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Attire

Tank Top

Twenty cloth, no workbench and 15 scrap of research buy a sleeveless top with basic protection. Wear one when you find it; the blueprint is not worth it.

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Characteristics

Category
Attire
Stack size
1
Craftable
Yes
Researchable
Yes · 15 Scrap
Bullet protection
10%

Overview

In-game description
A tank top, comes with free stains. Basic protection, but better than nothing.

Someone dropped it, so you wear it: that is how most tank tops end up on a player. On everything else the game text is honest: basic protection, better than nothing, stains included.

On paper it lines up against the burlap shirt. Both take twenty cloth and no bench, but the burlap blueprint is cheaper at the research table, ten scrap against fifteen. Nothing in the tank top's text suggests it protects more than burlap either. Those 15 scrap buy you a look, not an upgrade.

Its moment is day one. You win a rock fight on the beach, the other guy drops a tank top, and that is free clothing until you have cloth for more. Once a Level 1 bench is up, the T-shirt is the next step for five more cloth.

Protection

  • Bullet 10%
  • Arrow 5%
  • Stab 10%
  • Slash 10%
  • Blunt 10%
  • Cold exposure 10%
  • Radiation exposure 2%
  • Bite 20%
Covers
  • Chest
  • Stomach
  • Arms
  • Hands

Crafting

×20 Cloth
×1 Tank Top
Crafting time
15 s
Research cost
15 Scrap

Recycling

Recycler

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

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