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So, as some might have noticed all added Apparel to the Preferred Apparel list now take 80 cloth/leather type material to make as well.

Sadly the method of adding things to Preferred Apparel is by how it's crafted. Specifically how "most" general clothing items are crafted in Vanilla Rimworld. The game seems to automatically scan for Apparel ingame to add to this list but only adds them if they have a material type, and cost of that material.

This is unlike the cost-list which most of the modded apparel uses (at least in AM:A). Ideology being programmed to pickup apparel this way only makes for some issues going forward. Not only is the recipes now more expensive, but adding material types also creates some balance uncertainty. What was once just an Enginseer Robe (for example)... when crafted now can be something like a "Cloth Enginseer Robe" or "Hyperweave Enginseer Robe"... the latter being my point of concern. Using these higher grade materials will automatically upgrade the stats such as max health and durability. Plenty of mods out there are balanced finely, and do not account for any added bonuses to the stats. They most likely use a cost list which makes for a very specific recipe compared to the more generalized.

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I added cloth/leathery material types, and a cost of 80 of them to all apparel. This is Ideologies cost for Robes. While I hate that I have had to make all these apparel more expensive and possibly open them to unbalanced stats (for higher grade material used in crafting). To my knowledge it's the only way to add to the Preferred Apparel.


The way these Ideology apparels (at least to my knowledge thus far of the Preferred Apparel list's functionality) are added is not quite modder friendly. I am going to see what I can do for Weapons being added to the Relic list, but I am concerned already it might be a similar process.

I have hope this can be remedied in some way going forward, but we shall see.