Among the various crafting materials players can create in RuneScape: Dragonwilds, leather is an essential ingredient used to craft many decent early-game equipment. It’s not incredibly difficult to achieve, but the process might be a bit time-consuming since you first need to unlock the required structure, craft it, and then make the material.

Armor in general is essential, as players have to fight a lot of enemies later on, so equipping good armor and using a decent weapon will really come in handy. So, if you wish to explore the world a little more easily, try prioritizing crafting leather in RuneScape: Dragonwilds.

RuneScape Dragonwilds - How To Get Runes & Rune Essence
RuneScape: Dragonwilds - How To Unlock All Runes & Get Rune Essence

After getting Rune Essence and knowing how to craft Runes in RuneScape: Dragonwilds, the next step is to unlock Earth, Fire, Law, and Nature Runes.

How To Make A Tannery In RuneScape: Dragonwilds

A Tannery is the structure you need to craft by combining several materials to make some leather in RuneScape: Dragonwilds. You will get the recipe to craft the Tannery after obtaining your first Animal Bone. So, players need to kill a deer or a cow to obtain the bone and unlock the Tannery recipe. Collect the following materials to craft the structure and start making leather:

  • Ash Logs x12: Use a spell or an axe to destroy trees. You can also pick some from the ground or uproot saplings.
  • Animal Bone x4: Kill large animals like cows and deer, or use the Bark To Bones spell that needs 10 Nature Runes and 10 Earth Runes to transform one Ash Tree into 7 bones. It can be unlocked upon reaching Artisan level 11.
  • Coarse Thread x2: Collect Flax or Animal Coarse Hide and use a Spinning Wheel to make Coarse Thread.

Similar to the Spinning Wheel structure in RuneScape: Dragonwilds, the Tannery can only function if it's placed underneath a roof.

How To Make Leather In RuneScape: Dragonwilds

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After crafting the Tannery in RuneScape: Dragonwilds, collect some Animal Hide or Animal Hide Scraps to put into the structure and make leather. However, keep in mind that you need one Animal Hide to make one leather, while it costs three Animal Hide Scraps to make one leather.

leather and thread required to make armor in runescape dragonwilds

Leather can be used to craft a variety of armor and weapons at the crafting station, like:

Item

Recipe

Bone Club

  • Animal Bone x8
  • Ash Logs x6
  • Leather x4

Goblin "Swingslash"

Leather Shield

  • Leather x10
  • Animal Bone x6

Leather Cowl

  • Leather x4
  • Coarse Thread x2

Leather Body

  • Leather x10
  • Coarse Thread x8

Leather Chaps

  • Leather x8
  • Coarse Thread x6

Reinforced Helmet

  • Animal Bone x4
  • Leather x2

Reinforced Body

  • Animal Bone x10
  • Leather x8

Reinforced Platelegs

  • Animal Bone x8
  • Leather x6
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