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[Calathar]

If you really want to use leather, you should just trade it with the human/dwarf caravan.  There is a bug/feature where all animals that butcher for skin only create a single skin, meaning no matter the size of the animal, you will only get one leather.  Not to mention, not all animals butcher for skin.  Compare this with leather from the caravan, where you can buy a bin's worth of leather for a measly 70 urists.

http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2012:Leather

[Garath]

very popular is to throw large wild animals down very far so they explode and give more pieces of leather. Elephants are considered prime material.

[dexxy]

If you really want to use leather, you should just trade it with the human/dwarf caravan.  There is a bug/feature where all animals that butcher for skin only create a single skin, meaning no matter the size of the animal, you will only get one leather.  Not to mention, not all animals butcher for skin.  Compare this with leather from the caravan, where you can buy a bin's worth of leather for a measly 70 urists.

http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2012:Leather

In previous versions, caravans used to bring a lot of leather and cloth, such as several pages of bins of this stuff. But now they seem to only bring 1 or 2 bins. How come they stopped bringing lots of cloth and leather? Even if I ask the liaison, they don't bring very much.

Next time the liaison comes, I'm going to say that I'll pay top dollar for leather and cloth, see how much they bring.

[weenog]

If you really want to use leather, you should just trade it with the human/dwarf caravan.  There is a bug/feature where all animals that butcher for skin only create a single skin, meaning no matter the size of the animal, you will only get one leather.  Not to mention, not all animals butcher for skin.  Compare this with leather from the caravan, where you can buy a bin's worth of leather for a measly 70 urists.

http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2012:Leather

In previous versions, caravans used to bring a lot of leather and cloth, such as several pages of bins of this stuff. But now they seem to only bring 1 or 2 bins. How come they stopped bringing lots of cloth and leather? Even if I ask the liaison, they don't bring very much.

Next time the liaison comes, I'm going to say that I'll pay top dollar for leather and cloth, see how much they bring.

Have you been hoarding cloth and leather recently?  In previous versions they reacted to what they perceived as a shortfall of cloth or leather in your own fortress, and they still do.

[GreatWyrmGold]

Try buying lots of leather. I remember a fort in which I bought surpluses of cloth so that there wouldn't be a percieved shortage, but the traders kept bringing more and more...