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Based on the survival threshold at 40% insulation, I added a bit of extra analysis to the temperature efficiency graph to show how clothing and village structures can affect players (click for larger version):

Generally, it looks like any safe level of clothing is universally beneficial for villages with most of their tiles in Meadows, Wetlands, or Jungle. However, if a village is primarily Desert you really need a significant exploration profession (like hunting, iron mining, resource hauling, etc.) to justify wearing any clothing at all. The break-even point happens at ~40% of your time away from Desert tiles.

It's also interesting that the extreme food swing for Desert biomes lands pretty far outside normal player conditions. There are only a few special cases where inattentive players might trigger it:

• Wearing unsafe amounts of clothing, then venturing into a Desert (if Yellow Fever doesn't kill you first)

• Building a Bear Fur Floor on a Desert tile (+50% insulation)

• Warming yourself at a Large Fire while standing in Desert

Of those, going over the safe limit on clothing is surprisingly easy (almost anything with 3 or more pieces!). However, experienced players tend to learn pretty quickly that full outfits are dangerous after a few lethal encounters with Mosquitoes bumbling around biomes where they don't belong.

This at least demonstrates that wearing 1-2 pieces of clothing is typically beneficial, since the food loss on Deserts is nowhere near severe at safe insulation levels. Wooden and stone flooring on Deserts is also relatively harmless, as long as you don't let newbies place Bear Fur Rugs down inappropriately.