How to Change Your Outfit and Use DLC Costumes in Scroll of Taiwu

Clothing vs Armor: two different things

The Equipment screen (Q → Equipment tab) has slots for Headpiece, Armor, Bracers, Footwear, Weapons, and Relics. These slots hold combat-oriented items that give Physical Defense, Qi Defense, and other battle stats.

Clothing items (服装 / 衣物) are a separate category. They sit in your Inventory under the Clothing type and provide Charm (魅力) rather than defense. Charm affects how NPCs react to you in dialogue and social interactions. A higher Charm score unlocks more favorable outcomes in certain conversations.

Because Clothing and Armor are separate, you can wear a cosmetic outfit and still have armor equipped at the same time — or walk around in your Clothing with the armor slots empty, as the Equipment screen shows when no armor pieces have been picked up yet.

• Equipment slots (Headpiece, Armor, Bracers, Footwear) → combat stats.
• Clothing items → Charm stat only, no defense contribution.
• Both can be used simultaneously — they do not share a slot.
• The character portrait updates to reflect whichever Clothing item is active.

Finding and equipping a Clothing item

Open your Inventory (Q → Inventory tab) and filter or scroll to find items with the Type listed as Clothing. The Wanderer Attire (行脚衣) is the default piece most characters start with — it is a Tier 17 Clothing item that provides 75 Charm for both male and female characters.

To change your outfit, locate a different Clothing item in your Inventory. Right-click it (or use the action menu) to equip it. The character portrait in the center of most character screens will update immediately to show the new look.

Clothing items cannot be Disassembled, Envenomed, or Refined — those actions are restricted on the Clothing subtype. You can, however, let them degrade through use; once Durability reaches 0 the item stops functioning, so repair it at a craftsman NPC or via crafting before it breaks.

• Inventory → filter by Clothing type to find wearable outfits.
• Wanderer Attire (行脚衣) = default starting outfit, Tier 17, Charm 75.
• Right-click a Clothing item to equip — portrait updates instantly.
• Clothing cannot be Disassembled, Envenomed, or Refined.
• Repair Clothing before Durability hits 0 or it stops working.

DLC costumes: how to get and use them

Several paid DLC packs add new Clothing items — cosmetic outfits that show up in your character portrait but do not change combat stats. Examples include 八载同舟 (Eight Years Together), 奇山依旧 (The Old Mountain Remains), 尽绽花影 (Full Bloom), and others visible in the in-game Extra Content screen.

To use a DLC costume, you need three things: own the DLC in your Steam account, have it installed (Steam library → manage DLC → install), and have the game detect it as active. If the in-game Extra Content screen shows 'This DLC is not active,' that means Steam has not finished installing the pack or it was not enabled — go back to Steam, find the DLC under Manage DLC for Scroll of Taiwu, and make sure it is checked and fully downloaded.

Once a costume DLC is active, its Clothing items should appear automatically in your character's Inventory. If you do not see them, try closing and restarting the game after the DLC finishes installing. Complete Edition owners should already have all bundled costume DLC in their library — verify under Manage DLC rather than the store page, since store badges can lag behind.

• Own the DLC → install it in Steam → relaunch the game.
• 'This DLC is not active' = DLC is not installed or not enabled in Steam.
• DLC Clothing items appear in Inventory once the pack is active.
• No new slot needed — DLC costumes use the same Clothing system.
• Complete Edition owners: check Manage DLC in Steam, not the store badge.
• Cosmetic DLC does not affect combat stats — only the character portrait and Charm value.

What Charm actually does — and its two sources

Charm (魅力) is a social stat that influences NPC dialogue options and the success rate of social actions — persuasion, gifting, and first impressions. Higher Charm can open dialogue branches that lower scores cannot reach. It does not affect combat.

Charm has two separate sources in Taiwu. The first is your character's Beauty at creation time: the Taiwupedia entry for Basic Information states directly that 'a character's beauty determines their Charm, affecting others' Favorability.' The second source is your equipped Clothing item, which adds its own Charm value on top. Body type and skin color — the other Appearance settings — only change how the character looks and have no practical effect on any stat.

In practice this means two characters with identical Clothing can have different Charm totals if their Beauty scores differ. And a character who swaps to a higher-Charm Clothing item will always raise their Charm, regardless of their Beauty baseline.

• Charm source 1: Beauty (set during character creation) — affects base Charm and NPC Favorability.
• Charm source 2: Clothing item — adds Charm on top of the Beauty baseline.
• Body type and skin color: purely cosmetic, zero stat effect (confirmed in Taiwupedia).
• Higher total Charm opens more dialogue choices and improves social action success.
• Swapping Clothing has no cooldown or gold cost — only Durability matters.

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