Tailoring

Patching and padding need the garment, a clean fabric strip, thread and a needle. The needle is not used up.

• Fabric: ripped sheets (cotton), denim strips and leather strips. Wash dirty strips first.
• Change from Build 41: ripping clothes now gives fabric, not thread.
• Thread comes from sewing kits, or from Pick Thread at Tailoring 1: one ripped sheet or denim strip plus a needle, tweezers or awl gives one single-use thread. Pick Thread gives no XP.
• Twine, sinew thread, dental floss and fishing line can replace thread in many recipes.

Patch Hole covers damage; Add Padding reinforces an undamaged area. Both use the same sewing action, and the protection is set by your level at the moment you sew. Old patches do not improve when you level up; remove them and sew again.

Maximums at Tailoring 10, from one guide (one source). A fully invisible repair with matching fabric needs Tailoring 8 (one wiki says 7). Sewing time is 150 minus 6 per level, and the chance of getting fabric back when removing a patch is 10% plus 5% per level, up to 60%.

Build 42 adds roughly 189 tailoring recipes that give XP: bandanas, shirts and trousers, leather gloves and trousers, fur hats, furred hide coats, frame packs, and bone, tyre and wooden armour. Leather comes from butchering and tanning.

• Knitting: for example the wool hat needs knitting needles, yarn, Tailoring 2 and a magazine.
• Spinning wheel: Carpentry 5, 4 planks, 4 nails, 3 long sticks. It turns raw wool or heckled flax into thread; sources disagree on how much per spin.
• A simple loom appears in the game files and weaves thread into a cotton fabric roll (one source).

1. Loot sewing kits; keep spare needles.
2. Rip spare cotton, denim and leather clothes into strips and wash them.
3. Reach level 1 sewing simple items such as a rag bandana, 8 XP each (game files).
4. Pad your jacket and trousers, leather first.
5. Read the book for your level and redo important patches as you level.

XP per patch is small: two sources say a flat 2. Shortening sleeves gives none. PinDrop gives the usual 32,775 XP curve; one pzfans page lists a different total, so we follow PinDrop. Starting skill: Tailor occupation +4, Sewer trait +1.

Opinion Tailoring 4 with leather padding is the point where a careless scratch stops being a death sentence. Get there before your first long trip.