Road Sign Jacket

The first chest armour that makes a gunfight survivable: a Level 2 bench, two road signs and 500 durability. Most kits run it until leather piles up.

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Characteristics

Category: Attire

Stack size: 1

Durability: 500

Workbench: Level 2

Craftable: Yes

Researchable: Yes · 30 Scrap

Bullet protection: 20%

Overview

In-game description

A shoddy piece of body armor made from roadsigns.

Your Level 2 bench went up last night, a morning of barrels along the main road paid three road signs, and a duo with a semi-auto rifle has started roaming your side of the map. Two of those signs go into this jacket, and the next time someone sprays you on the road, you live through the first burst instead of dropping on it.

Pros

Cons

500 durability, more than a metal chest plate gets
A Level 2 bench and 30 scrap to research
No penalty to aim or speed, unlike the heavy plate jacket

Less against bullets than the chest plate
Two sewing kits every time, and crafting kits takes a Level 3 bench
The kilt, the gloves and the cleaver want the same signs

It goes on over a shirt, so the burlap shirt you crafted on the beach stays underneath. When hunting finally keeps up with the fifty leather a chest plate asks for, most groups switch. On a short wipe plenty never do, and a fight in road signs against a team in plates is far from lost if you shoot first.