Weather, cold, and clothes
The outfit mods are not a costume chest. On this server a jacket is a plan for the next twelve hours of temperature.
Build 42 already tracks weather hard enough to punish a t-shirt in the wet. Vanilla Outfits Expanded and Vanilla Gear Expanded add layers, and those layers have insulation, weight, and bite coverage that do not move together. Read the three numbers. A leather coat that keeps the wind off and slows your swing is a choice you make at the door, not a surprise you discover while shoving.
Rain
Rain Cleans Blood washes the street when the weather does its job. It does not dry your clothes, and it does not make a night raid quiet. Wet clothing pulls heat out of you. If you are going out in it, take a change for the room you come back to, and hang the wet layer away from the beds. The base does not need a puddle in the hall as a second sink.
Rain is also the best time to move a corpse away from a wall and the worst time to decide your shoes are optional. Towels and sheets exist. Fitted sheets are not only curtains.
Cold
A generator or a stove is heat with a cost in noise or fuel. Run it when people are actually in the room. An empty base glowing at 2 a.m. is a beacon and a fuel bill. Close the door you used. First person makes an open door obvious if you turn around. People forget to turn around.
Sleep with enough layers that you are not waking up to a cold moodle and a bad decision. If the safehouse is a laundromat or any other big commercial room, heat the corner you sleep in. Heating the whole floor is how the tank goes dry before the soup is hot. The kitchen thread is about food, but the same generator serves both. Coordinate.
What to keep in the clothing crate
- One dry mid-layer per regular, with a name if people are precious about fit.
- A worse coat for runs that will end in blood, so the good coat stays a house coat.
- Hats and gloves in a separate pile. They vanish into Knox grids and then everyone has cold fingers and a “full” bag.
- Nothing precious on a zombie you killed in the parking lot if you are not willing to wash it. Blood on a collar is not fashion.
If a new outfit item looks like it has no temperature value, check the tooltip in your actual client before you write a bug report. Mods update. The crate can be re-sorted. Your character’s day cannot.