Wood Tower Shield

Wood Tower Shield

A rough but heavy wooden shield.
Type	Shield
Damage	-
Stamina	-
Block	10 block armour 100 block force
Weight	4
Durability	200
Crafting Station	Workbench
Station Level	1
Crafting Materials	10x Wood 6x Leather scraps
Biome	Meadows
Spawn ID	`spawn ShieldWoodTower`

The Wood Tower Shield is for the player who would rather soak a Greydwarf's swing than time a parry, and the Meadows supplies everything it costs. It has 10 block armour.

How to Craft

You craft it at a level 1 Workbench from:

10x Wood: chopped from any tree.
6x Leather Scraps: dropped by Boars and Bats, and dug out of Muddy Scrap Piles.

Name	Image	Biome	Crafting Station	Spawn ID
Wood		All biomes	-	`spawn Wood`
Leather Scraps		Meadows	-	`spawn LeatherScraps`

When to Use It

This is opening-hours gear. Everything it takes comes from the Meadows, so it suits a character who has just stood up.

Upgrades

You can upgrade it 2 times after crafting, and each level needs the station built one step higher than the last. Figures quoted elsewhere are for quality 1, so this is the ladder your own copy sits somewhere on:

Quality	Crafting Station	Block armor	Durability	Workbench level	Resources
1	Workbench (Level 1)	10	200	1	10x Wood 6x Leather scraps
2	Workbench (Level 2)	16	250	2	5x Wood 3x Leather scraps
3	Workbench (Level 3)	22	300	3	10x Wood 6x Leather scraps

Properties

It has 100 block force, straight from a Workbench. Block force is the knockback dealt back to whatever hit you, and 100 is 5 times what the Wood Shield manages. Something that bounces off you is not hitting you again.

A tower shield cannot parry. While drawn, it costs 10% of your movement speed and raises the cost of a dodge roll by the same 10%. In exchange, it blocks harder than anything else in its tier. What you give up is the parry, which staggers the attacker into taking double damage.