Patch Leather, what to use?

[MythN7]

So, it seems, even says so in the description that its worth less than even the cheapest in tact hide.
But Just for the sake of storage, I know of a handfull I NEVER let be used for anything unless I order it custom.

But for the other 100000000 types of hides, im having trouble going threw all the stats that the various hides give for various clothing.

Is there some hides that are pretty much never worth keeping raw, and turning to patch? for stats even if patch is market value less?

[Angela™]

Many.

What you want to use depends on where you are. Leathers and climate are hand in hand stuff, whereas things like thrumbofur are vastly more "all round better" than others, but ultimately it depends on what you need at the time.

Cold biomes? Don't use reptile leather.
Hot biomes? The opposite.

There's no "this is the right answer" possible here since it depends on too many things. Availability is also another matter entirely, since some areas have a complete lack of fauna whose leather / fur would be worth using.

[MythN7]

im not good enough to even play outside of an avg temp of 20-30 with year round farming, lol, so thats where i usualy am.

Temperate or Arid, Arid is what im on now. and I have 9 various leathers kicking around.
But in the forest biomes, ive often had the entire screen from top to bottom only showing the various leathers in merchants lists for stuff to sell, its super annoying to manage all those in a stock pile, when the pawns NEVER prioritize keeping stacks topped off, so its like you need a 40 x 40 stock pile just for your leather in a forest biome when you have enough pawns that your needing to exterminate the whole wild life just to barely maintain your food stocks.

The ones I ALWAYS consider special ONLY, are, elephant, chinchilla, thumbro, rhino, fox, guinea, heavy, and human, then for cloth, the speicals to me are syn, devil, hyper.

the ones i dident list, i have always just sold in bulk for silver, or just let those be used willy nilly in any cloths order.

Now Im curious if i should be making patch with those instead of just assorted crafting allow.

[flu007]

Patch is worth less, insulates less and protects less than pretty much any other leather. So the only real use for it I see is if you want to make something specific in a hurry, for instance a duster, but only have small amounts of different leathers, which together could make up a duster.

I've never made patchleather. But then I'm a hoarder and don't mind large amounts of various leathers in 187 stacks. I'll happily keep 32 pigskin around for a year until another wild boar appears on the map and I have enough to make something with it.

[MortVent]

I tend to turn the weak leathers into it (bird, lizard, etc) since I mainly rely on cloth/devilstrand for basic clothing and plain/specialized for the rest (blue fur jacket/parkas, plain leather dusters, etc)

[Burki from Turki]

Armor Sharp - 0.45, Armor Blunt - 0.19, Heat Armor - 0.9, Cold Insulation - 9, Heat Insulation 9, Market Value -1.5

[Zalec]

https://rimworldwiki.com/wiki/Textiles