Sheep hides?

[garyoa1]

I have sheep skin by the hundreds. What's with sheep hides? I have none.

[kiska87]

Do you have sheeps? If you slaughter them, you get sheep hides.
Then you can tan the sheep hides into sheep skin.
I suspect you imported the sheep skin?

[garyoa1]

Must be semantics. One would think the skins would come before the hides. Always request for trading hides but have none. Cow hides... have hundreds. I would assume sheep hides have to be tanned first but they don't seem to exist for me.

[Bjørn]

I thought you had played this game for like forever, garyoa1?

But there is a change since alpha 5, that you need salt in the slaughterhouses to make the hides. But since you have cow hides you probably have that?

And sheepskin (not sheep hides) are pretty common here, to sit on. I had one when I was a taxi driver. Very comfortable and keeps steady temperature. Also common for pilots to use! Wool and all still attached...

[garyoa1]

Not forever, just a few thousand years. LOL. But point being.... I have none and don't see a way to create them. And I suppose they'll never play American football since there are no pig skins. heh heh...

[Bjørn]

Hmmm... Strange. Should be getting some hides for every sheep that is slaughtered, although the amount is smaller for younger ones. Is it 100 hides for adult sheep like for cows? So you import sheepskin to make warm clothes now, or import warm clothes directly?

Is there no mention of sheep hides on the Stats screen either?

Which reminds me of something that could be the reason you're not seeing it:

In the new Stats screen I've noticed that if you don't have a specific resource in the current year (not produced, used, sold, in stock etc), it doesn't show up in the stats at all, and all previous history of that resource is thus 'hidden'.

It would be nice to be able to toggle on or off 'previous' goods, to find out when and maybe why the good is no longer in stock and such.

[garyoa1]

Well I added another sheep ranch (had two) and two more mills. They are beginning to show up in stock. But had sheep for a while (almost out of expansion room) and no idea why they didn't exist until now.

[kiska87]

They will automatically start slaughtering the animals when the limit in the sheds is reached.
For the sheep farm, the limit is 30. So they will start slaughtering the sheeps when the 31st sheep is born.

Could it be because your sheep farms weren't full?

[garyoa1]

Oh, they were full. But I do have a problem with slaughtering ALL animals. 30 pigs or cows is not unusual. Not to mention horses. I "usually" have to keep track and slaughter by hand. Which is kind of annoying.