Clothing

Clothing
By area covered
Feet Legs Body Torso Arms Hands Mouth Eyes Head
By type
Cloaks Blankets Storage Decorative Power armor

Some items in the game can be worn to provide various effects. Clothing has various attributes that will enhance your abilities in ways that are almost essential - to the point where playing a game without them is considered a player challenge.

Clothing has several attributes that should be taken into consideration. All clothing will take 350 movement points to put on; however, they can be removed instantly.

Body Part Coverage

Clothing will cover one or more of the following areas of the body: [none], head, eyes, mouth, torso, left arm, right arm, left hand, right hand, left leg, right leg, left foot, right foot. Each area is considered as a separate entity by the game; and unless explicitly stated coverage extends only to the parts mentioned.

Coverage of an area implies that the location will be encumbered and protected by the full amount listed. Multiple areas that are covered by the same article of clothing receive the full encumbrance, acid, environmental, and armor values of the clothing; however storage space is considered absolute and will not increase no matter how many areas are covered.

Clothing Layer

In addition to the body parts clothing covers, they occupy a layer on each body part. Layers are identifiable from the advanced Clothing screen +, where the text given upon highlighting each article will help you identify the layer they belong to. Current layers are, named for their text:

• 'Next to the Skin'
• 'Tied around the waist'
• [default]
• 'Strapped to you'
• 'Over your other clothes'

Only 2 of any one item can be worn at any time, with the exception of some helmets which limit you to 1 of any kind at once.

In addition to base encumbrance values, any clothing past the first that occupies the same layer on any body part will incur an additional encumbrance penalty for bulk. The base value for this seems to be 2 per additional article, but in some cases it can increase if the items are marked as bulky or otherwise awkward. It is for this reason that wearing several undershirts and compression tops will result in a large encumbrance penalty despite each individual article having a value of 0 encumbrance.

The order of putting clothes on is important for their protection. Items with low protection worn over items with high protection will be ruined much faster than in the reverse. Use the + key to open the layer clothing menu, and the s key to reorder clothing.

Warmth

Clothing is the primary source of heat of the game. Since temperatures range from well below freezing sub-levels to broiling lava rifts, ambient temperature is an important factor to consider when deciding what clothing to wear. Since it is always possible to take off clothing it may be wisest to bring spare sets with you and 'test' your environment by walking around in it; adjusting your kitout accordingly.

Armor

Armor against Cutting/Bashing

Personal armor protection is, with the exception of a select few bionics and mutations, provided by clothing. The armor system currently provides a damage mitigation against incoming attacks. It is possible to bypass a percentage of armor with criticals, and it is possible to fail to completely penetrate armor. When an enemy fails to penetrate your armor the message 'the attacks fails to penetrate your armor!' will pop. When you fail to do the same the message 'the shot bounces off the <critter>'s thick hide!' will appear. Due to damage being rolled as a set number of X-sided dice (3D8 or 1D3 being 2 examples) it is possible for some attacks to fail while others succeed.

But remember, a different way of avoiding damage is not being hit at all, a high dodge skill, ranged attacks, various mutations/bionics all provide ways of avoiding incoming attacks altogether. And clothing encumbrance makes dodging harder. So there is a tradeoff between high armor values and being light on your feet. Restrictive clothing makes training dodging harder as well.

Armor against Acid

From 0.D (Danny) onwards there is a rating for armor against acid. Acid protection protects against acid attacks and standing in acid fields.

You need 5 acid resistance total on both feet and legs to avoid all direct acid damage from acid fields. To gain total immunity to acid fields, you will also need 15 environmental resistance on both feet and legs to avoid the damage over time effect.

Armor against Fire

Fires deal up to 3 * density + 3 damage. Small fires damage feet and legs, medium also torso, raging also hands and arms. Fire protection is currently rather impractical as fires are too dangerous to stay near for long, but fire gear often also comes with acid protection.

