Is bronze armor profitable?

[MushuBG]

Hello,
I currently have about 30 hours of play and I was wondering if bronze armor is profitable or not.
I created an armor in my current game (plate armor) but I don’t know if I should have waited for the iron.

PS: sorry for my bad english i use a translator.

[Varcii]

If you have extra copper lying around armor is very important. For iron you'll most likely need to go into deep caves, where armor will be very important for whatever you encounter.

[LadyWYT]

Welcome to the forums! It depends on your personal preference, really. If you have the resources for bronze and would rather have more protection when you go out and about, bronze armor is a decent investment. Which style of armor you choose is up to you, though for bronze tier I would recommend lamellar. It's less expensive and easier to make than the other styles, and though the protection might be a bit worse than other styles it'll be enough to get the job done while you work towards iron.

4 hours ago, Varcii said:

For iron you'll most likely need to go into deep caves, where armor will be very important for whatever you encounter.

Not necessarily. All you really need to do is find a good ore reading with the prospecting pick, and then dig a shaft straight down until you find what you're after(use the Node Search mode on the propick every so often to make sure you don't miss anything). It's safe to dig straight down in Vintage Story, provided that you're placing ladders as you work. As long as you don't move off the ladder's blockspace(which is difficult to do in a tiny mineshaft), it's impossible to fall off.

[MushuBG]

thank you for your answer,

15 hours ago, LadyWYT said:

Welcome to the forums! It depends on your personal preference, really. If you have the resources for bronze and would rather have more protection when you go out and about, bronze armor is a decent investment. Which style of armor you choose is up to you, though for bronze tier I would recommend lamellar. It's less expensive and easier to make than the other styles, and though the protection might be a bit worse than other styles it'll be enough to get the job done while you work towards iron.

Not necessarily. All you really need to do is find a good ore reading with the prospecting pick, and then dig a shaft straight down until you find what you're after(use the Node Search mode on the propick every so often to make sure you don't miss anything). It's safe to dig straight down in Vintage Story, provided that you're placing ladders as you work. As long as you don't move off the ladder's blockspace(which is difficult to do in a tiny mineshaft), it's impossible to fall off.

I will just start to collect iron and I made the lamellar bronze armor for the cave but i dont but I don’t know if I should make black bronze before because I have gold and silver thanks to quartz vein. I wonder if the gap between the iron armor and the black bronze armor is so important? or if I have to rush fast the iron armor.

[LadyWYT]

8 hours ago, MushuBG said:

thank you for your answer,

I will just start to collect iron and I made the lamellar bronze armor for the cave but i dont but I don’t know if I should make black bronze before because I have gold and silver thanks to quartz vein. I wonder if the gap between the iron armor and the black bronze armor is so important? or if I have to rush fast the iron armor.

Standard bronze should be just fine, and there's no need to rush iron. Just play at your own pace. I would save any black bronze for making tools to trade to the traders, since black bronze tools are worth an extra gear or two. On the other hand, if you prefer the look of black bronze or are looking to collect everything in the game, those are as good of reasons as any to make black bronze armor.

[Maelstrom]

On 4/9/2025 at 3:11 PM, LadyWYT said:

It's safe to dig straight down in Vintage Story, provided that you're placing ladders as you work. As long as you don't move off the ladder's blockspace(which is difficult to do in a tiny mineshaft), it's impossible to fall off.

It's safe to dig straight down without ladders, water stream, etc.  I'll usually dig down with a stack of ladders to climb back up when I've finished mining.  Only once in hundreds of shafts have I fallen into a cave or chamber and even then it was only a dozen or so block drop and didn't do much damage.