Banded Shield

Banded Shield

Banded with hoops of iron, a true warrior's companion.
Type	Shield
Damage	-
Stamina	-
Block	42 block armour 1.5x parry bonus 40 block force
Weight	-
Durability	200
Crafting Station	Forge
Station Level	2
Crafting Materials	10x Finewood 8x Iron
Biome	Swamp
Spawn ID	`spawn ShieldBanded`

The Banded Shield is the shield you build once the Swamp crypts start giving up iron: a round wooden shield bound with iron hoops at the Forge. It has 42 block armour, or 63 when you parry with it at its 1.5x bonus.

How to Craft

It is crafted at a level 2 Forge from:

10x Finewood: chopped from Birch and Oak trees with a Bronze Axe or better.
8x Iron: smelted from Scrap Iron in a Smelter.

Name	Image	Biome	Crafting Station	Spawn ID
Finewood		Meadows	-	`spawn FineWood`
Iron		Swamp	Smelter	`spawn Iron`

When to Use It

This is early game gear. Iron comes from Sunken Crypts in the Swamp, so you get it once The Elder is down.

Upgrades

You can upgrade it 3 times after crafting, and each level needs the station built one step higher than the last. All stats quoted elsewhere are for quality 1, so this is the ladder your own copy sits on:

Quality	Crafting Station	Block armor	Durability	Resources
1	Forge (Level 2)	42	200	10x Finewood 8x Iron
2	Forge (Level 3)	48	250	10x Finewood 4x Iron
3	Forge (Level 4)	54	300	20x Finewood 8x Iron
4	Forge (Level 5)	-	-	40x Finewood 16x Iron

Properties

It is the middle option, and the one that parries. It has less raw block armour than the tower shield of its tier, but a round shield can parry, and a parry staggers the attacker so they take double damage for as long as the stagger lasts.

It has 42 armour, or 63 on a parry at 1.5x. That means less block power than the Iron Tower Shield, but more when parrying, because the tower shield cannot parry at all.