JohnCarver wrote:Feone wrote:Personally I'd say not so much the skin itself, after your biles are up a bit deer are really no harder than bunnies. Actually, bunnies are probably more annoying since they run away so fast.
However, I do think the leather system could use some upgrades. We have so many types of cotton, but only one leather. It could be a nice candidate for some easy variety. Add a few luxury leathers from specific skins with maybe a few more ingredients required in the tanning fluid, these could sell for a bit higher than the standard price at stalls. Seems like a fairly easy thing to add as a warmup project for the devs.
We want to open up various quality hides through additional unlocks in the Hunting & Gathering Prof. Tree. We have not yet carried that through to leather working and would love to hear community ideas on how the Leather system could be further explored. Other than just selling them for more money on the stall, why would you want better leathers? What would they do? How would they differ?
Hm, off the top of my head I can think of a few things it might be useful for:
1) Fancy clothing. Wether you tend to crops, explore the world or mercilessly slaughter newbies, everybody loves looking fabulous while doing it.
2) Perhaps add strips of leather as a high-grade substitute for certain fiber applications or other crafting where it makes sense. Canoes come to mind.
3) WooWooWands, if witchcraft is ever implemented perhaps a fancy version of the dowsing rod (March hare leather?) could seek out the malignant influence of hexes. With a degree of uncertainty, ofcourse.
4) Perhaps using higher grade fabric could increase the odds of artificing succeeding. I absolutely hate the current artificing RNG system though, I doubt reducing the failing rate would make it any more enjoyable.
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If horses are added, saddles would be a great application as well. Better leather could alter their appearence but perhaps also affect the maximum speeds the horse could move at. Perhaps the cargo capacity of a saddle (bags on it, etc) could be affected by the type of leather as well.