Pants

Pants

"A simple set of pants."

Base Stats

Type

Gear – Clothing

Market Value

128 

Mass

0.5 kg

HP

100

Apparel

Insulation - Cold

0.2 °C (0.4 °F)

Insulation - Heat

0.08 °C (0.1 °F)

Armor - Sharp

20%

Armor - Blunt

20%

Creation

Work To Make

27 ticks (0.45 secs)

Summary

Overview & Obtaining

Pants are the most common legwear in rimworlds, offering a bit of protection from damage, a small amount of insulation, and preventing the "naked" mood debuff (males only need to cover their legs to avoid feeling naked, while females also need to cover their torso). Pants can be purchased from traders, crafted, or stripped from Outlanders and Pirates.

Crafting

As a complicated garment, Pants can only be made at tailoring benches, which requires complex clothing to be researched in order to be constructed. A pair of pants requires 50 of any textile, and 27 units of work.

Conclusion & Comparison

There are only three options for covering the skin layer of a colonist's legs: pants, flak pants, and tribalwear. Pants are the most common choice, but the other options have their own values:

Flak pants offer better protection against sharp and blunt damage than most types of pants, but require 30 cloth, 60 steel, and 1 component to craft. Compared to regular pants (all at normal quality):

• Flak pants offer 40% armor - sharp: equivalent to hyperweave pants, slightly worse than thrumbofur pants (41.6%), but better than devilstrand pants (28.0%)
• Flak pants offer 8.0% armor - blunt: better than devilstrand pants (7.2%) but worse than hyperweave pants (10.8%)
• Flak pants offer 10% armor - heat: worse than every single type of pants except cloth (3.6%). Devilstrand pants offer the best heat protection of any pants (60%)
• Flak pants have a -0.12 cells per second move speed penalty when worn
• Flak pants also cover the middle clothing layer, preventing a colonist from wearing both flak pants and marine armor

Overall, flak pants are strictly worse than hyperweave pants of equivalent quality, giving worse armor, insulation, and a move speed penalty. However, flak pants offer better protection than most textile-based pants (including devilstrand), making them appealing for colonists looking for a boost in armor with a lower move speed penalty than plate armor or marine armor

Tribalwear covers both the legs and torso. Compared to a combination of pants and a button-down shirt:

• Tribalwear has identical armor values, but less coverage (tribalwear doesn't cover the arms and neck)
• Tribalwear has better insulation - cold (55% vs. 46%)
• Tribalwear has much better insulation - heat (55% vs. 18%)
• Tribalwear has lower materials and work cost (60 textiles and 30 work vs. requires 85 textiles and 72 work)

A bit of extra neck and arm protection is usually seen as valuable enough to merit the lower insulation and higher crafting cost of pants and a button-down. But colonists in ultra-hot biomes may prefer the better insulation, especially when first starting out.

Insulation Information

Pants offer a trivial amount of insulation from heat (8%), and a minimal amount of insulation from cold (20%). The exact insulation in-game depends on the textile used and the quality of the crafted item. Assuming normal quality, pants offer:

Keeps Cool
		Maximum
Fabric	Alpaca wool	+1.28°C
	Cloth	+1.44°C
	Devilstrand	+1.92°C
	Hyperweave	+2.08°C
	Megasloth wool	+0.96°C
	Muffalo wool	+0.96°C
	Synthread	+1.76°C
Leather	Bearskin	+1.6°C
	Birdskin	+0.8°C
	Bluefur	+1.28°C
	Camelhide	+1.92°C
	Chinchilla fur	+1.28°C
	Dog leather	+1.28°C
	Elephant leather	+0.96°C
	Foxfur	+1.28°C
	Heavy fur	+1.12°C
	Human leather	+0.96°C
	Lightleather	+0.96°C
	Lizardskin	+0.96°C
	Panthera fur	+1.92°C
	Patchleather	+0.72°C
	Plainleather	+1.28°C
	Rhinoceros leather	+1.12°C
	Thrumbofur	+1.76°C
	Wolfskin	+1.28°C

Keeps Warm
		Minimum
Fabric	Alpaca wool	−6°C
	Cloth	−3.6°C
	Devilstrand	−4°C
	Hyperweave	−5.2°C
	Megasloth wool	−6.8°C
	Muffalo wool	−5.6°C
	Synthread	−4.4°C
Leather	Bearskin	−4°C
	Birdskin	−2°C
	Bluefur	−4°C
	Camelhide	−3.2°C
	Chinchilla fur	−6°C
	Dog leather	−2.8°C
	Elephant leather	−2.8°C
	Foxfur	−4°C
	Heavy fur	−6°C
	Human leather	−2.4°C
	Lightleather	−2.4°C
	Lizardskin	−2.4°C
	Panthera fur	−3.2°C
	Patchleather	−1.8°C
	Plainleather	−3.2°C
	Rhinoceros leather	−2.8°C
	Thrumbofur	−6.8°C
	Wolfskin	−4.8°C

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Apparel

Torso | Clothing

Button-down shirt • T-shirt (Kid ) • Tribalwear (Kid )

Corset • Eltex shirt • Eltex vest • Formal vest • Formal shirt

Slave collar

Sash • Kid romper

Armor

Flak vest

Legs | Clothing

Pants (Kid )

Armor

Flak pants

Shell | Clothing

Duster • Jacket • Parka (Kid ) • Robe

Cape • Eltex robe • Prestige robe

Burka • Slave body strap

Heavy bandolier

Lab coat

Armor

Flak jacket • Marine armor (Prestige , Grenadier ) • Plate armor • Recon armor (Prestige , Locust , Mechlord ) • Cataphract armor (Prestige , Phoenix )

Head | Clothing

Bowler hat • Cowboy hat • Hood • Psychic foil helmet • Tuque • Tribal headdress • Veil • War mask

Beret • Coronet • Crown • Eltex helmet • Eltex skullcap • Ladies hat • Stellic crown • Top hat

Authority cap • Blindfold • Broadwrap • Flophat • Headwrap • Shadecone • Slicecap • Tailcap • Torture crown • Visage mask

Airwire headset • Array headset • Gas mask • Face mask

Ceremonial hood • Ritual mask

Armor

Flak helmet • Marine helmet (Prestige/Samurai helmet ) • Recon helmet (Prestige , Mechlord ) • Simple helmet (Kid ) • Cataphract helmet (Prestige ) • Gunlink • Integrator headset • Mechcommander helmet