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Attire

BDU pants

Old army trousers with moderate protection by their own text. A decent swap for burlap if a pair falls into your hands, but you cannot craft or research them.

Characteristics

Category
Attire
Stack size
1
Craftable
No
Researchable
No
Bullet protection
20%

Overview

In-game description
A pair of standard issue battle dress uniform pants. Old, worn, stained, but provides moderate protection.

You win a fight on the road and the other guy was wearing these. Keep them. Their own description calls them old and stained but good for moderate protection, which is more than the burlap trousers you are probably in.

Getting your own pair is another story. The row lists a recipe of sixty cloth with no bench, but the game files settle it: the pants cannot be crafted or researched at all, and a research table will not turn a pair into a blueprint. Every pair comes from loot, recycling or trade, so treat one as a lucky find.

They are trousers, so a road sign kilt should still go over them once you have one. A pair nobody needs is worth breaking down: the recycler hands back about half the cloth, a decent stack for bandages and sleeping bags.

Protection

  • Bullet 20%
  • Arrow 20%
  • Stab 15%
  • Slash 25%
  • Blunt 25%
  • Cold exposure 35%
  • Radiation exposure 5%
  • Bite 20%
Covers
  • Legs
  • Feet

Recycling

Recycler

At power grid stage 2 a green recycler works at 60% instead of 50%. Yields depend on the recycler.