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Hello guys,

I have a custom armor set replacing the standard armor.
Every piece has its "save percent", "save amount" etc. and it (seems to) works just fine absorbing the damage and getting damaged, but I noticed one annoying thing:
When the damage is too low, the only armor piece that will absorbed and consequently damaged is the last piece that the player worn.

I tried to avoid it by having a random chance (based on the number of worn armor pieces) to skip the "absorption", hoping that it will let another armor piece to absorb the damage, but it doesn't clearly work like that.

So I wonder, is there a way to randomize the armor piece that will absorb the damage when the damage itself is too low to trigger the "absorption" on the other pieces too?

This is my AbsorbDamage() function for the armor set:

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override void AbsorbDamage (int damage, Name damageType, out int newdamage) {
		if(damage > 0 && owner && owner.health > 0) {
			double depletion = 1.0; //armor depletion chance
			double dmgAbsorbed; //damage absorbed by the armor
			double tankChance; //chance to completely tank low damage
			
			newdamage = max(0, ApplyDamageFactors(GetClass(), damageType, damage, damage)); //reduce the damage applying the armor damage factors
		
			if (!DamageTypeDefinition.IgnoreArmor(damageType) && newdamage > 0 && Defense > 0) { //if the damage type do not bypass armor and the armor piece has some defense
				if(Defense > 1.0)
					Defense = 1.0;
				newdamage = round(damage * (1.0 - Defense)); //apply the armor piece defense to the damage
			
				if(newdamage >= damage)
					newdamage = damage - 1;//reduce the actual damage taken by 1 if = to the original damage
			}

			if(newdamage > 0 && newdamage <= wornPieces) {//if the damage is lower than the number of worn pieces of armor
				tankChance = ApplyDamageFactor(damageType, 100) * 2.56; //chance out of 256 to not receive damage based on the damagefactor
				if(random() >= tankChance)
					newdamage = 0;
			}
			
			dmgAbsorbed = floor((damage - newdamage) * depletion); //damage absorbed by the armor
			
			if(dmgAbsorbed > 0) { //if the damage absorbed is not 0
				if(Amount >= dmgAbsorbed) { //if the amount of worn armor is >= of the absorbed damage
					if(!bNOTARMOR) //if it gave armor points
						owner.TakeInventory("BasicArmor", dmgAbsorbed); //reduce the armor points by the absorbed amount
				}
				else { //if <
					if(!bNOTARMOR) //if it gave armor points
						owner.TakeInventory("BasicArmor", Amount); //take all the armor points given by the armor piece
					newdamage += (dmgAbsorbed - Amount); //and add the difference between the absorbed damage and the armor amount to the damage
				}
				Amount -= dmgAbsorbed; //reduce the worn armor by the absorbed amount
				A_LogInt(Amount);
				if(Amount <= 0) //if there's no more armor
					Destroy(); //remove it
			}
		}
	}