T-shirt
T-shirt
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 | |
- 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