Technical Balaclava
Slot: Headgear clothing
Harvest: 1 × [Cloth]; 10 minutes
Repair: 1 × [Cloth]; 30 minutes; 75% condition
Technical Balaclava is a type of clothing in The Long Dark. It is part of the Tales from the Far Territory DLC.
Technical Balaclava is a Headgear item in The Long Dark. It adds 2°C warmth and 2°C windproofing. Waterproofing is 50%. It weighs 0.2 kg.
At 10°C per kg its warmth-to-weight ratio ranks #1 of 100 clothing items with both values recorded — the best in the table.
Its 5% 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; 30 minutes; 75% condition and harvests into 1 × Cloth; 10 minutes.
Verdict: Overall Technical Balaclava is the warmest Headgear option catalogued here.