Miner's Pants
Slot: Outer legs clothing
Harvest: 1 × [Cloth]; 30 minutes
Repair: 1 × [Cloth]; 30 minutes; 30% condition
The Miner's Pants is a unique Clothing pants found in various locations across the Zone of Contamination. They most often spawns somewhere inside the Langston Mine, Concentrator, Conveyor Room, Headframe Building, or Idle Camp.
Miner's Pants is an Outer legs item in The Long Dark. It adds 1.5°C warmth and 1°C windproofing. Waterproofing is 20%. It weighs 1 kg.
Within the Outer legs slot its 1.5°C warmth ranks #4 of 9 entries here — mid-pack for that layer.
At 1.5°C per kg its warmth-to-weight ratio ranks #77 of 100 clothing items with both values recorded — a poor return for the weight.
Its 6% protection is a small edge in a predator struggle, though mobility and warmth matter more in most runs.
Note the 3% mobility penalty — it slows you slightly, so a lighter inner layer can be the better trade when you are carrying a heavy load.
Crafting notes: it repairs with 1 × Cloth; 30 minutes; 30% condition and harvests into 1 × Cloth; 30 minutes.
Verdict: Overall Miner's Pants is a 1.5°C Outer legs piece, best reserved for cold-weather loadouts where the mobility hit is affordable.
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