Tanning

Tanning "Tanning allows you to scrape hides in preparation for tanning, prepare tanning fluid and construct tanning tubs" Requirements: Skill(s) required: Hideworking Proficiencies required: 850 Hammer & Nail 2650 Hunting & Hideworking 1275 Thread & Needle Skills Unlocked: Fine Leathercraft Crafts Unlocked: Adventurer's Boots Backpack Leather-Knot Detail Bellpepper Sack Canoe Coonskin Cap Farmer's Hat Farmer's Jacket Flower Sack Garlic Sack Journeyman Toolbelt Leather Chaps Leather Planter's Pouch Limed Hide Maiden Corset Miner's Hat MushiSack Pilgrim's Hat Puritan's Hat Seaweed Wobbler Storm Hat Stuffed Leather Ball Taxidermist's Trapper Boots Trapper Jacket Tricorne Veggie Sack Polished Leather Beadwork Builds Unlocked: Tanning Tub Others Unlocked: Brain Fine Leather Foetid Ooze Leather

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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.

About Leather can be sold in Providence to NPC Stalls for 12x Silver Pieces. How to Make Leather Place a Raw Hide on a Drying Frame. It'll become a Dried Hide after 8 hours. (Note: Dried Squirrel Pelts cannot be used to make Leather.) Select a Lime from your inventory and right-click it onto a Vessel 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 Vessel 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. Place the Birch Bark in a Clay Pot or Copper Pot full of Potable Water on top of a lit Fireplace.Boiling four pieces of Birch Bark in a full Clay Pot yields 3L of Tanning Fluid with 6% concentration. Boiling nine pieces of Birch 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.