Flak pants

Flak pants is a piece of protective apparel. It provides protection to the legs at the cost a -0.12 c/s penalty to movement speed.

Acquisition

Flak pants can be made at a machining table, once Flak Armor has been researched. Flak pants require 60 steel, 30 cloth and 1 component and 9,000 ticks (2.5 mins) of work to make.

Flak pants can also be commonly found on Outlanders, Pirates, Ancients, and Imperial Troopers.

Analysis

With low resource costs, accessible research, and the ability to be worn with duster, Flak Pants can provide useful protection in the early game. It can be used to protect the legs from harm. Jackets and shirts do not protect the legs, and damage to the legs can severely impair colonists, so this is a good option to protect colonists. However the penalty of -0.12 c/s to movement speed can make it less valuable for day to day life on pawns that need to walk around often (e.g. Growers).

Unlike flak jackets, they are not made totally obsolete mid-game by the supply of devilstrand, and instead pants require late-game materials like Hyperweave or Thrumbofur to achieve parity on sharp armor. However they do come with a movement penalty, and they take up both the Skin and Middle layers meaning that while they can be worn with a duster, they cannot be worn with plate or power armor of any kind, such as Recon armor, Marine armor or Cataphract armor. Additionally, the Heat armor offered by devilstrand pants is significant, representing a 45% reduction in damage from fire even at Normal quality. These factors can make their abandonment worthwhile even before late game materials are available.

The exact protection of the legs offered by flak pans vs pants of varying materials and armor is reliant on the interactions between Armor Rating calculations and is currently unclear.

Stats table

Flak pants	Sharp	Blunt	Heat	HP	Insulation - Cold	Insulation - Heat	Market Value
Quality	Sharp	Blunt	Heat	HP	Insulation - Cold	Insulation - Heat	Market Value
Awful	24%	4.8%	6%	140	-2.8 °C (-5 °F)	+0.8 °C (1.4 °F)	113
Poor	32%	6.4%	8%	140	-3.15 °C (-5.7 °F)	+0.9 °C (1.6 °F)	169
Normal	40%	8%	10%	140	-3.5 °C (-6.3 °F)	+1 °C (1.8 °F)	225
Good	46%	9.2%	11.5%	140	-3.85 °C (-6.9 °F)	+1.1 °C (2 °F)	280
Excellent	52%	10.4%	13%	140	-4.2 °C (-7.6 °F)	+1.2 °C (2.2 °F)	335
Masterwork	58%	11.6%	14.5%	140	-5.25 °C (-9.5 °F)	+1.5 °C (2.7 °F)	560
Legendary	72%	14.4%	18%	140	-6.3 °C (-11.3 °F)	+1.8 °C (3.2 °F)	1125