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[Goran]

Probably like the most, I've been seriously annoyed with dwarves, esp. wrestlers leaving around clothing to clutter my forts. And I've come up with a solution...

NAKED DWARVES

I've butchered the entity_default.txt and deleted all clothing that is not a piece of armor. My dwarves and all immigrants start without clothes, and I cannot make any clothes. Clothiers can only make bags, ropes and sew images, while the leatherworkers make bags, quivers, backpacks and waterskins, plus sewing images. Occasional ranger or military dwarf still comes with leather armour, but it is not his property and can easily be substituted by something better and removed.

End results. No clutter, game goes FASTA(at least it seems so, since a 100+ dwarf fort with a dozen animals doesnt suffer any noticable speed loss, and I'm playing on original 40d)

Thus all my dwarves run around without any clothes, only the military wears their shining armour. Until the next release fixes clothes management, this is a neat fix to boost performance and reduce annoyance.

[Rowanas]

What do clothes do, anyway? (apart from the goblin stuff being my only source of tradable wealth)

[Onlyhestands]

What do clothes do, anyway? (apart from the goblin stuff being my only source of tradable wealth)

Clothes do seem to protect dwarves in freezing biomes (it has to be really really cold, like on a glacier tho). I've noticed that naked dwarves in a glacier fort got brown wounds all over their body and would die if outside too long.

[Rowanas]

so if I never embark on freezing biomes, I could use this mod quite happily with no unpleasant effects?

[Onlyhestands]

Yep, clothes are pretty useless so far in DF

[xtank5]

Sweet.  I've been looking for a way to improve my framerate from its 20s-40s range.  Ever since I hit 100 Dorfs, My framerate SUCKS when I try to work more on my giant curtain wall.

[Erom]

Well, there are some negative thoughts associated with nakedness, but they only trigger when the clothes rot off, so never having them in the first place shouldn't trigger any negative emotions in your average dwarf. Don't some nobles get upset if they don't have the appropriate finery, though? I know the dungeon master wants a cloak, right?

[Jimmy]

They used to give unpleasant thoughts. Toady removed that. Currently I cap the immigration and let everyone's clothes rot off. Probably should just remove it from the raws instead. This is a good idea.

[Sensei]

Unpleasant thoughts from nakedness were removed because they would occur every time a dwarf changes clothes, which was a great assistance to tantrum spirals. They're also required to remove everything above an item they're changing, which doesn't help.

[Chariot]

I have all shoes besides boots, all gloves besides gauntlets, and all hats besides helms removed from my game. That way, creatures are not naked and i still get goblin goods to trade, but im not overwhelemed with 573 cave spider silk socks everywhere

[Martin]

Clothing does provide some degree of combat protection. A fair bit, actually, for early in the game due to the layering, so if you embark someplace fairly hostile, the clothing does make it quite a bit more survivable than not having it. As the game progresses, that protection gets less effective as dwarves get tougher and you can make proper armor.

Another consideration.

[Vattic]

Give them [LAYERING:200] and they shouldn't have trouble in freezing places any more, just imagine they have a thick layer of hair over their whole bodies like a woolly mammoth with a beard.

[bandaidman]

Can you do this after your game has started?  Or do you need to delete the objects and regen for it to take effect?

[Goran]

I'm 99% sure you have to regen, its major tampering of the entity raw.