Clothing

For clothing-like gear you can't remove and that you lose when you die, see Survivor equipment.

Clothing is the primary means of increasing the combat (or related) capability of your character in a reliable way - because weapons expire with use, and clothing does not. There are two forms of this:

1. The effects of a clothing set - obtained when all parts of the set are being worn (this only applies to some of the clothes - those forming sets)
2. The effects of the upgrade kits inserted in all the garments being worn.

Also, clothing, like hair styles or other customizations can be used to define the appearance of your character. There are 4 body areas:

1. the head
2. the torso
3. the loins+legs
4. the feet

Upgrade kits are inserted into particular pieces of clothing they cannot be removed from (only overwritten with other kits), and they work when that piece is being worn for function. Clothing, in turn, can be put on, changed or removed any time the character is in a safe state - at the encampment, lakeview or at (city or portable) bonfire - or an unlit camp (which works even without fire). You don't lose your clothing (nor inserted kits) when you incur a flare death.

To outfit a character, guide them to a safe state and open your profile. Therein, underneath the silhouette of your character (don't use the nearby pistol icon or your character will drop its items and lose its survivor gear, unless you have tamed Pouch the dog to guard you) there is a small matrix of 2 rows of 4 body areas. In its top row you select the pieces that are to be used for their function (=set bonus and kit effects), and that, if not overridden, will also sculpt the appearance your character. In the bottom row you can select which items your character will use as the visual overlay (overriding the appearance of the corresponding functional piece) but will not use the functions of (= set bonuses and kits in the garments in the bottom row don't apply, they're only for appearance). Note that a piece is only available to be used as the visual overlay if it's upgraded to the 5/5 (exceptional quality) level, but if you reach it you will be able to switch between your overlays anywhere (and not only in safe zones).

It follows that a particular body area can only host one item of clothing for its function at a time, and it's best if there's space for a set to be worn. There are no two sets that can be worn simultaneously. 19 sets accept any garment for the feet, and 14 for the head, giving you modularity: the ability to use optional parts with different kits for the same set. Conversely, the same pair of shoes or hat will be able to complement many sets. Note that kits can synergize, while others clash, so learn that and plan your modularity ahead.

Each set has its own covering of the torso, and there are only 2 sets (fast food and RATS fan) accepting any garments for the loins. Therefore it's best not to upgrade non-set shirts and pants for function and not to fill them with kits, and do that to set clothes instead.

As your character gets tired, your shirt/pants will start to look torn up; once you rest your clothing will repair itself. Unupgraded clothing has a ragged appearance as well, but see the paragraph above.

There are around 200 pieces of clothing and 39 clothing sets.

It is possible to try out different styles for your character out-of-game by using unofficial dressing rooms:

• Wiki Dressing room^{(code on Github)}

Obtaining clothing

You can obtain clothing in the following ways:

• Sam Bullock's Shop - You can find Sam (and Johanna) near the campfire in Survivors' camp, where he sells a random assortment of 8 pieces of clothing (including ones you already own), each costing 500 or 200/175/150. The clothing arrives in high quality, which means all the kit slots are open (it is upgraded for 500, so when buying at that price you are getting 100% of it back in upgrades). The clothing cycles every 3 days and the Fraise price is discounted by 20-40%. The clothing sold at a given time is the same for every player.
• Apart from that, each week a particular random Clothing set is going to have all its constituent parts made available at once, but for an increased price of 750 or 250 Fraise per piece, without discounts on the Fraises (Resets 18:00 / 6:00 PM UTC).
• Leveling up - All tier 1 clothing can be obtained through level-up rewards.
• Research projects - All tier 1 and tier 2 clothing can be obtained through researching.
• Loot / Drops (themed) - Every infected may drop the clothing that it wears. In areas where themed infecteds spawn, the containers are also more likely to contain their clothing.
• Loot / Drops (non-themed) - You can find any clothing commonly in secret passages or as drops from bosses and Peruvian infecteds.
• Loot / Drops (non-themed, extremly rare) - All clothing can be found in containers or from normal infected drops, albeit incredibly rare. The Collectioner Strategy can help with this. There are a few cosmopolitan areas (like the soccer pitch of Santa Rosa) that can make rare clothing drop.
• Events - Obtained through a Dead Maze event. These clothing items can not be obtained with the above methods. Pumpkin is currently the only item to fit this category.

All clothing starts off in "poor" condition, except those purchased from shop - you get them at 4/5, which means if buying them for 500, you get all that reputation back in their upgrade level.

