Medium Drying Rack
| Medium Drying Rack | |
|---|---|
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| 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 Medium Drying Rack is a frame of sticks and twine for drying the wet leather of mid-sized animals. The in-game tooltip says it is used to dry the Leather of medium animals like pigs or sheep.
It is the last step of leather making in the Farming menu. A hide is first scraped at the Softening Beam. It then soaks at the Tannin Barrel and comes out as wet leather. The rack dries that wet leather into finished leather for Tailoring. The Small Drying Rack and the Large Drying Rack handle the other hide sizes. The rack is built from simple materials.
Pig and sheep keepers need this rack most, and so do hunters who take deer.
How to Build Medium Drying Rack
The build is called Leather Drying Rack (Medium) 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 is open to any survivor and is known from the start.
Once built, the rack has 100 health. Each level of the builder's skill adds 20 more.
The Large Drying Rack takes exactly the same materials. The Small Drying Rack is cheaper but asks for Carpentry level 1.
The Leather Drying Rack (Medium) 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
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| Hacksaw | 
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1x | Yes | /additem Base.Saw
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| Nails | 
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2x | No | /additem Base.Nails
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How to Use Medium Drying Rack
Wet leather is hung on the rack, and the rack holds it until it is dry. The drying is started by hand once the leather is in place.
Only medium wet leather fits this rack. That covers crude medium leather and the furred leather of sheep, pigs and deer. Adult cattle leather needs the Large Drying Rack. Calf, lamb, piglet, rabbit and raccoon leather goes on the Small Drying Rack.
The wet leather comes from two earlier stations. At the Softening Beam, a Fleshing Tool scrapes the hide. Remove Flesh cleans the inside and keeps the fur on. Remove Fur strips the hair as well and gives a crude hide. At the Tannin Barrel, Tan Leather soaks the hide with a Bowl of Brain Tan. The Bowl of Brain Tan is mixed in the hand from a bowl, a little water and an animal brain.
The Fleshing Tool can be forged at a Primitive Forge or better with Blacksmithing level 3. A Bone Fleshing Tool can be carved from an animal bone at Carving level 2, once that recipe is learned.
Crafting Recipes
Dry Medium Leather is the single job of this rack. Crude wet leather dries into Medium Leather (Crude). Furred wet leather dries into the matching furred kind, such as Sheep Leather (Furred), Landrace Pig Leather (Furred), Black Pig Leather (Furred) or Deer Leather (Furred).
It is open to any survivor and is known from the start. The dried leather then goes into Tailoring and armour recipes.
Cut Up Medium Leather turns a dried piece into a stack of Leather Strips on any surface. It needs a sharp knife or scissors. Leather Strips bind tire armour and forged plate armour.
Whole medium leather goes into hide clothing and bags. Early Tailoring makes a Hide Sack and a Hide Sling Bag. Hide Pants and a Hide Jacket follow at mid levels, along with Hide Boots. The Small Leather Backpack and Crafted Leather Pants sit near the top. Medium Leather (Crude) also makes a Leather Apron, a Leather Water Bag and a Tool Roll - Leather. Outside Tailoring, it goes into the Large Bellows, a Carpentry craft.
Every recipe made at the Medium 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Medium Leather (Crude) | 
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Dry Medium Leather | 1x Medium Leather (Crude, Wet) | - | None | No | /additem Base.Leather_Crude_Medium_Tan
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Notes
- The tooltip says it dries the Leather of medium animals like pigs or sheep.
- Drying is started by hand after the leather is hung.
- The hammer and saw used for the build are kept.
- Pig and sheep keepers get the most use from this size.
- Deer leather fits this rack as well as the large one.
- Build the Softening Beam and Tannin Barrel first, since every hide passes through both.
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