T-shirt

T-Shirt

"A simple T-shirt."

Base Stats

Type

Gear – Clothing

Market Value

120 

HP

100

Apparel

Insulation - Cold

3 °C (5.4 °F)

Armor - Sharp

3%

Armor - Blunt

3%

Creation

Work To Make

84 ticks (1.4 secs)

Summary

Overview & Obtaining

T-shirts are one of two available shirts available in RimWorld, and are inferior to the button-down shirt. T-shirts can be purchased from traders, crafted, or stripped from Outlanders and Pirates.

Crafting

As a complicated garment, t-shirts can only be made at tailoring benches, which requires complex clothing to be researched in order to be constructed. A t-shirt requires 50 of any textile, and 84 seconds of work (5,000 ticks) to be created, assuming baseline global work speed, consciousness, sight, or manipulation.

Conclusion & Comparison

T-shirts are overall not particularly useful in the game, as button-down shirts easily outplace t-shirts in terms of insulation and protection (more coverage). Although t-shirts are cheap to make, button-down shirts are barely more expensive and the only real difference is the moderate increase in labour, but this isn't significant enough to justify taking t-shirts over button-down shirts.

Insulation Information

The following table(s) will display how good a normal quality T-Shirt is at insulating when made from various materials...

Keeps Warm
		Minimum
Fabric	Alpaca wool	−90°C
	Cloth	−54°C
	Devilstrand	−60°C
	Hyperweave	−78°C
	Megasloth wool	−102°C
	Muffalo wool	−84°C
	Synthread	−66°C
Leather	Bearskin	−60°C
	Birdskin	−30°C
	Bluefur	−60°C
	Camelhide	−48°C
	Chinchilla fur	−90°C
	Dog leather	−42°C
	Elephant leather	−42°C
	Foxfur	−60°C
	Heavy fur	−90°C
	Human leather	−36°C
	Lightleather	−36°C
	Lizardskin	−36°C
	Panthera fur	−48°C
	Patchleather	−27°C
	Plainleather	−48°C
	Rhinoceros leather	−42°C
	Thrumbofur	−102°C
	Wolfskin	−72°C