About to enter first fall, what clothing should I be making?

[Lady Crimson (RIP)]

Basically what clothing items help reduce cold compared to the starting gear. Like is a jacket a seperate slot from the visible clothing?

Been trying to figure out how to make it, you just need to grab a bunch of leathers from dead animals right?

[Half Phased]

Parkas and tuques are the best cold weather clothing, however they’re rarely needed.

Question is, how cold is it going to be on your map, (if you check the terrain tab on the world map you’ll see. If it’s going to be warmer than 0C (freezing point of water) then you won’t really need winter clothing, your colonists will make do with frequent trips indoors to warm up. Any lower and you’ll want them however at least for your hunters and haulers.

[Zorlond]

Actually, if you can get enough long-term food into storage (rice, taters, corn, etc) and insure nobody has to go outside to feed themselves or work, you can restrict people to indoors and not worry about the cold at all. Just keep some fires or heaters going.

[Naid]

In most deciduous forests, you only need a good hat, tops a jacket.
Cold snap=bad tho.

[karamshin]

almost always dusters (best protection etc), if you have soft -5 -10 winter it will be just fine

[Conflagration]

Dusters are heat protection, not cold protection.

[Zorlond]

Originally posted by Lium:

Dusters are heat protection, not cold protection.

Dusters also provide some cold protection. Nowhere near parka level, but a little better than a jacket.

[Lady Crimson (RIP)]

Alright so aiming down Parkas and Tuques now then. I beleive it goes down to at most -10, it's a temperate forest near one of the edges.

[For_Science!]

In temperate forest, I bet your colonists will be fine...but it's good to be prepared. Cold snaps can be vicious.

[Lady Crimson (RIP)]

yeah we had that happen, took out a lot of my corn but I had a bunch of rice stored up, also bought a bunch of synth threads from a trader so all my people have warm hats now.

[Lady Crimson (RIP)]

Now trying to grab as much leather as I can for Parkas so my people are really well protected.