Warm Clothing in 99 Nights in the Forest — Every Recipe, Where the Shop Is, and What the Cold Still Does to You
The full warm clothing table: what each of the five pieces costs, which four are made at the Warm Clothing Shop and which one is not, where every material actually drops, the two numbers sources disagree on, and why warm gear slows the freeze meter rather than stopping it.
Warm clothing is the answer to exactly one problem in 99 Nights in the Forest: the Snow Biome drains a freeze meter the whole time you stand in it, and a full one takes your sprint away. Everything on this page is aimed at that one meter.
What makes it awkward is that the answer is spread over four animals, two buildings and a badge, and most guides list the recipes without saying where each material comes from or what the pieces are actually for. So this page is the table plus the stuff around it: where the shop is, what the shop does and does not do for you, which recipe one wiki insists on getting wrong, and which materials you can farm on the way in.
The freeze meter itself — what happens when it empties, the Bell Tower slowdown, biofuel as a campfire alternative — is on the Snow Biome page. The animals below are covered in full on their own pages. This page only asks what their drops are worth.
Last verified: 2026-10-03.
Quick Answer
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What it is | Five head and head-adjacent pieces that slow the freeze meter drain |
| Where made | The Warm Clothing Shop, at the near edge of the Snow Biome — four of the five |
| The exception | The Mammoth Helmet is made at the Tool Workshop, not the shop |
| Full recipes | Earmuffs, Beanie, Arctic Fox Hat, Polar Bear Hat — see the table below |
| Does it stop the cold? | No. It slows the drain; only being indoors in the shop pauses it |
| Best protection | The Mammoth Helmet (7+), then the Polar Bear Hat — but the helmet is a Tool Workshop item |
| Badge | Crafting 10 warm pieces awards the Knitting badge — see the dispute below |
Where the Shop Is
A cabin at the near edge of the Snow Biome, marked on your map with a winter hat icon. That is the consistent description across every source; the shop sits close to the campfire end of the snow, so it is the first thing a player meets on the way in rather than something you have to survive to reach.
There are two mechanics here that sources state separately and that are easy to lose in the noise:
- Stepping inside pauses the freeze meter. While you are in the cabin the meter stops draining. But enemies can still hit you while you craft. The shop is a safe pocket from the cold and not a safe pocket from wolves.
- Wolves and Arctic Foxes are around the shop. Several guides warn about it in the same breath as the location, which tells you the farm route and the shop route overlap.
One thing to plan around: the shop shows four pieces in its glass case. The fifth is not hiding from you. It is in the wrong building.
The Five Pieces
| Piece | Materials | Warmth | Made where |
|---|---|---|---|
| Earmuffs | 2 Bunny Foot | 🌡️ (1) | Warm Clothing Shop |
| Beanie | 1 Arctic Fox Pelt + 1 Bunny Foot | 🌡️🌡️ (2) | Warm Clothing Shop |
| Arctic Fox Hat | 3 Arctic Fox Pelt | 🌡️🌡️🌡️🌡️ (4) | Warm Clothing Shop |
| Polar Bear Hat | 2 Polar Bear Pelt | 🌡️×5 or ×6 — see below | Warm Clothing Shop |
| Mammoth Helmet | 2 Mammoth Tusk + 2 Wolf Pelt | 🌡️×7+ | Tool Workshop |
The recipe column is agreed by every source that lists it. The two interesting columns are the ones sources get wrong.
On the Beanie: this is the cheapest genuinely useful piece, and it is the one place two different animals' drops meet — one Arctic Fox Pelt and one Bunny Foot. Both parts are farmable before you enter the snow, which is why the Beanie is the recommended first craft rather than the Earmuffs.
On the Mammoth Helmet: it costs 2 Mammoth Tusk and 2 Wolf Pelt, and it is the only piece not made at the Warm Clothing Shop — it goes through the Tool Workshop. If you are hunting Tusks anyway for the food budget, this is the piece worth saving for, because the helmet outranks the Polar Bear Hat.
Two Numbers Sources Disagree On
Both of these are real splits, and neither has an official statement behind it, so we show both rather than average them.
