Apparel

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Apparel is worn by your colonists to protect them from the elements or from harm. There are two main types of apparel, clothing and armor.

See a pawn's Gear tab to see what apparel they are wearing.

Clothing vs Armor

Both clothing and armor use the same basic principles. They can be mixed and matched, as far as Clothing Layers allow.

Clothing tends to be made from lighter materials (fabrics and leathers). It tends to offer better protection from the environment then damage. However, with the right materials, clothing can be a worthwhile "light" armor.

Armor tends to be made from solid materials (usually metal). It also tends to give penalties to movement and similar stats. They also offer less environmental protection then clothing, so being well protected from violence is not without trade-offs.

Protection

Protection deals with mitigating damage to body parts. It can range anywhere from 0 to 100%. Materials tend to have higher values (up to 200%), however those values are drastically cut by the "material Effect" modifier if the piece of clothing that is made from the material.

After the game has determined which body part was hit by an attack, the following math is applied:

• the Protection values for all worn items in that region are summed up
• the penetration value of the weapon is subtracted, to get the modified Protection
• A percentile roll is made against the modified armor:
  • If the roll is higher, the full damage is applied to the body part
  • If the roll is lower, but still more than half - half damage is dealt. If it is a sharp attack, it also has the damage reduced to blunt trauma
  • If the roll is half or less, no damage is done

That means an armor rating of 200% after penetration would result in de-facto damage immunity.

It is unclear how apparel loses hitpoints when blocking, partially blocking or not blocking damage.

Sharp Protection

Protection against Claws, Swords, Spears and Bullets. These attacks will cause cuts, which in turn are prone to cause bleeding. Even the lightest clothing material seems to offer some of this.

Blunt Protection

Protection against most blunt attacks. In addition to obvious cases like Clubs, this includes headbutts and strikes with weapon melee.

Heat Protection

Not to be mistaken for Heat Insulation, this works against fire damage. That includes both natural fires and fire weapons.

Insulation

Protection against extreme temperatures, such as freezing and overheating. Every pawn and every Animal has a natural range of "acceptable temperatures". Humans have a comparatively small range. This value will add directly to the heat and cold tolerance, making it possible to work in climates that any naked human would die in.

Generally, items can be classified as "keeping warm" (massive Cold, little or no Heat Insulation), "normal" (which means heat Insulation is less than half cold) or "keeping cool" (several times the cold insulation in Heat), with Material Modifiers to match. Materials tend to have the same base values in both Insulations; however, there are exceptions to this rule.

Cold Insulation

A rather easy value to come by. No item - not even armor or those focused on heat insulation - lack this value.

For extreme temperatures, some woolen clothing can offer very high cold resistance.

Heat Insulation

Less common compared to cold insulation. While most items provide some, it is usually less than half their cold insulation. Only a select few items and materials are suitable to maximize this value and usually at the cost of protection.

Flammability

How likely the item is to burst into flames while in storage. Often Heat Protection and this value are related. It is entirely dependent on the material.

It is unclear if it affects the chance for a Pawn to catch fire while standing in a burning tile.

Damaged apparel

Apparel suffers wear and tear when worn causing it to lose hit points over time. They also become damaged when the wearer is attacked, and the apparel absorbs some damage as armor.

A colonist wearing badly damaged apparel will have one of the following thoughts. These debuffs do not stack, only one is given based on the apparel with the worst condition.

HP	Thought	Debuff
20% - 50%	"Wearing worn-out apparel"	-3
below 20%	"Wearing tattered apparel"	-5

Durability does not affect stats such as protection and insulation.

Quality Effects

See also: Quality

Quality	Armor Factor	Insulation Factor	Market Value	Max Market Value Gain	Deterioration Rate	Beauty
Awful	0.6	0.8	0.5	-	2	-0.1
Poor	0.8	0.9	0.75	-	1.5	0.5
Normal	1.0	1.0	1.0	-	1	1
Good	1.15	1.1	1.25	500	0.8	2
Excellent	1.3	1.2	1.5	1000	0.6	3
Masterwork	1.45	1.5	2.5	2000	0.3	5
Legendary	1.8	1.8	5	3000	0.1	8

Nudity

Colonists whose legs are not covered by apparel will be considered naked and will receive the appropriate mood penalties. Colonists not happy about nudity will cause an alert to trigger prompting the player to seek suitable clothing.

For Nudists the opposite is true - they receive a mood bonus for wearing no or little clothing, with a slight penalty for wearing a full set.

