Tribalwear

Summary

Overview & Obtaining

Tribalwear is the only neolithic garment in RimWorld, and covers the torso, neck, and legs. Tribalwear requires 60 resources to make, less than the 80 required to make a set of T-shirts and pants. As well as providing some insulation, Tribalwear will remove the 'Naked' thought debuff from both genders of colonist. Tribalwear can either be crafted, or stripped from Tribal raiders.

Crafting

As a neolithic garment, tribalwear can be constructed at a crafting spot, or tailoring bench - the former option not requiring any research whatsoever. A piece of tribalwear requires 60 of any textile, and 30 seconds of work (1,800 ticks) to be created, assuming baseline global work speed, consciousness, sight, and manipulation.

Conclusion & Comparison

Tribalwear insulates better than a set of pants combined with a button-down shirt (10 Degrees Celsius vs. 7), but tribalwear offers absolutely no protection unless made from a material which offsets protection (e.g. Devilstrand). Additionally; armor vests can't be worn on top of tribalwear, as tribalwear occupies the on-skin and middle slots for apparel. Therefore Tribalwear should only really be made early-game when you start getting new colonists (which may not be sufficiently clothed), and when you typically won't have many textiles in storage yet - or when in crisis where you desperately need new clothes and there are no other alternatives (extreme case).

Prisoner Clothing

Tribalwear is ideal for prisoners though as it offers essential bodily coverage, it's cheap, and also offers no protection: making prison breaks easier to deal with as prisoners can be downed easier (especially important through mid-late game when enemies frequently spawn with armoured vests). You can force prisoners to wear tribalwear by stripping them before capturing, and then ensuring there's a higher priority stockpile specifically for Tribalwear in their cell/barracks.

Insulation Information

The following table(s) will display how good some normal quality Tribalwear is at insulating when made from various materials...

Keeps Warm
		Minimum
Fabric	Alpaca wool	−300°C
	Cloth	−180°C
	Devilstrand	−200°C
	Hyperweave	−260°C
	Megasloth wool	−340°C
	Muffalo wool	−280°C
	Synthread	−220°C
Leather	Bearskin	−200°C
	Birdskin	−100°C
	Bluefur	−200°C
	Camelhide	−160°C
	Chinchilla fur	−300°C
	Dog leather	−140°C
	Elephant leather	−140°C
	Foxfur	−200°C
	Heavy fur	−300°C
	Human leather	−120°C
	Lightleather	−120°C
	Lizardskin	−120°C
	Panthera fur	−160°C
	Patchleather	−90°C
	Plainleather	−160°C
	Rhinoceros leather	−140°C
	Thrumbofur	−340°C
	Wolfskin	−240°C

Apparel

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 )
: Cape • Eltex robe • Prestige robe
: Burka • Robe • Slave body strap
: Heavy bandolier
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
Armor: Flak helmet • Marine helmet (Prestige/Samurai helmet ) • Recon helmet (Prestige , Mechlord ) • Simple helmet (Kid ) • Cataphract helmet (Prestige ) • Gunlink • Integrator headset • Mechcommander helmet