Deer to Leather

[Grafton]

I've been finding in the last few days of playing somehow without an update all my deer hides have turned to leather. I emptied my contents of all material and found and harvested a deer when i looked in inventory they had changed to leather. I had up to this point already made deer skin boots since the last update as well. Not sure when this started happening but i did notice the error about 4 days of playing ago ( few hours real time)

[Huskimo (Formerly Lrrr)]

That is supposed to happen, there is no such thing as deer hide anymore :)

[wilmer007]

yeah if you notice when you go to harvest from a deer under the hide tab it states collect x/2 leather.

[Pegasus]

I didn't know about there were dear hides? Would make morse sense to have to cure and tan a hide before you get the leather from it. The tanning mats being collected from elsewhere, then have to wait two days etc.

[ernestww]

Originally posted by Pegasus:

I didn't know about there were dear hides? Would make morse sense to have to cure and tan a hide before you get the leather from it. The tanning mats being collected from elsewhere, then have to wait two days etc.

I've made buckskin in RL. It takes about 7-8 hours of work spread out over few days. I haven't tried 'tanning' using tannins, but I think this takes much longer, like weeks not days.

The game takes poetic licence here.

[Professor Ampersand]

I've had both happen. Went out to check my snares and came back and half my deer hides had gone from "fresh deer hide" to "cured leather". Now I also have "cured deer hide" and the crafting bench will only let me craft deerhide pants with the cured deer hide. Is that a bug or is that what's supposed to happen?

[Grace1957]

That's the new update.

[Strewthmonkey]

Originally posted by Professor Ampersand:

I've had both happen. Went out to check my snares and came back and half my deer hides had gone from "fresh deer hide" to "cured leather". Now I also have "cured deer hide" and the crafting bench will only let me craft deerhide pants with the cured deer hide. Is that a bug or is that what's supposed to happen?

You can still harvest leather from basic boots, work boots, and insulated boots. You can also use leather to repair these items but can only craft and repair crafted boots and pants with hides. It is a shame they did not convert the leather we had into hides as the leather is pointless once you have crafted clothing. Fresh deer hide has a cured percentage indicated and takes a few days to cure. Maybe yours was almost finished curing when you went out. Only leather will turn into cured leather so you must have had some of that too.

[Professor Ampersand]

Originally posted by Strewthmonkey:

Originally posted by Professor Ampersand:

I've had both happen. Went out to check my snares and came back and half my deer hides had gone from "fresh deer hide" to "cured leather". Now I also have "cured deer hide" and the crafting bench will only let me craft deerhide pants with the cured deer hide. Is that a bug or is that what's supposed to happen?

You can still harvest leather from basic boots, work boots, and insulated boots. You can also use leather to repair these items but can only craft and repair crafted boots and pants with hides. It is a shame they did not convert the leather we had into hides as the leather is pointless once you have crafted clothing. Fresh deer hide has a cured percentage indicated and takes a few days to cure. Maybe yours was almost finished curing when you went out. Only leather will turn into cured leather so you must have had some of that too.

Yeah I had both leather and deer hide, but the deer hide that I left out to cure went from 95% cured to cured leather in the space of a day. It never turned into cured deer hide

[JustAgent]

I think the issue that isn't articulated here, is that the crafting and repair system claims to be looking for an item called "CURED DEER LEATHER" and our leathers, which have worked before aren't working now. D:

[cfett199]

Originally posted by JustAgent:

I think the issue that isn't articulated here, is that the crafting and repair system claims to be looking for an item called "CURED DEER LEATHER" and our leathers, which have worked before aren't working now. D:

The initial gripe is from March, the game has changed quite a bit since then. Currently you can only harvest one deer hide, that cures to a "cured deer hide" for use in crafting and repairing the deerskin boots and deerskin pants. Cured leather's only use now is in the repair of found footwear like running shoes and basic boots.

[Gambler]

Well after a semi-long break, I just came back and found my ~20 leather became useless.

On the bright side however - I have a ton of fir left and it seems to have become MUCH more valuable, and the bunker loot seems to have respawned? :D