Duster

Dusters are one of the classic hot-weather garments in rimworlds, often paired with a cowboy hat.

Acquisition

As a complicated garment, dusters require Complex Clothing to be researched and can only be made at a hand tailor bench or an electric tailor bench. A duster requires 80 of any textile and 167 units of work.

Dusters can be purchased from traders or stripped from Outlanders and Pirates.

Summary

When worn by a slave, a duster increases the rate that suppression is lost by 5% per day. This stacks additively with all other forms of suppression loss rate offsets.

Analysis

As parkas are necessary to survive in very cold biomes, dusters are necessary to survive in very hot biomes (e.g. Arid Shrubland, Tropical Rainforest, Desert, etc.), and recommended for temperate biomes (i.e. Temperate Forest), as both are susceptible to heat waves, reaching up to or even exceeding 60 °C (140 °F) at the peak of summer. When made of tough materials, a duster provides reasonable sharp damage protection, and can be paired with a flak vest for an early and mid game armor set.

Dusters are usually seen as preferable to jackets, since dusters provide identical armor bonuses, also cover the legs, and have slightly higher hit points (200 vs. 160). Insulation wise, dusters offer significantly better insulation from heat (85% vs. 30%) but worse insulation from cold (60% vs. 80%) and require slightly more resources to craft.

In cold biomes, parkas may be preferable to dusters. While parkas offer less armor than a duster (20% vs. 30%) and don't cover the legs, they are significantly better at insulating from cold (200% vs. 60%)

Trade

Dusters are the most efficient apparel for Value / Material in the core game. If the Royalty DLC is enabled, this role is instead taken by formal vests and corsets.

Dusters require the most work time per material. Because an apparel's Market Value is determined by (Work Time * Material Value), you'll get the most value for 1 unit material by creating dusters / corsets. This also represents a way to train skills while also profiting from the pawn-hours invested.

Note that this is only a general rule - other considerations can exist:

If no good crafters are available, but great constructors are, then armchairs are an alternative for Value / Material. However, selling any building incurs a x0.7 Sell Price Multiplier, which makes armchairs inferior
If Value / Crafter Time is more important, then you should make tribalwear and top hats instead. An apparel's quality applies a flat multiplier to Market Value. For example, you could create 8 good tribalwears or 6 good dusters for 480 textiles. The tribalwears would take 14,400 ticks (4 mins) and the duster would take 60,000 ticks (16.67 mins). However, good quality gives a x1.25 price multiplier regardless of work to make. Therefore, if materials are not an issue, but crafter time is, then you should make tribalwear (or top hats) instead.

Lower value materials are profitable at lower skill levels. For example, cloth dusters require only a crafting skill of 2 with a average market value modifier of 77% to average a value higher than the 120 of selling the cloth itself, while the most expensive textile, thrumbofur, requires a skill level of 6 to do the same. Thus, a skill level of 6 is sufficient to average profitable for dusters for all available materials.

