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[GreatWyrmGold]

Thiner hide should more luxurious, while not being worth any extra. Just give a better thought. Also, whose to say that small fantasy creature might not have tough hides?

Who's to say indeed? But cats aren't fantasy creatures...nor are cows...or dogs...or rabbits...

Dralthas, perhaps. Or Jabberers. Drunians and wamblers.

Only one of those is small, and fluffy wamblers not only lack skin and are (possibly) too small to properly tan even if they did and existed IRL, but also are about the exact opposite of magically tough.

A note on dragon susceptibility...  You've got to hit them in the voonerables.  Nobody really knows where they are (although maybe those that survived do), but they're a quite specific area on the dragon's body.
The chances of hitting them might well be a million to one.  (But, as everyone knows, million-to-one chances succeed nine times out of ten...)

DF's more of a Squareworld.

[Bytyan]

Thiner hide should more luxurious, while not being worth any extra. Just give a better thought. Also, whose to say that small fantasy creature might not have tough hides?

Who's to say indeed? But cats aren't fantasy creatures...nor are cows...or dogs...or rabbits...

Dralthas, perhaps. Or Jabberers. Drunians and wamblers.

Only one of those is small, and fluffy wamblers not only lack skin and are (possibly) too small to properly tan even if they did and existed IRL, but also are about the exact opposite of magically tough.

Drunians are tiny, and who is to say what properties a macro ameba's cell wall might have? There is no real lower limit on how small is too small to skin. You can skin a beaver, you can skin a cat, you can skin a otter, you can skin a wambler. Think of all that we can do with a naturally occurring semi-porous membrane!

[DG]

Drunians are bigger than a dog but smaller than a dwarf so I wouldn't call them tiny. The ability to skin the creature shouldn't be the only limiting factor. Getting a skin that can survive the tanning process is just as important (DF currently has a very rose-tinted implementation of tanning). Maybe the scudding part would be the most likely process to damage thin skins but I won't pretend to know.

[Starver]

...you can skin a cat,...

Not only that, but you can do it in multiple ways!

[Bytyan]

Drunians are bigger than a dog but smaller than a dwarf so I wouldn't call them tiny. The ability to skin the creature shouldn't be the only limiting factor. Getting a skin that can survive the tanning process is just as important (DF currently has a very rose-tinted implementation of tanning). Maybe the scudding part would be the most likely process to damage thin skins but I won't pretend to know.

Well, to each his own. Skins have been taken from very small creatures historically. Voles come to mind.

[GreatWyrmGold]

Thiner hide should more luxurious, while not being worth any extra. Just give a better thought. Also, whose to say that small fantasy creature might not have tough hides?

Who's to say indeed? But cats aren't fantasy creatures...nor are cows...or dogs...or rabbits...

Dralthas, perhaps. Or Jabberers. Drunians and wamblers.

Only one of those is small, and fluffy wamblers not only lack skin and are (possibly) too small to properly tan even if they did and existed IRL, but also are about the exact opposite of magically tough.

Drunians are tiny,

Confused them with dralthas, sorry.

and who is to say what properties a macro ameba's cell wall might have?

Fluffy wamblers are fluff and pudge. Not even any skin to tan. Certainly no macromembrane.

There is no real lower limit on how small is too small to skin. You can skin a beaver, you can skin a cat, you can skin a otter, you can skin a wambler. Think of all that we can do with a naturally occurring semi-porous membrane!

The problems are A. nothing to tan and B. it's too small to really skin without destroying most of it.

[Bot Hack]

I just know there is a topic here asking for more items to be produced more sensefully.

I cut down 12 trees to make tiny bracelets and rings that were less than well-made, and I finally got enough to trade a pick from the Dwarf traders. That is 12 trees - 12 useless shoddy trinkets - one pick. I had cut down all these trees using Dwarven ingenuity and nothing but more wood.

[GreatWyrmGold]

A few things.
1. The logs were actually made into 1-3 crafts each; you probably only cut down 6 trees or so to make those trinkets.
2. Trees are going to produce more logs each than they do now. At the moment, a tree seems to be maybe 10-20 feet tall.
3. That kind of thing? Planned.