Clothing items to keep?

[ItsGarrett01]

What are the clothing items that I should keep and maintain?

[I'll be the one]

e=Little_Boy_Blue]What are the clothing items that I should keep and maintain? [/quote]
Maybe the question should be which clothes should you get rid of and harvest right away. The T shirt, cotton touque,dress shirt and shoes I harvest as soon as I get something better. On interloper you are gratefull for that down vest because good clothes are so hard to find. Google The Long Dark Clothing list and it will give you all the stats.

[El Che]

Clothes have stats , keep the best stats that suit you and what your doin. Some have more armor , if you go on wolf hunt, some more waterproof, windproof. Check the status and choose.

[listless]

keep all the Wool Toques you can find

[SteelFire]

Yeah, there's no 'best' set of clothing. It all depends what RNG blesses you with, what your playstyle is, and what your goals are.

Originally posted by rainyday:

keep all the Wool Toques you can find

That is 100% true. Along with whatever other headgear preferences you may have.

[EN16M471C]

it really depends whether your playing on 'Loper or some other Experience Mode (or Story).

If you're on 'Loper you'll be happy if you find any kind of clothing plus some of the higher tier clothing items are not available.

If you play Story or some other Mode just keep the best items and maintain them (upgrade slots as you find better items). There's plenty of sewing kits and fishing tackles around as well as cloth. So no worries.

It's also nice to have 2 "sets" of clothing items. One light set for moving/gathering stuff around and one heavier (better temp. bonus) for traveling.

Nice guides:
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=558517894
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=840647600

[r4nd0m]

Might want to keep all hats, it's the only thing you can't craft. (Obviously not with you but stashed somewhere)

[SBlack]

Also depends on what temperature you need to handle and how heavy you want things to get. Ski boots are warm for example, but insanely heavy. Better to stick with insulated boots, mukluks or maybe the work boots

[FluffyGuy]

Originally posted by Little_Boy_Blue:

What are the clothing items that I should keep and maintain?

small visual of alot of clothes i have found


http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1104532186

[Barking Sands]

Farenheit?? Who uses Farenheit?? :p That's a helpful post, but I swear by the metric system.

Each player has their own personal favorites for which clothes to take care of. You absolutely must keep at least some gloves and a hat ... what kind of gloves or hat isn't as important as just having them. Frostbite will set in if you don't have anything in those slots.

Wool toques with the canadian flag are a common favorite hat, but they're readily replaceable.

I personally love the wool mittens (blue) for their low weight but good overall insulation, and I think ski gloves are better than rabbit mittens for the weight.

If you ever find a pair of mukluk boots, do take good care of them and they'll take excellent care of you. I also love the mountaineering boots in the Story mode (only accessible by gaining trust).

Maybe it's just luck, but I almost never find any pants in sandbox (survival) mode. Make sure your pants are in good condition, or you may find yourself forced to craft deer skin pants to replace them.

[FluffyGuy]

Originally posted by Barking Sands:

Farenheit?? Who uses Farenheit?? :p That's a helpful post, but I swear by the metric system.

well i like f so i made the list f first, might make a c one later

[Mysti_Fogg]

Originally posted by Barking Sands:

Maybe it's just luck, but I almost never find any pants in sandbox (survival) mode. Make sure your pants are in good condition, or you may find yourself forced to craft deer skin pants to replace them.

I don't think its just luck. Pants always seem to be the hardest items to come by. Even with crappy pairs of pants, I try to keep them up to 50% until I can find a better pair because it may be a while. I'm far more likely to find hats, gloves, shoes, and shirts.

[Shelt]

I used to find the heaviest, bulkiest, warmest stuff I could find and just pile it on. But that has serious drawbacks in weight and movement. I'm learning how to layer it better. Usually I go for a heavy warm underlayer and a light windproof outter. The crafted clothes are excellent - deer pants and boots especially.

[PBR]

Originally posted by Little_Boy_Blue:

What are the clothing items that I should keep and maintain?

