Steel High Boots.

[harlequin_corps]

man. I need to whine about something. Because it's a pain.
So, on my current playthrough, I set them to wear Steel High Boots. I have Plenty of Steel High Boots. But when they GRAB a Steel High Boot, they just wear the one single steel high boot and they won't go grab another.
When I set the uniform to have 2 sets of Steel High boots, they are Assigned 2 steel high boots and 1 more steel high boot, and yes, they WEAR the 2 steel high boots, but as far as I can tell they are either carrying one boot with them whenever they aren't fighting, or they put it into their room or whatever.
I've tried setting it for one set of boots, then two sets of boots, then no boots, then reassignign and resetting the uniform. That all works. But for whatever reason they will always either only wear one boot or wear 2 boots and carry/own another one. I have them wearing socks/gloves/gauntlets and they are fine with that, it's JUST the single boot that's becoming pain to deal with.
Any help would be appreciated.
I mean.. is this their nominal drinking mug or something? I just can't dorf it out.

[pezenwever]

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ mhm, did you try "uniform replaces clothing" in the uniform creation and "equip/allways" in the schedule edit ?
My previous fort was a high boot nightmare, yet this one is free of issues.

[AlP]

Here's how to correctly make a uniform that works:

https://i.imgur.com/BOLSAjr.png

[Helios]

Originally posted by harlequin_corps:

man. I need to whine about something. Because it's a pain.
So, on my current playthrough, I set them to wear Steel High Boots. I have Plenty of Steel High Boots. But when they GRAB a Steel High Boot, they just wear the one single steel high boot and they won't go grab another.
When I set the uniform to have 2 sets of Steel High boots, they are Assigned 2 steel high boots and 1 more steel high boot, and yes, they WEAR the 2 steel high boots, but as far as I can tell they are either carrying one boot with them whenever they aren't fighting, or they put it into their room or whatever.
I've tried setting it for one set of boots, then two sets of boots, then no boots, then reassignign and resetting the uniform. That all works. But for whatever reason they will always either only wear one boot or wear 2 boots and carry/own another one. I have them wearing socks/gloves/gauntlets and they are fine with that, it's JUST the single boot that's becoming pain to deal with.
Any help would be appreciated.
I mean.. is this their nominal drinking mug or something? I just can't dorf it out.

this is my armor if i look at a dwarf but for boots socks gloves , gauntlets i have only 1 item in original uniform also have uiform replace clothing and only exect matches. https://imgur.com/a/hpiN7s8

[Trisapiensaurus]

Your uniform is way too big, 5 armor items, and a shield/weapon or crossbow.

Helm, mail, breastplate, gauntlets, high boots(just once for each...) Replace Uniform setting.
Mail shirt covers legs.
Dwarves don't have knees.

[McOrigin]

I can confirm that this unfirm works:

Helm
Mail Shirt
Breastplate
Gauntlet
Greaves
High Boots

They get 2 gauntlets and high boots assigned. But they don't wear the high boots when with other (leather) shoes.

Ensure to "replace clothing" with "exact matches only" and make them always wear their uniform even when off duty.

If you modify the default "off duty" schedule to have them wear their uniform, it changes to "no orders" automatically.

[harlequin_corps]

So, it's just me. Ok, must be this playthrough, because i can't make shirts either, they are (foreign) and i was bent out of shape about that until i realized that dresses have more coverage. it must have something to do with the overlapping coverage and/or the overall encumbrance. Maybe i need to switch to tunics.

[AlP]

Originally posted by harlequin_corps:

So, it's just me. Ok, must be this playthrough, because i can't make shirts either, they are (foreign) and i was bent out of shape about that until i realized that dresses have more coverage. it must have something to do with the overlapping coverage and/or the overall encumbrance. Maybe i need to switch to tunics.

What shirts? What tunics? Are you aware that "mail shirt" is a specific chain mail item that has no relation to tunics?

What are you trying to do there?

