How To Give Prisoners Clothes In Rimworld

Keeping your prisoners happy in Rimworld isn’t just about feeding them—their clothing matters too. Prisoners wearing poor-quality clothes will become unhappy and difficult to manage. This guide will show you the proper method to equip your prisoners with new clothes using stockpile zones and your tailoring bench.

Why Prisoners Need Good Clothes

Prisoners in Rimworld will suffer mood penalties if they’re wearing worn-out or low-quality apparel. By providing them with decent clothing, you can keep them in better spirits and make them easier to manage or convert to your colony.

Setting Up a Prisoner Stockpile Zone

The key to giving prisoners clothes is creating a dedicated stockpile zone in your prison area. You cannot directly hand clothes to prisoners, so you need an intermediate storage system.

Step 1: Create the Stockpile

Begin by creating a stockpile zone within your prison. Once you’ve designated the stockpile area, navigate to the storage settings.

Step 2: Clear Default Storage Settings

In the stockpile storage menu, select “clear all” to remove the default storage categories.

Step 3: Add Apparel Category

Add the apparel category to your stockpile. This allows any type of clothing or parallel gear to be stored here. Make sure to mark this as critical priority so apparel will be prioritized for storage in this zone.

Manufacturing Clothes at the Tailoring Bench

Create a Tailoring Bill

Go to your wooden tailor bench and add a new bill. Select to manufacture t-shirts for your prisoners. T-shirts require cloth or other available materials depending on what you have in your colony.

Prioritize Your Worker

Set your worker to prioritize the tailoring job. Once you do this, your colonist will begin crafting the clothes at the bench.

Automatic Clothing Distribution

Once the clothes are finished at the tailoring bench, your colonist will automatically transport them to the prisoner stockpile zone you created. From there, the prisoners will automatically pick up and equip the new clothing.

This process happens without any additional input from you—the system is designed to work automatically once the infrastructure is in place.

Important Notes

Remember that you cannot directly give clothes from your colonist’s inventory to prisoners. The only way to equip prisoners with new apparel is through the stockpile zone method described above. Make sure the stockpile is physically accessible to the prisoners and is marked with the apparel category set to critical priority.

Summary

Giving prisoners clothes in Rimworld requires three simple steps: create a dedicated apparel stockpile in your prison, set up a tailoring bill to manufacture clothes, and let the system work automatically. Your colonists will craft the apparel and prisoners will equip themselves, resulting in happier inmates and better morale overall.

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