# Help with inserting armor/clothing, please?

**URL:** <https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/help-with-inserting-armor-clothing-please/325>\
**Category:** The Lab\
**Created:** [March 4, 2013, 12:17am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/help-with-inserting-armor-clothing-please/325 "2013-03-04T00:17:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![theShaikan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f475e1/32.png) [@theShaikan](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/theShaikan)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2013, 12:17am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/help-with-inserting-armor-clothing-please/325/1 "2013-03-04T00:17:41Z")

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I do really enjoy Cataclysm DDA so far, it’s really unique in what it does. But I have noticed that there is a distinct lack of advanced armor while plasma, laser and gauss weapons, bionics and combat robots are almost common if you look in the right places. So I made my own combat armor stuff, more advanced armor, meant for spec-ops or high-pay mercenaries. I ran into some issues with that though and I guess I cornered the problem. Are ARMOR items restricted to two materials, if I wanted to make something out of

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the game would not allow it?  
Like say

`// NAME RAR PRC COLOR MAT1 MAT2
ARMOR("combat vest", 35, 6150, C_TORSO, COTTON, KEVLAR, PLASTIC,
// VOL WGT DAM HIT ENC RES CUT ENV WRM STO COVERS
   17, 15, -1, 1, 1, 17, 22, 9, 50, 4, mfb(bp_torso)|mfb(bp_arms), "\
Recent advancements in materials allowed for a new suit of lightweight\n\
but very resilient armor. It has seen little deployment before the apocalypse\n\
and is a rare find.");`  
caused an error, yet when removing the COTTON tag the compiler allowed it.

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**Author:** ![OzoneH3](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/ozoneh3/32/849_2.png) [@OzoneH3](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/OzoneH3)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2013, 9:14am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/help-with-inserting-armor-clothing-please/325/2 "2013-03-04T09:14:11Z")

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This is because you can only define two material types per item.

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**Author:** ![theShaikan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f475e1/32.png) [@theShaikan](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/theShaikan)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2013, 1:41pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/help-with-inserting-armor-clothing-please/325/3 "2013-03-04T13:41:13Z")

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Preeetty much exactly what I wanted to know. Thanks.