Dwarf Fortress Cloth
Wearing tattered clothing items with x or xx wear but not x wear clothing rots away while worn.
Dwarf fortress cloth. A highly skilled clothesmaker is a boon for any fortress. One newly made piece of cloth is worth 10000 cloth units and a thread is worth 15000 units of thread according to the hospital. Cloth can be fashioned into clothing or bags at a clothier s shop or made into crafts at a craftsdwarf s workshop.
Dwarves will replace degraded clothing themselves if appropriate clothing is available in the fortress. Humans and dwarves often bring wool and pig tail cloth. From dwarf fortress wiki.
I decide i want a really complex and rich world so i set the size to massive with the highest options for civilizations map size and history. Clothing is required for a mature fortress as clothes will eventually wear away and necessitate replacement. Divine fabrics are used as material for items and clothing used by angels who ruthlessly protect the vault s priceless treasures.
A make all your dwarfs soldiers and craft everyone armour which doesn t wear out b invest a lot of time and effort and make everyone candy clothing c capture a webbing animal and then you can do away with cloth yarn and make everything from silk. Cloth is a common trade good brought by all civilizations particularly if your fortress is running low on clothing. A high quality textile industry.
That s okay i ll go about my day for a while. Clothing thoughts are quite strong and they stack with each other. Importing dye however is only useful if you have a somewhat skilled dyer otherwise little value is added and the work wasted it is better to buy or grow the source plants if available and mill them yourself.
Sure does take a while. Supporting bay12 forum post. I get weird and make leather armor for every dwarf then make enough squads for every dwarf set them to never train but wear the uniform even when not training.
It takes forever but then i don t have to deal with clothing because armor doesn t degrade. Yarn cloth can then be used to create a variety of textile products such as bags clothing rope or crafts. Elves tend to bring rope reed cloth humans bring wool and dwarves bring pig tail.
Dye can be used at the dyer s shop to change the color of cloth or thread dye is made by milling certain plants at a millstone or quern usually all caravans will bring dye for trade too. I just started my very first game of dwarf fortress. Then i come back it s at almost 800 years.
Even worn clothing can still fetch a hefty price 1 2 to 3 4 its original value and your dwarves will make sure there is an abundant supply. A dwarf with the spinner labor enabled can process wool into yarn at a farmer s workshop with the spin thread job order. It is entirely possible to run your clothing industry off of the cloth imports brought by these caravans but it can be rather expensive.
