the best cloth

[minetime43]

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[Suwako]

Regular cloth. Its easy to get, you can craft decent clothes from it, and have pawns train crafting since its so plentiful, its used in crafting medical supplies.

Hyperweave is the "Best Best" cloth, but its very rare to get from traders, and you need a ton of it to effectively craft with it. In my near 400 hours of playing, I dont think I've ever gotten the chance to craft hyperweave clothes.

Then theres devilstrang. Pretty easy to farm, not as versitile, but definetly stronger by a small margin than regular cloth in nearly every aspect.

[Ashardalon]

hyperweave
but devilstrand if you want something you can make

[minetime43]

ok
so buy hyperweave

[kevinshow]

Devilstrand takes almost a year to grow before harvesting but given enough time, you can get ample supply of this. This is my go-to cloth material once my tailors get to the 18+ skill range. Prior to that, I just craft things out of cloth or leather to skill up.

[Suwako]

Originally posted by minetime43:

ok
so buy hyperweave

Sure, you MIGHT get enough hyperweave in a couple of years for like, one parka lol.

Edit: Unless ofcorse... You click on The-button-who-shall-not-be-named.

[BlackSmokeDMax]

There are mods for making the more exotic materials, or you could use a mod for recycling old clothes back into a % of original materials as well.

[Astasia]

All cloth sucks. Including hyperweave. Clothes don't really offer any protection to begin with, and multiplying that small base protection doesn't really help, especially when you run into the invisible diminishing returns on armor. A pawn with legendary hyperweave clothes and power armor can still quickly get beaten down by just a handful of nekid pawns using their bare fists.

Make clothes out of wool to multiply the only stats that matter on them, insulation.

[Suwako]

I dont really think some one who is asking what the best cloth is would be playing on a map were insulation matters at all- i just recommended cloth because its kinda always needed, for training and crafting medicine.

[Astasia]

Well I mean even the most temperate maps can have heat waves or cold snaps that will effect pawns without enough insulation, and a well made wool shirt and pants can protect from that while wearing power armor, so no need to swap to a parka or duster. But absolutely, if you have no need of insulation and have no plans to travel to a map location that does, then the material really doesn't matter and basic cloth is the easiest to get.

I'm just saying I would never buy hyperweave just to make clothes out of them for a trivial benefit. Using devilstrand because you can grow it for free with minimal effort is something a lot of people do, once they get to the point where they really have nothing else to do, because why not. It doesn't really help though, at all, it's just something.

[Suwako]

I totally forgot about cold and heat waves. Heat stroke is no joke in the jungle. I usually get cooling so fast in my colony, that i completely forget about it.

I also wouldnt buy hyperweave. Mostly because its too expensive for what it is and you could buy something immidetly benifical to the colony.

[Cowskier]

Hyperweave is stupidly rare, devil strand has crazy armor values (it can sometimes block small bullets)

[JoeDaTomato]

Originally posted by Suwako:

Hyperweave is the "Best Best" cloth, but its very rare to get from traders, and you need a ton of it to effectively craft with it. In my near 400 hours of playing, I dont think I've ever gotten the chance to craft hyperweave clothes.

Originally posted by Suwako:

Originally posted by minetime43:

ok
so buy hyperweave

Sure, you MIGHT get enough hyperweave in a couple of years for like, one parka lol.

You can salvage quite a bit of hyperweave from raids. I get ~1/2 an outfit (of non-deadman's clothes) from each late-game raid. I don't use it, though, I usually sell it.

Edit: *non-tribal late game raid

[The_Best_Bacca_Z]

I just made this room with sunlamps and heater dedicated to devilstrand early on. Year seven and i have a consistent 1.5k devilstrand in storage.

Best cloth is probably devilstrand, since not as rare as hyperweave.

Not to mention bloody 7k or so cloth.