FIELD NOTES · VERSION 1.0.1

Hide & Hidebound

Plan the long road from raw hide to workable leather.

LEATHER WORKING CALCULATOR

Make a batch.
Waste less time.

Choose a hide size and tell us how many you have. We’ll map every barrel stage, resource, and in-game day.

Data verified against the Vintage Story Wiki.

START HERE

Your raw hides

01
Small raw hide Selected hide
Hide size
raw hides

QUICK SUMMARY

Your batch at a glance

Rounded up to whole items where needed.

FINISHED LEATHER8pieces
BARREL RUNS1per stage
TOTAL PROCESS8.5in-game days
HIDES IN BATCH8small hides

SHOPPING LIST

Resources required

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  • Lime and powdered borax
    16 lime or 8 powdered borax
    solvent
  • Oak or acacia logs
    6 oak or acacia logs
    tannin
  • Water
    32 L water
    tannin
  • Wooden barrel
    1 barrel with a lid
    vessel
  • Copper knife
    1 copper knife + 1 hammer or quern
    tools

Lime and powdered borax are alternative soaking solvents. You only need one.

THE LONG WAY ROUND

Process timeline

8d 8h
  1. Small soaked hide01
    Soak raw hides

    Limewater or diluted borax · seal 20 hours

  2. Small scraped hide02
    Scrape hides

    Use a knife in the crafting grid

  3. Small prepared hide03
    Prepare hides

    Weak tannin · seal 3 days

  4. Finished leather04
    Complete leather

    Strong tannin · seal 4.5 days

TANNIN PRODUCTION

Keep the barrels moving

Tannin can be started while hides soak.

Weak tanninA

Weak tannin

Water + logs · seal 1 day

32 L
Strong tanninB

Strong tannin

Weak tannin + logs · seal 1 day

16 L
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One size at a time. Vintage Story only lets a barrel process one hide size per batch. The calculator keeps every stage aligned to the size you selected.

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