Armor Against Environment

Clothing offers the potential to protect the wearer from ambient field effects, diseases, or other ailments. Most of the listed effects have a range of 'Strengths' that they will compare against the wearer's environmental protection level. For instance, the influenza can affect a player with up to a strength of 3, targeting the mouth.

Environmental effect rolls are always in the form: (strength)d3 > (resistance)d3

So, against the aforementioned influenza:

• Wearing a bandana (1 protection) will give 1 in 27 chance of resisting the effect
• Wearing 9 or more env. protection on mouth (say, a gas mask) gives immunity
• Wearing 3 env. protection (say, bandana+scarf) gives roughly 50% chance to resist

Percentage Coverage

Clothing will provide a coverage percentage, represented by a number from 0 to 100. The higher the number, the less likely the clothing is to be bypassed by any one attack. 100 guarantees the article will act as armor for every attack targeting its coverage area, 0 implies that it will never.

Articles of clothing that are not bypassed by an attack have a chance to be damaged, however they cant protect you if they are never hit.

Durability

Clothing can be thought of as having 'Hit Points' based upon their condition. New clothing will have 4 hit points, and degrade through combat, failed tailoring attempts, or other mishandling.

Clothing is also made out of one or more materials which influences a few statistics, and what kind of tool you need to repair the clothing. Normally you can see the tool needed to repair a piece of clothing ingame, but here are some examples:

Damage level	Cotton & Wool	Leather	Kevlar	Paper	Wood & Bone & Chitin	Plastic & Glass	Iron &Steel
−1	reinforced	reinforced	reinforced	reinforced	reinforced	reinforced	reinforced
1	ripped	scratched	marked	ripped	scratched	scratched	marked
2	torn	cut	dented	torn	chipped	cut	dented
3	shredded	shredded	scarred	shredded	cracked	cracked	smashed
4	tattered	tattered	broken	tattered	splintered	shattered	shattered
Can be repaired with	Tailor's kit, Sewing kit, Wooden needle or Bone needle and Rags	Tailor's kit, Sewing kit, Wooden needle or Bone needle and Leather patches	Soldering iron or Welder and Kevlar plates	Basic Repair Kit	Toolbox or Basic repair kit loaded with Duct tape	soldering iron and plastic chunks	Welder or Soldering iron and scrap metal

Clothing will be damaged if the amount of damage you are dealt exceeds the protection rating of the item hit. This is why stepping on land mines ruin your clothes; shrapnel does tons of damage (40+) and there is nearly nothing with 40+ cut protection, so after you step on a landmine you will get a lot of messages telling you your clothes got ripped or destroyed. Damage resistance decreases chance to be damaged and the amount of damage increases that chance.

While clothing can be repaired by multiple levels with one repair attempt, they will only be damaged 1 point at a time. Clothing can be reinforced to grant them an additional hit point; for a total of 5. Actual armor values of clothing will slightly increase/decrease with the condition of the clothing, with an overall marked difference between tattered clothing and reinforced clothing.

Wind

Wind causes temperature loss when the player is outside. Protection from wind depends on item's coverage and material. Wool and cotton will protect only partially, while leather, plastic and Kevlar are very effective.

Water-Affinity

Water-affinity refers to the items response to varying levels of water. Currently the largest effect getting wet has is a morale and warmth drop. Some items will be water-friendly, and resist rain. If all the outer layers clothing covering your head, torso, and arms are water-friendly or better you will not take morale penalties for being rained on. Rain mechanics are further discussed on the wet page. Some items are actually water-friendly, and can grant morale boosts when wet.

Encumbrance

Encumbrance is the primary limiting factor for the amount of clothing a survivor can wear. Encumbrance represents how much the clothing inhibits activities like running, lockpicking, aiming, swinging, or observing. Encumbrance values directly add to your encumbrance rating, and the penalty for encumbrance on any individual body parts increments every 10 encumbrance.

