Botanical Leathers

&nbsp;🌿 <span style="font-size: 24pt;">Botanical Leathers: The Art of Vegetable Tanning </span>🌿

<span style="font-size: 18pt;">From petal to pelt. Thrive without the hunt.</span>

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Playing a pacifist character? Tired of hunting wolves just to make a backpack, or managing massive cattle farms? Botanical Leathers&nbsp;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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✨<span style="font-size: 14pt;"> Main Features</span>

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

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🍄 I. The Fungal Path (Fast &amp; 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.

• &nbsp;Ideal for: Temperate zones and humid forests.

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🍎 II. The Fruit Path (Recycling &amp; 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:&nbsp;The paste hardens as it cools, requiring careful time and temperature management.

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

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<span class="ng-star-inserted">🌳&nbsp;</span><span class="ng-star-inserted">IV. The Cork Path (Engineering &amp; Assembly)</span>
<span class="ng-star-inserted">The pinnacle of botanical crafting. Collect the bark when&nbsp;</span><span class="ng-star-inserted">stripping your Oak logs</span><span class="ng-star-inserted">&nbsp;to extract a unique, resilient material.</span>

• <span class="ng-star-inserted">The Process:</span><span class="ng-star-inserted">&nbsp;A realistic production chain. Bark must be soaked, dried, then bundled and&nbsp;</span><span class="ng-star-inserted">steamed</span><span class="ng-star-inserted">&nbsp;in a fire to gain elasticity.</span>

• <span class="ng-star-inserted">The Assembly:</span><span class="ng-star-inserted">&nbsp;Unlike pastes, cork is worked in sheets. Use&nbsp;</span><span class="ng-star-inserted">Resin</span><span class="ng-star-inserted">&nbsp;to glue sheets together, and&nbsp;</span><span class="ng-star-inserted">Linen</span><span class="ng-star-inserted">&nbsp;to reinforce the huge hides (Vegetable Composite).</span>

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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">🤝 Compatibility &amp; Mod Support</span>

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

• Wildcraft Fruits: Massive expansion of the Fruit Path&nbsp;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.

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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