Wood armor is worse than useless

[dandinks]

Crafting wood armor hurts the player in 2 ways, 1: It wastes your time, slimes will begin to swarm and if you spent the time making useless armor instead of a bow it will be a lot harder to get out of spawn, 2: The wood could have been used to build housing and walls which would keep spawn safe, and if you dont want to do that then it helps with early surface exploration being able to make platforms.

To my hardcore teammates, stop making wood armor, it doesnt even stop dart traps from 1 shotting, if you want armor that bad make cactus as it at least has a useful set bonus dealing 45 damage and a large amount of knockback

[Gearbox2011]

No kidding, but u were a little harsh on everybody's early-game armor. And what would you have us do, spend 5 hours mining to get the means for metal armor?

[dandinks]

Originally posted by chonna.nelson:

No kidding, but u were a little harsh on everybody's early-game armor. And what would you have us do, spend 5 hours mining to get the means for metal armor?

Reading comprehension, if you had eyes you would see that cactus armor is mentioned as a replacement, also if it takes you 5 hours to get full gold/plat your probably in the group of wood armor tards I mentioned above

[Си́нтез]

use bamboo and cactus to build houses and walls. Trees are to be preserved

[SniperOnSunday]

You're acting like it's hard to get tons of wood right off of spawn. Come on, man, there are at least 30 trees in the starting forest, you don't have to act like wood is this rare commodity.

[Gnome warlord]

the armor gives 3 defense its not really enough to do anything so ya just ignore it and go to a cave to get something more worthwhile

[Flyin' High]

You're making such a big deal out of this when it really has practically no effect either way.
Wood barely protects you at all so you might as well not be wearing armour at all, and it's barely takes any time to chop down a tree anyways.

Cactus isn't always easy to come by if your world gen is unfortunate you might not get any cactus in your desert, or your desert could be very treacherous to reach (e.g, having to go through a infection biome to reach it or it being too high up for you to reach) so while cactus is generally a much better option, it's still not always immediately available.

I usually don't bother since I don't like how wood armour looks but sometimes boreal or infection wood armour can be pretty decent since the wood armours and weapons get stronger based on the wood.

Shadewood (crimson wood) armour is only slightly weaker than copper, and only because copper's set bonus is better, while Shadewood weapons are almost identical to iron weapons and can be gotten much faster, and arguably easier. (Bows have the exact same stats, Shadewood broadsword does 1 less damage, but has more knockback.)

[dandinks]

Originally posted by Ze Rock:

You're making such a big deal out of this when it really has practically no effect either way.
Wood barely protects you at all so you might as well not be wearing armour at all, and it's barely takes any time to chop down a tree anyways.

Cactus isn't always easy to come by if your world gen is unfortunate you might not get any cactus in your desert, or your desert could be very treacherous to reach (e.g, having to go through a infection biome to reach it or it being too high up for you to reach) so while cactus is generally a much better option, it's still not always immediately available.

I usually don't bother since I don't like how wood armour looks but sometimes boreal or infection wood armour can be pretty decent since the wood armours and weapons get stronger based on the wood.

Shadewood (crimson wood) armour is only slightly weaker than copper, and only because copper's set bonus is better, while Shadewood weapons are almost identical to iron weapons and can be gotten much faster, and arguably easier. (Bows have the exact same stats, Shadewood broadsword does 1 less damage, but has more knockback.)

1: Making the armor wastes blocks and/or precious day 1 time which could be used to set up a base or loot more surface chests
2: 9/10 Times the desert is the first thing from the forest on a medium world
3: Any wood armor is a waste regardless of the type because of the same reasons as before (no reason to craft anything but the bow)
Dont play hardcore you wont last a day

[dandinks]

Originally posted by SniperOnSunday:

You're acting like it's hard to get tons of wood right off of spawn. Come on, man, there are at least 30 trees in the starting forest, you don't have to act like wood is this rare commodity.

Nobody said wood was rare, but you can keep wasting all of day 1 chopping trees and getting absolutely nothing done, thats an under 2k hours tier take

[Flyin' High]

Dude it's like 20 seconds to make wood armour including the time to make a workbench
if you're taking the whole day 1 to make wood armour I think there's something wrong,
playing on hardcore doesn't really change what I said minus the fact that it's riskier to get the better woods to make gear out of.

I don't play hardcore because I don't find it fun, I've gone through the entirety of pre-hardmode without any deaths before, but I don't like hardcore as a gamemode so I don't play it, I think I would be able to play it but I don't care what people think of my playstyle or skill so I don't play it so I can brag about it on the steam discussions.

The reason why you'd make wood armour is because it's just a bit of extra defense for basically zero cost whatsoever.
I wouldn't go out of my way to make boreal wood armour, but if I'm in a snow biome and I'm already chopping boreal trees down that 4 extra defense is just nice.

It's like saying picking up a shacke and equipping it from a zombie is a huge waste of time just because it's only one defense even though it takes less than 5 seconds to do.
Making wood armour only takes like 30 second to do with the majority of that just being chopping the trees, if you're making wood weapons you might as well make the armour too, it's not like wood is a scarce resource.

[dandinks]

Originally posted by Ze Rock:

Dude it's like 20 seconds to make wood armour including the time to make a workbench
if you're taking the whole day 1 to make wood armour I think there's something wrong,
playing on hardcore doesn't really change what I said minus the fact that it's riskier to get the better woods to make gear out of.

I don't play hardcore because I don't find it fun, I've gone through the entirety of pre-hardmode without any deaths before, but I don't like hardcore as a gamemode so I don't play it, I think I would be able to play it but I don't care what people think of my playstyle or skill so I don't play it so I can brag about it on the steam discussions.

The reason why you'd make wood armour is because it's just a bit of extra defense for basically zero cost whatsoever.
I wouldn't go out of my way to make boreal wood armour, but if I'm in a snow biome and I'm already chopping boreal trees down that 4 extra defense is just nice.

It's like saying picking up a shacke and equipping it from a zombie is a huge waste of time just because it's only one defense even though it takes less than 5 seconds to do.
Making wood armour only takes like 30 second to do with the majority of that just being chopping the trees, if you're making wood weapons you might as well make the armour too, it's not like wood is a scarce resource.

1: Wood armors defense is so pitiful it only changes niche matchups to be more in your favor like dying in 4 hits instead of 3 to a small zombie while getting good rng
2: The wood would be much more valuable if it was used for platforms, torches, or even better a solid block inbetween that zombie and you preventing the damage in the first place
3: The wood bows cost 10 blocks while the armor set costs 75 (thats 225 torches or 1875 arrows wasted)
4: Not a single competent teammate of mine makes wood armor either choosing to run naked or the previously mentioned and far superior cactus armor