[harlequin_corps]

I do notice an interesting theme.. You guys realize that wearing cloth under chain reduces crushing damage right?
You wear armor in layers, cloth, then chain, then breastplate (if you want that squad to have it), then a cloak.

[AlP]

Originally posted by harlequin_corps:

I do notice an interesting theme.. You guys realize that wearing cloth under chain reduces crushing damage right?
You wear armor in layers, cloth, then chain, then breastplate (if you want that squad to have it), then a cloak.

All that has always been very questionable with unknown practical effect, and as you can see it causes equipment mismatches.

[harlequin_corps]

No, what I am trying to say, that isn't getting across, is that, in THIS playthrough, if I allocate "Steel High Boot" in the uniform selection, they don't go and get "2 assigned items". What they do is, they go and get 1 Steel High Boot and put it on. This is across my current squad uniforms, either the Crossbow squads, the Axe Shield squads (w/ breastplate), and the Hammerers (Warhammer/Crossbow).
AND if I try to correct it and allocate "Steel High Boot" twice in the uniform selection, they get THREE steel high boots assigned and put two on, with another somewhere in limbo that I can't find because NOW it says "2 assigned items" and "Steel High Boot". Sometimes they are carrying the third high boot in their hands if it's in their inventory, but most of the time I can't find it because it's one of the "2 assigned items", i/e you can't click on it to see the specific item.
I also can't make shirts in this playthrough for some reason (it's labelled as "Foreign", so the only torso coverage i can apply is dresses, which have a lot more coverage than a shirt, i/e you now have 2 layers of cloth on the legs (trousers/dress) so double crush damage reduction, but I THINK that because it also covers the lower legs that it is messing up the 2nd steel boot. maybe, i dunno. But that doesn't make sense because I CAN get them to wear 2 steel boots, I just have to accept the fact that they actually have 3 steel boots not 2. Because they wander around holding a steel boot all the time. Because.. reasons.

[AlP]

What happens if you use the uniform I and McOrigin posted?

[McOrigin]

Shirts, or even high boots being foreign is quite normal. Not every civilization can make very item. You are guaranteed one of each category, as far as the wiki states it.

Your dwarves just getting assigned 1 high boot instead of a pair is propably a bug if they are naked otherwise and your uniform does not contain any other footwear.

It's weird anyway and it *should* work.

Maybe remove all steel boots from all uniforms, melt them all down and make new ones will help. I had similar problems with a single dwarf after I melted down a low grade boot he had assigned. forbid the one he was wearing and pressed "update equipment" in his squad settings and he got a new pair and I could unforbid and melt the single boot.

Try a simple uniform as written above, with "replace clothing", just to be sure your high boots do not interfere with _any_ other clothing.
And don't include "clothing" in your uniforms, because clothing does wear off and worn off clothing in unforms is not replaced.

[Deggo]

I had the single boot issue when I also assigned them socks. Removing them with the "replace clothing" option fixed it for me.

[harlequin_corps]

Originally posted by AlP:

What happens if you use the uniform I and McOrigin posted?

The dorfs take above average blunt damage. That's.. what that does. Chain mail for the slash, cloth/leather under for the blunt.
And to answer your question.. they go and get 1 boot. Not 2. The only way I can get them to get 2 boots is to allocate boots twice.. then they go and get 3 boots. And they carry that one boot around when they are not hauling. and when they are hauling it disappears somewhere. Maybe into the backpack, I don't know. It's not strapped to anything or even shows up in the item list. I can't find them again because it's part of the "2 items assigned" so I can't see it again. It's not in their rooms, I checked.
I should iterate that these two things, the foreign shirt and the Das Boot thing is peculiar to just this playthrough.

[Jorn Stones]

my dorfs are wearing socks+high boots just fine, with the socks coming from their civilian clothes. The issue is when they find any shoes laying around. Tried to eliminate shoes from the fortress but there are still a few about. :/

Not sure what the issue is with your dwarfs though. Dresses won't be the problem eitherway; they use up torso slots, not feet slots. They wearing 2 socks on 1 foot by chance?