Tags:

Utility Crafting Tweak Simplification

Author:

leen2712

Side:

Both

Created:

Dec 30th 2025 at 3:07 AM

Last modified:

Dec 30th 2025 at 3:15 AM

Downloads:

338

Latest release (for Vintage Story 1.18.0-pre.0 - 1.21.6, outdated):
HideCombiner.zip  1-click install

Hide Combiner & Cutter

Summary / Teaser:

Stop hoarding useless small hides! This Quality-of-Life mod allows you to stitch small raw hides into larger ones, or cut large hides down into smaller pieces using a knife. Perfect for managing your leather supplies.

Description:

Have you ever hunted dozens of hares and raccoons, only to realize you can't use their small hides to craft the leather armor or backpack you desperately need? Hide Combiner is the solution.

This mod introduces simple grid crafting recipes to upgrade your raw hides to the next size tier, or salvage larger hides into smaller ones if needed.

🧵 Feature 1: Combine Hides (Upgrade)

You can combine 2 hides of the same size to create 1 hide of the next larger tier.

• 2x Small Raw Hide ➡ 1x Medium Raw Hide

• 2x Medium Raw Hide ➡ 1x Large Raw Hide

• 2x Large Raw Hide ➡ 1x Huge Raw Hide

Recipes are shapeless (you can place them anywhere in the crafting grid).

🔪 Feature 2: Cut Hides (Downgrade)

Need smaller pieces? You can use any Knife in the crafting grid to cut a larger hide into two smaller ones.

• 1x Huge Raw Hide + Knife ➡ 2x Large Raw Hides

• 1x Large Raw Hide + Knife ➡ 2x Medium Raw Hides

• 1x Medium Raw Hide + Knife ➡ 2x Small Raw Hides

The knife loses a small amount of durability but is not consumed.

⚖️ Is it balanced?

Yes! In fact, combining hides comes at a slight cost of total material value, which makes it fair:

• Example: A Huge Hide normally requires 10 Liters of tanning fluid. Creating it from 2 Large Hides (which would normally require 6L each = 12L total) means you are trading efficiency for the convenience of getting the specific hide size you need.

⚙️ Installation

• Server: Required (install in Mods folder).

• Client: Required.

• Compatibility: Works on existing saves. No new blocks or items are added, only recipes.