Following a comment by ladypotaty concerning a modded material, I started considering an improvement to the formula that calculates material softness. But before I do that, I decided to ask you players for advice. I usually don't do this, but I wanna hear your thoughts on this one, since it all comes down to the way other mods do textiles.

I believe the formula I originally came up with works very well with the vanilla textile materials and the modded ones that follow that same pattern. But every once in a while, people find something's odd. I can't possibly test all RimWorld mods out there, but you guys know the ones you play with better than anyone. I bet you can easily point out any inconsistencies, right? Well, here's your chance at it!

As you know, Soft Warm Beds calculates a softness value on the fly for each textile on the game database. To do that, it uses some stats from each material and guesses what would be an appropriate softness value. More precisely, it judges three things:

a. The armor values for sharp and blunt damage. The higer the values, the harder the material is considered to be.
b. The insulation values. Roughly speaking, the bigger temperature offset it provides the furrirer and therefore the softer that material is considered to be.
c. The price. This is helpful because softer fabrics are usualy considered more luxurious, and this reflects in their price in-game. Ch-inchilla fur, for instance, gets bumped up because of this.

Since this works, it is likely we'll keep it as the formula basis. But that doesn't mean we can't refine it, right? What I'm looking for are outliers, modded materials that should be softer or harder, but for some reason it doesn't show up on the calculated softness stat.

Beyond your thoughts, I need the material's armor, insulation and price values, as well as the name of the mod it comes from (even better if you can link it for me).

1. I don't want to pick specific materials and tweak their values so they fit neatly on some softness scale. I'm sticking to a single formula capable of resolving ANY material. Certainly, this method will leave room for some degree of imprecision. If X is 50% and Y is 55% and you feel it should be the other way around, I'm probably just going to say that's close enough for me and that you shouldn't bother either.

2. I'm also sticking to the mod's original intent: to make weaker materials more useful. This means any armor value will automatically reduce the softness value. If a modder decided his material should be both strong and a good insulator but describes it as something soft, the algorithm will completely ignore the text and probably place it somehwere in the middle of the scale. This is not a fluke, it's just the mod doing its job!

3. Keep in mind our "softness" is a completely made up concept, an abstraction. It doesn't exactly tells us if some textile is furry, silky, smooth or comfy, it can mean any or none of those things. What we're concerned with is how much, in-game, it should affect a bed's "comfort" value while serving the mod's objective. Let's not get too bogged down with "realism", ok? Doing so frequently works against game logic.

Please, also keep in mind I'm not making any promises. The end result from this discussion might very well be everything stays the same.

All things considered, please tell me what you think!

And if you can, please consider buying me a coffe.[ko-fi.com] ;-)