Characteristics
- Category
- Attire
- Stack size
- 1
- Craftable
- Yes
- Researchable
- Yes · 15 Scrap
- Bullet protection
- 15%
- Explosion protection
- 20%
Overview
A makeshift balaclava. Cost effective protection from the cold, but unremarkable at preventing melee and projectile damage.
The snow is where it earns its 15 scrap of research. You spawned on the cold side of the island, night is coming and your face slot is empty. Fifteen cloth with no bench at all gives you what its own text sells as cost effective protection from the cold.
The bandana mask costs five cloth and needs no research, but it does next to nothing against the cold. That is the whole trade: ten cloth and 15 scrap more for a face that stays warm. Add a snow jacket and a night of farming in the snow stops eating your health.
In a fight it changes almost nothing. Once you can craft a metal facemask at a Level 3 bench, the balaclava has to come off, since both sit on the face. Until then, put it on and forget about it.
Protection
-
Bullet
15% -
Arrow
15% -
Stab
15% -
Slash
15% -
Blunt
15% -
Explosion
20% -
Cold exposure
80% -
Radiation exposure
3% -
Bite
20%
- Head
Crafting
- Crafting time
- 15 s
- Research cost
- 15 Scrap
Recycling
At power grid stage 2 a green recycler works at 60% instead of 50%. Yields depend on the recycler.
How to get
-
Craft
by hand
-
Research
15 Scrap at a Research Table
