All leather, no wool

[Hanuman]

I am on Spring year 2 and I still can't make a veil or a broadwrap for my Ideo leaders because all hunting gives me is leather. I am planting cotton now but do you have to tame animals to get wool of some kind?

[adobo]

wool is an animal product from tamed animals, yes.

[ZS Maeklos]

Muffalo and alpacas are the two vanilla animals that produce wool.

[dot]

megasloths too

[Makeithappen]

tame an alpaca or Muffalo, wait for their wool to grow, shear it, wala. you now have wool capable of making certain clothes with.

[whatamidoing]

Originally posted by ZS Maeklos:

Muffalo and alpacas are the two vanilla animals that produce wool.

Sheep, bison, and the already-mentioned megasloths are also vanilla animals that produce wool.

[adamfrye]

you can also use devilstand and hyperweave.

[Hanuman]

Cool thanks all.

[pauloandrade224]

Originally posted by ZS Maeklos:

Muffalo and alpacas are the two vanilla animals that produce wool.

And lambs too

[RCMidas]

Muffalo, bison, alpaca, sheep, and megasloths produce wool. Everything else is considered leather (including animals that call their product [x]fur, such as guinea pigs and thrumbos).

[Yippo the Clown]

I would strongly recommend alpacas, for the record. They have great resistance to pretty much any temperature you'll hit on a temperate biome, their wool makes fantastic inner clothing for temperature control, they don't eat too much, and they produce enough wool to sell the excess for a tidy profit.

Downsides - relatively low meat if you slaughter the excess, and they don't carry much if used as pack animals. Both can be worked around.

[The Blind One]

Alpacas are great animals for wool/leather production. Hardy creatures that survive nearly any climate that reproduce fairly quickly. Their wool is of good quality and the excess animals can be slaughtered for meat (not that important) but also for the valuable camelhide leather which is an excellent heat insulator. I strongly recommend Alpacas for cloth production.

Wool for winter parkas and camelhide for summer dusters. Also they are cute.

[Minty Fresh]

Originally posted by The Blind One:

Also they are cute.

That is a matter of opinion.

I hate the things - got attacked by a Lama once and Alpacas look too similar. They must have a heart of pure evil beating in their demonic chests just like their doppelganger cousins.

You wait - they'll be making puppy-dog eyes to you one minute then spitting and charging at you with AK-47's the next while chanting "death-to-all-humans" in their satanic Alpaca-language only recognised as such by those few who are experienced with exorcising demons.

[Yippo the Clown]

Originally posted by The Blind One:

Wool for winter parkas and camelhide for summer dusters. Also they are cute.

Personally I prefer Devilstrand for outerwear. Alpaca wool innerwear plus Devilstrand outerwear (duster and cowboy hat) seems to cover a wide range of temperatures without needing to be changed out, and while not really armour as such, Devilstrand will stop a bullet surprisingly frequently. Pain in the backside to grow, of course, but on the one occasion in five that a crop actually survives to maturity it can outfit a colony quite nicely.

[The Blind One]

Originally posted by Yippo the Clown:

Originally posted by The Blind One:

Wool for winter parkas and camelhide for summer dusters. Also they are cute.

Personally I prefer Devilstrand for outerwear. Alpaca wool innerwear plus Devilstrand outerwear (duster and cowboy hat) seems to cover a wide range of temperatures without needing to be changed out, and while not really armour as such, Devilstrand will stop a bullet surprisingly frequently. Pain in the backside to grow, of course, but on the one occasion in five that a crop actually survives to maturity it can outfit a colony quite nicely.

Devilstrand is top tier, of course you should take devilstrand if it is possible but if it isn't in your budget or capacity at the time, camelhide is excellent for dusters.

I may as well say that Thrumbo is superior but it's unlikely to be easily accessible.

[Garatgh Deloi]

For wool you need to raise the appropriate animals and your pawns will sheer them from time to time and gather wool. If you slaughter them you get leather instead.