Parka management?

[GreatPalm]

So, clothing loses durability while pawns wear it.
During summer or when it is just warm, pawn do not need to wear parka.
Parka is expensive, so it is nice idea to not redue it's durability when you don't need it.
The game is about resoure management.
No vanilla tool to at least partially automate parka switch? Really?

[MadArtillery]

Just use the outfit system. Have a summer and a winter.

[GreatPalm]

there is no button to switch for all pawns, only one by one, so if i have 12 pawns it's 24 needless clicks every winter and summer.
or i can edit shared outfit every winter and summer.
Not great anyway

[MadArtillery]

Do you even actually need a parka for winter? You could probably find an outfit that's suitable for both or just make the parka's out of devilstrand and use them as armour year round. Not quite a duster(same material cost but best armour clothing) but still a solid defence item and if it's less of a pain then switching outfits. given Parka's tend to be overkill most places that aren't sitting in permenant winter you may also just be going above and beyond. Not that parka's are more expensive to make then dusters which tend to be the meta standby along with flack vests for standard wear.

[MadArtillery]

Side note just having one outfit set and just clicking parka's on or off in that outfit selection would work without all the clicking for each. Made a new post to increase the likelyhood of you reading it as it's likely what you are looking for. With the search bar it's nearly a one click catchall, not sure why it wasn't my first thought.

[GreatPalm]

Originally posted by MadArtillery:

Do you even actually need a parka for winter? You could probably find an outfit that's suitable for both or just make the parka's out of devilstrand and use them as armour year round. Not quite a duster(same material cost but best armour clothing) but still a solid defence item and if it's less of a pain then switching outfits. given Parka's tend to be overkill most places that aren't sitting in permenant winter you may also just be going above and beyond. Not that parka's are more expensive to make then dusters which tend to be the meta standby along with flack vests for standard wear.

i started as naked dudes with zero money in cold region, so i have drama around parkas. i think later i will have enough resources and i my dudes will wear jackets/dusters non-stop

[Vermillion Cardinal]

Originally posted by GreatPalm:

there is no button to switch for all pawns, only one by one, so if i have 12 pawns it's 24 needless clicks every winter and summer.
or i can edit shared outfit every winter and summer.
Not great anyway

You don't need to click 24 times.

Originally posted by LEKAM:

Go to your "Assign tab", hover your mouse over the outfit of your choosing, click on it an hold you mouse button down. The name of the outfit should now be floating under your cursor. Then swipe your cursor over the outfits of of your colonists in your "Current outfit" column.

With this you can have outfits for summer and winter and switch between them with a single click and drag.

[Astasia]

Originally posted by GreatPalm:

So, clothing loses durability while pawns wear it.

By a trivial amount that isn't worth considering. By the time your first set of clothes hit 50% from passive durability loss, you should be able to replace them with something better and no longer be concerned about those resources.

Originally posted by GreatPalm:

The game is about resoure management.

Resources are infinite, so the game is more about maintaining a reasonable level of resources and not hording too much.

Unless we are talking about legendary cataphract armor from an early quest, I don't think there is really any reason to even consider taking off any piece of gear in the game over concerns about passive durability loss. It's not a punishing mechanic and that is not the intended purpose, it just serves as a subtle nudge to start your own clothing production eventually, to make that system relevant. The fact there is no automated way to change clothes seasonally or situationally is the game telling you that's probably not something you should be bothering with.

[WondrinOstrich]

Originally posted by Vermillion Cardinal:

You don't need to click 24 times.

Originally posted by LEKAM:

Go to your "Assign tab", hover your mouse over the outfit of your choosing, click on it an hold you mouse button down. The name of the outfit should now be floating under your cursor. Then swipe your cursor over the outfits of of your colonists in your "Current outfit" column.

With this you can have outfits for summer and winter and switch between them with a single click and drag.

This hint is GOLDEN !!! Thanks a lot for sharing !! 'Guess, there are a few secrets hidden still, after playing this game for about an era or two ;-))

[Storm]

I just make military uniforms and jackets and make sure I have a supply ready for them if they get too worn, they get irritated at 50% so I set it to change it out at 75%.

The mending mod is just about a must have for me, you setup to make a supply of mending kits and just mend everything that's damaged that you don't burn. ( I burn or smelt normal and below then once my people get better I burn good stuff too )

Then I have a do until job to make the items so I have enough to cover the number of colonists worth of that item.

What happens is you burn through resources like mad making junk pieces, recover some it or burn it, eventually train enough to get good enough to make excellent stuff, then you just make new ones for the closet when they take something.

by mid game I have more mats than I know what to even do with, so it doesn't matter.

[AmesNFire]

The outfit/clothing management system really needs an overhaul tbh.