Clothing set

Some clothing pieces have prescribed related pieces for other body areas. If those pieces are all worn together, an additional set bonus is applied (once for the entire set, not as many times as there are pieces). How many pieces comprise a set varies from 2 to 4, so certain sets can be worn with optional complements (see the main section). There are no two clothing sets that can be worn simultaneously.

Rarity

Clothing items come in 4 tiers of rarity that can be reckoned by the color of the name of the clothing item name in your profile / the shop, in the colors the game uses for quality, white, green, blue, purple but you shouldn't confuse rarity with quality. Quality is the level of upgrade of a piece of clothing. Rarity is how many health points (2,3,4,5) per level of quality (=upgrade) a clothing piece grants your character when worn. Rarity also determines which clothing pieces can become level-up prizes, and which can be obtained through research (up to green). Items of higher rarity aren't more difficult to obtain in drops than other clothing, instead it is the final item of a set that usually takes the most effort. Pieces of a given clothing set often differ in rarity.

Max Health Boost

	Quality	Poor	Average	Good	High	Exceptional
Rarity		0 slots	1 slot	2 slots	3 slots	3 slots
1	white	0	2	4	6	8
2	green	0	3	6	9	12
3	blue	0	4	8	12	16
4	purple	0	5	10	15	20

Coloring

It is possible to change the color of your clothes by applying Dye. This customization remains until you remove it by applying any water bottle to the clothing (which will wash the color away and back to the default) - or if you directly use another dye vial on the piece of clothing. Some clothes can't be dyed, but attempting to won't use your dye up. Since the effect a dye has on the garment varies from one to another, it's recommended to use the unoffical dressing room to preview the effect before the dye is used in the game. In the dressroom, items that can be dyed roll out a "color wheel" button on top of the screen (no color wheel if they can't be dyed).

Upgrading clothing

When you get clothing it will start off in "poor" 1/5 quality, and to reach the ultimate 5/5 level you will need the sewing workshop, but all the lower levels can be attained simply by opening kit slots in your garments even if you don't have the workshop. Resources and sewing kits are no longer used for the upgrading of clothes - currently the method is by spending Reputation or Fraise .

Upgrading has the following consequences:

• Increases the health points the clothing item grants your character when worn (a constant value between 2 and 5 depending on rarity)
• A new kit slot becomes available (except for the upgrade to the exceptional level, when clothes become able to be used as a visual overlay instead).
• Each clothing item upgraded to the exceptional quality (level 5) increases your max HP by 1 (even when not worn).

In the tablebelow, the "Upgrade Cost" shows the amount of resources needed to upgrade 1 point towards the next quality level, which with each increasing "recipe level" progressively requiring more currencies:

Quality	Upgrade Cost	Total Cost	Upgrade Cost	Total Cost
Poor → Average	50	50	25	25
Average → Good	150	200	75	100
Good → High	300	500	150	250
High → Exceptional	500	1000	200	450

Slots

Each piece of clothing has 3 kit slots, each of one of 3 types: Battle, Support, and Protection. You can fill them with upgrade kits as long as the kit type matches the slot, but you can't eject kits you've already inserted (you only can overwrite them with other kits)

The number of slots unlocked (from left to right) depends on its current quality:

• 0 slots: Poor
• 1 slot: Average
• 2 slots: Good
• 3 slots: High / Exceptional

List

The "set" column indicates whether or not it belong to a clothing set. The "dye" column menas, if clothing can be dyed using Dye, this information comes from unoffical dressing room. (Its reccomended to use this tool, to see how would your clothing look dyed, wihnout having to use the dye.)

If you try to drag dye on undyable clothing, dye will be returned to your inventory, the clothing wont be colored.

