Equipment

Equipment is the gear your survivor wears into battle: weapons, armour, shields and trinkets. Equipping better gear raises your attack and defense, which decide how well you fare in Hunting and on Expeditions. This page covers the player's own equipment; for creature gear see Dino Gear, and for full drop-only Sets see the Sets page.

Equipment slots

You have six equipment slots, and each holds one item at a time:

Slot	Typical stat	Notes
Weapon	Attack	Your main source of damage
Head	Defense	Helms and hoods
Chest	Defense	Tunics, vests and plate
Legs	Defense	Leggings and greaves
Shield	Defense	Shields and aegises
Trinket	Attack + Defense	Charms, talismans and pendants that give a little of both

How stats work

Attack comes mainly from your weapon (and a little from trinkets). Higher attack means you win Hunting fights and Expedition runs faster and against tougher foes.
Defense comes from the four armour slots — head, chest, legs, shield — plus trinkets. Higher defense means you take less punishment and survive harder content.
Your total attack and defense are the sum of every equipped piece. A balanced loadout fills all six slots rather than stacking a single stat.
Wearing a complete biome Set adds a flat bonus on top of the individual pieces — see Sets.
Combat consumables stack with gear: Food heals you mid-fight and Tonics such as Berserker Brew (+attack) or Stoneskin Elixir (+defense) give temporary boosts.

Where equipment comes from

Crafting — early wood, bone and hide gear.
Smithing — the metal tiers, from bronze through obsidian.
Cave delves — eight unique best-in-slot pieces, each a rare drop from one specific cave (see the Unique gear table below).
Expeditions — drop-only biome Sets and the endgame Primal set.
The Shop — the Ancient Amber Pendant, sold only by the Amber Exchange.

Weapons

Weapons are made by Crafting and Smithing and provide attack.

Weapon	Attack	Source
Wooden Club	6	Crafting
Stone Blade	5	Smithing
Hide Sling	10	Crafting
Bone Spear	16	Crafting
Bronze Spear	15	Smithing
Bronze Axe	17	Smithing
Hunting Bow	20	Crafting
Iron Hammer	30	Smithing
Iron Spear	28	Smithing
Silver Blade	34	Smithing
Composite Bow	39	Crafting
Golden Warhammer	39	Smithing
Obsidian Spear	47	Smithing
Crystal-Forged Blade	45	Smithing
Obsidian Blade	50	Smithing
Flint Spear	8	Crafting
Copper Knife	10	Smithing
Ashwood Recurve	32	Crafting
Ironbark Stave	47	Crafting
Gilded Blade	43	Smithing

Beyond the craftable tiers, drop-only Sets pieces and the Primal set climb far higher (the Primal Warspear tops out at 101 attack).

Armour

Armour fills the head, chest, legs and shield slots and provides defense.

Armour classes

Since v0.36.57 crafted gear is priced by biome tier rather than by skill level, so Crafting and Smithing pay the same at the same tier — a Fiber Tunic is now worth exactly as much as an Iron Plate, just shaped differently. Each source makes a different class:

Class	Made by	Shape
Light	Crafting	Spends part of its budget on attack, the rest on defense
Heavy	Smithing	Puts its whole budget into defense
Medium	biome drop sets	Between the two

A light piece is therefore not a worse heavy one — it is a different trade. The same change made every slot level-up worth something (no crafted piece merely matches something you already had), tied each hunt to a home biome that pays its armour material, and made crafted armour broadly stronger — the Hide Vest is the only piece that dropped (4 → 3 defense).

Armour	Slot	Defense	Source
Hide Hood	Head	2	Crafting
Bone Helm	Head	5	Crafting
Bronze Helm	Head	5	Smithing
Obsidian Helm	Head	13	Smithing
Hide Vest	Chest	3	Crafting
Fiber Tunic	Chest	6	Crafting
Iron Plate	Chest	8	Smithing
Obsidian Plate	Chest	15	Smithing
Hide Leggings	Legs	5	Crafting
Bronze Greaves	Legs	6	Smithing
Iron Greaves	Legs	9	Smithing
Wooden Shield	Shield	4	Crafting
Bronze Shield	Shield	6	Smithing
Iron Tower Shield	Shield	9	Smithing
Obsidian Bulwark	Shield	13	Smithing
Mangrove-Frame Shield	Shield	6	Crafting
Copper Cap	Head	3	Smithing
Iron Helm	Head	8	Smithing

Two armour pieces also carry a little attack alongside their defense: the Bone Helm (+1) and the Mangrove-Frame Shield (+2).

Trinkets

Trinkets occupy their own slot and give a mix of attack and defense.

Trinket	Attack	Defense	Source
Amber Charm	2	2	Crafting
Sky Talisman	4	4	Crafting
Ancient Amber Pendant	5	5	Amber Exchange (Shop)
Cloudwood Talisman	6	6	Crafting
Silver Gemring	3	3	Smithing
Trailhorn Talisman	4	3	Crafting
Cloudwood Glider	0	6	Crafting

Unique cave gear

Cave delves each hold one best-in-slot unique piece that drops nowhere else — a very rare reward for repeated winning delves. These are among the strongest single items outside the drop-only Sets.

Item	Slot	Stats	Source cave
Fang of the Depths	Weapon	85 attack	Vale Abyss
Flickerfang Spear	Weapon	45 attack	Drowned Cavern
Mosslit Crown	Head	12 defense	Echoing Deep
Pearlscale Vest	Chest	20 defense	Tidewrack Cave
Stalker's Greaves	Legs	16 defense	Glacier Hollow
Aegis of the Deep	Shield	24 defense	Ashen Gallery
Glowstone Talisman	Trinket	10 attack / 10 defense	Skyvein Chasm
Cavern Charm	Trinket	5 attack / 5 defense	Rootway Hollow