After playing the game for awhile I've noticed how much the clothing stacks up. You can't sell it and putting it in a big pile doesn't help for long. What do you guys think we should be able to do with extra clothing?
I've been using Burn clothing and wood (http://ludeon.com/forums/index.php?topic=4643.0)
Cremate them.
I put stockpiles for clothing in every bedroom and pretend they're the colonists clothes.
dont strip bodies you dont want.
this is soo damn simple.
Quote from: RawCode on August 18, 2014, 11:56:51 PM
dont strip bodies you dont want.
Early game players tend to strip bodies to get at the jackets and hats.
Mid game they try strip bodies to replace the last of those with armour vests and kevlar helmets.
Late game they strip bodies to get power armour to finish relplacing all their armour vests.
In the end you likely strip 2-3 bodies per colonist you have, and they all tend to wear shirts.
If your colony has 60 people join it then by the time they're all wearing power armour you might acquire 120+ shirts as well as excess hats and armour vests and stuff without actually wanting to.
Of course there's a very easy solution to all of this. Molotov cocktails. I just make a stockpile that only gets corpses and shirts in it on a patch of desert/mud/concrete, make sure to disable the home region zone on the stockpile and throw a single cocktail into the middle every time it gets full. The fire will spread and destroy everything in the stockpile unless it starts raining.
It's actually really easy. If you want a more "predesigned" version go download a mod that lets them be burned in crematoriums. But I've never actually built a crematorium, because I generally get a free molotov cocktail pretty soon and that's honestly all you need.
Quote from: RawCode on August 18, 2014, 11:56:51 PM
dont strip bodies you dont want.
this is soo damn simple.
I know I can do this but I'm just looking for different ways to get rid of clothing I've collected over the time I spent in the beginning of the game.
In alpha 6 the crematorium has the option to burn apparel. Just make sure you turn off power armor and such or those will be burned as well.
it wouldn't hurt if you put them in a room and throw a molotov or a grenade in their, wont it?
Wear them all, and be sure to take a photo as each new item of clothing is added, then make a montage out of the photos.
Quote from: Bog on August 19, 2014, 12:07:23 AM
Of course there's a very easy solution to all of this. Molotov cocktails. I just make a stockpile that only gets corpses and shirts in it on a patch of desert/mud/concrete, make sure to disable the home region zone on the stockpile and throw a single cocktail into the middle every time it gets full. The fire will spread and destroy everything in the stockpile unless it starts raining.
Clothes didn't burn in Alpha 5, so I wouldn't blame people for not knowing it can be done in Alpha 6 (it can be done, right? I haven't tried so myself so far)
Quote from: Rahjital on August 19, 2014, 06:41:42 AM
Quote from: Bog on August 19, 2014, 12:07:23 AM
Of course there's a very easy solution to all of this. Molotov cocktails. I just make a stockpile that only gets corpses and shirts in it on a patch of desert/mud/concrete, make sure to disable the home region zone on the stockpile and throw a single cocktail into the middle every time it gets full. The fire will spread and destroy everything in the stockpile unless it starts raining.
Clothes didn't burn in Alpha 5, so I wouldn't blame people for not knowing it can be done in Alpha 6 (it can be done, right? I haven't tried so myself so far)
Yes it can be done, the Crematorium has a new bill option that allows colonists to bring Apparel to it and destroy said apparel inside. Personally I never understood what was so hard about making a Dumping stockpile outside your base and sending a few guys out with Molotovs and Grenades every once in a while to "Take out the trash". But, having this option is nice!
I meant molotovs, though. Throwing them at clothes in Alpha 5 was useless because the fire just died out. Do clothes actually burn and spread fire in Alpha 6?
Gather more of them of every color and make scaled down mona lisa apparel art with them =P
I end up using the crematorium just because the Molotovs take forever. Bodies burn faster than clothes, which makes no sense!
Quote from: Rahjital on August 19, 2014, 06:41:42 AM
Quote from: Bog on August 19, 2014, 12:07:23 AM
Of course there's a very easy solution to all of this. Molotov cocktails. I just make a stockpile that only gets corpses and shirts in it on a patch of desert/mud/concrete, make sure to disable the home region zone on the stockpile and throw a single cocktail into the middle every time it gets full. The fire will spread and destroy everything in the stockpile unless it starts raining.
Clothes didn't burn in Alpha 5, so I wouldn't blame people for not knowing it can be done in Alpha 6 (it can be done, right? I haven't tried so myself so far)
Ah, you are right. Clothes do not burn with cocktails. I forgot that I used to keep both a spare molotov cocktail and a spare frag grenade by the pile. The cocktails were for the corpses, the grenades were for the shirts.
I gave up on destroying apparel a long time ago. They don't cause "bad thoughts", so there's no real downside to leaving the countryside completely covered in them. ;D
The Crematorium actually makes a lot of sense then, the frag grenades took something like 3 hits to destroy a single shirt.
Off topic, but holy awesome avatar, Bog!!
Quote from: RawCode on August 18, 2014, 11:56:51 PM
dont strip bodies you dont want.
this is soo damn simple.
I believe the issue is that you can't just strip what you want. You have to click each individual body, and even if you do spot something you want, the colonists currently strip
everything.
I use the crematorium, which is indeed active with Alpha 6. I usually have a number of suspended bills ready to go, as I like to keep 2 of everything around in case a naked colonist comes along. Once I have more than 2 of something, I'll set these bills to burn specific quantities of specific types of clothing until I'm once again left with two of each. I keep the armor and Kevlar helmets etc. in a different stock altogether so they're available for a quick fight. They're also not included in any of these burning bills.
The process above is manual as I have to notice the pileup and manually set bill instructions. It would be nice to have a game mechanic where the player can communicate the intent to have two of everything (as an example) and have the bill and colonists automatically burn off the excess. Given that clothing seems to have some coming changes with manufacturing and trading, I'm not sure how relevant some of this is going to be once the next few releases come out. Hence, I've held off on making formal suggestions until we see where this is going.
Quote from: _alphaBeta_ on August 20, 2014, 04:16:28 PM
Quote from: RawCode on August 18, 2014, 11:56:51 PM
dont strip bodies you dont want.
this is soo damn simple.
I believe the issue is that you can't just strip what you want. You have to click each individual body, and even if you do spot something you want, the colonists currently strip everything.
I use the crematorium, which is indeed active with Alpha 6. I usually have a number of suspended bills ready to go, as I like to keep 2 of everything around in case a naked colonist comes along. Once I have more than 2 of something, I'll set these bills to burn specific quantities of specific types of clothing until I'm once again left with two of each. I keep the armor and Kevlar helmets etc. in a different stock altogether so they're available for a quick fight. They're also not included in any of these burning bills.
The process above is manual as I have to notice the pileup and manually set bill instructions. It would be nice to have a game mechanic where the player can communicate the intent to have two of everything (as an example) and have the bill and colonists automatically burn off the excess. Given that clothing seems to have some coming changes with manufacturing and trading, I'm not sure how relevant some of this is going to be once the next few releases come out. Hence, I've held off on making formal suggestions until we see where this is going.
You could have the crematorium burn everything, but on a limited material hauling range.
Then have very small high priority storages for the specific ones you want to keep outside of this range and store the excess inside the hauling area
That should work like a dream!
While I was suggesting a more direct game mechanic such as having the bill specify destruction until you're left with a certain amount, you did indeed identify an automated solution. We'll see where clothing goes in the coming releases.