Leather Works

Leather Works is the first mod in a series designed to completely overhaul and expand various crafting aspects in Minecraft. It strikes a perfect balance between moderate realism and simplicity, seamlessly blending into the vanilla game style.

Leather Processing

Start by obtaining animal hides. The mod supports hides from cows, pigs, horses, wolves, polar bears, mooshrooms, rabbits, mules, donkeys, and llamas. After getting raw hide, you'll need flint - craft it together with the hide to get prepared hide.

Next, you'll need tannins, which are obtained from tree bark. Hold Shift and right-click with flint on a log to scrape off bark. The success rate is 1 in 20 per tick. Collect bark of the same type and create a ball of tannins.

Clean the prepared hides in water - this can be done in the world, a barrel, or a cauldron. Barrels, crafted in a U-shape from planks, can fill with rainwater and be used with glass bottles. After washing, soak the hides in a tannin solution (right-click a ball of tannins on a water barrel) - each ball provides 3 uses.

Create a drying rack (3 wood slabs in a row) and dry the soaked hides. The process takes 60 ticks, but there's a 5% chance of failure, returning rotten flesh instead of leather.

New Features

Repairable Leather Armor

Leather armor can now be repaired! When armor wears out, it becomes tattered leather armor, which provides no protection but preserves enchantments (with a 1/3 chance of reducing level or complete removal for level 1 enchantments). To repair, craft a repair kit (1 string + 1 leather) with the tattered armor - this restores 20 durability points. Works with dyed and named armor.

Crafting Materials

• Leather Sheets: created in a checkerboard 2x2 pattern of leather and string, used in complex recipes
• Leather Strips: created from leather or leather sheet with shears, used for binding items

Packs

The mod adds practical packs that are smaller than alternatives from other mods but cost more. They can be dyed, renamed, and future updates will include container interaction capabilities.

Also available is an Ender pack, which provides access to your Ender chest.

Leather Trunks

Trunks are crafted similarly to regular chests but using leather sheets. They allow color-coding storage and, unlike regular chests, can be placed next to each other.

Sealed Barrels

For builders: use a wooden pressure plate on a barrel to create a sealed barrel. These decorative blocks can be rotated.

Technical Details

• Barrels fill with rainwater at specific intervals
• Barrels work with comparators
• Leather armor, worn armor, and packs can be washed in water barrels
• Polar bears and pigs drop 0-2 hides without fortune, wolves drop 0-1
• The mod replaces all leather drops from supported entities, so mods increasing leather drop rates will affect hides
• Creating tannin balls requires: 2 oak or spruce bark, 1 acacia or dark oak bark, 4 birch or 3 jungle bark

Compatibility

The mod supports CraftTweaker integration for Aether and BearWithMe.