Large to small hides

[Phillip Susi]

The help file on large hide says that it can be crafted into small hide, but there appears to be no recipe to actually do so?

[Chrondeath]

I don't remember what recipes it is, but I'm fairly sure that while I was looking through warm clothing for winter, some of the smaller recipes could be done with a large or huge hide and would give you a "refund" of a small hide along with the item.  I suspect that's what it's referring to.

[hstone32]

As far as I'm aware, a large hide can only be crafted into a medium hide, right? Well, you can craft medium hides into small hides from there at any rate.

[Vexxvididu]

when making leather, I will use creative mode to "trade" hides of different sizes for all medium hides so I can make a full batch of leather.  I just think of it as cutting them up since this honestly should be interchangeable.

In my view, it would make sense if they added a step where the raw hides were cut up to form "scrap hides" or something as a step so that the different sizes would become interchangeable.  Can keep ratios the same, where small hides become one, medium 2, etc.

Edited May 28 by Vexxvididu

[Chrondeath]

Now that I'm home and can check the handbook, the Hide Hat looks like the most efficient way to convert Large Hides to Small Hides if that's what you're looking to do, as it can be made with just one Large Hide and gives a Small Hide refund.  The Rawhide Wrap and Rawhide Tunic can also refund you a Small Hide, but require additional large/huge hides to make the piece, so they wouldn't be worth it for pure conversion, only for if you also needed the clothing piece.

[Moa]

I've been having problems with the hide sizes too. It's kinda fiddly.

The worst part for me is not being able to use medium or large scraped hides for making parchment  I can cut the head off a bear hide, but I can't cut a square?

At least I have a lot of rabbits.

22 hours ago, Vexxvididu said:

In my view, it would make sense if they added a step where the raw hides were cut up to form "scrap hides" or something as a step so that the different sizes would become interchangeable.  Can keep ratios the same, where small hides become one, medium 2, etc.

That would be so nice. And it would make more sense also because right now we get the leather output in the form of some number of identical-size leather pieces, even though we never cut the hide into pieces. It's like the process of soaking in strong tannin actually dices up the prepared hide somehow. We put piranha in there.

... Actually, maybe leathermaking should require piranha, instead of cutting up with a knife. Taking the head off a bear pelt should also require piranha. Obviously only piranha can realistically cut leather.

In this way, we can be motivated to make fishtanks (if/when live fish as capturable).

edit: wait no, if only piranha could cut leather, we'd also need piranha to skin anything in the first place. Like, you gotta feed the animal to the fishies for just long enough for them to peel it, and then you have to bravely fish the animal out without getting eaten yourself. Or I guess one could just say that fresh hides are softer/easier to cut than even slightly older ones. Or maybe that it's only treated hides - like the sturdy leather process chromium treated ones - that require piranha.

Edited May 29 by Moa