Miscellaneous Crafting

Details on crafting certain things that fall somewhat outside the main guide.

Leather tanning

Animals provide untanned raw hides or species pelts. Turn them into ordinary leather by scraping, washing, drying and applying bark tannin. Each raw hide or pelt piece yields 1 leather sheet. Keep pelts if you want to use their fur clothing or other pelt recipes instead; scraping consumes the chosen pelt piece. Finished leather you already own remains usable without further processing.

What you need

• Raw hides or pelts from animal harvesting. Adult male and female turkeys each give 1 raw hide piece; turkey chicks give no hide. Species pelts retain their existing yields and uses.
• A held sharp tool, such as a knife, for scraping.
• An accessible open reagent vessel containing water or tannin as required below. Wood mugs, canteens, buckets and other suitable open liquid containers work. Hold the vessel and apply it to nearby bark or a hide, or hold the bark, prepared hide or dry hide and click a reachable open vessel or unlocked barrel on the ground. Keep both objects within reach.
• A tanning rack, made with 8 wood logs in the ordinary wood catalog. Resource Processing is required where faction research applies; mode and crafting restrictions still apply.
• Bark collected while cutting logs into planks, and water for extracting tannin.

Sealed vessels, locked barrels, another player's inventory and nested storage cannot supply these liquids. The water or tannin must be in the vessel's actual reagent contents. Terrain water and a cooking pot's separate cooking-water counter do not count; use an ordinary reagent vessel for these steps.

Process

Washing and tanning process one piece per application. Apply the vessel again for another piece. Prepared hairless hides you already own enter at the washing step. Drying alone does not produce finished leather, and splashing a stack does not process the whole stack.

Keep the tool and hide in place while scraping. Cancellation or losing the tool, actor or input leaves the hide unspent. To cancel rack drying, click the rack with an empty hand and take back the wet hides; loading them again starts a fresh full drying interval. A saved wet batch also restarts its full interval when the server restarts. Rack destruction releases its contents. Remove the completed batch before loading another.

Bark and tannin

Cut logs into planks with the usual tools. A hatchet consumes 2 log units for 1 plank and 2 bark pieces; a saw consumes 1 log unit for 4 planks and 1 bark piece. Bark is a byproduct of paid log cutting, not a free supply.

Use an accessible reagent vessel containing at least 10 units of water with one bark piece, using either interaction above. 1 bark + 10 water produces 10 units of tannin in that vessel. The liquid volume stays the same, so extraction also works with a full vessel. Each application processes one bark piece.

For two hide pieces, budget 2 hides, 1 bark and 20 water: ten water washes the hides, and ten water makes the ten tannin needed to finish both. Tool, rack, research and normal resource-acquisition requirements still apply.

The Crafting Atlas lists the hide stages, bark and tannin acquisition, and leather recipes. In game, use a tanning rack's Processing Reference to open its drying route and find the rack's construction recipe and research requirement.

Lard candle

Lard candle

Fill a vessel with at least 5u of lard (made from animal fat), then click the vessel with rope (1 rope per 1 candle; rope is made from flax and cotton. Lit with torches and matches. A lard candle lasts about 30-40 minutes.

Lard soap

Lard soap

To make 1 soap bar, mix 20u of lard and 2u of lye (obtained from wood ash) in a vessel like a bucket, a barrel etc.