Improvised Insulation
clothing
Harvest: 20 minutes 2 × [Cloth]; 3 x [Ptarmigan Down]
Repair: 1 × [Cloth] 2 x [Ptarmigan Down]; 30 minutes; 60% condition
Improvised Insulation is an insulated base layer Clothing accessory added to the paid update of Part 3: Frontier Comforts for the Tales from the Far Territory expansion. It is made from Cloth and Ptarmigan Down feathers harvested from hunted Ptarmigans.
Improvised Insulation is a clothing item in The Long Dark. It adds 2°C warmth and 1°C windproofing. It weighs 0.25 kg.
At 8°C per kg its warmth-to-weight ratio ranks #11 of 100 clothing items with both values recorded — a strong ratio.
Its 1% protection is a small edge in a predator struggle, though mobility and warmth matter more in most runs.
Crafting notes: it repairs with 1 × Cloth 2 x Ptarmigan Down; 30 minutes; 60% condition and harvests into 20 minutes 2 × Cloth; 3 x Ptarmigan Down.
Verdict: Overall Improvised Insulation is a 2°C clothing piece.