Button-down shirt

Button-Down Shirt

"A nice-looking collared shirt with buttons."

Base Stats

Type

Gear – Clothing

Market Value

140 

Mass

0.3 kg

HP

100

Apparel

Insulation - Cold

4 °C (7.2 °F)

Armor - Sharp

3%

Armor - Blunt

3%

Creation

Work To Make

125 ticks (2.08 secs)

Summary

Overview & Obtaining

The button-down shirt is one of two available shirts, and superior to the T-shirt - at the slightly increased labour and material requirements. Button-down shirts can be purchased from traders, crafted, or stripped from Outlanders and Pirates.

Crafting

As a complicated garment, Button-down shirts can only be made at tailoring benches, which requires complex clothing to be researched in order to be constructed. A button-down shirt requires 55 of any textile, and 125 seconds of work (7,500 ticks) to be created, assuming baseline global work speed, consciousness, sight, and manipulation.

Conclusion & Comparison

As mentioned, button-down shirts are a direct upgrade to t-shirts: they insulate better, and they protect the torso, neck, shoulders, and arms - whereas t-shirts don't protect the arms. Although this may seem rudimentary, those little bonuses can go far when combined with other pieces of apparel, and when made from the right materials - and the cost increase to make a button-down shirt compared to a t-shirt is negligible, so there's hardly any reason not to go for button-down shirts for your colonists.

Insulation Information

The following table(s) will display how good a normal quality Button-Down Shirt is at insulating when made from various materials...

Keeps Warm
		Minimum
Fabric	Alpaca wool	−120°C
	Cloth	−72°C
	Devilstrand	−80°C
	Hyperweave	−104°C
	Megasloth wool	−136°C
	Muffalo wool	−112°C
	Synthread	−88°C
Leather	Bearskin	−80°C
	Birdskin	−40°C
	Bluefur	−80°C
	Camelhide	−64°C
	Chinchilla fur	−120°C
	Dog leather	−56°C
	Elephant leather	−56°C
	Foxfur	−80°C
	Heavy fur	−120°C
	Human leather	−48°C
	Lightleather	−48°C
	Lizardskin	−48°C
	Panthera fur	−64°C
	Patchleather	−36°C
	Plainleather	−64°C
	Rhinoceros leather	−56°C
	Thrumbofur	−136°C
	Wolfskin	−96°C