Leather

Leather is one of the material types used by Tailors in Ultima Online. It can be purchased from NPC vendors, but is usually harvested from corpses. Mostly it is used to craft Armor.

In order to obtain leather, you must first kill a creature then use a bladed weapon on the body. The Leather Hides will then be placed on the corpse for you to collect. These weigh five stones each, but can be converted to normal "cut" leather by using Scissors on them (reducing the weight down to a stone apiece). Either way leather is stackable.

Another way to harvest leather is to skin creatures with a Skinning Knife equipped. This way, the hides are automatically converted to leather then placed in your backpack. The same effect is also possessed by the Butcher's War Cleaver, except that this weapon is not required to be equipped for the automatic harvesting to "cut leather". Fixed: Note also, that both will leave the cut leather on the corpse being skinned, if the weight of one's equipment is approximately 350 stones or more. This bug is believed to be related to the maximum capacity of backpacks from prior to Mondain's Legacy, but actual confirmation has not been forthcoming from EA.

Hides can be turned in for reward points in the Britain Library Collection.

Spined Hide

Barbed Hide

Leather Types

There are 4 different kinds of leather: Normal, Spined, Horned and Barbed. The three special types give additional properties to Tailor crafted armor:

Leather	Skill						Total	Other
Normal	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Spined	65.0	+9	0	0	0	0	+9	Luck +40
Horned	80.0	+2	+4	+3	+3	+3	+15
Barbed	99.0	+3	+2	+3	+3	+5	+16

Creature Drop Rates

Plain	Spined	Horned	Barbed
Creature Amount Bullfrog 4 Timber Wolf 5 Bogling 6 Giant Rat 6 Gorilla 6 Greater Mongbat 6 Grey Wolf, White Wolf 6 Skree 6 Anzuanord 7 Leather Wolf 7 Deathwatch Beetle, Deathwatch Beetle Hatchling 8 Goat 8 Hind 8 Snow Leopard 8 Cougar, Panther 10 Cu Sidhe 10 Horse, Pack Horse 10 Slith 10 Brown Bear, Black Bear 12 Cow 12 Llama, Rideable Llama 12 Mountain Goat 12 Savage Ridgeback 12 Walrus 12 Bull 15 Giant Ice Worm 15 Great Hart 15 Grizzly Bear 16 Polar Bear 16 Gaman 17 Cold Drake 20 Yamandon 20 Swamp Dragon 20 Tsuki Wolf 25 Bake Kitsune 30 Hydra, Abscess 40 Thrasher 48 Hiryu, Lesser Hiryu 60	Creature Amount Imp 6 Dire Wolf 6 Centaur 8 Ratman, all types 8 Hellcat, all types 10 Alligator 12 Giant Toad 12 Lizardman 12 Ridgeback 12 Stone Slith 12 Lava Lizard 14 Giant Ice Serpent 15 Giant Serpent 15 Lava Serpent 15 Lowland Boura 20 Ruddy Boura 20	Creature Amount Ki-Rin 10 Raptor 10 Sea Serpent, Deep Sea Serpent 10 Toxic Slith 10 Unicorn 10 Kepetch Ambusher 12 Drake 20 Wyvern 20 High Plains Boura 22	Creature Amount Nightmare 10 Ancient Wyrm 20 Dragon 20 Serpentine Dragon 20 Shadow Wyrm 20 Skeletal Dragon 20 White Wyrm 20 Greater Dragon 30

Leather is affected by the "double resources" rule in the Felucca ruleset. Also, Humans gain ten percent more leather when skinning (22 instead of 20, 53 instead of 48, etc.), rounded up. For Humans hunting in Felucca, base amount is doubled, then the 10% bonus is applied, for purposes of rounding off fractions.

For example, an elf hunting Giant Serpents in Trammel would get 15 spined leather per kill, while a human hunting the same creatures would get 17 spined leather per kill (15 x 110% = 16.5, rounding up to 17).
In Felucca, against the same creature type, an elf would get 30 spined leather(15 x 2) per kill, while a human would get 33 ((15 x 2) x 110%).