What's the point of washing machines?

[Lord Jesus III]

If you have to manually unequip/re-equip your clothes, how is it worth the effort as opposed to just washing them in the sink?

[Raw]

Z clothes hunt for sewing progression and armor.
Blunt weapon do not damage clothes on Z, I think, but it remain blood and dirt.

After my clothes hunt I use to drop all my bag of dirty Z clothes in the washing machine, push button on and voilà.

In the laundry I have also a carton box of torn fabric and sewing materials, also a closet and wardrobe borrowed from next store full of my last fashion creation or my scavenger hunt. A laundry but in fact it's an armoury.

I change clothes almost every day and well, I can't imagine to clean each clothes one by one.

Dryer, I don't use it.

[Lord Jesus III]

引用自 hardy_conrad：

Given that the worst dirty clothes will do is increase the likelihood of an infection, when an infection is almost entirely irrelevant, the entire washing clothes thing is pointless.

Zombies are also supposed to be able to smell you if you're bloody, but that hasn't been implemented yet (I think).

[HaleTheFreeVoice]

引用自 Lord Jesus III：

If you have to manually unequip/re-equip your clothes, how is it worth the effort as opposed to just washing them in the sink?

I've always used to after clearing corpses and washing all their bloody clothes. its really only useful in the first few days and only in a area thats not gonna get your swarm. they are very loud based on your settings

[Frogging101]

引用自 Shady Allie：

引用自 Lord Jesus III：

...and hit 5x speed....

...ooooh
I am in multiplayer where that 5X speed is not available.

引用自 Lord Jesus III：

^
I guess that's the major difference then. SP vs MP

Well, uh, there's a bigger and more obvious issue with that, which is that you're burning daylight while doing it. Time you could be spending sleeping, cooking, reading, scavenging.

[Lord Jesus III]

引用自 kaylo7：

Second, soap is fairly rare and washing really bloody/dirty clothes without it takes a LONG time. If you do a looting run and come back filthy, you could spend well over an hour washing everything by hand. Do that 10-12 days in a row, and you've lost an entire day of productivity.

引用自 Beltneck：

If you spend 1 ingame hour every day washing clothes, you'd have lost an entire day of productivity before the month is over. Over a year you're losing a couple weeks of time, just standing at a sink. How much more could you accomplish with 2 weeks of time?

引用自 Greb：

Washing your clothes manually takes a long time, even with soap, there's probably something more productive you can do during that time

引用自 Frogging101：

Well, uh, there's a bigger and more obvious issue with that, which is that you're burning daylight while doing it. Time you could be spending sleeping, cooking, reading, scavenging.

"All day"????? Maybe that only applies if you collect all the clothes you find on zombies and wash every one of them.

I just tested washing myself. Put on as much clothes as I could, got them bloody. (Default time settings). It literally took me 10 in-game minutes to wash my outfit, just a few seconds irl without speeding up time.

What are you guys talking about?

[Greb]

It takes like 27 seconds to wash a single item of clothing, 17 seconds if you use soap. Probably adjusted by the day length settings, but I think that number is default, or something like that. Me and some friends worked it out a long time ago when bored and exploring how the game worked etc, checking if soap is worth looting or not etc. We always play on 30 minute long days. Can't say I've ever really paid attention to how many IRL seconds go by between the game advancing time in 10 minute intervals, but it definitely feels like washing by hand wastes quite a bit.

It's just so much easier to throw all the clothes in the washing machine and switch it on before washing your character + their weapons and going to sleep, waking up to dry clothes in the morning and fresh as a daisy.

If I was forced to wash by hand at the sink, even with soap, that'd be an AFK moment for me indeed, I'd probably go for a tea break or something and then get back just in time to see my character to finish it..

..only to become dirty and bloody less than half the day later, lol.

[𝔗𝔢𝔞 ❀]

As Kaldrak puts it. You use the washing machine to clean many at a time. Come back later.

[Frogging101]

The point of a washing machine is to wash things.

[Shady Allie]

引用自 Frogging101：

The point of a washing machine is to wash things.

Tosses bloody car hood into the machine.

[Frogging101]

引用自 Shady Allie：

引用自 Frogging101：

The point of a washing machine is to wash things.

Tosses bloody car hood into the machine.

Just get a bigger washing machine.