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[_DivideByZero_]

Is this possible without making it impossible to sew any clothing? I've noticed that if I replace all instances of soft with hard in the game's files, then clothes won't wear out (to solve the problem that dwarves won't wear new ones) but I also am unable to sew clothing in the first place.

[Dutchling]

You should make it armor. Unless [HARD] means it is armor because than I do not know
If it is armor though, you need to add the clothes via the uniform screen as they will not wear it by default.
Alternatively you can mod dwarves to have an extra skin layer made of cloth.

[_DivideByZero_]

That's not what I'm looking for.
[SOFT] is the tag that makes clothes wear out.
[HARD] makes it not wear out, presumably.

The issue is, you cannot sew [HARD] items. Nothing appears on the clothes menu.
I wonder, can you give an item both tags?

This should be moved to the modding forum, sorry.

[Naryar]

Make your civilians wear armor. Problem solved.

[_DivideByZero_]

You can't unless you draft them all, which gets pretty tedious with large populations. Furthermore, you need armor for each and every one of them. My sites don't always have armorable metals available early on.

After some experimentation, I've concluded that you can in fact give an item of clothing both tags. I don't know if the [SOFT] tag will override the [HARD] tag though.

[ZachUSAman]

the nude fortress is inevitable...

[Jeoshua]

Other than making the clothes armor, therefore hard, there is no way.  The thing is that the tag for hardness doesn't just govern how it operates, but also what it's made of.

So if you modded clothes to be [HARD], you'd never be able to make clothes out of cloth, only hard things like metal.

[Sarda]

Well then, couldn't you designate cloth to be a hard material or not?

[Jeoshua]

  maybe...

It could be just possible to change the tag on [MATERIAL_TEMPLATE:SILK_TEMPLATE] from [ITEMS_SOFT] to [ITEMS_HARD]

But that would also allow such things as *Silk Platemail*, which just sounds weird :/

[Sarda]

Yeah, Toady probably hardcoded that, but still, worth trying. Or you could make a custom reaction for some sort of metal cloth.

[Urist is dead tome]

the nude fortress is inevitable...

I personally am always waiting for clothes to rot off that I may have a nudist colony. Or just confiscate them.

[ral]

There's already metal cloth.... adamantine cloth. unfortunately when you make clothes out of adamantine the clothes still wear out

Wish there were some sort of durability token. Cloth made out of adamantine really shouldn't wear out as fast as it does, if at all....

[Jeoshua]

Yeah but that's not [HARD] cloth, is it? The idea wasn't making clothes from metal, but making cloth hard and making clothes from THAT.

You'd probably have to forge your clothes.  And watch out for the crotch, yikes.