Electric tailor bench

The electric tailoring bench is used by colonists assigned to tailoring to produce clothing. It can still operate without electricity, but at a reduced production speed equivalent to its non-electric counterpart, the hand-tailoring bench.Like other production stations, a bill must be created to specify what items are to be produced and what materials may be used. Materials that may be used are leather, cloth, devilstrand, and hyperweave. Each clothing item produced has a certain quality depending on the crafting skill of the colonist (see quality for a detailed chart). An item's market value, deterioration rate, defense rating and temperature resistance are all determined by the material substance and crafting quality.

Grown cloth is the baseline material used for tailoring, being easy to grow and providing mundane stats across the board. Devilstrand by comparison is extremely difficult to grow and not useful for equipping a starting colony. Leather based apparel typically has improved defense ratings while domesticated animal wool has excellent temperature tolerance for extreme climates.

If a tailoring job is interrupted for any reason the crafter will drop the piece, usually on the workbench, and it will be in an unfinished state until the crafter finishes it. A crafter cannot work on another crafter's piece. The piece will indicate the name of the crafter and how much work is remaining. The stockpile filter includes an entry for unfinished apparel which allows the player to control where they are stored.

An effective tool as of Alpha 11 for ensuring that only quality garments from a tailors workbench are retained is to build a nearby crematorium. Set your crematorium to burn all clothing below a certain quality threshold. Before you do this take some time to ensure that there is enough clothing for all of colonists to wear. When paired with custom outfits, you can ensure that everyone is wearing the highest quality clothing.

Up to two nearby tool cabinets can be connected to an electric tailoring bench to increase work speed.

Clothing items that can be crafted
Item	Work Amount	Materials Needed	Materials	Base Market Value
Cowboy hat	50	25	All Textiles	62
Tuque	14	25	All Textiles; No Leathers	53.20
Pants	117	50	All Textiles	128
T-Shirt	80	50	All Textiles	119.20
Button-Down Shirt	134	55	All Textiles	142
Duster	400	80	All Textiles	255
Jacket	284	70	All Textiles	210
Parka	367	120	All Textiles	330
Tribalwear	34	35	All Textiles	78

Construction

Construction requirements include steel and components. The principal material can be wood or any kind of metal. The material chosen does not affect the speed to tailor clothing items.

Name	Cost	Hit Points	Flammability (%)	Work to Build
Steel electric tailoring bench	125 + 3	180	20	42
Plasteel electric tailoring bench	50 + 3 + 75	505	10	84
Wood electric tailoring bench	50 + 3 + 75	90	100	30
Gold electric tailoring bench	50 + 3 + 1500	108	20	55
Silver electric tailoring bench	50 + 3 + 1500	126	20	50
Uranium electric tailoring bench	50 + 3 + 1500	450	0	80