Mastodon wool

Mastodon wool

Thick shaggy wool from a mastodon. Provides excellent insulation against the cold.

Base Stats

Type

Textile – Fabric

Stuff Categories

Fabric

Market Value

2.7 

Stack Limit

100

Mass

0.028 kg

Beauty

-4

HP

90

Deterioration Rate

3.4

Flammability

40%

Path Cost

14 (48%)

Stat Modifiers

Beauty Factor

×1.5

Work To Make Factor

×1

Work To Build Factor

×1

Max Hit Points

×1

Flammability

×1.7

Armor - Sharp

×0.36

Armor - Blunt

×0

Armor - Heat

×1.10

Insulation - Cold

+32 °C (57.6 °F)

Insulation - Heat

+14 °C (25.2 °F)

Technical

Color

(141,103,70)

Mastodon wool is a type of fabric gathered by animal handlers by shearing tamed mastodons. Mastodon wool is a very good insulator, and is therefore recommended in clothing like parkas and tuques.

Acquisition

Mastodon wool is acquired by shearing tamed mastodons - each mastodon can be sheared every 20 days for 200 wool, for an average of 10 per day. Note that the amount of wool sheared scales with the Animal Gather Yield of the shearer.

Shearing takes 1,700 ticks (28.33 secs), regardless of the amount of wool produced, and only modified by the Animal Gather Speed of the handler.

It can also be purchased from traders.

Usage

Mastodon wool can be used as a material for stuffable items with the Fabric stuff tag.

Mastodon wool can be used in the following recipes:

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Analysis

Along with the other wools, mastodon wool has the second worst protective stats of any textile in the game, only beating cloth by virtue of heat armor. But like other wools, mastodon wool excels against the cold, offering the 4th best cold insulation. In comparison, its heat insulation is poor, at 20th of all textiles. While it is marginally better than other wools at insulating heat, it still isn't good when compared to other common textiles such as plainleather or cloth.

Therefore, wool clothes are largely used in cold biomes, providing almost no physical protection. Considering you may keep some tamed for their caravan and combat abilities rather than for meat, you may passively earn some mastodon wool over time.

Mastodons are tied with megasloths for the the fastest Per Day production of any wooly animal. Though it only has a somewhat improved beauty factor over plain textiles, as clothes rapidly become redundant, it may be used to improve furniture beauty and provide bulk textiles for construction due its rapid production. Care should be taken, as like other wools in RimWorld, it is exceptionally flammable.

Trivia

Contrary to wool in real life, wool in RimWorld is more flammable than cotton, rather than less.

Version history

• Odyssey DLC Release - Added.

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Materials

Stony

Granite blocks • Limestone blocks • Marble blocks • Sandstone blocks • Slate blocks • Jade • Obsidian • Vacstone blocks

Metallic

Gold • Plasteel • Silver • Steel • Uranium • Bioferrite • Obsidian

Woody

Wood

Leathery

Bearskin • Birdskin • Bluefur • Camelhide • Chinchilla fur • Dog leather • Elephant leather • Foxfur • Guinea pig fur • Heavy fur • Human leather • Lightleather • Lizardskin • Panthera fur • Patchleather • Pigskin • Plainleather • Rhinoceros leather • Thrumbofur • Wolfskin • Dread leather • Armadillo leather • Hippo leather • Mastodon leather • Mink fur • Sealskin • Thrumbomane

Fabric

Alpaca wool • Bison wool • Cloth • Devilstrand • Hyperweave • Megasloth wool • Muffalo wool • Sheep wool • Synthread • Mastodon wool • Muskox wool