Leather is a crafting reagent in V Rising that players will need not long after establishing their Castle Hearts. However, there is not munch in the way of in-game instruction about how to obtain this important material, and indeed some fans may be unclear about how they are meant to pursue it. Fortunately, it is fairly easy to get leather in V Rising, and this guide is here to walk players through the process.
V Rising: How to Make Leather
The first step toward making leather in V Rising is to reach the "Expanding my Domain" quest, which instructs fans to upgrade their Castle Heart. By the time that a player is on this quest, they should be at a suitable gear level and have already constructed a Blood Altar, which they should now interact with to access a list of available bosses. The boss that is relevant to making leather is Keely the Frost Archer, and survival game fans should select her and click on the "track blood" button below her portrait.
This action will cause a blood trail to appear, and players should follow it to the Bandit Trapper Camp in the Farbane Woods. Upon arriving at this location, vampire video game fans will go toe-to-toe with Keely, and they will unlock the ability to construct a Tannery in their bases when she is slain. Building a Tannery requires eight planks and 160 animal hides, and fans can establish the structure by locating the crafting station within the Build menu when they have the requisite materials.
With the Tannery built, players should simply interact with it and drag their animal hides into one of the input slots. Notably, it takes 16 animal hides to make just one leather, which means that fans of crafting games that want to amass a large quantity of the refined material will need to slay quite a number of beasts. Luckily, the Farbane Woods are a great place to do just that, and it should not take players too long to farm hides and make a suitable stockpile of leather.
To note, Keely is certainly not the only boss that grants players the ability to create a new structure when they are defeated. Fans are thus advised to spend some time perusing the V Blood list that is accessed through the Blood Altar, as that may lead them to another construction that they are interested in unlocking. Players can also earn new abilities by pursuing V Blood in this multiplayer game, providing even further incentive to track down bosses through the altar.
V Rising is in early access on PC.