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Muffalo wool is a type of fabric gathered by animal handlers by shearing tamed muffalos.

Acquisition

Muffalo wool is acquired by shearing tamed muffalos - each muffalo can be sheared every 15 days for 120 wool, for an average of 8 per day.

It can also be purchased from traders.

Analysis

Along with the other wools, muffalo wool has the second worst protective stats of any textile in the game, only beating cloth by virtue of heat armor. But like other wools, muffalo wool excels against the cold, offering the 4th best cold insulation. In comparison, its heat insulation is poor, at 19th of all textiles.

Therefore, wool clothes are largely used in cold biomes, providing almost no physical protection. While muffalo have the slowest Per Day production rate of all wools, muffalos are useful as pack animals, so colonies may accumulate wool naturally.

As furniture, it only has a somewhat improved beauty factor over plain textiles. As clothes rapidly become redundant, it may be used to imrpove furniture beautry and provide bulk textiles for construction. The faster production rates of sheep, alpaca or megasloth wool, may be more advantagous, but muffalo wool is a low cost if you already have muffalo. Care should be taken, as like other wools in RimWorld, it is exceptionally flammable.

Trivia

Contrary to wool in real life, wool in RimWorld is more flammable than cotton, rather than less.

Materials

Stony: Granite blocks • Limestone blocks • Marble blocks • Sandstone blocks • Slate blocks • Jade
Metallic: Gold • Plasteel • Silver • Steel • Uranium • Bioferrite
Woody: Wood
Leathery: Bearskin • Birdskin • Bluefur • Camelhide • Chinchilla fur • Dog leather • Elephant leather • Foxfur • Guinea pig fur • Heavy fur • Human leather • Lightleather • Lizardskin • Panthera fur • Patchleather • Pigskin • Plainleather • Rhinoceros leather • Thrumbofur • Wolfskin • Dread leather
Fabric: Alpaca wool • Bison wool • Cloth • Devilstrand • Hyperweave • Megasloth wool • Muffalo wool • Sheep wool • Synthread

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 ==Analysis==
-Muffalo wool has the second worst protective stats of any [[textile]] in the game tied only with some other [[wools]], and besting [[cloth]] only by virtue of proving a significantly more heat armor, though still little in compared to textiles like [[Devilstrand]]. Like other wools however, where muffalo wool excels is in cold insulation, offering the 7th best cold insulation of any textile in the game. In comparison, its heat insulation is lacking at 19th of all textiles.
+Along with the other [[wool]]s, muffalo wool has the second worst protective stats of any [[textile]] in the game, only beating [[cloth]] by virtue of heat armor. But like other wools, muffalo wool excels against the cold, offering the 4th best cold insulation. In comparison, its heat insulation is poor, at 19th of all textiles.
-Thus, it is almost entirely irrelevant as protective clothing. Additionally, its poor heat insulation make it unattractive in hot [[biomes]], except where bulk textiles of any sort are the primary requirement. Only its cold insulation provides utility in cold biomes, and in many of them other less insulative but more protective textiles will suffice. However, its ease of production and good insulation can make muffalo wool [[parka]]s or skin-layer apparel an easy way to provide winter clothing to a colony, and possibly sufficient to avoid sacrificing any other aspects of their outfit. Compared to other [[wools]], which largely fill the same niche, muffalo wool one of the better options, despite production being more costly with muffalo having the slowest Per Day production rate, while eating more than [[sheep]] and [[alpaca]]s. This is due to muffalo wool's exceptional cold insulation - if any wool is being used it is likely because of that cold insulation and the only wool better at that is [[megasloth wool]] sheared from the significantly harder-to-a-maintain [[megasloth]]. Thus muffalo wool leans into its primary use case heavily.
+Therefore, wool clothes are largely used in cold biomes, providing almost no physical protection. While muffalo have the slowest Per Day production rate of all wools, muffalos are useful as [[pack animal]]s, so colonies may accumulate wool naturally.
-For use in [[furniture]], it only has a somewhat improved [[Property:Beauty Factor|beauty factor]] over other common textiles, but its rapid redundancy as clothing, the ease of acquisition, and modest but not insignificant value makes it a solid choice for improving furniture [[beauty]] and providing bulk textiles for construction. If wool production is being acquired for this purpose however, the fast production rates of [[sheep wool|sheep]], [[alpaca wool|alpaca]] or [[megasloth wool]], or the lack of a tame maintenance requirement for sheep may be more advantageous if the option is available. Care should be taken as, like other wools in RimWorld, it is exceptionally flammable.
+As [[furniture]], it only has a somewhat improved [[Property:Beauty Factor|beauty factor]] over plain textiles. As clothes rapidly become redundant, it may be used to imrpove furniture [[beautry]] and provide bulk textiles for construction. The faster production rates of [[sheep wool|sheep]], [[alpaca wool|alpaca]] or [[megasloth wool]], may be more advantagous, but muffalo wool is a low cost if you already have muffalo. Care should be taken, as like other wools in RimWorld, it is exceptionally flammable.
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