Armor

[tlhman7]

I put on armor, then notice it is gone soon after. Explain how armor works please

[lizardmang]

It's essentially temporary HP. Each piece of armor blocks a certain amount of damage before breaking. A few sources of damage bypass armor, such as falling damage. You can wear up to 10 pieces of armor at a time, which are displayed as color-coded notches next to the health meter.

[threethreethree]

Maybe op means they don't see it in inv after wearing? (couldn't figure out what they meant) Or it is that they're getting hit which destroys armor, as is explained above.

[RequiemsRose]

Silentprotagonistsays pretty much covered the basics. Armor pieces are like having bonus health that in most cases, will absorb damage before your actual health pool except in the case of certain damage types. Like fall damage will directly hit your health, fire damage will hit your health and your armor simultaneously, and technically speaking poison is also direct damage but cannibals cant use it so that mostly comes from eating the wrong things or PvP.

It does mean that if you took any combat damage after equipping that armor, the damage went directly to your armor first, and may have broken it. Likewise if you accidentally stepped on your firepit or got hit with fire in a different way you also probably lost that armor to the damage. If instead you managed to fully equip all slots of armor and you noticed the extra pieces weren't returned, that means the extra was damaged (damaged pieces get deleted when removed, intact pieces return to inventory).

Armor type can also contribute to this though. Lizard and stealth armor have the same base health, but stealth armor increases your stealth bonus and it takes more fire damage than any other armor. Both are the weakest armor in the game and are pretty much guaranteed to get broken if you get hit by just about anything. Next step up is bone armor, a bit tougher. Depending on what damage you take, you may or may not lose the bone armor on the hit. A stronger enemy ends up basically being 1 hit = 1 bone armor lost. Last is creepy armor, best in the game, roughly 3x the HP of the bone armor and will most likely take multiple hits to lose a piece (though like any other armor, the piece will get deleted when removed if it is damaged, even if the damage is minor).

Finally, checking your armor. Since you can't exactly see your own character, you can't see the armor actually on you unless it's on a limb like your arm. What you can do is check your HUD or your survival book though. For the HUD, there's a bar wrapping around the outer edge of your health bar with slots. Blank slots mean no armor, grey slots are lizard armor, green slots are stealth armor, white slots are bone armor, and pink slots are creepy armor. In this shot, I have one of each equipped so you can see the difference:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2706724091
From the survival book, you can see your current armor from the stats page, in which the color coded slots still apply but the book will also break down the actual effects of the armor currently worn, like how much it contributes to your actual armor, stealth, and cold armor:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2706724560

[RequiemsRose]

Worth mentioning, cold armor is it's own separate thing. Cold armor is essentially how resistant you are to freezing at the time. You can increase this to a minor degree with rabbit boots, or completely with the warm suit, but the warm suit also takes up ALL of your armor slots (removing and potentially deleting any currently equipped pieces) but it offers you no additional protection to combat damage, just keeps you from being able to get cold. However, you can also fight off the cold and keep your other armor by using fire to your benefit. A torch is enough to thaw you out when on the move, or you can just go stand near a fire pit to warm up.

[ch1ef]

that is cracking info, thanks silentP