Kenshi armor builder
Pick a piece for each slot, slide the grade, and read the set's totals. At Masterwork grade the best single body piece is Crab Armour; start from a preset to see what a martial arts or crossbow set gives up.
Start from
cut 85 · blunt 70 · 6.25 wt
cut 90 · blunt 66.5 · 21.5 wt
cut 48.96 · blunt 22.68 · 10.125 wt
cut 81.25 · blunt 61.75 · 12.5 wt
cut 81.25 · blunt 61.75 · 4 wt
Your set at Masterwork grade · 5 of 5 slots filled
- Score
- 669.1
- cut 386.5 + blunt 282.7
- Weight
- 54.38
- all pieces
- Value
- 118,339
- cats, listed value
- Martial arts
- −25
- skill points
- Melee attack
- −10
- skill points
- Crossbow
- ×0.21
- multiplier
- Combat speed
- ×0.89
- multiplier
- Dodge
- ×0.12
- multiplier
Best coverage of each body part
- Head100%
- Chest100%
- Stomach100%
- Left arm100%
- Right arm100%
- Left leg100%
- Right leg100%
The five starting sets, compared at Masterwork
The best piece of every slot for each style (a piece with no penalty in that stat, then the highest score). Load one with the chips above.
| Set | Score | Weight | Martial arts | Melee attack | Crossbow | Combat speed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Most protection | 669.1 | 54.38 | −25 | −10 | ×0.21 | ×0.89 |
| Martial arts | 604.6 | 40.63 | +8 | 0 | ×0.56 | ×0.94 |
| Crossbow | 603.8 | 28.44 | −15 | 0 | ×1 | ×0.98 |
| Melee weapons | 636.6 | 48.63 | −11 | 0 | ×0.56 | ×0.93 |
| Combat speed | 590.8 | 21.94 | −1 | 0 | ×1 | ×1 |
How the totals work
The score is a piece's cut resistance plus its blunt resistance at the grade you pick; the set's score is the sum over its pieces. Martial arts and melee attack are skill points and add up; crossbow, combat speed and dodge are multipliers and multiply (×0.5 and ×0.8 make ×0.4). Coverage is the best any piece gives each body part. The game applies each piece to the parts it covers, so the totals compare sets with one another; they are not a damage-reduction figure.
Values are Kenshi v1.0.68 numbers from the Kenshi Wiki (CC BY-SA 4.0), the same file as the armour database. Ranked pieces for each style: best armor.