Hats

Image (female)	Image (male)	Name	Rarity	Slots	Set	Release	Dye
		Bandana headband	1	SSB
		Black bandana	1	BBB
		Black beanie	1	BBP			?
		Electrician's helmet	1	PPP
		Fast food cap	1	PBS
		Fisherman's sun hat	1	PBS
		Miner's helmet	1	PPP
		Phoenix cap	1	BBP
		Pumpkin	1	PBS		25 Oct 2018
		Red knit cap	1	PBS
		Sport headband	1	BBS
		Straw hat	1	SSP
		Tourist's cap	1	PBS
		Wicker hat	1	SSP
		Antibacterian mask	2	SSP
		Biker's bandana	2	BBS
		Cowboy's hat	2	BBS
		Green military cap	2	BBB
		Grey military cap	2	BBB
		Military beret	2	BBS
		Net	2	BBS		22 Mar 2018
		RATS fan cap	2	SSP
		Cop cap	3	BBS
		Firefighter's helmet	3	PPB
		Football Helmet	3	PPP
		Gasmask 2	3	SSP
		Hygiene cap	3	SSB
		Peruvian knit cap	3	PBS
		Sand glasses	3	SSP		23 Feb 2018
		Steward's hat	3	PBS
		Thug's bandana	3	BBB
		Woodcutter's helmet	3	BPP
		Antibacterial helmet	4	PPS
		Eskimo's hood	4	PBS
		Gas mask	4	PPB
		Gladiator's mask	4	PPB		5 Apr 2018
		Minesweeper helmet	4	PPB		15 Jun 2018
		Night goggles	4	BBS
		Reaper helmet	4	BBS		8 Mar 2018

Shirts

Image (female)	Image (male)	Name	Rarity	Slots	Set	Release
		Bandages (torso)	1	BBB
		Blue jacket	1	PBS
		Blue shirt	1	PBS
		Cyan Sweater	1	PBS
		Dirty blue shirt	1	PBS
		Fisherman's Jacket	1	SSP
		Green jacket	1	PBS
		Inca t-shirt	1	PBS
		Leather jacket and red t-shirt	1	PBS
		Leather jack and t-shirt	1	PBS
		Miner's top	1	PPB
		Pristine Shirt	1	PBS
		Red shirt	1	BBS
		Skull T-shirt	1	BBP
		Sport jacket	1	PBS
		Tank top	1	PBS
		Tourist's shirt	1	SSB
		Woodcutter's shirt	1	PPB
		13 hoodie	2	BBP
		Biker's jacket	2	BBB
		Cashmere sweater	2	SSB
		Electrician's jacket	2	PPB
		Fast Food T-shirt	2	PBS
		Green military shirt	2	BBB
		Green shirt	2	BBS
		Leather jacket	2	PBS
		Military shirt	2	BBB
		Nurse coat	2	SSS
		Overalls top	2	PPS
		Pac-Man shirt	2	SSB
		Polo shirt	2	BBS
		Sand top	2	BBS		23 Feb 2018
		Scientist's coat	2	SSS
		Skull tank top	2	BBB
		Sport vest	2	BBS
		Suit	2	PBS
		Thug's jacket	2	BBB
		Tie and shirt	2	PBS
		Waiter's top	2	PBS
		Cheerleader's top	3	SSS
		Corporate jacket	3	PBS
		Cowboy's jacket	3	PBS
		First Aider's Leather jacket	3	SSS
		Hospital t-shirt	3	SSS
		Inmate's shirt	3	BBS
		Police shirt	3	BBP
		RATS fan's jacket	3	SSB
		Scientist's shirt 2	3	SSS
		Scout's sweater	3	PBS
		Sheperd's jacket 1	3	PBS
		Shirt	3	PBS
		Survivor's hoodie	3	PBS
		Survivor's shirt	3	PBS
		White jacket	3	PBS
		Antibacterial Suit	4	PPS
		Eskimo top	4	PPS
		Firefighter's Jacket	4	PPS
		Football shirt	4	PPP
		Gladiator's Breastplate	4	PPB		5 Apr 2018
		Hipster's top	4	SSB
		Mercenary jacket	4	PPP		30 Mar 2018
		Minesweeper Vest	4	PPP		15 Jun 2018
		Phoenix uniform	4	PPB
		Pyjama's top	4	SSB
		Raider's vest	4	SSB		22 Mar 2018
		Raven Jacket	4	PPS		1 Jun 2018
		Reaper jacket	4	BBP		8 Mar 2018
		Scavenger jacket	4	PBS		17 May 2018
		Scientist's shirt	4	PPS
		Snake jacket	4	BBP		4 May 2018
		Steward's jacket	4	PBS
		Swimming Suit Top	4	SSB
		Tracker's jacket	4	BBP		2 Mar 2018
		Urban survival sweater	4	PBS		15 Feb 2018
		Walker's jacket	4	PBS		19 Apr 2018