Material table

Material	Sharp	Blunt	Heat	Item HP	Insulation - Cold	Insulation - Heat	Market Value
Bearskin Duster	33.6%	7.2%	45%	260	-12 °C (-21.6 °F)	+17 °C (30.6 °F)	310
Birdskin Duster	20.1%	4.2%	45%	200	-6 °C (-10.8 °F)	+8.5 °C (15.3 °F)	180
Bluefur Duster	24.3%	7.2%	45%	260	-12 °C (-21.6 °F)	+13.6 °C (24.5 °F)	220
Camelhide Duster	24.3%	7.2%	45%	260	-9.6 °C (-17.3 °F)	+20.4 °C (36.7 °F)	220
Chinchilla fur Duster	20.1%	4.2%	45%	200	-18 °C (-32.4 °F)	+13.6 °C (24.5 °F)	555
Dog leather Duster	24.3%	7.2%	45%	260	-8.4 °C (-15.1 °F)	+13.6 °C (24.5 °F)	196
Dread leather Duster	38.1%	7.2%	45%	260	-12 °C (-21.6 °F)	+10.2 °C (18.4 °F)	315
Elephant leather Duster	33.6%	7.2%	45%	300	-8.4 °C (-15.1 °F)	+10.2 °C (18.4 °F)	230
Foxfur Duster	24.3%	6.3%	45%	200	-12 °C (-21.6 °F)	+13.6 °C (24.5 °F)	315
Guinea pig fur Duster	20.1%	4.2%	45%	120	-22.8 °C (-41 °F)	+15.3 °C (27.5 °F)	435
Heavy fur Duster	37.2%	7.2%	45%	300	-18 °C (-32.4 °F)	+11.9 °C (21.4 °F)	300
Human leather Duster	19.2%	7.2%	45%	260	-7.2 °C (-13 °F)	+10.2 °C (18.4 °F)	370
Lightleather Duster	16.2%	4.2%	45%	200	-7.2 °C (-13 °F)	+10.2 °C (18.4 °F)	188
Lizardskin Duster	24.3%	8.1%	45%	200	-7.2 °C (-13 °F)	+10.2 °C (18.4 °F)	205
Panthera fur Duster	27.9%	7.2%	45%	260	-9.6 °C (-17.3 °F)	+20.4 °C (36.7 °F)	275
Patchleather Duster	13.5%	5.7%	27%	200	-5.4 °C (-9.7 °F)	+7.65 °C (13.8 °F)	156
Pigskin Duster	19.2%	7.2%	45%	260	-7.2 °C (-13 °F)	+10.2 °C (18.4 °F)	188
Plainleather Duster	24.3%	7.2%	45%	260	-9.6 °C (-17.3 °F)	+13.6 °C (24.5 °F)	205
Rhinoceros leather Duster	38.7%	7.2%	45%	300	-8.4 °C (-15.1 °F)	+11.9 °C (21.4 °F)	370
Thrumbofur Duster	62.4%	10.8%	45%	400	-20.4 °C (-36.7 °F)	+18.7 °C (33.7 °F)	1155
Wolfskin Duster	30.6%	7.2%	45%	260	-14.4 °C (-25.9 °F)	+13.6 °C (24.5 °F)	275
Alpaca wool Duster	10.8%	0%	33%	200	-18 °C (-32.4 °F)	+13.6 °C (24.5 °F)	340
Bison wool Duster	10.8%	0%	33%	200	-15.6 °C (-28.1 °F)	+10.2 °C (18.4 °F)	250
Cloth Duster	10.8%	0%	5.4%	200	-10.8 °C (-19.4 °F)	+15.3 °C (27.5 °F)	156
Devilstrand Duster	42%	10.8%	90%	260	-12 °C (-21.6 °F)	+20.4 °C (36.7 °F)	475
Hyperweave Duster	60%	16.2%	86.4%	480	-15.6 °C (-28.1 °F)	+22.1 °C (39.8 °F)	755
Megasloth wool Duster	24%	0%	33%	200	-20.4 °C (-36.7 °F)	+10.2 °C (18.4 °F)	250
Muffalo wool Duster	10.8%	0%	33%	200	-16.8 °C (-30.2 °F)	+10.2 °C (18.4 °F)	250
Sheep wool Duster	10.8%	0%	33%	200	-15.6 °C (-28.1 °F)	+8.5 °C (15.3 °F)	250
Synthread Duster	28.2%	7.8%	27%	260	-13.2 °C (-23.8 °F)	+18.7 °C (33.7 °F)	355

^{Assuming Normal quality, for the effect of other qualities, see Quality.}

Styles

Ideoligions allow the selection of styles which then change the texture of the certain items and buildings when constructed by the colony. These style variants can be crafted if the colony has the selected style, or can be looted from raiders from factions with the requisite style.

Base variant
Spikecore variant

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