Tanning
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"Every animal has enough brains to preserve their skin. Dead or alive."
- Old trapper wisdom
While the old folksy wisdom of the backwoods may not apply to Rumtifusels or Gumberoos, the saying nevertheless has a distinct essence of truth to it. By mixing the mashed brain substance of an animal with water a tanning fluid can be created which is rich in natural tannins and which more often than not should suffice to transform the skin of that same animal into the finest leather for use in bookbinding, clothes or other purposes. Beware, though that the dried hides must first be scraped with Water of Lime to remove hair, fat and flesh before the tanning can commence. Tanning allows you to scrape hides in preparation for tanning, prepare tanning fluid and construct tanning tubs.
How to Make Leather
- Place a Raw Hide on a
Drying Frame. It'll become a
Dried Hide after 8 hours.
- Select a
Lime from your inventory and right-click it onto a Bucket filled with
Potable Water to make
Milk of Lime.
- Craft a
Limed Hide from the craft menu.
Tanning Fluid can be made by selecting a
Brain from your inventory and right-clicking it onto a full Bucket of
Potable Water to produce a 10L Bucket of Tanning Fluid with 5% concentration, adding another Brain will make it a 10.0% solution. Alternatively, Tanning Fluid may also be created by Boiling
Birch Bark. To Boil Birch Bark, place Fuel and Light your
Fireplace. Fill your
Clay Pot or
Copper Pot with Potable Water and then place over your lit Fireplace. Click your Pot, select Open and put in the Birch Bark you wish to Boil. When your Birch Bark is done Boiling, its icon will change. Boiling four pieces of bark in a full
Clay Pot yields 3L of Tanning Fluid with 6% concentration which takes 30 minutes be made. Boiling nine pieces of bark in a full
Copper Pot yields 5.5L of Tanning Fluid with 7.5% concentration. # Place up to four
Limed Hides into a
Tanning Tub.
- Select a Vessel filled with
Tanning Fluid from your inventory and right-click on the
Tanning Tub. Make sure to add at least 10L of
Tanning Fluid per
Limed Hide.
- Wait.
- Each time a
Limed Hide reaches 100% it consumes 10L of
Tanning Fluid and it is converted into
Leather and very rarely
Fine Leather. There's a chance of the
Limed Hide becoming a
Foetid Ooze instead, if that happens the
Tanning Fluid will not be consumed.