Digested clothes have been changed a bunch since the full update. Doesn’t even happen without the relevant skill, and the calculation for the stats now just reduces it’s ‘level’ by one and caps it at the planet’s tier.
If an NPC is wearing tier 6 armor on a tier 3 planet, you’ll get tier 3 armour.
If an NPC is wearing tier 3 armor on a tier 3 planet, you’ll get tier 2 armour.
NPCs don’t actually use the stats from the armour they are wearing, their damage/health/protection is all just based off their level instead. It’d be silly if you could just eat a village guard or random npc on a low level planet and instantly get high tier armor.
