How to craft Hard Leather in Runescape Dragonwilds

There comes a time in every Runescape Dragonwilds adventurer’s life when cloth just won’t cut it anymore – literally.

Enemies are hitting harder, your armor’s flimsier than a soggy goblin scroll, and now you need Hard Leather. It’s durable, it’s essential, and yes, it’s a pain to make if you don’t know what you’re doing.

Maybe you’ve got a boss fight on the horizon, or maybe you’re just done looking like you wrestled a scarecrow and lost. Either way, it’s time to toughen up – and this guide will get you from flimsy to formidable.

How to get Hard Leather in Dragonwilds

To get Hard Leather, build upgrade your Tannery with a Tanner’s Kit and insert two Leather and one Adhesive into it.

Let’s go over it step-by-step:

Craft a Tannery

The work station that produces Hard Leather is the Tannery. To build one, you’ll need:

• 12 Ash Logs: Obtained from cutting Ash Trees or foraging logs.
• 4 Animal Bones: Obtained from animals like Cows.
• 2 Coarse Thread: Produced from Animal Fur or Flax using a Spinning Wheel.

Craft a Kiln

You’ll need a Kiln to get Adhesive from Swamp Tar and Charcoal from Ash logs. To build one, you’ll need:

• 8 Ash Logs: Obtained from cutting Ash Trees or foraging logs.
• 20 Stone: Obtained by mining Stone spots or foraging stones on the ground.
• 6 Clay: Obtained by mining Clay spots.
• 10 Fire Runes: Obtained by mining rune sites.

Once built, produce 6 Adhesive and at least 8 Charcoal. Swamp Tar is found in the Whispering Swamp.

Craft a Furnace

You’ll need a Furnace to smelt Bronze bars. To build one, you’ll need:

• 24 Stones: Obtained by mining Stone spots or foraging stones on the ground.
• 8 Clay: Obtained by mining Clay spots.
• 4 Charcoal: Produced with a Kiln using Ash logs.
• 10 Fire Runes: Obtained by mining rune sites.
• 8 Vault Shards: Obtained inside vaults.

Once built, produce 10 Bronze bars with Copper and Tin Ore, which you can mine from Tin and Ore mining spots.

Craft a Sawmill

You’ll need a Sawmill to produce Ash Planks from logs. If you don’t have this crafting recipe yet, make sure you smelt some bronze bars first.

• 18 Ash Logs: Obtained from cutting Ash Trees or foraging logs.
• 4 Bronze Bars: Smelt using a Furnace.
• 8 Stones: Obtained by mining Stone spots or foraging stones on the ground.

Once built, produce 18 Ash planks.

Craft the Tanner’s Kit

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This unlocks the upgraded Tannery slot, allowing you to make Hard Leather. Gather the following resources:

• 6 Bronze Bars: Smelt from mined Copper and Tin
• 8 Coarse Thread: Made from Flax at a Spinning Wheel
• 6 Adhesive: Process Swamp Tar in the Kiln
• 18 Ash Planks: Obtained by processing Ash Logs via the Sawmill

Set it up next to the Tannery to get the benefits.

Hard Leather recipe

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Insert the following into your upgraded Tannery:

Alternatively, Abyssal Demons in Whispering Swamp can drop Hard Leather, but the drop rate’s terrible and the fight’s not worth it unless you’re already farming them.

Crafting is the way to go. It’s resource-heavy, sure – but Hard Leather unlocks critical mid-to-late-game gear, so bite the bullet and start building.

While you’re here, we’ve got the key to farming Opal and Wild Anima, as well as Wool Thread, if you need help with resources.