I am making a relatively non-violent industrial-era faction, but when giving them the money in <PawnKindDef> to get some decent clothing, they frequently want to spawn with an armored vest. I thought I ran across a method for prohibiting apparel types when poring over other mods for new factions, but can not remember where I saw it (or if it even exists).
is there a way to prohibit pawns from spawning with specific apparel? Can I stop my peaceniks from spawning with body armor?
You'll have to either make them wear custom apparel or force them to wear a specific apparel
or patch custom apparel tag on the pieces of apparel you want them to be able to wear (this thread might help with patching https://ludeon.com/forums/index.php?topic=32785.msg334764#msg334764)
Been doing a lot recently with xpath to force pawntypes to wield specific vanilla weapons by adding new <weaponTags>, so patching a tag onto the apparel would not be a problem.
But that approach would only
force them to spawn with specific apparel, when what I really want to do is
force them to not spawn with specific apparel.
I could force an entire outfit (hat, jacket, shirt and pants) and give them essentially no <apparelMoney> to afford an armored vest upon spawn, but would that give them crappy starting apparel because of the low money value, or is forced apparel not taken out of the <apparelMoney> pool?