clothing warmth?

[N1nva]

so which clothes are warm?:

linen
wool
mail
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How does this work out? It's spring now. I'm a woodsman and can trade perfect boards for clothes. I currently own a wool shirt and pants. Should I also get linens or mail?

[A Nickel]

Mail and leather are great for protection, while everything else covers warmth.

Linen is a simple fabric, so it's not too good at anything.

Wool is nice, but can be hard to get, and doesn't protect too well.

Fur is a great choice, it can block most mundane weapons while keeping you nice and toasty.

[urman.gamer]

For warmth, Elk, Reindeer, and Stag are the best furs, iirc. A fur shirt can be worn with a woolen undershirt (possibly with a wool shirt, too). An elk fur shirt cannot be worn with a stag fur shirt.

[N1nva]

Thank you! I'll find some fur for the winter. :-)

[Othobrithol]

BTW, unless things changed if you go to the armor screen you can cycle through your coverage by damage types. One of those is your warmth. You'll want green (or at least yellow) everywhere you can.

[Bedlam]

Think of mail as your highest tier armor (only one notch down from the ultra-rare iron). It's going to be insane expensive to get at the village, but worth it because it can save your life in battle.

Wool is great for winter because it's light weight and you can get a lot of variety in the items - finding exactly the thing you need to get your character to "all green" status.

If you open inventory on the clothes and armor you hold, then press A (or Enter) while one of them is selected, it will show you the visual coverage and "warmth goodness" of that particular piece of clothing, plus all its protection values.

They add up, so that's why it's nice to have a wool overcoat and a perhaps a wool tunic or shirt. For the harshest winter days you might end up wearing woolen mittens, fur mittens on top of that, and then some mail mittens on top of that to protect you against those deadly squirrel bites to the middle finger. (Just kidding, death-squirrels were happily nerfed in a past version ;-) .)

[-F00L-]V[eT@L-]

I know this thread is about clothing warmth but I figured I'd ask my question here instead of starting an entire new thread.

What things effect clothing "wear" and can clothes be repaired or is it once they are worn out they are trash?

How come some clothes don't seem to have "wear"?

Does "wear" only effect clothes on the outer most layer? thanks :)

[Bedlam]

Taking damage is what adds wear to clothes/armor.

The ones without wear are "in perfect condition".

I -think- the outer layer takes damage first, but can't say for sure. Usually an average strike will go right through several layers, so it's hard to tell.

You can repair all fur clothes from the Make menu (under Clothes), if you have some spare fur or other fur clothes you don't need. Can't repair wool or linen or metal stuff, so when it gets too shabby or you got a nice undamaged replacement for it, those worn clothes/armor go to the "trading pile" for the next trek to the village.

Sometimes villagers will scoff at your crappy worn clothes saying "this stuff is unworthy in this trade". Don't be discouraged by that, what they mean is, that piece is not worth much and the current trade is for a big ticket item, so give us something serious - not your torn wool sock.

But that same torn wool sock works fine if you're trading for a few turnips :D

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Originally posted by Bedlam:

Taking damage is what adds wear to clothes/armor.

The ones without wear are "in perfect condition".

I -think- the outer layer takes damage first, but can't say for sure. Usually an average strike will go right through several layers, so it's hard to tell.

You can repair all fur clothes from the Make menu (under Clothes), if you have some spare fur or other fur clothes you don't need. Can't repair wool or linen or metal stuff, so when it gets too shabby or you got a nice undamaged replacement for it, those worn clothes/armor go to the "trading pile" for the next trek to the village.

Sometimes villagers will scoff at your crappy worn clothes saying "this stuff is unworthy in this trade". Don't be discouraged by that, what they mean is, that piece is not worth much and the current trade is for a big ticket item, so give us something serious - not your torn wool sock.

But that same torn wool sock works fine if you're trading for a few turnips :D

LOL, awesome. Thanks for all the great info. :)