1. How many Bunny Feet the Earmuffs take. Four sources say 2; the fandom wiki says 1.
| Source | Earmuffs |
|---|---|
| 99-nights-in-the-forest.com | 2 |
| Deltia's Gaming | 2 |
| VGTimes | 2 |
| Dinokid wiki | 2 |
| Fandom wiki | 1 |
Treat 2 as the working figure and carry the spare. The failure mode is boring and expensive: you arrive with exactly two rabbit feet, the shop takes them, and you walk back out into the snow in nothing.
2. How much warmth the Polar Bear Hat grants. Three sources say 6, two say 5.
| Source | Polar Bear Hat |
|---|---|
| Fandom wiki | 6 |
| Dinokid wiki | 6 |
| VGTimes | 6 |
| 99-nights-in-the-forest.com | 5 |
| Deltia's Gaming | 5 |
The practical difference is one thermometer icon — one slice of run time — and the hat still beats the Arctic Fox Hat either way. Do not build a route around settling it; build the route and bring a flame weapon anyway.
Where Each Material Comes From
This is the part most guides skip, and it is the part that decides whether a run can afford the gear at all.
| Material | Comes from | Rarity in practice |
|---|---|---|
| Bunny Foot | Bunnies, everywhere on the map | Common — the easiest material here |
| Arctic Fox Pelt | The Arctic Fox, Snow Biome | Rare — 0–1 per kill |
| Polar Bear Pelt | The Polar Bear, Snow Biome | Rarest — 0–1 per kill, off the game's most dangerous animal |
| Mammoth Tusk | The Mammoth, Snow Biome only | 0–1 per kill |
| Wolf Pelt | The Wolf and other wolves | Common-ish — one of the four pelts the Pelt Trader asks for |
The shape of that table is the actual strategy. Bunny Foot is the only material you can farm in the green forest before you commit to the snow, and the two cheapest pieces are almost entirely made of it. Everything else has to be taken in the cold, in the dark, from animals that are trying the same thing to you. So the order matters: farm rabbit feet at home, take the cheapest warm piece first, then decide whether the trip is worth a second one.
Two shortcuts worth knowing:
- Taming the fox is a second route to the same pelt — the Arctic Fox is one of the cheaper tames, and a tamed fox follows you instead of shooting back. The cost and the steps are on How to Tame a Fox.
- The Mammoth is neutral until you hit it, which makes its Tusk the one rare material you can farm without being charged for. Its tame route is on How to Tame a Mammoth — the Strong Flute bill is the same either way.
What Warm Clothing Does Not Do
It slows the freeze meter. It does not stop it. That single sentence is the difference between surviving the snow and dying to the last 10% of a run, and only one source states it plainly while the rest imply the opposite with the way they describe the gear.
What follows from it:
- Warm gear is a budget, not a shield. You can stay longer. You cannot stay forever.
- Only the shop interior pauses the meter — and only while you are in it, with enemies still free to reach you.
- A depleted freeze meter means no sprint. In a biome full of animals that outrun a walking player, losing sprint is the lethal state, not the cold itself.
- Heat and clothing are not the same answer. A lit campfire with biofuel holds the run together in the snow too, and it does not cost you a head slot.
The Bunny Foot Trap
Warm clothing looks like the only buyer of Bunny Feet. It is not, and the queue is long enough to matter if you spend your rabbits on the wrong thing first.
- The Pelt Trader's first rung takes Bunny Foot and pays Good Axe, Good Sack or Old Flashlight with it.
- The Chainsaw wants 6 Bunny Feet alongside its other materials.
- The Riot Shield wants 6 Bunny Feet too, in the same material tier as the Wolf Pelts.
- One source also lists a Bandage at 2 Bunny Foot and 2 Wolf Pelt at the Cultist Workshop — that is a single source and no one else corroborates it, so treat the Bandage as unconfirmed rather than as a competing claim.
So the Earmuffs at 2 feet are the cheapest warm piece precisely because the expensive sink is six. If you are going to build a Chainsaw or a Riot Shield in the same run, the rabbit farming for the warm gear and the rabbit farming for the weapon are the same farm — and the weapon eats four of the five feet first.
The line we would give a new player: craft the Earmuffs or the Beanie (2 feet) before you commit to a 6-foot sink, because the warm piece is what lets you stay out there long enough to farm the second one.
