# Most efficient way to make threads?

**URL:** <https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/most-efficient-way-to-make-threads/15085>\
**Category:** The Bunker\
**Created:** [March 9, 2018, 1:38am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/most-efficient-way-to-make-threads/15085 "2018-03-09T01:38:54Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 16\
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**Author:** ![Pyrite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Pyrite](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Pyrite)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2018, 1:38am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/most-efficient-way-to-make-threads/15085/1 "2018-03-09T01:38:54Z")

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Is there any way to make thread out of rags more quickly than spending most of an hour disassembling them?

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**Author:** ![psyxypher](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/psyxypher/32/11778_2.png) [@psyxypher](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/psyxypher)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2018, 1:48am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/most-efficient-way-to-make-threads/15085/2 "2018-03-09T01:48:48Z")

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Pretty sure the answer is no.

You can make threads out of other materials than Rags, however. Such as Cotton. Unfortunately, NPC farming doesn’t exist yet, so you need to do it by hand.

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**Author:** ![Straume21](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/straume21/32/236_2.png) [@Straume21](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Straume21)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2018, 1:57am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/most-efficient-way-to-make-threads/15085/3 "2018-03-09T01:57:37Z")

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Yes. Go into your nearest town, smash every window you can find, and pick up the long string that is dropped. Disassemble long strings into small strings, and disassemble these into thread. Takes a fraction of the time to do in-game. Also disassembling rags usually causes a slowdown on my pc, so it takes a long time literally to collect thread this way.

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**Author:** ![Pyrite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Pyrite](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Pyrite)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2018, 2:07am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/most-efficient-way-to-make-threads/15085/4 "2018-03-09T02:07:52Z")

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Interesting. It seems like disassembling seatbelts would also work well for this.

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**Author:** ![hobophobe](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/hobophobe/32/1785_2.png) [@hobophobe](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/hobophobe)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2018, 3:21am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/most-efficient-way-to-make-threads/15085/5 "2018-03-09T03:21:04Z")

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Seat belts (which become short ropes) are even better than the long strings you get from curtains but require an extra tool to remove.

Either way, thread, string and rope are all very important crafting and construction ingredients, so early survivors should collect lots of them.

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**Author:** ![Brony\_RainBoom](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/brony_rainboom/32/1909_2.png) [@Brony\_RainBoom](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Brony_RainBoom)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2018, 3:18pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/most-efficient-way-to-make-threads/15085/6 "2018-03-09T15:18:26Z")

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Why smash? Use close buttonn on window whit curtains and then examine the window and you can then tear the sheets down

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**Author:** ![Vargathon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f475e1/32.png) [@Vargathon](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Vargathon)\
**Post date:** [March 10, 2018, 2:25am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/most-efficient-way-to-make-threads/15085/7 "2018-03-10T02:25:42Z")

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Drop your long / short strings on the ground. (B)utcher them while standing on the same tile and select “Disassemble all” or something like that. It’ll disassemble them all the way until threads and then you pick them up. At least that way the manual work is gone 🙂

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**Author:** ![NuG](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/nug/32/7057_2.png) [@NuG](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/NuG)\
**Post date:** [March 10, 2018, 3:42pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/most-efficient-way-to-make-threads/15085/8 "2018-03-10T15:42:25Z")

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Yeah I always just tear the curtains off of windows, not by smashing just examine and tear down, also while having strings on auto-pickup. Then drop them all underneath your self and disassemble them, like Varg said. That or collect cat tails in a swamp and you can get “plant fiber” as a byproduct, I believe from just cooking them, or you can even just craft “plant fiber” from them, as well.

I almost never use rags to get thread.

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**Author:** ![deoxy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7feea3/32.png) [@deoxy](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/deoxy)\
**Post date:** [March 10, 2018, 11:50pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/most-efficient-way-to-make-threads/15085/9 "2018-03-10T23:50:52Z")

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With high enough tailoring, you can turn 30 rags into short rope, which can be disassembled into a lot more than 3000 thread.

(Been a while since I needed thread enough to do that… you may have to make 5 short ropes, turn those into a long rope, then disassemble that back into short ropes again before you can get long strings out of the short ropes you made. And it’s STILL faster than turning rags into thread directly.)

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**Author:** ![NuG](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/nug/32/7057_2.png) [@NuG](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/NuG)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2018, 7:46pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/most-efficient-way-to-make-threads/15085/10 "2018-03-19T19:46:04Z")

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That’s very interesting, I’ll have to check it out sometime. Is that an oversight, because that doesn’t seem like it would be intentional, but what do I know. 😆

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**Author:** ![Mantar](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/mantar/32/42_2.png) [@Mantar](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Mantar)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2018, 8:19pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/most-efficient-way-to-make-threads/15085/11 "2018-03-19T20:19:04Z")

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It’s an exploit, yeah. The game doesn’t track two levels worth of ingredients, so you can make it forget what you made the short ropes out of, and take advantage of it guessing wrong.  
It’s pretty cheesy. 🧀

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**Author:** ![trelatyraelis](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/trelatyraelis/32/1054_2.png) [@trelatyraelis](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/trelatyraelis)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2018, 9:56pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/most-efficient-way-to-make-threads/15085/12 "2018-03-19T21:56:38Z")

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yeah, no.  
That doesn’t work anymore.

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**Author:** ![darktoes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@darktoes](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/darktoes)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2018, 12:21am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/most-efficient-way-to-make-threads/15085/13 "2018-03-20T00:21:05Z")

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What if you used the rope in a construction then took it apart?

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**Author:** ![DeWolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df705f/32.png) [@DeWolf](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/DeWolf)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2018, 2:04pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/most-efficient-way-to-make-threads/15085/14 "2018-03-20T14:04:44Z")

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Such as vehichle construction?

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**Author:** ![darktoes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@darktoes](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/darktoes)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2018, 8:06pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/most-efficient-way-to-make-threads/15085/15 "2018-03-20T20:06:41Z")

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I was thinking a building but that might work too.

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**Author:** ![deoxy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7feea3/32.png) [@deoxy](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/deoxy)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2018, 3:04am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/most-efficient-way-to-make-threads/15085/16 "2018-03-21T03:04:50Z")

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> [@trelatyraelis](#):
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> yeah, no.
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> That doesn’t work anymore.

Seriously? They have it keeping up with the components of the components of things? That’s what it would take.

> [@darktoes](#):
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> What if you used the rope in a construction then took it apart?

Yeah, that’s works, too (or at least used to) - best exploit on that was building a welding rig out of makeshift welders, installing it on a vehicle, then uninstalling it and taking it apart to get a real welder (there’s a quest where you need two of them), but doing that with ropes/long ropes would work as well… or at least, it used to. Haven’t checked it in the latest build.