Messalith

Work in progress: numbers are still being tuned. Messalith is in development. This wiki is generated from the game's current build, so every figure here can change.

Crafting

Armour

Every piece of armour in Messalith: hide, bone and horn, Tuatha glass taken from the fallen, copper and iron that dent and go back to the forge.

Armour is worn piece by piece, one piece to a slot: head, body, shoulders, forearms, hips, shins and a shield. Each piece carries small numbers, and they add up.

  • Armour comes off the damage of every weapon hit, never below one point of damage, and a full set gives at most 2. Psychic powers, fire and bleeding are not weapon hits, so armour does nothing against them.
  • Defence comes off every shooter's chance to hit, up to 10 in all.
  • Weight slows the wearer. Nothing worn changes anyone's numbers until it's equipped.

A shield needs a free hand, so it never goes with a two-handed weapon: the bow, the composite bow or a rifle.

What the worn pieces weighMovement lost
Under 12 kgnone
12 kg or more1 tile of Mobility
20 kg or more2 tiles of Mobility

Pieces are fitted on the loadout screen at camp, where every exile's figure shows what they wear.

Made at camp

Hide, bone, sinew, fibre and wood make the first sets. A Romantic or a hunter's outpost keeps the hides coming.

PieceSlotArmourDefenceWeightWhere it comes fromCostNotes
Hide jerkinBody023 kgmade at camp2 hide, 1 plant fibre-
Hide cuirassBody034 kgmade at camp3 hide, 1 sinew, 1 bone-
Rawhide lamellarBody107 kgmade at camp4 hide, 2 sinew-
Salvaged breastplateBody128 kgmade from Rift salvage2 spent cells, 1 hide-
Bone pauldronsShoulders022 kgmade at camp3 bone, 1 hide-
Hide bracersForearms011 kgmade at camp1 hide, 1 sinew-
Ceramic bracersForearms022 kgmade from Rift salvage1 empty Rift med-kit, 1 hide-
Hide skirtHips012 kgmade at camp2 hide-
Bone greavesShins012 kgmade at camp2 bone, 1 hide-
Hide hoodHead001 kgmade at camp1 hide-
Fur capHead001 kgmade at camp1 hide-
Bone helmHead022 kgmade at camp2 bone, 1 hide, 1 sinew-
Wicker shieldShield043 kgmade at camp2 wood, 2 hide-
Bark shieldShield054 kgmade at camp3 wood, 1 hide, 1 plant fibre-

Tuatha glass

The stained glass of the Tuatha Dé Danann is the best armour in the game and can't be made. It comes home only as loot, from Tuatha fighters the squad brings down. A taken Tuatha site always gives one more piece.

Tuatha fighter brought downChance a glass piece comes home
Warden12%
Scintle20%
Iridant35%
Lucent50%

Glass has a cost besides its weight. It catches the light, and an enemy pod that hasn't noticed the squad sees a glass-clad exile from further off, up to 2 tiles further with the whole set.

PieceSlotArmourDefenceWeightWhere it comes fromCostNotes
Tuatha glass breastplateBody2010 kgTuatha loot only-glint 1
Tuatha glass pauldronsShoulders034 kgTuatha loot only-glint 0.5
Tuatha glass bracersForearms022 kgTuatha loot only-glint 0.5
Tuatha glass fauldsHips024 kgTuatha loot only-glint 0.5
Tuatha glass greavesShins023 kgTuatha loot only-glint 0.5
Tuatha glass helmHead103 kgTuatha loot only-glint 0.5

Copper and iron

Metal is rare and costly. Ore is smelted or bloomed at the forge and beaten into plates, and the plates go into a few pieces only: scale and lamellar shirts, a scale collar, bracers, a disc on a hide cuirass or studs on a jerkin, a boss on a shield, and crude caps of three shapes. Bone and horn lamellar came in with them, the same laced plates in cheaper stuff.

Iron is the stronger and heavier of the two. Copper is lighter and cheaper, catches the light a little, and dents. Any mission in which the wearer takes a weapon hit puts a dent in each copper piece they wear, each dent a point off (defence first, then armour), up to 3 dents. Back at camp the forge hammers a dent out for 1 charcoal a time.

PieceSlotArmourDefenceWeightWhere it comes fromCostNotes
Bone lamellarBody108 kgmade at camp5 bone, 2 sinew-
Horn lamellarBody117 kgmade at camp4 horn, 2 sinew-
Copper scale shirtBody128 kgmade at camp3 copper plates, 2 hide, 1 sinewglint 0.5, dents
Iron scale shirtBody2111 kgmade at camp3 iron plates, 2 hide, 1 sinew-
Copper lamellarBody139 kgmade at camp4 copper plates, 2 sinewglint 0.5, dents
Iron lamellarBody2212 kgmade at camp4 iron plates, 2 sinew-
Hide cuirass, copper discBody045 kgmade at camp3 hide, 1 sinew, 1 copper platesglint 0.5, dents
Hide cuirass, iron discBody136 kgmade at camp3 hide, 1 sinew, 1 iron plates-
Copper-studded jerkinBody034 kgmade at camp2 hide, 1 plant fibre, 1 copper platesglint 0.25, dents
Iron-studded jerkinBody045 kgmade at camp2 hide, 1 plant fibre, 1 iron plates-
Copper scale collarShoulders022 kgmade at camp1 copper plates, 1 hideglint 0.25, dents
Iron scale collarShoulders033 kgmade at camp1 iron plates, 1 hide-
Copper bracersForearms022 kgmade at camp1 copper plates, 1 hideglint 0.25, dents
Iron bracersForearms033 kgmade at camp1 iron plates, 1 hide-
Copper bowl capHead022 kgmade at camp2 copper plates, 1 hideglint 0.5, dents
Iron bowl capHead113 kgmade at camp2 iron plates, 1 hide-
Copper band capHead021 kgmade at camp1 copper plates, 1 hideglint 0.25, dents
Iron band capHead032 kgmade at camp1 iron plates, 1 hide-
Copper cone cap, hide flapsHead032 kgmade at camp2 copper plates, 1 hide, 1 sinewglint 0.5, dents
Iron cone cap, nasalHead123 kgmade at camp2 iron plates, 1 hide, 1 sinew-
Wicker shield, copper bossShield054 kgmade at camp2 wood, 2 hide, 1 copper platesglint 0.25, dents
Bark shield, iron bossShield156 kgmade at camp3 wood, 1 hide, 1 plant fibre, 1 iron plates-

The metals and the plates are on resources and recipes.