Design flaw: the late game Leather drowt?

[Ghostlight]

Either I am missing something or this is a pretty annoying design problem late game. I need a TON of leather for so many things and there seems to be no efficient way of farming it; only the Boars which spawn far too slowly for my need. Any help?

[tamorr]

deconstruct your leather armor... and other leather items that have used it maybe...?

Late gate there is not much that uses leather beyond cosmetic or house quality items...

It is only needed in mid-game far as I know. Buying from the shop is the other way since you get coins quite often enough, just from digging and harvesting things. Granted it is not much, but not really all that rare.

[Ghostlight]

OK I might be mid game. It's Leather armour (etc) I'm trying to build.

[tamorr]

Well then killing the beasts and buying from the shop would by the way. Occassionally if you can defeat the camps you might get some resources, but that is quite relying on chance to get some if that is done; assuming that the camp can be taken with ease.

I think i usually only ended up making just a few sets and gunned it for iron soon as I could. A bit trickier on the last 2 levels to do so. Not very many sources for leather. Slow it may be to get enough to equip a few dwarves in the very least... One reason to concentrate on weapons more than armor; even if armor does dampen the damage a bit. Mainly worth more to get chest piece if numbers are the thing you look at.

[Faerador]

You can totally farm the animals that give leather. Build 5 farm fences adjacent to each other and a farm will spawn in. Next, build a trap. (Both items are somewhere near the Farm tier of research in Campaign mode.) You can place down (and later deconstruct) the trap somewhere near an animal you desire to farm. Wait for it to go into the trap (or lightly "prod" it along into the trap with a quick poke).

After the trap triggers, you'll be able to right click on the trapped animal and choose "capture" (I believe the command is). Your trusty dwarf will sack up the livestock and take it back to the farm.

As pertaining to the farm itself, a minimum of 5 adjacent fences is needed for a farm. But you can place more adjacent to it. It seems that the number of animals you can throw into a farm is equal to the number of fences. If you have two or more of the same kind in the same farm, they will make more.

Sooo, build yourself a farm and a trap and find yourself a couple of those warthog-looking things in the first campaign (they're something different in other campaigns). Throw them in the pen and wait for a while. Eventually there will be more than two, and you can "harvest" their leather.

It helps speed up the process if you teleport around the world and kill off all the various livestock AND SNAILS on the surface/nearby. They all contribute to an overall cap of these guys. By killing off old livestock, you free up space for the new ones to spawn in (into your farm, specifically). This also has the added bonus of freeing up even more livestock-related resources, as the slime from the snails is likely worthless by this point.

[tamorr]

Far as I know all you can farm that way is sheep and chickens... Boars I have yet to see even be captured in those. I don't remember leather coming from any other animal except boars...

I've watched boars just ignore those traps, and never get caught. In my experience. Guess I'll have to test even further, but not seen one enter one yet from all the times I've played. hmm... Unless they changed it in the last patch.

[Ghostlight]

Yeah I read you can't farm Boars. Wlil try.

[kevinshow]

Although I keep reading about the leather shortness, I haven't actually experienced it. I hunt the animals as soon as I can from the beginning of the game. If there are 2 of anything in some part of the map, along with mature trees, then I consider that the spawning has made it ready to be hunted and I set a portal to go after trees, bushes, and animals.

As a result, I am often able to get enough leather for leather chest armor and head armor. It is only the shoe armor which I then usually need to hunt a few more animals for.

I think this is one way of getting sufficient leather to get through the leather drought -- by starting early to hunt those animals that drop it.

[Musculus]

Rats actually give leather. Just get your comfort level under 50%, do not destroy the rat nests when they appear and farm the rats with your dwarves

[stylez]

Originally posted by Musculus #420:

Rats actually give leather. Just get your comfort level under 50%, do not destroy the rat nests when they appear and farm the rats with your dwarves

You necro'd a 1 year old thread to point out a feature that didn't exist at that point in time.

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Originally posted by stylez:

Originally posted by Musculus #420:

Rats actually give leather. Just get your comfort level under 50%, do not destroy the rat nests when they appear and farm the rats with your dwarves

You necro'd a 1 year old thread to point out a feature that didn't exist at that point in time.

ROFL... xD I can't believe...I didn't even notice this until I read your post. That's great.