Botanical Leathers

 🌿 Botanical Leathers: The Art of Vegetable Tanning 🌿

From petal to pelt. Thrive without the hunt.

 

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Playing a pacifist character? Tired of hunting wolves just to make a backpack, or managing massive cattle farms? Botanical Leathers offers an immersive, ethical, and complete alternative to obtain leather solely from the flora of Vintage Story.

This mod doesn't just "give" you leather; it introduces rewarding crafting processes that fit perfectly into the game's existing balance.

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✨ Main Features

This mod introduces four distinct methods to craft Vegetable Hides, tailored to your biome and resources:

 

🍄 I. The Fungal Path (Fast & Damp)
Don't let your common mushrooms rot away. This is the most direct method: soak your fungi, press them to extract the water, and beat the remaining fibers.

•  Ideal for: Temperate zones and humid forests.

 

🍎 II. The Fruit Path (Recycling & Cooking)
A great way to value your waste! Recover the mash from your Apples and Mangoes after pressing them for juice. Transform this pulp into a hot Botanical Paste, bound with wax or resin.

• The Challenge: The paste hardens as it cools, requiring careful time and temperature management.

 

🌵 III. The Fiber Path (Resilience & Climate)
Survive in deserts and tropics using structural fibers. Harvest Pineapple Leaves or Cactus Fibers to create a tough hide capable of rivaling animal leather.

 

🌳 IV. The Cork Path (Engineering & Assembly)
The pinnacle of botanical crafting. Collect the bark when stripping your Oak logs to extract a unique, resilient material.

• The Process: A realistic production chain. Bark must be soaked, dried, then bundled and steamed in a fire to gain elasticity.

• The Assembly: Unlike pastes, cork is worked in sheets. Use Resin to glue sheets together, and Linen to reinforce the huge hides (Vegetable Composite).

 

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🤝 Compatibility & Mod Support

Botanical Leathers is designed to play well with the ecosystem. It features native support for:

• Wildcraft Fruits: Massive expansion of the Fruit Path adding 14 new compatible fruits (Grapes, Citrus, and Exotics like Jackfruit or Pandan).
• Mycodiversity: All modded mushrooms are fully recognized and integrated into the Fungal Path.
• A Culinary Artillery: Bark can be used to produce soaked cork. Stripping an Oak log now yields 4 barks for recycling.
• Ancient Tools: Barks are valid inputs for the cork path.
• In Dappled Groves: Barks are valid inputs for the cork path.

⚙️ Seamless Integration

• 100% Vanilla Compatible: All methods result in the creation of a standard Soaked Hide. Once obtained, you finish the work exactly as usual (Scraping, Oak/Acacia tanning, etc.).
• Zero Waste: Extracting fibers via the Fruit Press generates a nutrient-rich liquid residue, perfect for boosting your Compost.
• Balanced: Vegetable leather requires work, tools (Fruit Press, Cooking Pot, Hammer), and time. It is not an "easy mode," but a different, rewarding path.

 

Rediscover crafting. Leave the beasts in peace.

 

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Roadmap:

• balancing based on potential feedback.

• compatibility with mods

• have specific leathers and not just provide an alternative to raw hides