![]() ![]() Since we are about to embark on tanning three hides, one of which we are going to tan in a manner that keeps the hair, Dan and I decided writing a how to tan hides series to create a step-by-step guide for the New Life on a Homestead community, was a stellar idea. ![]() Thankfully, I was working with a homesteading friend who had tanned hides before, and was able to pull off the mammoth chore without wasting the beautiful hides. This hide was from a well more than 1,000-pound Black Angus. This part of the process can take several hours when dealing with a large cow hide, like shown in this photo. Once the hide is dry after salting, the fat membranes and excess meat still attached to the flesh after butchering, must be removed before the tanning process can continue. ![]() I started with a cow hide it was offered to me by a butcher pal who was going to let it become landfill fodder if I did not jump on the opportunity. I did not follow my own advice, but I had a good reason. First, they are easier to work with, require fewer hours of manual labor to clean and process them.Īnd secondly, when you screw up or your creative dreams surpass your current skill set, you will waste only a small amount of leather. Starting with small animals is best for several reasons. I always have trouble with the patience part.Įxpect a lot of trial and error, when learning how to tan a cow hide. None of the processes are difficult or involve expensive tools, but each requires both exactness and patience. Odds are, you will try several different variations until you find the one that works best for your. There are as many way to tan hides as there are animals. But, your journey to a sustainable life, an existence where you always use resources wises and for optimal benefit, will not end before you learn how to tan hides. You get extra self-reliance points if you butcher the meat yourself. This isn't as cut and dry as "Town X does well with Workshop Y" as a lot of people would like.So, you live on a homestead and raise your own meat. There's probably even more stuff I'm forgetting/don't know. I mean if ya ain't got the money for food ya ain't gonna spend money on luxuries (unless you're my stupid ass). The prosperity of a town affects how well your workshops do as well. Check the price difference between the raw materials and the finished product. This is simulated by the selling price of goods. Someone in this thread said it already but it's not just that you have cheap materials available, you need people buying it. If you want to try your hand at economic hardmode, go play out on the Steppe. Most Lords have too many troops and not enough horses to run these guys down so they tend to go unchecked especially Steppe Bandits. The type of Bandit plays a role too specifically Steppe and Desert Bandits. Therefore you want to pick towns that have higher Lord traffic. You can do a lot to mitigate their damage by kicking them in the jimmies yourself but that requires you to baby sit your workshop villages and towns. Looters and Bandits suck the economic fun out of everything. The only way to figure out which castle villages supply what town that I've found is to physically sit there and watch the incoming and outgoing villagers while waiting in town and seeing for yourself. The tooltip for each town will tell you the connected villages but villages connected to castles need to dump their goods somewhere. The thing about workshops is that there are a lot of things in play. ![]()
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