Skin

2024-09-01T11:13:07Z

MysMario: /* Leather items per tanning (small sample, 5 animals of each specie, only starter animals) */

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:''This article refers to "hide" in terms of the skin of a creature, for the article on hiding items and buildings, see [[cv:Hide_Items_or_Buildings|Hide Items or Buildings]].''
[[File:skin_preview.png|right]]'''Skin''' is a tissue layer common to most [[creature]]s. Different types of creatures have different types of skin.
* Most mundane creatures have raw hide, which displays in-game as '''skin'''. This is the only type that can be tanned into leather.
* Arthropod creatures have untannable '''chitin'''. Much tougher than normal skin, chitin serves as the skeleton of most creatures that have it, meaning damage immediately affects structural function.
* Reptilian creatures and fish generally have untannable '''scales'''. Somewhat tougher than ordinary skin, scales slightly reduce damage from weaker sources.
Skins (both fresh and rotten) are stored in a [[refuse]] [[stockpile]] under the names "fresh raw hide" and "rotten raw hide" respectively in the stockpile menu. Each butchering job produces a single skin, but tanning a hide may produce multiple pieces of leather, depending on the creature's size.

== Skin uses ==
Raw skin can be processed at a [[tanner's shop]] by a dwarf with the [[tanning]] labor enabled in order to produce [[leather]], or a dwarf with the [[tanner]] labor enabled can bring a skin and a bucket of [[milk of lime]] to a [[tanner's shop]] to produce a sheet of parchment. Skins are automatically tanned if the "Auto tan" [[standing orders#Workshop orders|order]] is enabled. If skins are not tanned automatically, you can use your [[manager]] to automatically queue "Tan a Hide" jobs, or manually queue jobs from a tanner's shop. Scales and chitin cannot be tanned (aside from [[modding|shenanigans being done]]).

== Leather ==
{{main|Leather}}
Leather is used to make low-grade [[armor]] and [[clothing]]. Leather is also used to make [[bag]]s, [[quiver]]s, [[backpack]]s, [[waterskin]]s, [[clothing]], [[shield]]s, [[armor]], [[trade good|crafts]] and [[decorate|decorations]]. The process of making and using leather is part of the [[meat industry]], rather than the [[clothing industry]].

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ Leather items per raw hide
|-
! Animal !! Leather per adult
|-
| Dog || 1
|-
| Cat || 1
|-
| Mule || 2
|-
| Donkey || 1
|-
| Horse || 2
|-
| Cow || 2
|-
| Sheep || 1
|-
| Pig || 1
|-
| Goat || 1
|-
| Water buffalo || 2-3
|-
| Reindeer || 1
|-
| Yak || 2
|-
| Llama || 1
|-
| Alpaca || 1
|-
| Rabbit || 0
|}

== Modding scales to be usable in leatherworking ==
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If you want to make items out of scale or chitin, add these tokens to SCALE_TEMPLATE or CHITIN_TEMPLATE in material_template_default.txt in the game [[raw file|raw]]s:

<div style="height:100px; overflow:;"><pre>
[LEATHER]
[ITEMS_LEATHER]
[BUTCHER_SPECIAL:SKIN_TANNED:NONE]
</pre></div>

This will make butchering yield several sheets of the creature's scale that are usable in leatherworking, instead of regular unusable scales.

==Gallery==
<gallery widths="200px" heights="200px" position="center">
File:skin_texture.jpg|Skin texture.
File:fish_scales.jpg|Fish scales, another type of skin.
File:chitin_view.jpg|Insect chitin, yet another type of skin.
</gallery>
== See also ==
*[[Leather]]
*[[Meat industry]]
*[[Armor]]
*[[Paper industry]]

{{Translation
| dwarven = salul
| elvish = tipi
| goblin = duspbu
| human = lubbe
}}

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{{Category|Body parts}}

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