A Guide Into the Leather Age

[Lapedus]

Now "The leather age" is one of the first tiers that really separates the n00bs from the pilgrims you can make tons of clothing tools and even your first canoe with leather. So without further ado here's a guide on leather production.


Step one. Preparation

You need the following skills to make leather:
-Tanning
-Hideworking
-Small and Big Game hunting
*Tip* If you can't find any smooth stones or foragables to level up hunting and gathering you can craft decotative wood carvings. Or kill warbite crickets and study them which will give first hand experience for hunting also.

Optional and recommended:
-Fencing
-Back alley puigilism
-Beaver skinning
-Butchering skills
-Swimming

Necissary biles:

Although people say to keep your biles close its ok to have them seperated by a few levels so don't worry too much about leveling phlegm and black bile for now. What you need will mostly vary if or if you don't have a sword. So with a sword and 15 yb and blood and with enough honed skill and practice you can kill a deer and definitly a beaver. Which is what we'll be hunting the most. If you're going unarmed I'd recomend 25 biles and just be sure you can trust your stomp.

Equipment

You NEED a slingshot. Which requires plant fiber which can be crafted by cooking milkweed then soaking it in a river. Also you will need rocks in your inventory to use as ammunition. And as stated before I highly recommend the sword but it can be done without it.
*Tip* Pick up some nails and craft a Bucket because you'll need it soon. Also if you see any lime (the white rock) pick it up and store it for the future tanning process.

Step 2. The hunt

The easiest method to make your first leather is to hunt rabbit and beavers. Because you need hides and brains (which can't be butchered from a rabbit) to create leather. But because beaver pelts are worth more dry then they would be as leather you need a different source of hides. Which is where the rabbits come in, any dried hide can be tanned into leather even a snake skin!

Hunting rabbits UA:

Animals will always run away from you if you try to get close to them so to intiate combat you have to used ranged combat or some sort of a terrain trap, which we will NOT be covering.
1. Collect rocks and make sure yb and blood bars are full
2. Find a rabbit (can be found in almost every biome) and wait for it to stop moving
3. Shoot at it
4. As it runs at you stomp to stun
**5. Follow up with an uppercut if not dead (If you didn't kill it with stomp get a sword or higher biles)

Hunting rabbits w/ sword:
Steps 1-3 are the same.
4. Thrust at it when it runs at you
**Tip** you do not need to activate En garde! To thrust only to parry**

Hunting Beavers UA (Yay!!!):

Before you fight a beaver take these for forewarnings:
-Beavers have 10 Hp and their basic attack can deal around 3 blood.
-Beaver have a special attack where they start to spin around (Spin to win mode) and dance and a song plays and it does a lot of damage and will also bring other beavers near it agro on to you.
-skin before you butcher. If you don't you lose the skin.
1. Find a beaver. They spawn in shallow water so look in rivers or port to boston and check the sea shore.
2. Intiate combat with your sling but not from too far away. Because if you are fighting a beaver and you are a certain distance away from it the beaver will start the dance. In the case that it does put up gaurd and wait for it to stop.
3. Stomp then uppercut and retreat back some but not to far because of the dance.
4. Its probably low and doesn't require a full combo so when it goes for you again just put up gaurd and uppercut the beave for a finishing move.

Hunting Beavers w/ a sword (YAY!!)
Steps 1-2 are the same.
3. Stomp then thrust if 15yb
Or
3. Thrust if 20+ yb
**4. If it is still alive for whatever reason stay at a moderate distance wait for it to come back then thrust.
*Tip* If you are low on YB and/or blood in a fight use swimming to get away from the animal you are fighting and run away to break combat.


Step 3. Manufacturing.

You can now produce leather congratulations! Here is what you will need.
-Drying racks
-Tanning Tubs
-Water source
-Bucket(s)
-lime
-brains

The process is easy just time consuming.
1. Take the raw hide then dry it on the racks.
2. Once dried craft limed hides with a milk of lime (lime rock in a bucket of water)
3. Place the hides in a tanning tub.
4. Put brains in a bucket of water to make tanning fluid.
5. Put the fluid in the tub with all the hides. The amount of buckets full of tanning fluids in the tub should be equal to the amount of limed hides you are trying to make into leather.
**Tip** Don't bottleneck yourself at one step of the process. Some signs and troubleshooting are:
-If you have extra dried hides in storage you need more tubs.
-If you have to many raw hides in storage build more racks
-If you have too many unbutchered rabbits in storage kill more beavers.
-You only need one brain to start tanning all 4 hides so durring the 8 hours it take for them to tan you can still go out and look for more brains.

Well thats the basics of it have fun with your leather pilgrims.

[jrsydevil]

I like... good job!

[Lapedus]

Thanks! The more we help the new people the more the population will grow!