The game considers encumbrance below 10 as completely unfettered. Values between 10 and 39 are considered mildly encumbering, resulting in a modest penalty to activities and skills that can be overcome with skill. Values between 40 and 59 are considered encumbering, resulting in heavier penalties that may be too hefty for an early-game character to easily overcome. Values over 60 are considered heavily encumbering, and the severe penalties never max out; still increasing every 10 encumbrance.

You can check how your equipped gear is encumbering (and warming) you on the Character Stats screen. Each body part will have a display: (U)V+W=X[Y], where

• U - the number of layers equipped (should equal N in the formula above)
• V - the encumbrance from equipment (should equal E)
• W - the encumbrance from excess layers
• X - the total encumbrance (truncated version of T)
• Y - the warmth rating on this body part

Encumbrance mechanics such as layering penalty calculations are described in depth on the Clothing Encumbrance page.

Head Encumberance

Head encumbrance has no penalties; it simply limits how much you can put on. Characters cannot wear more headgear if their current encumbrance is higher than zero. This means that items without encumbrance can be worn under another, more cumbersome piece of headgear.

Fit/Additional Modification

Some clothing can be refit with their respective repair tool to make them less encumbering. This will only happen if the item is not already sized for you and only if the item is at 4 hit points (fully repaired). Fit items will never lose this property, even through further modification or damage.

Any clothing can be further modified with fur, leather, or Kevlar to make it either more protective or warmer. Each material has its own benefit, and each enhancement can be removed at a later date should you so desire. Modifying clothing in this manner will result in an increased encumbrance value. The current penalty for enhancing a low encumbrance item is much higher than modifying a higher-encumbrance item.

Morale Boosting

Clothing in the game can qualify as 'religious', 'fancy', or 'super fancy'; by themselves, these grant no benefit but will increase morale if worn by a survivor with the spiritual or stylish trait respectively. It's always good to look good, but when the benefit is feeling good it becomes more worthwhile.

Storage

Another almost-exclusive property of clothing is its volume-storage granting properties. Many articles of clothing will provide some volume storage capacity, however the largest increases to volume capacity will come from bags and packs; whose primary purpose is to grant storage capacity. As of 0.D (Danny), the destruction of clothing can result in the forced-expulsion of items that exceed your current volume capacity. Since the game chooses what items to drop for you, you may not even be aware that you lost your items if you missed the notification. This behavior is markedly changed by 0.F (Frank), where only the items stored in that piece of clothing will be dropped.

Pockets (0.F)

In 0.F (Frank) nested containers were introduced, which changed the old abstraction of a centralized carrying volume capacity into a system where each specific item contains other items. Clothing storage is now represented by "pockets," which work as they do in real life - if you put your wallet in your pants pocket and then take off your pants, your wallet will still be in your pants. Each pocket has its own qualities that determine how much and what it can hold:

• Volume: The total volume of the pocket.
• Weight: The weight capacity of the pocket
• Maximum item length: The longest item that can be stored in the pocket
• Minimum item volume: The smallest volume allowed in the pocket (not universal)
• Retrieval time: The number of moves required to access an item stored in the pocket.

Note that the storage capacity of clothing is listed as the sum of its pockets, even though each pocket is tracked individually. When automatically distributing items, the game does not reorganize pockets to account for the knapsack problem. For example, if you have two pockets that both have 1.0L volume and contain an item with volume 0.5L, then try to pick up an object with volume 1.0L, you will be "out of space" - neither pocket has room for the large object, even though putting the smaller items in one pocket and the larger in another would allow everything to fit.

Some pockets also have tags that limit the type of item that can be stored, on top of the volume and weight restrictions: scabbards can only hold swords, and axe rings can only hold axes.

Retrieval time for items stacks for nested containers, as you need to retrieve the interior containers from their parent containers in order to access lower-down items. While a bag might have short retrieval time, if that bag is inside of a box inside a backpack, you'd have to spend the time getting the box out of the backpack, the bag out of the box, then the item out of the bag.

