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[Conan]

I've been structuring my military lately, and since my embark doesn't seem to have metals I've chosen to go the leather route. However, there seems to be a severe lack of skins to tan.

I tried slaughtering a few animals like full-grown Yak Cow, but even then they don't seem to leave a skin item. Does "Tan a raw hide" occur automatically? Is there a list of animals which will give a raw hide with TAN_MAT enabled?

[i2amroy]

Tanning a raw hide will occur automatically assuming you have the workshop, an idle dwarf with the tanning labor, and you haven't told the game not to do it in the (o)rders menu.

[Conan]

Sounds good. Any idea how much skin a typical Yak Cow/medium sized animal produces?

[Kaos]

Sounds good. Any idea how much skin a typical Yak Cow/medium sized animal produces?

just 1 per creature, yes, you can craft the same body armour slaughtering a cat or an elephant, they both will drop a raw skin item, that can be made into 1 leather item...

[Conan]

well that sucks because I need a lot D:

guess I'll just trade for my armor then. Unless anyone has a way to mass-harvest leather/poultry

[Conan]

On another note, are werebeast scratches infectious? Got a wereiguana here that's choking/scratching/kicking its victims, but no bites visible in the combat log.

[i2amroy]

On another note, are werebeast scratches infectious? Got a wereiguana here that's choking/scratching/kicking its victims, but no bites visible in the combat log.

Only bites are contagious, everything else is harmful, but won't turn them into a were beast.

[Laurin]

You can buy a lot of leather from the caravans, even more if you order more.

Cosider Turkey/Pig/Cat/Dog-Farming. They all give leather and don't need a pasture.

[weenog]

I prefer blue peafowl for bird-based leather.  Turkeys are champion egg producers, and meat-laden if you're patient, but they take longer to mature.