@[PBS] Kafka Rambo it should still be functional in 1.5 unless there were changes done to human leather in it

1.5?

literally unplayable

i dance on your grave

@Victor after a long day of getting it sorted out i finally got round to making an XML version link in the mods description above

You can do it with XML Extensions!

Sadly it is outside of my scope of modding knowledge, best i can do is set a fixed value

I never modded rimworld so I have no idea how big of a hedache it is, could you make an in-game menu slider for the value?
I agree with the blind one, maybe it could be that only exotic traders buy furniture/apparel made out of HL. Someone could say this kind of game mechanic is way too deep for rimworld, but then Tynan said he wouldn't update the game past 1.0 lol. Vanilla Expanded Human Leather when

yeah but just imagine how much money a human leather bible costs for example. That price tag is through the roof. Now there probably wouldn't be many people who would want one of those but the few who do ... they'd pay millions.

It's an extremely niche product with very strong appeal for those who enjoy the art of human flaying.

Don't forget the demand for items though, most ideologies think human leather clothing is vile and cannibals/psychopaths are more likely to try eat/kill you and just take the leather and meat for themselves.

I believe I could make a 1.9 silver market value version easy enough if people are interested in it though

Y'kno, I can totally agree with the price being the same as pigskin then. 4.2 is nowhere near where it should be (I also didn't know the value from the top of my head). The gameplay reason is also very fair, however it's not completely free, they will fight for their lives. Maybe a higher penalty for butchering humanlike would do, and some pawns refusing to do it at all unless they have cannibal ideology or starving (there already is a mood penalty for wearing it unless the pawn has traits).

@little pogchamp From a value perspective assuming the logic was that no one can verify the source of your leather it would be a value of pigskin at 1.9 rather than being more expensive than synthread at 4.2 (synthread is 4.0), as human skin and pig skin are rather similar as well as actually sharing the same stats in game apart from value

The game value from the mod of 0.5 being with that logic applied but also gameplay focused as dead raiders come to you for "free" whereas pigs have to be tamed/hunted or bred and fed.

From a lore perspective: human leather looks a bit off as your pawns can tell even if they have bought a human leather coat from a trader (since you are paying same price you can assume your colonists know the difference between the two); combine that with the logic of your colony getting a reputation for doing some shady things with people, based on gossip and or guests being fed human meat etc and you now have yourself leather that people will only buy for cheap

I stumbled upon this mod randomly and it really made me thonk why. Well, the conclusion I came to is you can just lie about the source of the leather. There are no mass spectometers on the rim. They will never know.

@The Blind One 🤓

Economists have been debating this issue for thousands of years on the Rim but have yet to determine why people actually pay such high prices for human leather. There's certainly no scarcity of raider bodies contributing potential leather. Some say it is because only a few settlements with despicable ideologies are willing to process human corpses for their leather rather than bury the dead in mass dumping graves but the scientists aren't final on this idea yet. It's potentially because of its simple rarity that it is highly prized. Others believe sanghuophages keep the price high so as to promote their own human farms.

Just because something is harder to get, either physically or ethically, doesn't mean that anyone wants it. Nice mod!