thread’s answer is a ghost, not a missing armor slot. I would craft a vision potion and fetch the silver dagger before I rebuilt a cape.

Sets

The item table groups armor into lighter and heavier kits: leather armor, detailed armor, and capes. Cape recipes use ragged cloth. Ragged cloth has no recipe of its own. It comes from pickup nodes that restock. I am not printing defense numbers, because I did not re-copy each row from the data table onto this page.

Leather the material is two animal hides and is also the workbench ingredient. Leather the armor set is a later craft. They share a word and not a page.

Worn gear in an official screenshot
Steam store screenshot, app 2871520. Worn gear in an official screenshot
Camp where you change kit between rooms
Steam store screenshot, app 2871520. Camp where you change kit between rooms

Sources

Keep going

Leather The material, not the suit. Silver dagger Stops the cold that armor does not. Secrets How players see the ghost.