User blog comment:Blanzer/Suggestions/@comment-4093624-20110831213620/@comment-4301259-20110901233553

Sorry, not all armor equipments of course, I misspoke. What I meant to say is that all armor equipment for the torso are in sets. To my knowledge the only non-set armor equips are goggles, wizard hat, mining helmet and diving helmet. Now let's take a look at those. The mining helmet is bought for 8 gold coins, so that's not a very early game equip. The diving helmet is dropped 1 out of 50 times from sharks in the ocean, so not that either. The wizard hat is dropped by Tim, who is a very rare spawn in the underground. So the goggles are the only very early game armor piece (before getting copper or better). I think it's meant to be that way, it's just a part of the game balance. Wood is just not rare enough; being able to craft armor out of it causes imbalance.