Permafrost Tailoring Bench: Unlock, Build and Use
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Quick answer: the tailoring bench blueprint comes from the Skinwalker's quest-reward box at Hunter's Glade — rebuild his lookout tower ("High Frequency"/"The Way Home"), claim the box, then build the bench for 3 copper ingots + wood. It crafts the clothing sets that raise your cold resistance.
Step by step
- Build your base radio station bench (3 wire + 10 wood) during "New Home" and listen to the transmission — this opens the Hunter's Glade questline.
- Travel to Hunter's Glade and meet the Skinwalker.
- Rebuild the lookout tower — the quest involves over a dozen repair steps (windows, bed, radio), so bring wood and building materials.
- Claim the reward box. It contains the tailoring bench blueprint and a 25-slot utility backpack — a serious upgrade.
- Unlock and build the tailoring bench (reported: 3 copper ingots + wood). Copper ingots mean copper ore smelted with coal — plan for 9 ore + 15 coal.
If the reward box looks empty, press Space to skip the dialogue — a known Early Access quirk — then check again.
What it crafts
The bench is the clothing station: survivor and tribal sets first, with better sets unlocking as your materials improve. The reported progression:
animal-head hats (bear 2 pelts / fox 4 pelts) → tribal → hybrid (schematics from Anna's radio-silence reward) → insulated mountain (needs processed plastic) → military (quality metal) → lunar/"Permafrost" set (moonrock + quality metal).
Naming trap to know: the quest objective "Craft Utility Boots" refers to the hybrid boots recipe.
The tanning chain it depends on
Clothing needs cloth, and cloth needs leather:
- Tanning rack (2 blueprint points): 1 pelt + 2 animal fat → treated hide (rabbits need 2 pelts).
- Treated hide → cloth: 1 treated hide → 3 cloth (reported).
- No pelts yet? Mule, the traveling trader at Horizon, sells treated hide.
The hybrid set additionally needs the disassembling bench (there's one in the house-camp church).
FAQ
The reward box was empty! Skip the dialogue with Space and recheck — known issue.
Do I need the tailoring bench for tribal clothes? Tribal is a blueprint-point unlock asked for by an early quest; the bench is for the crafted sets beyond it.
Related: Clothing & cold resistance · Workbench & stations · Walkthrough: Hunter's Glade
Related guides
- Permafrost Workbench: How to Build and Use ItBuild a workbench for 10 wood under a roof. It crafts flint tools, wire, bandages and heaters — but items land on the bench and chests don't count.
- Permafrost Clothing: Cold Resistance and Armor SetsClothes carry your temperature rating. The set ladder runs animal hats → tribal → hybrid → insulated mountain → military → the lunar Permafrost set.
- Permafrost Walkthrough: Main Quest Route (Early Access)The full main quest route through the Early Access region — Horizon, the bone cave, New Home, Hunter's Glade, House Camp and the Solar Fields — with quest-gating gotchas.
- Permafrost Copper: Mining, Smelting and WireCopper boulders need a flint pickaxe. Smelt 3 ore + 5 coal into an ingot, turn ingots into wire, and build the radio station to progress the story.