Tanning (old)

Note: This is the older system for leatherworking, and does not fall under the Tailoring discipline.

The Basics

What You'll Need

Stop by your local, or not so local Tanning Shop To pick up your supplies. You'll want some thread, a bodkin, some shears, tanning salts (lotion or potion depending on what sort of skin you're working with) and a pattern. If you don't have your own materials, you can buy those in some locations as well.

You'll also want to pick up a hide scraper if you don't have one, to prepare the pelt for curing. Scraping hides is a great way to learn mechanical lore, even if you don't plan to use the skins for tanning.

Preparing Your Material

Find a nice cushy spot to sit for a while and scrape your skins. Taking your time and scraping carefully will decrease your chances of snagging the pelt and reducing the quality of your item. For most items you'll need several pelts or skins, and you won't know how many you need until after you start cutting them. So scrape plenty.

After you've scraped your skins, you can now start them curing. To do that, hold your scraped material and your salts (lotion or potion). POUR LOTION/POTION on PELT/SKIN/HIDE until you're sure you've got enough on there. Once that's done (and you'll know when its enough), the curing process begins. This is a long wait - several RL hours. So again, make sure you've got plenty of skins to make whatever it is you're trying for. You don't have to be logged in during this time, and you can also store them in your vault and they will continue to cure.

WARNING: Potion is for pelts and lotion is for hides and skins. If you use the wrong one on your pelt/hide/skin it will melt and disappear.

Here's an idea of how long your wait will be. It depends on the size of the skin or pelt you're tanning.

• 5 scrapes - 8 hrs
• 4 scrapes - 6 hrs
• 3 scrapes - 5 hrs
• 2 scrapes - 3 hrs
• 1 scrapes - 1.5 hrs

When you think enough time has passed, LOOK at your skin to check on it. When the skin looks completely cured, it's ready to be tanned. -Due to the new skinning change all skins are now 5 pieces, and take 8 hours to cure.

Tanning Your Item

Once all of your skins are cured completely, you can try to craft them into something. Hold a cured skin and your pattern, then PUT PATTERN on SKIN/PELT/HIDE. This will allow you to mark out the pattern on the material. If you've goofed, RUB the material to take the pattern off and try again.

With the pattern marked, you can now cut your pieces. With your shears and marked material in hand, CUT your SKIN/PELT/HIDE. This will leave you with some pieces if you succeed. At this time you will know if you need to mark and cut another piece of material for what you're making or not. If you end up with some pieces, you'll need some more material cut. BUNDLE your pieces until you have "a set". Now you're ready to move on.

Now get your bodkin out and POKE your set with it. Put the set aside after this so you can thread your bodkin with your stout thread. To do this, PUT THREAD on BODKIN. Now you can put the rest of the thread away and get your set again.

Say a little prayer to the tanning gods and STRING SET until the item is completed. With skill and some luck, you'll end up with a brand new piece of gear.

Quality

If you succeed in making an item, the make and quality of the item will vary depending on many factors including the quality of the skins, your mechanical lore skill, and your skill in the item you are creating (leather armor skill for armor, shield skill for shields, etc).

From Best to Worst these qualities are:

• Perfect
• Superior
• Superb
• Elegant
• Sturdy
• Fine
• Well-Made
• Normal (no adjective)
• Home-Made
• Rough
• Shoddy
• Crude

Patterns

1 skin = 5 pieces

Pattern	Skins needed	String Set times	Mech Needed for Perfect
<pattern type>	# of skins	# of string sets	<skill amount>
Reinforced Leather	2	9 (60 sec each)	350-400
Cowl	1	4 (60 sec each)	?
Saddle	3	11 (60 sec each)	?
Bridle	2	5 (60 sec each)	~180 mech, ~129 leathers, made fine
Flanchard	3	?	?
Buckler	1	2 (55 sec each)	?
Shield	1	3 (45 sec each)	~250 mech, ~250 leather
Reinforced Gloves	1	4 (60 sec each)	~250 mech, ~250 leather, made superb
Thick Leathers	2	9 (60 sec each)	~255 mech, ~265 leathers, made rough

What to Tan

Only hides and skins may be used for making armor. For clothing and containers, you may use pelts, hides, or skins. The type of skin used has no effect on nonprotective gear other than influencing its difficulty to make and its appearance, but different skins and hides can yield wildly different results when it comes to armor.

Some examples of skins used in armor/shields:

• Serpent Skin
• Crocodile Skin
• Gargoyle-hide
• Leucro Hide
• Azure Scale Hide
• Black Firecat Skin
• Damaska Boar Hide
• Bison Hide
• Storm Bull Hide

Appraisals

Perfect and Superior Quality only.

Note: Superior Quality is normally the same as perfect quality, but sometimes weighs a few stones more.

