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[B42] Clothing Protection: Rebalanced

Rebalances all clothing items for protection values.
Also rebalances weights, running speed modifiers, and combat speed modifiers, including all armor. Adds missing insulation, wind resistance, and water resistance, where appropriate. All of the changes have been made by hand and reflect a more realistic, immersive experience.

Includes mod support for Spongie's Open Jackets, Spongie's Clothing, Vanilla Clothing Expansion, Small Town First Responders - Core, and Small Town First Responders - Main. Compatible with ongoing save files, can be removed without persisting changes.

Build 42.12 note:
Compatible with the newest update.

A Build 42 continuation of my Sensible Balance: Clothing Protection Values Overhaul. Does not create mod conflicts with other mods as it does not override items, by using a lua implementation to create changes, but please keep it at the end of your load order.

The game has two ways of applying clothing protection from zombies:

Clothing that can be damaged with holes loses its protection value in that part of the body after a zombie attack, layer by layer, if you successfully avoid being hurt. A successful zombie scratch or bite will rip holes in all of your clothing at once at the specific part of your body, and you get injured (at a very high tailoring level, patching clothes repairs holes completely). Therefore it makes sense to layer up even if your protection is already displayed as 100% for a specific part, as underlying layers will continue to offer high protection.

Another method is armor. Starting with Build 42 the game has armor that does not sustain holes, but loses condition upon an attack, and can no longer be used if at zero condition. At a glance it seems that creating magazine and duct tape armor offers a higher protection percentage than sports gear or forged survivalist armor, however it only lasts one hit.

I have removed the 'holes' mechanic from some items where appropriate, e.g. military boots can no longer be rendered useless with one scratch. Bulletproof vests offer 80% protection using the new armor system, instead of 100% protection that survives one bullet or one scratch. Helmets that could not previously be damaged now have a small change to sustain condition loss.

Note that in B42 the developers have not (so far) enabled the clothing Run Speed Modifier to work. I recommend you use Working Run Modifier to apply the bonuses (for sneakers) or penalties (from heavy clothing and armor as rebalanced by my mod).

I recommend you use Nepenthe's Slower Discomfort, and Remove Bag Slowdown for further clothing tweaks.

Please do not modpack or reupload.
If this mod is deleted, you are welcome to reupload to Steam Workshop only.
Thanks and enjoy!

Realistic Distributions: Alcohol, Cigarettes, Clutter
Temperature Affects Food Spoilage Rate
Rebalanced Yields: Butchering
Quality of Life and Miscellaneous Tweaks
Immersive Preservation: Canning and Jarring of evolved recipes

Workshop ID: 3548639002
Mod ID: ClothingProtectionRebalanced