Just published another QoL mod that adds something I've wanted to have for years! Individual Rotten and Fresh Corpse Filters

Hopefully others will find it useful as well!

THANKS FOR FIXING THIS

For the people that don't read the description, the new apparel tracking feature won't apply to pawns that were already on the map before the tracking update. To force the tracker to update manually, turn on developer mode and check the bottom right of the debug options under "ImTryingToSaveYou" and select "Rebuild Original Apparel Tracker"

@The Bard of Hearts Glad you like it!

Very cool update dude! I'm so glad I found you and called attention to this (not that someone else wouldn't have eventually). But just seeing it get such thorough attention and care by skilled modders is awesome. Points Points!!!

sounds epic

@Alma_S I started adding this and it sent me down a rabbit hole lol

Now if you force a pawn from another faction to wear something, if whatever you're putting on them replaces something they're wearing, their apparel gets placed in their inventory.

But I also made it so whatever the target pawn was wearing when they loaded onto the map is tracked. So if you make them wear a parka and later decide to make them wear something else like a duster, your parka is dropped instead of being added to their inventory.

Good idea

a solution i can think of is dressing downed friendlies wont let them drop their equipment. the equipment gets added to said friendlies' inventory instead, then the penalty doesnt apply since you didnt actually strip tthem and you can only get access to their items only if you strip them, which is certainly penalized. the downside is you wont be getting your clothes back (you already gave it to them. its theirs now). i guess you can "exploit" this too by keep dressing them with clothes until their inventory is full...? even so, when you remove the clothing that wont fit, itll be a clothing that you put there to begin with, so you still get no access to their items unless you strip them, but with this, you basically can still "exploit" whenever their inventory is too full to accept the clothing that had to be removed to dress them up, which is not likely nor practical. after all, people drop their inventory the moment they are downed and all those items are yours without any penalty

Memory is vague on why this penalty exists but i think the intention was that this is a to work around tainted clothing for allied or neutral factions. The game currently has no "ownership" system, items are either natural or owned by the colony of the map so the caravan can't figure out theft. They don't know how much they lost, what they lost and by extension what to take back. It might be better if dropped items had a penalty for allowing them from neutrals/allies if they are gear from non corpses and making them find and carry them once they can walk again (like simple sidearms does for your own colonists). With the penalty clearing if they can't carry it.

Side-tangent: Why are all traders even from factions? I'd love some neutrals who oppose the violence of the world, like a mechanitor caravan or "Unkown Tribal Colony" migrating. Might be a mod idea for someone. Odyssey turns even the orbital guys into a faction and then you can't even gift them anything once they are hostile!

Forcing others to wear something is a newer feature then the penalty. The oversight is with making the gear be dropped instantly to make room for the new equipment because it conflicts while the goodwill check is only when the associated task that 'events' it completes. So the work around might just be the oversight and the penalty is how its supposed to be.
Around 1.4 goodwill for people leaving as healthy guests also got removed. Its currently unclear if its intentional (likely) or a bug. People figured out just before the updates you can turn your dining room into a walk-in air fryer forcing a trade caravan to drop their entire cargo, weapons and held out items like food and then also give goodwill for leaving after surviving as guests.

Example video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24nT1pZBN2A

@TurtleShroom afaik it's due to hand cuffs and other similar equipment being considered clothing, but iirc those are all modded...

I don't get why putting clothing ON someone causes a penalty.