Armor Type	Skin	Quality	Maneuv./Stealth Hindrance	Puncture	Slice	Impact	Fire	Cold	Elec	Durability	Weight
Thick Leathers	Azure Scale Hide	Superior	?/?	Mod/Fair	Fair/Fair	Fair/Mod	Fair/Fair	Fair/Fair	Mod/Fair	Moderately Strong	387
Thick Leathers	Black Leucro Hide	Rough	Great/Fair	Mod/Fair	Mod/Fair	Good/Mod	Fair/Fair	Fair/Fair	Mod/Fair	Average	580
Reinforced Leathers	Black Firecat	Superior	Mod/Fair	High/Mod	High/Mod	Good/Mod	Fair/Mod	Low/Mod	Mod/Mod	Very Strong	324
Reinforced Leathers	Gargoyle	Superior	High/Fair	High/Mod	High/Mod	High/Mod	Low/Mod	Fair/Mod	Mod/Mod	Quite Hard	340
Reinforced Leathers	Black Leucro	Perfect	?/Fair	Mod/Fair	Fair/Fair	Fair/Fair	Low/Fair	Low/Fair	Fair/Fair	Fairly Sturdy	420
Reinforced Leathers	Gargoyle	Perfect	High/Fair	High/Mod	High/Mod	High/Mod	Low/Mod	Fair/Mod	Mod/Mod	Quite Hard	336
Reinforced Leathers	Serpent	Perfect	Mod/Fair	Good/Mod	Mod/Mod	Good/Mod	Low/Mod	Fair/Mod	Mod/Mod	Mod Strong	288
Reinforced Leathers	Storm Bull	Perfect	Great/Fair	High/Mod	High/Mod	High/Mod	Low/Mod	Fair/Mod	Mod/Mod	Quite Hard	400
Reinforced Leathers	Bison	Perfect	Overwhelming/Fair	High/Mod	High/Mod	High/Mod	Fair/Mod	Mod/Mod	Mod/Mod	Quite Hard	480
Reinforced Leathers	Azure-Scaled	Perfect	High/Fair	High/Mod	High/Mod	High/Mod	Low/Mod	Fair/Mod	Mod/Mod	Very Strong	320
Reinforced Leathers	Black Firecat	Perfect	Mod/Fair	High/Mod	High/Mod	Good/Mod	Fair/Mod	Low/Mod	Mod/Mod	Quite Hard	320
Scaled Leathers	Crocodile	Perfect	?/?	Mod/Fair	Fair/Fair	Mod/Fair	Fair/Fair	Poor/Fair	Mod/Fair	Fairly Sturdy	300
Scaled Leathers	Gargoyle-hide	Perfect	Great/Fair	Mod/Fair	Fair/Fair	Mod/Fair	Low/Fair	Fair/Fair	Mod/Fair	Marg. vulnerable	300
Reinforced Coat	Cave Troll Hide	Perfect	High/Light	Good/Mod	Good/Mod	High/Mod	Fair/Mod	Fair/Mod	Mod/Mod	Average	277
Reinforced Coat	Black Leucro Hide	Perfect	High/Light	Good/Mod	Good/Mod	Good/Mod	Low/Mod	Fair/Mod	Mod/Mod	Average	320
Reinforced Coat	Gargoyle-hide	Perfect	Overw/Light	Good/Mod	Good/Mod	High/Mod	Low/Mod	Fair/Mod	Mod/Mod	App. Susceptible	448
Reinforced Breastplate	Gargoyle-hide	Perfect	Mod/Light	Fair/Fair	Fair/Fair	Fair/Fair	Low/Fair	Low/Fair	Fair/Fair	App. Susceptible	168
Cowl	Azure Scale Hide	Perfect	?/?	Fair/Fair	Low/Fair	Low/M	Fair/Fair	Fair/Fair	Mod/Fair	Average	42
Cowl	Bison	Perfect	Light/Insig	Good/Fair	Good/Fair	High/Mod	Fair/Fair	Mod/Fair	Mod/Fair	Very Strong	84
Cowl	Crocodile	Perfect	?/?	Good/Fair	Good/Fair	High/Mod	Mod/Fair	Low/Fair	Mod/Fair	Very Strong	70
Cowl	Gargoyle	Perfect	Insig/Insig	Good/Fair	Good/Fair	Good/Mod	Fair/Fair	Fair/Fair	Mod/Fair	Very Strong	58
Reinforced Greaves	Sharkskin	Perfect	No/Insig	Fair/Fair	Low/Fair	Poor/Fair	Poor/Fair	Mod/Fair	Low/Fair	App. Susceptible	40
Thick Gloves	Gargoyle	Perfect	Light/Insig	Good/Fair	Good/Fair	High/Mod	Fair/Fair	Fair/Fair	Mod/Fair	Very Strong	32
Reinforced Gloves	Sharkskin	Perfect	Light/Insig	Fair/Fair	Fair/Fair	Fair/Fair	Poor/Fair	Mod/Fair	Low/Fair	App. Susceptible	30
Reinforced Gloves	Gargoyle-hide	Perfect	Light/Insig	Fair/Fair	Fair/Fair	Fair/Fair	Poor/Fair	Fair/Fair	Low/Fair	App. Susceptible	30
Protective Gloves	Gargoyle-hide	Perfect	No/Insig	Low/Low	Poor/Low	Low/Low	Poor/Low	Low/Low	Fair/Low	App. Susceptible	18

Other Resources

• Olwydd's Tanning Primer