Clothing

Gear

Clothes are worn gear to cover nudity for those who feel shame, as well as protection from weather and climate. Tribalwear can be crafted at a crafting spot and every other piece at the tailor's workbench. These items can be assigned and managed on the Outfits screen from the Assign screen which provides a way to exclude colonists from wearing damaged apparel that causes mood debuffs. Armor, is another kind of item that offers protection from harm. Clothing can be sold to traders at 70% market price.

If you don't have warm clothing for every colonist an alert letter will show up "Need warm clothes". Non-nudists that don't have sufficient coverage will result in an alert letter saying "Unhappy Nudity". Items left exposed with no roof will slowly deteriorate until they disintegrate without a trace. Once a piece reaches zero percent, it will wear away to nothing.

Damaged apparel

Clothing suffers wear and tear when worn causing it to lose hit points over time. Apparel becomes damaged when the wearer is injured from violence, and takes the damage it absorbs as armor.

A colonist wearing badly damaged apparel will have one of the following thoughts. These debuffs do not stack, only one is given based on the apparel with the worst condition.

HP	Thought	Debuff
20% - 50%	"Wearing worn-out apparel"	-3
below 20%	"Wearing tattered apparel"	-5

Nudity

Colonists whose legs are not covered by clothing will be considered naked and will receive the appropriate mood penalties. Colonists not happy about nudity will cause an alert to trigger prompting the player to seek suitable clothing.

Clothing Values

Clothing can provide all kinds of armor. While not nearly as effective as proper armor in this regard, clothing can offer a modicum of protection for all body parts, without affecting movement or workspeed and often while adding to armor worn above/below. However some of them can work like a light form of armor, including penalties usually associated with armor.

Clothes can also provide Heat Resistance and Cold Resistance, which is something armor does not generally provide in relevant amounts.

The formula of every value before remaining Hitpoints are considered is (Material Value * Item Multiplier) * Quality Multiplier. That measn the item can drastically affect wich material is worthwhile.

A number of Items have Positive Social Impact. These are static bonuses, irrespective of Material and Quality.

Material

If clothes make the man, materials make the clothes. Picking the right material for any piece of clothing is far from arbitrary and the default setting will just have nearly all materials checked. The algorithm by which the crafter picks the material to use is unknown.

Farbrics

Cloth is the most "boring" material. It is a suiteable baseline material to compare everything else against. It can also be easily farmed from Plants, making it possibly quite abundant.

Advanced Fabrics are a lot harder to come by. Advanced Fabrics tend to have way better armor values and at least comparable thermal resistance values, meaning they can easily replace cloth in every application.

Leathers and Skins

Leathers offer pretty good defenses and are easy to aquire as a side effect of hunting. Leather types are defined by the Animal they come from, but with 1.9 a lot of leather types were cut. While they generally provide good armor, their thermal resistance tend to be all over the place - way below and way above cloth. They always have a high Flame and Blunt damage resistance, with very low Flamability.

Wools

Wool can only be aquired from Domestic Animals, and have high Thermal Multipliers. It offers very weak protection and is highly flamable.

Care must be taken to not mix up the Wool and Leather from an animal, as those have very different values.

Protection

Sharp Armor

Every material offers some Sharp Resistance, but the values varry drastically from <20% to >200%. See Armor on picking the right amounts.

Blunt Armor

Blunt armor is both a lot rarer and a lot lower then Sharp Armor. Most materials offer only 1/4 of their sharp protection in blunt armor, with most materials under 100% Sharp Armor offering straight 0% Blunt.

Heat Armor

Not to be mistaken for Insulation Heat, this provides protection against fire Damage. Including natural fires, Molotov Cocktails and Flamethrowers.

Insulation Cold

All clothing and material has some level of Cold Resistance. In Biomes with plantgrowth, dedicated cold protection material or even gear will be only rarely needed. However extreme cases (cold snap or poor qualtiy leather) can change this.

Insulation Heat

Not overheating is a lot more tricky than staying Warm, as there are often a lot more heat sources than cold ones and clothing in providing it. Usually gears cold Insulation percentage is less then half that of cold resistance. Some gear dedicated to cold resistance might even offer a multiplier of 0. But particular Cowboy themed equipment tends to be the opposite, offering 5 times as much Heat as cold Insulation

Tainted Apparel

Clothing stripped from corpses is considered tainted apparel and is noted with a D. Tainted apparel status applies a 10% multiplier to its market value, greatly reducing its sell value. Colonists wearing dead man's apparel gain a persistent mood debuff as long as they're wearing it.

Number of items	Debuff
1	-3
2	-5
3	-7
4+	-8

Clothing Layers

Main articles: Apparel layers and Table of Human Body Part Groups

Each item of apparel or utility gear is worn on a specific location of the wearer's body. That location is determined by two things:

The body part groups it covers.
The layer or layers it occupies.

Apparel combinations are limited by layer and coverage - an item cannot be worn with another item that covers the same body parts and on the same layer. Thus, items covering the same parts but on different layers are compatible, as are items on the same layer but with no overlap in coverage. Items that cover multiple layers conflict with items on all layers.

Layers are also used to determine the order in which armor calculations are performed, with the outermost layer's armor applying first, and progressing through the layers until the attack is stopped or there are no more layers.

The layers, from innermost to outermost, are:

Skin: The closest layer to the body, and mostly used for apparel below the head.
Middle: The second closest layer to the body, and mostly used for apparel below the head.
Outer: The third layer from the body, and mostly used for apparel below the head. Note that it will be displayed on the pawn's sprite above all other layers, even though it is considered below the following layers for actual mechanical effects.
Belt: Technically the fourth layer. A distinct layer for utility items to allow them to be worn alongside any other apparel but not with each other.
Headgear: The fifth layer, and used for headwear. There are several items that cover body parts typically covered by the other layers however, in which case this will be above them.
Eyes: The outermost layer. A distinct layer only used for the blindfold to allow it to be worn alongside headwear.

Which body parts currently have items that occupy each of the layers is shown in the table on the below; layers and body parts which are not currently used by gear were omitted. As such, the hands and feet which are not covered by any apparel or any layer, are omitted.

Body Part Group	Coverage	Skin	Middle	Outer	Headgear	Eyes	Belt
Full Head	Head, Ears, Nose, Jaw, Eyes				×
Upper Head	Head, Ears				×
Eyes	Eyes					×
Shoulders	Left & Right Shoulders	×	×	×
Arms	Left & Right Arm	×	×	×
Torso	Torso	×	×	×
Waist	Waist						×
Neck	Neck	×	×	×	×
Legs	Left & Right Leg	×	×	×