Flak jacket
Flak jacket
A tough fabric jacket with armor plates sewn in. While it's not as good as solid armor, it offers effective protection against all manner of attacks while remaining quite comfortable.
Base Stats
Apparel
- Insulation - Cold
- 14.4 °C (25.9 °F)
- Insulation - Heat
- 3 °C (5.4 °F)
- Armor - Sharp
- 40%
- Armor - Blunt
- 8%
- Armor - Heat
- 10%
- Clothing For Nudity
- True
- Lifestage
- Adult
- Coverage
- Torso, Neck, Left Shoulder, Left Arm, Right Shoulder, Right Arm
- Layer
- Outer
Creation
- Crafted At
- Required Research
- Flak armor
- Skill Required
- Crafting 4
- Work To Make
- 14,000 ticks (3.89 mins)
- Work Speed Stat
- General Labor Speed
- Resources to make
70 + 
50 + 
1
- Has Quality
- True
- thingCategories
- ApparelArmor
- defaultOutfitTags
- Soldier
- tags
- IndustrialAdvanced
- tradeTags
- Clothing, Armor
The flak jacket is a piece of armor that provides protection to the torso and arms at the cost of a penalty to move speed.
Acquisition
Flak jackets can be crafted at a machining table once the flak armor research project has been completed. Each requires 70 Steel, 50 Cloth, 1 Component, 14,000 ticks (3.89 mins) of work modified by the general labor speed of the crafter, and a crafting skill of 4.
Flak jackets can also be commonly found on Outlanders, Pirates, Ancients, and Imperial Troopers 
.
Summary
When equipped, a flak jacket reduces the pawn's base move speed by −0.12 c/s. As offsets such as these apply before multiplicative effects such as from Moving capacity, the actual impact on move speed can be larger or smaller than this value. For example, a pawn with 125% Moving would have their speed decreased by −0.15 c/s, while a pawn with only 50% Moving would only have their speed decreased by −0.06 c/s. See Move Speed for details.
Analysis
In general, you should prioritize getting flak vests for your all relevant colonists, before making jackets. Vests are cheaper, provide much more armor, and cover everything the jacket does except for the arms - which can eventually be replaced. For reference, a normal flak vest has 100% Sharp armor, compared to 40% Sharp from a normal jacket. As jackets can be worn over a flak vest, this does not mean that jackets are bad, just that vests should be created first.
Overall, flak jackets have low resource costs and accessible research. Combined with vests, and they can provide useful protection in the early-mid game.
However, devilstrand dusters are almost strictly superior. They provide slightly more sharp & blunt protection, significantly more heat insulation, protect the legs, and have no movement speed penalty - their only statistical downside being a tiny decrease in cold insulation. Devilstrand has the advantage of being growable, unlike steel. Mid-late game colonies are often able to grow enough devilstrand for dusters, making flak jackets obsolete. Other late-game materials, such as hyperweave and thrumbofur, are rarer, but offer even more protection.
Due to the speed and coverage detriments of flak jackets, even dusters of strong leathers, like rhinoceros leather may be preferable despite offering slightly less protection to the upper body.
Stats table
 Flak jacket
|
Sharp | Blunt | Heat | HP | Insulation - Cold |
Insulation - Heat |
Market Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quality | |||||||
| Awful | 24% | 4.8% | 6% | 260 | -11.52 °C (-20.7 °F) | +2.4 °C (4.3 °F) | 145  |
| Poor | 32% | 6.4% | 8% | 260 | -12.96 °C (-23.3 °F) | +2.7 °C (4.9 °F) | 215 |
| Normal | 40% | 8% | 10% | 260 | -14.4 °C (-25.9 °F) | +3 °C (5.4 °F) | 290 |
| Good | 46% | 9.2% | 11.5% | 260 | -15.84 °C (-28.5 °F) | +3.3 °C (5.9 °F) | 360 |
| Excellent | 52% | 10.4% | 13% | 260 | -17.28 °C (-31.1 °F) | +3.6 °C (6.5 °F) | 435 |
| Masterwork | 58% | 11.6% | 14.5% | 260 | -21.6 °C (-38.9 °F) | +4.5 °C (8.1 °F) | 725 |
| Legendary | 72% | 14.4% | 18% | 260 | -25.92 °C (-46.7 °F) | +5.4 °C (9.7 °F) | 1450 |
For the full effects of qualities, see Quality.
Styles
 | This article relates to content added by Ideology (DLC). Please note that it will not be present without the DLC enabled. |
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
Version history
- 1.0.0 - Added. Still using jacket art.
- Ideology DLC Release - Received styles via new Ideoligion style system.
- 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