Leatherworking Trade Skill Guide for New World

Leatherworking in New World: Aeternum is an essential trade skill that allows players to refine raw animal hides into high-quality leather, which is a required ingredient when crafting armor, bags, and other important gear.

Due to the natural need of raw hides, and how the output of Leatherworking provides required materials for certain types of crafting, there's a direct link to Armoring, Tracking and Skinning, and Weaponsmithing.

Leatherworking is performed at a tannery in any settlement. Each tannery will have a tier level that varies from town-to-town, and a higher tier level tannery will enable you to craft higher tier materials, such as Runic Leather and Prismatic Leather.

In this guide, we'll cover the basics of Leatherworking, the different types of leather you can craft, leveling strategies, gold-making guides with Leatherworking, and more.

Tannin is the refining reagent for Leatherworking, and it is required when trying to craft up your materials. You will have to utilize specifically Aged Tannin when it comes to Leatherworking.

It is recommended to set up buy orders at the Trading Post for Aged Tannin if you're looking to do a lot of Leatherworking. This will allow you to pick-up a large bulk, at potentially the lowest possible price.

Leatherworking is a fairly simple skill to level up. The most experience you can acquire is from the highest tier materials you can craft, so always craft up for maximum experience. However, you can take a cheaper route and continue to only craft the lower materials, which are extremely useful, and can still sell for plenty of gold, as many players would rather just buy those lower level resources than farm them themselves.

Below is a table of refined resources you can create with Leatherworking, what they require in order to craft, and the associated experience gained for each.

Refined Resources	Materials Required	Leatherworking Level	Experience Gained
Coarse Leather	Rawhide x4	0	+44
Rugged Leather	Coarse Leather x4 and Aged Tannin x1	50	+230
Layered Leather	Thick Hide x6, Rugged Leather x2 and Aged Tannin x1	100	+1,998
Infused Leather	Iron Hide x8, Layered Leather x2 and Aged Tannin x1	150	+10,164
Runic Leather (10 per day)	Infused Leather x5, Smolderhide x1, Scarhide x1 and Aged Tannin x1	200	+24,000
Dark Leather	Dark Hide x16, Infused Leather x2, and Aged Tannin x1	205	+48,393
Prismatic Leather	Runic Leather x11, Dark Leather x12, and Aged Tannin x4	250	+140,556

Each of the refining trade skills have a gear set that increase the total yield you receive while refining by +2% per item. For Leatherworking, it is the Tanner Gloves, Hat, Pants, Shirt and Shoes. You can generally find these as drops or on the Trading Post, however some pieces can be much rarer than others.

Armor	Drop Source
Tanner Hat	Open World
Tanner Shirt	Open World
Tanner Gloves	Open World
Tanner Pants	Open World
Tanner Shoes	Open World
Tanner Hat	Open World
Tanner Shirt	Open World
Tanner Gloves	Open World
Tanner Pants	Open World
Tanner Shoes	Open World

There are a range of ways on how you can make gold with the Leathworking trade skill. For starters, the high-end leathers that you'll be crafting will be extremely sought-after, and you'll be able to make a direct profit off of these most of the time simply by selling them via the in-game trade chat of Trading Post.

Another method is to utilize your high-level Leatherworking skill to your advantage, and charge other players for you to craft their raw hides. If you have all of the necessary Tanner gear, and are max level, you will likely gain more "bonus" crafts, making the Leatherworking process more valuable. Additionally, if you haven't used your daily cooldown for the high-end leathers (such as the Prismatic Leather), you can sell your "cooldown" in a way, where a player would provide you with the ingredients necessary to craft 10 Prismatic Leathers, as well as some gold (for you), in exchange for you to craft the ingredients, and return the finished product.