Large Drying Rack
| Large Drying Rack | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Class | Workstation |
| Type | Workstation |
| Build Menu | Farming |
| Build Skill | None |
| Build Tools | |
| Health | 100 (+20 per skill level) |
| Recipes | 1 |
| Crafts | Farming |
| Location | Built |
The Large Drying Rack is a frame of sticks and twine for drying the wet leather of big animals. The in-game tooltip says it is used to dry the Leather of large animals like adult cows.
It is the last step of leather making in the Farming menu. A hide first goes to the Softening Beam, where flesh or fur is scraped off. It then soaks at the Tannin Barrel and comes out as wet leather. The rack dries that wet leather into finished leather for Tailoring. Each size of hide has its own rack, and this one takes the largest. It is built from simple materials.
Large hides come from adult cattle and from deer. Angus, Holstein and Simmental cows and bulls all give a large hide. A survivor who keeps cattle or hunts deer needs this rack for the biggest pieces of leather in the game.
How to Build Large Drying Rack
The build is called Leather Drying Rack (Large) and sits in the Farming build menu. It takes six Long Stick, eight Twine and two Nails. A hammer and a saw are needed, and both come back after the build. A small saw or a crude saw works in place of a full saw.
The recipe asks for no skill level and is known from the start.
Once built, the rack has 100 health. Each level of the builder's skill adds 20 more.
Twine for the build can be made by hand. Craft Twine turns scutched hemp, Flax Tow or Hemp Dogbane into Twine with a sharp knife or scissors. The Medium Drying Rack takes the same materials. The rack is a large piece of furniture and can be picked up and moved later.
The Leather Drying Rack (Large) recipe is in the Farming build menu. It needs no skill level.
| Name | Image | Amount | Kept | Spawn ID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Long Stick | 
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6x | No | /additem Base.LongStick
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| Twine | 
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8x | No | /additem Base.Twine
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| Claw Hammer | 
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1x | Yes | /additem Base.Hammer
|
| Hacksaw | 
|
1x | Yes | /additem Base.Saw
|
| Nails | 
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2x | No | /additem Base.Nails
|
How to Use Large Drying Rack
The rack works differently from a crafting bench. Wet leather is hung on it, and the rack holds it until it is dry. The drying is started by hand once the leather is in place.
Only large wet leather fits this rack. That means crude large leather or the furred leather of adult cattle and deer. Pig and sheep leather goes on the Medium Drying Rack. Calf, lamb, rabbit and raccoon leather goes on the Small Drying Rack.
Wet leather carries a tooltip saying it needs to be dried on a Leather Drying Rack. The dried leather is ready for Tailoring.
A large crude hide can be cut in half before tanning with a sharp knife or scissors. The two halves are medium hides and dry on the Medium Drying Rack instead.
Crafting Recipes
Dry Large Leather is the job of this rack. Crude wet leather dries into Large Leather (Crude). Furred wet leather keeps its fur and dries into the matching kind, such as Angus Leather (Furred), Holstein Leather (Furred), Simmental Leather (Furred) or Deer Leather (Furred).
It asks for no skill and is known from the start. The dried leather then goes into Tailoring and armour recipes.
Large leather has the biggest uses of any leather. It goes into the Hide Coat, the Hide Robe, the Hide Hoodie and the Hide Sleeping Bag. The Simple Framepack, the Framepack and the Large Framepack all need it, at Tailoring level 5 and above. Cut Up Large Leather turns one piece into a big bundle of Leather Strips on any surface. Build Leather Shelter also uses one large leather.
Every recipe made at the Large Drying Rack is listed with what it uses up, the tools it hands back and the skill it asks for. A "Yes" under Learned means the recipe has to be learned before it shows up.
| Name | Image | Recipe | Crafting Materials | Tools | Skill | Learned | Spawn ID |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Large Leather (Crude) | 
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Dry Large Leather | 1x Large Leather (Crude, Wet) | - | None | No | /additem Base.Leather_Crude_Large_Tan
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Notes
- The tooltip says it dries the Leather of large animals like adult cows.
- Drying is started by hand after the leather is hung.
- The Twine for the build can be made by hand from scutched hemp or Flax Tow.
- Halve a large crude hide when only a Medium Drying Rack stands at the base.
- The hammer and saw used for the build are kept.
- Build it beside the Softening Beam and Tannin Barrel to keep the leather work in one place.
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