Sewing leather patches takes way too much thread.

[Pherdnut]

I'm playing sandbox/1-week-later so items are plentiful. I've pretty much tapped all of Riverside, which has plenty of clothing stores, housing, and a hardware store to loot for thread and it's taken excursions to other towns and farmhouses to continue leveling. I'm still only just half way through advanced.

Dude. It's thread. One visit to a couple RL fabric stores and I'd have enough to sew many thousands of patches.

[Hanstyler]

You can kill zeds and rip their clothes. I noticed, that the higher your tailoring skill the more thread you get.

[milo29]

The sewing dont give good protection no? I tested and abandonned

[Pherdnut]

Right now I'm at like 5% bite, 10% scratch. It gets much better at higher levels with lots of layers.

If there's a way to get thread from ripping clothes, I am unaware of it. I get leather, denim or cloth strips, not thread.

[westrud]

41.37 added recovering thread when ripping clothes. Also it seems that removing patches and getting the patch back, which increases in probability at higher levels, gives the most experience. I like the long leather coats for building the skill because they have many patchable areas, and I don't think it matters what kind of patch you use so use the cloth or denim patches to practice and save the leather for the clothes you are wearing. And of course, make sure you have read the book.

[milo29]

You can add layers also? I thinked you can just repair a hole

[westrud]

I think he meant layers of clothes. At some level of tailoring you can fix holes in most clothes completely, restoring them to new condition. You can add patches on clothes to make them more resistant to scratch and bite and wearing multiple layers of clothes will add significant resistance although temperature will be a major issue.

[westrud]

With tailoring maxed a leather patch adds 20% scratch and 10% bite defense to whatever the clothing had originally.

[milo29]

You have to wait for your tee short become an entire hole to replace it with a full leather armor... In apocalypse my tailor is sure to die 100x before that was possible. That lack the possibility to create a full piece of leather I think.

[-MaVerick-]

Originally posted by milo29:

You have to wait for your tee short become an entire hole to replace it with a full leather armor... In apocalypse my tailor is sure to die 100x before that was possible. That lack the possibility to create a full piece of leather I think.

You can add patches to almost every clothes you can find, hole or not. The higher your tailoring skill, the more protection you get from a single added patch. Leather is the best of the 3. At skill lvl 7 or 8 you can also repair clothes back to 100% condition.

With 2-3 layers of clothes and added patches, you can get 100% scratch defence across the board and pretty high bite defence. To push that skill, get as much ripped sheeds and thread you can get, sit down for a night and add and remove patches from whatever clothes you have. I used my socks for that.

Edit: As said above, to get thread, rip every clothes from zombies you can find. Make them naked!

[Pherdnut]

Oh thanks! That's huge on the the ripping vanilla clothes.

[Pherdnut]

On armoring, the best I'm finding for four water-bottle viable in summer so far is Combat Boots, coveralls, denim shirt, diamond sweater, long leather coat, apron. When it gets very cold I suspect long johns are viable, but way too hot even at 30 degrees with all that other crap on. Not sure how fireman stuff interacts with those other layers yet. I think the fitness/sporty shirts can be patched and live under the the denim shirt layer but haven't tried that since summer and probably overkill. Leg hits seem pretty rare but tempted to head over to that town with a fire station to see if firefighter pants layer with overalls.

Got the biker helmet, a military backpack, and like 4 katanas now but sadly no rando firefighters at burned buildings 5 months in.

[Pherdnut]

Also, coveralls from factory workers like the ones North of Riverside are really nice for practice.