"Poor" Clothes

[Rak3]

Is there a way to breakdown bad clothes? or get rid of them somehow? traders do not buy them from me and they just sit there wasting space and pile up

[Kronos]

Yup.You can set a dumping stockpile to accept only clothes of poor of worse quality, set that as important and pile them there. preferably in a cave or a stone building. Then just chuck a molotove in there and watch the fireworks.

[nazerick]

just put the storage outside somewhere and let them decay. cheaper that way.

[Miradus]

There's a mod which lets you set a quality and then "reclaim" materials at a tailor's bench.

[Rak3]

ok i didnt know you could do that thanks

[BlackSmokeDMax]

There will be traders who buy them, you just haven't seen the right kind yet. But for the most part, yeah, just let them decay or burn them, they aren't worth much.

Once you have the crematorium you can burn clothes in that as well.

[Umbra Animo]

mod the is one that add a tailer bench that lets you scarp clothing be warnned it goes to all qulity but you can lower it and said mod mean you get cotten fipers and use them to make cloth

[Umbra Animo]

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=726236520

[Emmote]

Does nobody know that you can burn clothes inside the Crematorium....?

Burning them with molotov cocktails? Letting them decay? What an incredibly dangerous/inefficient way of doing things.

[Swirler]

Originally posted by Emmote:

Does nobody know that you can burn clothes inside the Crematorium....?

Burning them with molotov cocktails? Letting them decay? What an incredibly dangerous/inefficient way of doing things.

mmmm, burning clothes is very inefficient though, a lot of work for no gain when leaving the clothes to degrade outdoors does the same thing but slower.

Bit of an eyesore though.

[Emmote]

They're going to have to get hauled anyway. If you put the crematorium near the clothes stockpile, they don't have to get hauled any distance, and it all gets dealt with far quicker.

It also has the benefit of you being able to put "Do until you have X" on the tailoring bench for t-shirts and pants so that you always have spare clothes at 100% quality.

[Kronos]

Look it may be dangerous and wasteful but its FUN. Sooo..Bah

[Miradus]

Burning the clothes also has a cleanup element which will improve your FPS. You don't have dozens and dozens of pairs of awful pants from dead raiders out there all ticking down their qualities.

How much of a problem this is, I don't know, but I know it was a huge problem in Dwarf Fortress.

[Pyrithe]

Yeah, traders don't buy them often enough and when they do, the price is abysmal. You do still get experience for your crafters, so it's not a total loss to just burn them, and with how much leather, wool, and cloth you can get from just living day by day, the resources lost aren't that valuable. The crematorium is pretty much just a clothing disposal unit in my base. It's even gotten to the point of burning anything under 50% durability and less than good quality.

Also, in case you haven't done so already, you should set the "uniform" your people wear to only be 51%+. At 50% and lower, they get a negative moodlet. Burning the old clothes and having bills for all the necessary clothing items to be crafted up to a certain amount really helps keep people somewhat happy.

[Miradus]

Why is it all the other factions are wearing such crappy stuff?

I almost never pick decent clothes off of the dead. Is it a result of combat or are they just bringing in crap?

[Bucketsmith]

Originally posted by Miradus:

Why is it all the other factions are wearing such crappy stuff?

I almost never pick decent clothes off of the dead. Is it a result of combat or are they just bringing in crap?

Both. I believe the lore is those factions are raiding because they have poor quality stuff and want to take yours.