Best way to increase tailoring?

[the_tadosaur]

I've been sewing up the holes in Zed clothing but figured there surely must be a better way that this, especially as thread seems fairly rare. Any better ways that don't use up materials?

[Malthar]

other than mods, you only sew patches onto ♥♥♥♥ for xp.

[Drawn]

Having +1 a tailoring trait saves a ton of time and thread. There are two vhs tapes for exp, Granny Nani (only found in houses) and tailoring 101.

[Quill]

1. READ THE BOOKS. As soon as a new book becomes available READ IT

2. Once you got a base setup have an area for holding all the ripped sheets and threat you'll get

3. When doing horde clearing try to keep all the bodies in one place. Once they're all dead grab some scissors and rip EVERY ARTICLE OF CLOTHING YOU CAN. Keeping the bodies close will help save you time in getting every piece of ripped sheet you can

4. Find some Coveralls for the training clothing

5. Be ready to spend a good while just sewing Ripped Sheets onto the coveralls and ripping them back off.

6. Your main bottleneck will be Thread so if you don't have a mod to craft thread you may have to do several Horde Slaughters just to rip apart their clothes for Thread. The higher your level of Tailoring, the more thread you'll get

7. This is just a pro tip but once you get to level 7 you can patch holes and restore clothes to full condition. Patch the hole first with the material the clothing is made from to restore condition THEN add the protective patch

[william_es]

Quill's information is perfect.

Only thing I might add is that my biggest bottleneck is ripped sheets. They're heavy, and if I'm not paying attention I dump them out in places to save weight, instead of carrying them back to my base.

You only have a % chance (which tops at 60% at level 10 tailoring) to get the patch back when you remove it. So expect to burn through ripped sheets like crazy. A lot of the patches you remove just go poof, gone.

For the same reason that you have a really good chance of not getting patches back, don't use denim and especially leather patches just for skill ups. Save those for putting on the actual armor you're using, and for later on when you need them to patch denim/leather clothing.

Also the amount of extra protection you add is determined by skill level. so if you sewed on patches at skill 3, but get to skill 8, you want to rip off those old patches and reapply for MUCH higher increases to bite/scratch protection.

[the_tadosaur]

Originally posted by Drawn:

Having +1 a tailoring trait saves a ton of time and thread. There are two vhs tapes for exp, Granny Nani (only found in houses) and tailoring 101.

Never seen those tapes. I'll look out for them. Thanks for the heads up!