The Knitting Badge
Craft 10 warm clothing items and you get the Knitting badge, which came from the 2025 Snow Biome Event and pays 5 Diamonds.
There is a genuine source disagreement here and we are not going to pick a side for you: the fandom wiki describes the badge as a live reward for the event, while the miraheze wiki states the Knitting badge has been removed. Check your badge list in a run before you farm ten pieces for it.
Worth noting for anyone farming: because five pieces cost different amounts of the same animals, "ten items" is not one run's work. The Earmuffs-style cheap pieces are the way to hit that count quickly.
FAQ
Where is the Warm Clothing Shop? A cabin at the near edge of the Snow Biome, marked with a winter hat icon on your map, close to the campfire end of the biome.
Is the Mammoth Helmet made there too? No. It is the one piece made at the Tool Workshop, from 2 Mammoth Tusk and 2 Wolf Pelt. The shop only holds four pieces.
Does warm clothing stop the freeze meter? No — it slows the drain. Only standing inside the Warm Clothing Shop pauses the meter, and enemies can still attack you there.
How many Bunny Feet does the Earmuffs cost? Two, by four sources. The fandom wiki says one. Bring three.
What is the strongest warm piece? The Mammoth Helmet at 7+ warmth, followed by the Polar Bear Hat. Both are expensive, and the helmet needs a Tool Workshop.
Which material should I farm first? Bunny Foot, in the green forest, before you enter the snow. It is the only common material here and it buys the two cheapest pieces.
Can I get Arctic Fox Pelts another way? Yes — taming an Arctic Fox is a second route to the Beanie and Arctic Fox Hat materials. Steps are on the fox tame page.
Do the Pelt Trader want any of these materials? Only the Bunny Foot, at his first rung. The Arctic Fox Pelt and Polar Bear Pelt are warm clothing only; he does not take them and they make no biofuel.
Sources
Checked 2026-10-03. Corroborated by three or more sources: the four shop recipes — Earmuffs 2 Bunny Foot, Beanie 1 Arctic Fox Pelt plus 1 Bunny Foot, Arctic Fox Hat 3 Arctic Fox Pelt, Polar Bear Hat 2 Polar Bear Pelt — appear identically on 99-nights-in-the-forest.com, the fandom wiki, Dinokid, VGTimes and Deltia's Gaming. The Mammoth Helmet at 2 Mammoth Tusk and 2 Wolf Pelt, made in the Tool Workshop rather than the shop, is 99-nights-in-the-forest.com, the fandom wiki and Dinokid. The thermometer grading for the Earmuffs (1), Beanie (2) and Arctic Fox Hat (4) is agreed by all five. The shop location at the near edge of the Snow Biome with a winter hat map icon is 99-nights-in-the-forest.com, Deltia's Gaming and Dinokid. Two sources, stated as such: the Earmuffs taking 1 rather than 2 Bunny Foot is the fandom wiki alone against four; the Polar Bear Hat at 5 warmth rather than 6 is 99-nights-in-the-forest.com and Deltia's Gaming; the freeze meter pausing inside the shop while enemies remain a threat is Deltia's Gaming and Dinokid; warm clothing slowing rather than stopping the meter is Dinokid alone. The Knitting badge at 10 items for 5 Diamonds from the 2025 Snow Biome Event is the fandom wiki and 99-nights-in-the-forest.com, with the miraheze wiki stating the badge has since been removed — that is the disagreement, neither is resolved. The Bandage recipe at the Cultist Workshop is VGTimes alone and is flagged as unconfirmed. What nobody publishes: the exact warmth numbers the developer assigned, whether the Knitting badge is still obtainable, the shop's respawn or restock rule, and any official statement that warm gear only slows the meter.
Related Pages
- Snow Biome — the freeze meter, the biome layout and what spawns there
- All Locations — where the Snow Biome sits on the map
- The Arctic Fox — the Snow Biome animal behind the Beanie and the Hat
- The Polar Bear — the source of the rarest warm-clothing material
- The Wolf — the Wolf Pelt the Mammoth Helmet wants
- How to Tame a Fox — a second route to Arctic Fox Pelts
- How to Tame a Mammoth — the neutral route to Mammoth Tusks
- How to Get Biofuel — staying warm with the fire instead
- How to Get the Riot Shield — the other six-Bunny-Foot sink
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