Jacket

Jacket

"A tough jacket to stop scrapes and bruises, and keep one warm in chilly weather."

Base Stats

Type

Gear – Clothing

Market Value

188 

Mass

1.7 kg

HP

160

Apparel

Insulation - Cold

0.8 °C (1.4 °F)

Insulation - Heat

0.3 °C (0.5 °F)

Armor - Sharp

30%

Armor - Heat

30%

Creation

Work To Make

117 ticks (1.95 secs)

Summary

Overview & Obtaining

Jackets are a middle ground between a duster and a parka, best suited to moderately cold biomes (not extreme enough to require parkas). They can be purchased (as with any other piece of apparel), crafted, or stripped from Outlanders and Pirates. Starting colonists may also spawn wearing a synthread jacket.

Crafting

As a complicated garment, Jackets can only be made at tailoring benches, which requires complex clothing to be researched in order to be constructed. A jacket requires 70 of any textile, and 117 units of work.

Conclusion & Comparison

Overall, jackets are a middle-ground between dusters and parkas; requiring fewer resources and less work to craft, but offering less value in either extreme cold or extreme heat. In warm biomes, dusters are almost always more useful, since dusters cover more body parts and do a better job protecting from heat. In extremely cold biomes, parkas are often required to deal with ultra-low temperatures.

In moderately cold biomes though, jackets can be preferable to parkas in some cases Jackets offer better armor than parkas, so if you can get good enough insulation from the cold using jackets you're usually better off doing so.

Insulation Information

Jackets offer a decent amount of insulation from heat (30%), and a great amount of insulation from cold (80%). The exact insulation in-game depends on the textile used and the quality of the crafted item. Assuming normal quality, a jacket offers:

Keeps Warm
		Minimum
Fabric	Alpaca wool	−24°C
	Cloth	−14.4°C
	Devilstrand	−16°C
	Hyperweave	−20.8°C
	Megasloth wool	−27.2°C
	Muffalo wool	−22.4°C
	Synthread	−17.6°C
Leather	Bearskin	−16°C
	Birdskin	−8°C
	Bluefur	−16°C
	Camelhide	−12.8°C
	Chinchilla fur	−24°C
	Dog leather	−11.2°C
	Elephant leather	−11.2°C
	Foxfur	−16°C
	Heavy fur	−24°C
	Human leather	−9.6°C
	Lightleather	−9.6°C
	Lizardskin	−9.6°C
	Panthera fur	−12.8°C
	Patchleather	−7.2°C
	Plainleather	−12.8°C
	Rhinoceros leather	−11.2°C
	Thrumbofur	−27.2°C
	Wolfskin	−19.2°C

Keeps Cool
		Maximum
Fabric	Alpaca wool	+4.8°C
	Cloth	+5.4°C
	Devilstrand	+7.2°C
	Hyperweave	+7.8°C
	Megasloth wool	+3.6°C
	Muffalo wool	+3.6°C
	Synthread	+6.6°C
Leather	Bearskin	+6°C
	Birdskin	+3°C
	Bluefur	+4.8°C
	Camelhide	+7.2°C
	Chinchilla fur	+4.8°C
	Dog leather	+4.8°C
	Elephant leather	+3.6°C
	Foxfur	+4.8°C
	Heavy fur	+4.2°C
	Human leather	+3.6°C
	Lightleather	+3.6°C
	Lizardskin	+3.6°C
	Panthera fur	+7.2°C
	Patchleather	+2.7°C
	Plainleather	+4.8°C
	Rhinoceros leather	+4.2°C
	Thrumbofur	+6.6°C
	Wolfskin	+4.8°C

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Corset • Eltex shirt • Eltex vest • Formal vest • Formal shirt

Slave collar

Sash • Kid romper

Armor

Flak vest

Legs | Clothing

Pants (Kid )

Armor

Flak pants

Shell | Clothing

Duster • Jacket • Parka (Kid )

Cape • Eltex robe • Prestige robe

Burka • Robe • Slave body strap

Heavy bandolier

Armor

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Head | Clothing

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Beret • Coronet • Crown • Eltex helmet • Eltex skullcap • Ladies hat • Stellic crown • Top hat

Authority cap • Blindfold • Broadwrap • Flophat • Headwrap • Shadecone • Slicecap • Tailcap • Torture crown • Visage mask

Airwire headset • Array headset • Gas mask • Face mask

Ceremonial hood

Armor

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