Leather

Hide clothes on day one, metal armor later. Leather feels endless at first, then the facemask and chest plate want fifty each, so keep a knife on you.

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Characteristics

Category: Resources

Stack size: 1000

Craftable: No

Researchable: No

Overview

In-game description

Leather from an animal. Used in many clothing items and more.

Early in a wipe leather is clothing. A hide poncho, pants and boots cost a deer or two and take the edge off the cold nights and the first stray arrow. Nobody plans for it. You hunt, it piles up, you get dressed.

Then the demand changes. A road sign kilt wants ten plus sewing kits, and the metal kit most groups run later is greedy: the metal facemask and the chest plate take fifty leather each. Plenty of players find this out at the bench, with the high quality metal ready and twelve leather in the box.

Tip

Carry a combat knife on every trip and open whatever you kill, even when you only went out for ore. A bear or a horse met on the road is a big pile of hide, and a knife gets more of it than any other tool.

Saddle bags, gloves and the bear skin rug take their share too, so a box of leather never really stops shrinking.