Elastic Leather

Elastic Leather is a common refined resource in Windrose. It is produced by tanning raw hide rather than gathered in the wild, which makes it an early step in the leather-working chain that feeds clothing and station upgrades.

It is a Common resource with item level 4. Refined leather sits on the tailoring and light-armor side of crafting, alongside the leather-based rare sets such as Flibustier and Tracker, so keeping a steady supply on hand is worth doing once you start working the leather chain.

Overview

How to Obtain

Elastic Leather is crafted, not looted. Refine it at the Tanning Rack from Rough Hide, which drops from skinning animals across the early biomes. The recipe is fast and cheap, so it is easy to batch a full stack while doing other base chores.

At 20 seconds per craft the rack turns out roughly 3 Elastic Leather per minute if you keep the queue fed. Stockpile Rough Hide from hunting runs so the rack never sits idle.

Crafting Uses

Elastic Leather is an ingredient and upgrade material for the following construction and station projects.

The Try-on Mannequin extension lets you preview and store more outfits, so Elastic Leather sits squarely on the tailoring side of base building. The Bellows attachment, by contrast, pulls the same material into the smithing side, which is a handy thing to remember when you are budgeting hides.

Tips

• Refine Elastic Leather at the Tanning Rack from 3 Rough Hide in 20 seconds (about 3 per minute with a full queue).

• Elastic Leather feeds the Try-on Mannequin extender and the Bellows attachment for the Weaponsmith Workshop, so it pays off on both the tailoring and the smithing tracks.

• It stacks to 20. Carry hides back to base and refine them in bulk rather than crafting one at a time in the field.

See Also

• Resources

• Crafting

• Tanning Rack

• Rough Hide

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