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Since Rabbits dont drop Brains, and you need one Brain now for each piece of leather, then effectively rabbits are useless as a source of leather? Because to tan them you'd need to use a brain from a different animal, which just means you don't get to tan THAT animal's hide....

Am I right in thinking this?

Zephyr40k wrote:Since Rabbits dont drop Brains, and you need one Brain now for each piece of leather, then effectively rabbits are useless as a source of leather? Because to tan them you'd need to use a brain from a different animal, which just means you don't get to tan THAT animal's hide....

Am I right in thinking this?

doesn't hurt to have the xtra skins. you can also sell the dried hides

A dead rabbit fits a steak, two shreds and a hide into a single slot, so it's obviously better than a deer hide if you're running low on inventory space. But yeah, people mainly just sell the dry rabbit hides in Boston.

Depends on if you can kill beavers. I'd rather use the beaver brain to tan the rabbit hide and sell the dried beaver hide. More profitable that way and you get the same amount of leather no matter what type of hide you tan.

Only for now, thankfully. They've talked about other types of tanning fluids. I'd much prefer the old haven method of collecting bark, even if bark needed to be more rare or limited here.

Well for me as a new player, but I consider myself inventive. I can kill rabbits & crickets, but not the big game yet. So I actually buy the brains from players in boston. I normally pay around 75 silver for 5 brains. This way I can still tan, make leather, use it for myself, sell some and make all the silver i spent on brains back to buy more and have extra.

Ive played for 8 days now, casually and sometimes more than others. I find silver making VERY easy, most everything can be sold, or someone looking for a trade.

In short I think rabbit hide is very useful, just have to think "outside the box".

Stormie wrote:Well for me as a new player, but I consider myself inventive. I can kill rabbits & crickets, but not the big game yet. So I actually buy the brains from players in boston. I normally pay around 75 silver for 5 brains. This way I can still tan, make leather, use it for myself, sell some and make all the silver i spent on brains back to buy more and have extra.

Ive played for 8 days now, casually and sometimes more than others. I find silver making VERY easy, most everything can be sold, or someone looking for a trade.

In short I think rabbit hide is very useful, just have to think "outside the box".

The reason it's not useful is because brains and hides come as a "package". You need a brain to make leather out of a hide. You'll never end up in a situation from hunting yourself where you have a brain without a hide to go with it, and thus never end up in a situation where you have a brain and need to go get a hide to tan. The only way it'll happen is with trading, raiding, or player error (like tossing out hides or having racks break).

Even if you buy the brains, the person who killed the animal has a hide they now can't tan because they sold the brain. Very well may be selling the hide too.

Well i have to say i didn't find the leather overcheap even when you needed 1 brain for 4 hides. Its a real pain getting leather now and i think it makes torchposts very overpriced.

I wouldn't know yet Zamte, but I do understand what your saying as a "package". But this way does work for those who can not yet take down the deer,beavers,bears or such animals that give brains. I was just stating a small work-around for the rabbits really are not just hide dry and sell.

We have been told by Jorb that other tanning agents will be coming in the future so that tanning isn't dependent solely on brains (that way it will be a brainless job).