Pants

Image (female)	Image (male)	Name	Rarity	Slots	Set	Release
		Black Cropped-pants	1	PBS
		Black Cropped pants	1	PBS
		Black jogging pants	1	PBS
		Black trousers	1	PBS
		Blue pants	1	PBS
		Brown pants	1	PBS
		Dark blue jeans	1	PBS
		Dark blue pants	1	PBS
		Jeans	1	PBS
		Miner's trousers	1	PPS
		Torn jeans	1	PBS
		Tourist's short trousers	1	SSB
		Woodcutter's trousers	1	BBP
		Battledress	2	BBB
		Biker's trousers	2	BBP
		Boxing short pants	2	BBS
		Green battledress	2	BBB
		Inmate's trousers	2	BBB
		Nurse's pants	2	SSS
		Overalls bottom	2	PPB
		Salary man's trousers	2	PBS
		Sand trousers	2	BBS		23 Feb 2018
		Thug's pants	2	BBB
		Waiter's trousers	2	PBS
		Black shorts	3	SSB
		Cheerleader's sportswear	3	SSS
		Cow Boy pants	3	PBS
		Electrician's trousers	3	PPS
		Fisherman's trousers	3	PBS
		Hospital Trousers	3	SSS
		Police officer trousers	3	BBP
		Raider pants	3	BBP		22 Mar 2018
		Reaper trousers	3	PBS		8 Mar 2018
		Scout's pants	3	PBS
		Sheperd's pants 1	3	PBS
		Straight black trousers	3	PBS
		Tracker trousers	3	PPB		2 Mar 2018
		Urban survival pants	3	PBS		15 Feb 2018
		Antibacterian trousers	4	PPS
		Eskimo's trousers	4	PPP
		Firefighter's trousers	4	PPB
		Football short trousers	4	PPP
		Gladiator's Trousers	4	PPB		5 Apr 2018
		Mercenary pants	4	PPS		30 Mar 2018
		Minesweeper trousers	4	PPS		15 Jun 2018
		Phoenix pants	4	PPB
		Pyjama bottom	4	SSB
		Raven's Trousers	4	BBP		1 Jun 2018
		Scavenger trousers	4	PBS		17 May 2018
		Short pants	4	SSB
		Snake pants	4	BBS		4 May 2018
		Steward's trousers	4	PBS
		Swimsuit	4	SSB
		Walker trousers	4	PBS		19 Apr 2018

Shoes

Image (female)	Image (male)	Name	Rarity	Slots	Set	Release
		Beige boots	1	PPB
		Black and green sneakers	1	PBS
		Dark Sneakers	1	PBS
		Fisherman's boots	1	PBS
		Kaki boots	1	PBS
		RATS Fan shoes	1	PBS
		Red sneakers	1	PBS
		Safety boots	1	PPP
		Safety boots 2	1	PPP
		Biker's boots	2	BBP
		Black leather shoes	2	PBS
		Football Sneakers	2	BBS
		Inmate's shoes	2	BBS
		Nurse's shoes	2	SSS
		Orange Flip-Flop	2	SSS
		Phoenix's guard boots	2	BBP
		Raider's Shoes	2	BBB		22 Mar 2018
		Sand shoes	2	PBS		23 Feb 2018
		Sneakers	2	BBS
		Tracker's shoes	2	BBS		2 Mar 2018
		Antibacterial shoes	3	PPS
		Black sneakers	3	PBS
		Brown Flip-Flops	3	SSS
		Eskimo's boots	3	PPS
		Patient's slippers	3	PBS
		Reaper shoes	3	BBP		8 Mar 2018
		Scout's shoes	3	PBS
		Urban survival shoes	3	PBS		15 Feb 2018
		Cheerleader's sneakers	4	SSB
		Italian shoes	4	PBS
		Minesweeper's Boots	4	PBS		15 Jun 2018
		Raven's shoes	4	SSB		1 Jun 2018
		Slippers	4	SSB

Removed

Image (female)	Image (male)	Name	Rarity	Set	Release	Removed	Notes
		Waitperson pants	3				Removed as the male pants were broken. It's unknown why they were not fixed instead, but as these existed in the early game concept, it's possible they were an unintended holdover, since almost all other clothes in the game have a very similar male/female design. Original, unbroken pants looked like this: (click to enlarge).

Trivia

• During beta before the clothes shop was added, you obtained clothing through level up rewards; you would be given a "crate" option which once selected would open to reveal a random clothing piece you didn't have yet (with higher level clothing being rarer).
• Before V1.14, "poor" quality clothing would show as torn, and had to be upgraded to at least average quality to remove torn effect.
• Before V1.18 upgrades required sewing kits and varying amounts of fabric, as well as 0-2 resources which depended on the clothing.
• Raven's Shoes was the only rarity 0 (Max Health boosts: 1~0/1/2/3/4) clothing piece. On July 6th, 2018, it was changed to a rarity 4 clothing piece.