Inserting and Unloading Pockets

By default, items picked up will be distributed to the smallest available space into which they can fit. Items can be manually moved between items of clothing by selecting the clothing item, then going to the insert menu. The insert menu will display all items currently in the player's inventory (not including the surrounding area) that can fit into a pocket on the selected item, but does not itself permit for placing items in specific pockets. Important: Using the Insert option will override pocket pickup settings, and place the item in the first available pocket.

Unloading an article of clothing will dump all items contained in that clothing into other pockets on the player, or the ground if no space remains (unloaded items won't empty into themselves).

Pocket Autopickup Settings

The only way to manipulate what items go into which pocket on a clothing item is to modify the item's pocket autopickup settings v. Pickup settings are set for each pocket individually:

• priority: Higher-priority pockets will be the first considered for item insertion, before all other factors
• whitelist: Only items on the whitelist (specific items or categories) are allowed in the pocket
• blacklist: Items on the blacklist (specific items or categories) are not allowed in the pocket

In a conflict between an Item and Category restriction, the item list will take precedence. For example, if a pouch has the "DRUGS" category whitelisted but "heroin" on the item blacklist, the pouch will hold only drugs other than heroin (and no non-drug items).

Note: Whitelist and blacklist settings are absolute and will reject even manual insertion of items into an article of clothing if doing so would violate a rule. If you find that you are unable to store an item despite having a pocket that fits it (in terms of volume/weight/size), check to see if it's not hitting a pickup rule.

Examples

• I want all the stuff I pick up to go into my backpack first, and only into my clothes' pockets if the backpack is full.
  • Backpack -> Priority: 999 (or any arbitrarily large number, so long as it's the highest priority of everything on you)

• I want my holster to only carry my Glock 22, not random sandwiches!
  • Holster -> Item Whitelist: Glock 22

• I want this pocket to hold all my medical items, but I don't want it to get filled up by bottles of antiseptic - those can go anywhere else.
  • Category Whitelist: DRUGS
  • Item Blacklist: Antiseptic

• I want my survivor suit to hold my firearm magazines; however, I want the two pockets with faster retrieval to be filled up first.
  • All pockets -> Category Whitelist: MAGAZINES
  • Faster pockets -> Priority: X
  • Slower pockets -> Priority: <X

The first and last example can cause a conflict that might require manual inventory sorting; if you have a backpack with priority N>X, then when you pick up your magazines they'll go into the backpack instead of your survivor suit. This can be rectified by setting all pockets on the suit to be higher priority than the backpack, but it'll mean all magazines you pick up go into your suit first - which can in turn be rectified by using more tailored whitelist rules, such as item whitelisting only the magazines you actually use.

Utility/Special Purposes

Many clothing items grant special benefits to the wearer that are not so readily identified or classified. Some hold items, freeing up volume (but not weight) for other items, some help you wield weapons faster, and some provide minor but unique benefits.

Items like holsters, sheathes, scabbards, and survivor vests will decrease the time required to draw a weapon, as well as removing its volume from your inventory. With skill a survivor can decrease the chance of fumbling while drawing/holstering the weapon.

Items such as toolbelts will hold tools of varying sizes, such as a hammer or wrench. The most impressive of these items is currently the Firefighter's Toolbelt of 0.D (Danny), which is capable of holding a crowbar. The Survivor's toolbelt actually carries the better part of a toolbox on it, to remove the large metal box from your inventory.

Items such as Light-amplifying goggles will increase night vision without creating traceable light.

Items such as sunglasses will eliminate the glare penalty from sunny days.

Items such as wrist watches will put the precise time onto your hud.

Items such as the bio-monitor will detect and read out your current radiation level when used.

Items such as canteens or waterskins will hold fluid, even deleterious materials such as concentrated acid or bleach.