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Utility Crafting QoL

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AriaUnderStars

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Dec 29th 2025 at 8:35 PM

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Dec 30th 2025 at 8:21 AM

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Recommended download (for Vintage Story 1.21.0-pre.1 - 1.21.6):
Extensive bag recycling.zip  1-click install

My elk needed a saddle, I ran out of leather and thought: hey I should be able to tear down my old leather bags to get some leather back.
24 hours later, I made this mod. It's the very first mod I make for any game!! It's not much, but we've all gotta start somewhere. After I was done, I realized similar mods already existed, but none were this extensive. So if my mod is missing ANYTHING, please drop a comment.

Mod info:
Place your knife and bag however you want on the crafting grid. Any kind of knife will work, but it will need at least some durability for the recipe to work. Durability requirements:
Hunter backpack: 10
Linen sack: 10
Leather bag: 15
Sturdy leather bag: 20
Saddle bag: 30
Sturdy saddle bag: 50
Mining bag: 10 (also requires a chisel with 10+ durability)
Sturdy mining bag: 10 (read note at the bottom)

Expect ~75% materials back from recycling:

Hunter backpack: 2 small pelts + 8 cattails
Linen sack: 15 flax fibers
Leather bag: 6 leather
Sturdy leather bag: 7 sturdy leather
Saddle bag: 16 leather + 3 copper nails
Sturdy saddle bag: 16 sturdy leather + 3 copper nails
Mining bag: 15 flax fibers + 3 bronze-bismuth ingots
Sturdy mining bag: 6 sturdy leather + 1 mining bag

I didn't include a recipe for reed/papyrus baskets as they're already in the base game. (I obviously found out AFTER modding my own basket recycling recipe and not understanding why it wasn't working lmao)

About sturdy mining bags: I wish I could include a better recipe for recycling sturdy mining bags, but the game won't allow it. I can only return two ingredients in a recipe, so recycling a sturdy mining bag gets you sturdy leather and a regular mining bag (losing a bit of flax fibers in the process). Since this step of the recycling process technically yields no ingot, this part of the recipe doesn't include a chisel. Because it is a two-part recipe, the true durability requirement for fully recycling a sturdy mining bag is 20 knife durability and 10 chisel durability.