Dino Gear

Dino Gear is Equipment for your tamed Creatures. Where the player wears weapons and armour, tames wear saddles and bardings that make them faster, harder-working, and tougher in a fight. Dino gear is freely re-equippable and never consumed, so a single piece can be moved between creatures as your stable changes.

Gear slots and stats

Each creature has two gear slots:

Slot	Focus	Stats granted
Saddle	Work & speed	Swiftness, Worker buff
Barding	Combat	Guard, Power

The four dino-gear stats:

• Swiftness — how quickly the creature moves and works.
• Worker buff — a saddle multiplier that boosts the bonus a creature gives when assigned as a worker (for example ×1.15 = a 15% larger worker bonus).
• Guard — the creature's defense and survivability in combat.
• Power — the creature's attack; party power also feeds into your own attack on hunts.

Saddles specialise in getting more out of your workers; bardings specialise in fighting strength. A well-kitted creature runs both a saddle and a barding.

Saddles

Saddles are made by Crafting and grant swiftness and a worker buff.

Saddle	Swiftness	Worker Buff	Source
Fiber Saddle	+2	×1.05	Crafting
Hide Saddle	+5	×1.10	Crafting
Grainwoven Saddle	+9	×1.15	Crafting (Farm materials)
Skyleather Saddle	+14	×1.20	Crafting

Bardings

Bardings are made by Crafting and Smithing and grant guard and power.

Barding	Guard	Power	Source
Hide Barding	+3	—	Crafting
Bone Barding	+6	+2	Crafting
Bronze Barding	+9	+3	Smithing
Iron Barding	+13	+5	Smithing
Obsidian Barding	+18	+8	Smithing

Exclusive gear

Beyond the craftable tiers, a handful of dino gear pieces drop nowhere on the crafting bench:

• Cache Relics — the Wayfarer's Saddle, Sunfeather Saddle, Stormfang Barding and Bulwark Barding, found only in Trail Caches on Expeditions. See Relics.
• Mark Exchange — the Huntmaster's Saddle (+10 swiftness, worker buff ×1.30) and Trailwarden Barding (+15 guard, +10 power), bought only with Fang Marks earned from the Contract Board.

These sit above the craftable gear and are the best-in-slot creature equipment.

See also

• Relics — cache-exclusive dino gear
• Creatures — the tames that wear this gear
• Crafting, Smithing — how to make saddles and bardings
• Equipment — the player's own gear