Wearing clothes

[Rococho Ranger]

How do I get specific duplicants to put new clothes on? I've tried assigning the item to them but they never seem to pick it up.

[Hedning]

After assignment click on the clothing and go to the errands tab. What does it say? Equipping clothing is a personal need and receives +200 priority, so it should be the first on their list after compuslory tasks such as peeing themselves or catching breath, or yellow alert tasks.

[mikek]

im not sure what priority it is but if they are always busy with other things, try put them in the same room as the clothes but lock them in there so dont allow them to go out till they put on the clothes

[GMC]

Assignments are somewhat fragile. When you assign clothing (or a rocket) to a dupe, it creates an errand which will normally be their highest-priority errand, to be performed after completing their current errand. But if they get interrupted (e.g. needing to catch breath, or their route is blocked), the errand is permanently discarded but the target will still be shown as being assigned to the dupe. You have to manually revoke the assignment then re-assign to create a new errand.

For clothing found in remote lockers, it's often better to sweep the item into a storage bin at your base, eject it, then assign it when the dupe is nearby. Sweep errands are a bit less fragile. The errand will persist until a dupe actually picks the item up, although if they drop it after that point (e.g. due to catching breath or the shift ending) the sweep errand is lost and must be re-issued.