Might as well hoard everything unless you really need the cloth or low level items are worn out. There's two basic loadouts for my playstyle, light and heavy. Light I only wear one pair of pants, thermal pants, and jacket to save weight. This is for running around in the day when I'm not going ot be far from home or know where I'll be spending the night. I often carry extra sticks in this situation just in case I get stuck outside at night. Then there's the heavy where I wear whatever gives me the highest armor rating. This is for when I'm hunting bear or going somewhere where there's a ton of wolves.

[Barking Sands]

Originally posted by JeebusChrist:

Originally posted by Little_Boy_Blue:

What are the clothing items that I should keep and maintain?

Might as well hoard everything unless you really need the cloth or low level items are worn out. There's two basic loadouts for my playstyle, light and heavy. Light I only wear one pair of pants, thermal pants, and jacket to save weight. This is for running around in the day when I'm not going ot be far from home or know where I'll be spending the night. I often carry extra sticks in this situation just in case I get stuck outside at night. Then there's the heavy where I wear whatever gives me the highest armor rating. This is for when I'm hunting bear or going somewhere where there's a ton of wolves.

^^ Excellent point. If you can, get two sets of attire at least. One is a backup for if the other gets eaten. I also prefer one light "track suit" (tennis shoes + 2 socks, 2 thermal inner pants, 2 light sweaters, wool mitts, 2 toques, ear wrap if I have 'em) an one heavy duty set -- goal is to break +20 Celsius & +7 C wind protection without worrying about weight.

[Cute Beaver]

Before wolves were changed and taking food from them has been made easier, I used to run a very lightweight loadout most of the time. I still do for this for beachcombing and going between shelters, as well as stick collecting in sheltered areas. Right now i am experimenting with wolf aggro so have gone for protection clothing just incase science goes wrong.

Lightweight tips:

1) Double up on underwear / socks /hats when possible use the wool versions or climbing socks.
2) Calculate or find a guide with a warmth to weight ratio so you can make choices that way.
3) Carry .5 L of water (enough for emergency) fishing tackle instead of sewing kit, old mans beard dressings instead of antiseptic. Flares instead of weapons. (Bonus points if you can afford to carry the flaregun) Don't carry canned food or sodas. Consider carrying tea instead of water when possible.
4) Your fatigue / Energy affects your runspeed. Try and keep above 50% to keep movement speed perks, and if you do run around often keep in mind you may need naps to remain effective during intense moments where a burst of speed is needed. (Beachcombing / Scavenging from wolves, Climbing, ect)
5) Use windbreaks when traveling to protect you and prolong your time outdoors, sprint between exposed wide open spaces tactfully. Don't just insta drain sprint the entire way.
6) Early morning time is usually the worst due to being as cold as night time. Plan your day accordingly to make most of your body heat as a resource without tiring out too early. Going to bed late, waking up late has advantages here (although your trading for possible repair clothing time, or reading time during daylight hours)
7) Know when to put on heavy clothing which is warmer. Lightweight can work for collecting sticks, but the moment you need to actually spend time harvesting something and time gets accellerated you should probably be using clothing that better insulates you instead.
8) Consider also that sprinting burns more calories. This can be helpful in certain situations where you want to be sleeping for more hours in a given period of time in order to heal back from an injury faster. (Or when you need to tire yourself out quickly before it get too late for a restful sleep) This doesn't really shine until interloper or stalker mode since the healing amount is so high in the other game modes.

Lightweight is usually easy to build since items are easy to find, and it makes a good backup clothing set to derp around in.

~Cheers

Keep many sets of gear, and I tend to make one "base" per zone. Safehouses in between. Those bases have a full set of backup gear incase I get nomed. If your playing for 1000's of days keep in mind you would need to visit those zones to maintain those clothing items because anything laying around will slowly decay. Normally its not an issue because after 50 days or so you'd want to change your location anyway.

Lately Iv been keeping heavy gear at each base location. Since some of my heavy stuff is crafted I feel this makes sense for me. I travel with the lightweight, and I keep a spare lightweight at one of my favorite bases (in coastal highway for beachcombing) incase something horrible happens on my journey.