Special Values

Clothing can have very specific secondary values. The more common ones are:

• Negative movement Speed. This is mostly seen with armor
• Bonus to social skills. This is a extremely common stat for any form of headwear that is not armor
• Pain Threshold. Specific to Tribal clothing, this increases when a character will collapses from damage

Tainted Apparel

Clothing stripped from corpses is considered tainted apparel and is noted with a T. Colonists wearing tainted apparel gain a persistent mood debuff as long as they're wearing it- colonists with Bloodlust do not seem to mind, however.

Number of items	Debuff
1	-3
2	-5
3	-7
4+	-8

Disposal is usually the only option as traders do not buy them (as of 0.19).

Disposal

Apparel can be destroyed using a crematorium or a campfire. Simply create a "Burn apparel" bill, and be sure to uncheck anything you want to keep.

Materials

A number of Materials is available for Clothing and Armor. Not every piece supports every material and a lot of the protective power of armor and insulation of clothing actually comes from the used material, rather than something unique to the item.

Armor Materials

These materials are primarily used for armor. It includes any metal and in rare cases, even wood or stone might be supported.

Name	Stuff Category	Sharp	Blunt	Heat	Cold Insulation	Heat Insulation	Item HP	Market Value	Commonality	Flammability
Silver	Metallic	72%	36%	36%	3	0	0.7	1	100	0.4
Gold	Metallic	72%	36%	36%	3	0	0.6	10	0.02	0.4
Steel	Metallic	90%	45%	72%	3	0	1	1.9	1.0	0.4
Plasteel	Metallic	126%	63%	108%	3	0	2.8	9	0.05	0.2
Wood	Woody	54%	54%	90%	8	4	0.65	1.2	1	1
Uranium	Metallic	108%	54%	90%	3	0	2.5	6	0.05	0
Jade	Stony	90%	45%	54%	3	0	0.5	5	0.05	0

Clothing Materials

All variants of Fabric and Leathers.

Name	Stuff Category	Sharp	Blunt	Heat	Cold Insulation	Heat Insulation	Item HP Multiplier	Market Value	Commonality	Flammability
LeatherBase	Leathery	81%	24%	150%	16	16	1.3	2.1	0.025	1
Plain Leather	Leathery	81%	24%	150%	16	16	1.3	2.1	0.020	1
Dog Leather	Leathery	81%	24%	150%	14	16	1.3	20	0.075	1
Wolfskin	Leathery	102%	24%	150%	24	16	1.3	3.0	0.075	1
Panthera Skin	Leathery	93%	24%	150%	16	24	1.3	3.0	0.025	1
Camelhide	Leathery	81%	24%	150%	16	24	1.3	2.3	0.05	1
Bluefur	Leathery	81%	24%	150%	20	16	1.3	2.3	0.025	1
Bearskin	Leathery	112%	24%	150%	20	20	1.3	3.4	0.05	1
Human Leather	Leathery	64%	24%	150%	12	12	1.3	4.2	0.025	1
Pigskin	Leathery	64%	24%	150%	12	12	1.3	1.9	0.05	1
Lightleather	Leathery	54%	14%	150%	12	12	1.3	1.9	0.25	1
Birdskin	Leathery	67%	14%	150%	10	10	1.3	1.8	0.025	1
Chinchilla Fur	Leathery	67%	14%	150%	30	16	1.3	6.5	0.025	1
Foxfur	Leathery	81%	21%	150%	20	16	1.3	3.5	0.075	1
Lizardskin	Leathery	81%	27%	150%	12	12	1.3	2.1	0.075	1
Elephant Leather	Leathery	112%	24%	150%	14	12	1.3	3.0	0.025	1.5
Heavy Fur	Leathery	124%	24%	150%	30	14	1.3	3.3	0.025	1.5
Rhinoceros Leather	Leathery	129%	24%	150%	14	14	1.3	4.2	0.025	1.5
Thrumbo Fur	Leathery	208%	36%	150%	34	22	1.3	14	0.0025	2.0
Patchleather	Leathery	45%	19%	90%	9	9	1.3	1.5	0.075	1
Cloth	Fabric	36%	0%	18%	18	18	?	1.5	1.4	1.2
Synthread	Fabric	63%	0%	72%	22	22	1.3	4	0.15	0.7
Devilstrand	Fabric	140%	36%	3	20	24	1.3	5.5	0.2	0.4
Hyperweave	Fabric	200%	54%	2.88	26	26	2.4	9	0.1	0.4
Woolbase	Fabric	36%	0%	36%	Cold Insulation	Heat Insulation	?	2.7	0.12	?
Megasloth Wool	Fabric	36%	0%	36%	30	12	?	2.7	0.12	?
Muffalo Wool	Fabric	36%	0%	36%	30	12	?	2.7	0.12	?
Camelhair	Fabric	36%	0%	36%	18	26	?	2.7	0.12	?
Alpaca Wool	Fabric	36%	0%	36%	28	16	?	2.7	0.12	?