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11 Rough Hide is one of Windrose's most important early-to-mid game animal materials. It shows up quickly in the starter armor path, keeps turning up in practical equipment recipes, and remains relevant well after the opening tutorial because so many survival and combat crafts lean on leather.
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44 Common Sources
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66 Where FoundNotesBoarThe most common early source and the one most players learn through the tutorialWolfA Foothills source once the game gets more dangerousGoat (Foothills)Foothills animal drop, available after the biome opensMerchant: Animal Productslists Rough Hide among the advanced goods sold once local threats are cleared
77 Where You Notice it First
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99 Survivor's Set and the early armor pathIslander Quest which explicitly walks the player into rough-hide use through the first armor stepRazor and other early weapon or gear recipes that ask for leather instead of only metal and woodNPC Crew via boarding-related gear and other practical upgrade recipes that still want hide long after the tutorial
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1111 Why it Stays Relevant
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1313 Rough Hide sits in a useful middle ground. It is basic enough to farm in quantity, but valuable enough that you keep spending it on real upgrades instead of throwaway crafts. That is why groups on busy servers feel rough-hide shortages quickly. It is not rare, but it is heavily contested.
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1515 Farming Advice
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1717 Do not wait until you need a full set or upgrade chain to start stockpiling it.If your shared world has stripped the starter biome clean, switch to a quieter route or a different world before the shortage wastes more time than the farm would have taken.If your base economy is online, check whether the Animal Products merchant route is enough to smooth shortages between hunting runs.
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1919 Where to Buy
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2121 Rough Hide can be purchased from the following vendor.
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2323 VendorStock QtyFaction LevelPriceMerchant: Animal Products2040 Piastre
2424 Complete Crafting Uses
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2626 Rough Hide is an ingredient in the following recipes.
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2828 ImageRecipe OutputQuantityArboris Saber×2Boarding Party Gear×7Broken Blade×2Cutlass×2Dueling Greatsword×2Dueling Saber×2Flibustier's Boots×2Flibustier's Gloves×2Flibustier's Hat×3Flibustier's Jacket×4Flibustier's Pants×3Marksman's Boots×2Marksman's Doublet×2Marksman's Gloves×2Marksman's Pants×2Marksman's Tricorne×2Privateer's Boots×2Privateer's Doublet×2Privateer's Gloves×2Privateer's Pants×2Privateer's Tricorne×2Rapier×2Rapier of a Thousand Cuts×2Rapier of Devastation×2Razor×2Saber×2Sailor Backpack×5Soul Eater×2Stalwart Greatsword×2Sturdy Rapier×2Sturdy Saber×2Survivor's Bandana×2Survivor's Boots×2Survivor's Gloves×2Survivor's Jacket×3Survivor's Pants×2Tanned Leather×3Tracker's Boots×2Tracker's Gloves×2Tracker's Hat×3Tracker's Jacket×4Tracker's Pants×3Two-Handed Sword×2Elastic Leatherx3ConstructionBuildings, Stations, and Decorations that require this itemStationsMaterial Rackx10
2929 See Also
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3131 Animal Fat - the other animal-drop bottleneck tied to early utility gearSurvivor's Set - the earliest full armor step that depends on animal materialsResources - broader gathering and processing context
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3333 Practical Hunting Notes
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3535 Hide comes almost entirely from killing Boar in the early game, and that farm is more annoying than it looks on paper. Boars charge on sight, they move in small groups, and they can easily stagger-lock an under-geared character. Most players spend a frustrating evening learning that before settling on a rhythm: bait the charge, dodge laterally, hit the flank, repeat.
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3737 The common beginner trap: pouring every hide you farm into maxing the starter armor set. The starter gear gets replaced quickly once story quests start opening up Ancient Ruins and better loot tables, so over-upgrading the first armor tier is usually wasted hide. A sensible default is to upgrade starter pieces only as far as the next quest or unlock actually requires, then shift farming effort toward later crafts (ship gear, boarding equipment, upgraded weapons) where the hide cost is harder to skip.
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3939 Drop Count Per Kill
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4141 Every animal that drops Rough Hide drops it at a 100% rate, so the question is not whether a kill yields hide but how many units each species returns. The table below consolidates community-tested drop counts so you can plan farming rotations around the animals that give the highest hide return per kill rather than whichever is closest to base.
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4343 AnimalRough Hide Per KillBiomeBoar1Coastal JungleSow1Coastal JungleSavage Boar5Coastal Jungle (elite)Wolf1FoothillsAlpha Wolf2Foothills (boss)Goat2Foothills / highlandsNanny Goat3Foothills / highlandsGoat Leader4Foothills (elite)
4444 Practical takeaway: Savage Boars pay out five times what a regular Boar does in a single kill, so once the Coastal Jungle is cleared of the obvious wandering pigs, look for the elite variant before chasing an ordinary flock. In the Foothills tier, Goat Leaders and Nanny Goats outpace basic goats by two to three hides each, and the same positioning that lets you pull wolves safely also covers them. Routes that chain a Foothills goat cluster into an Alpha Wolf fight efficiently load a Sailor Backpack in a single trip.
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4646 Details
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4848 Properties
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5050 PropertyValueWeight0.5Stack30
5151 Recipes That Consume Rough Hide
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5353 RecipeRough Hide QtySurvivor's Boots2Survivor's Gloves2Survivor's Bandana2Survivor's Pants2Survivor's Jacket3Tracker's Boots2Tracker's Gloves2Tracker's Hat3Tracker's Pants3Tracker's Jacket4Conquistador's Boots1Conquistador's Gloves1Conquistador's Helmet1Conquistador's Pants1Conquistador's Cuirass1Flibustier's Boots2Flibustier's Gloves2Flibustier's Hat3Flibustier's Pants3Flibustier's Jacket4Marksman's Boots2Marksman's Gloves2Marksman's Tricorne2Marksman's Pants2Marksman's Doublet2Pikeman's Boots1Pikeman's Gloves1Pikeman's Helmet1Pikeman's Pants1Pikeman's Cuirass1Privateer's Boots2Privateer's Gloves2Privateer's Tricorne2Privateer's Pants2Privateer's Doublet2Sailor Backpack5Two-Handed Sword2Dueling Greatsword2Stalwart Greatsword2Soul Eater2Rapier2Rapier of a Thousand Cuts2Rapier of Devastation2Sturdy Rapier2Saber2Cutlass2Arboris Saber2Razor2Dueling Saber2Sturdy Saber2Boarding Party Gear7