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Trained By: Beekeeper, Cobbler, Farmer, Leatherworker, Tailor Title: Tailor OverviewBeing a tailor is not as easy as you may think. Vendors don't sell cloth, yarn or thread. To be a Tailor you need to be able to make cloth if you want to have nice clothes. Leather is easy to find, go kill that cow and voila - instant leather. There are also more colorful types of leather, but those are harder to get. Getting ClothAs I mentioned earlier, vendors do not sell cloth, yarn or thread. There are 3 raw materials that you can collect to start you on your journey into tailoring: sheep's wool, cotton and flax. You will need to have lumberjacking to obtain cotton or flax from a farm (see Lumberjacking-farming for more information). Sheep's wool is easy to get, if you can find sheep. Often it is easy to tame a sheep or two and lock them in a corral at your house, or even inside your house (beware the landmines though). Use a dagger or skinning knife on a sheep to get wool. So what now? You've got this material but can't seem to do anything with it? First you have to use a spinning wheel to take the raw material and make thread or yarn. Stand at the wheel and click on the raw material to turn it into yarn/thread. It will take 5 raw materials to make 2 yarn/thread. Once you have all this yarn or thread go to the loom. Use the yarn or thread to make bolts of cloth. Again, there is a 5 to 2 ratio. Now you have a big bolt of cloth. If you use your scissors on the bolt you will make bandages out of the whole lot of cloth. While bandages are helpful I doubt you need quite that many at a time. If you use your sewing kit on the bolt you will turn it into folded cloth. Cut cloth with the scissors and you'll get 1/2 as many bandages as you would from cloth in bolt form. Any cloth or clothing must be in your backpack to be able to use scissors on it. Use your sewing kit on folded cloth to make things. The chart below will show how each item converts to the next: 25 cotton/flax/wool --> 10 yarn --> 4 bolts--> 200 cloth --> 100 bandages Getting HidesThere are many different types of colored hides available for you to collect. Some more difficult to get than others. This is a small example;
If you want to collect hides there are a few things that you will want to do. First enable the .grab autocarve command. If this is off you will manually have to carve hides. Second go into .options and make sure that vendors will not buy the hides. A vendor will buy hides if you use "sell bag" and target a bag with hides. There is a set price for hides of about 1-2 gold per hide. It isn't worth selling most hides for this price. Dye Tubs
To change the color in the die tub you simply need a tailoring skill over 70. The dye tubs will dye cloth (bolts or folded), clothes, boots, thigh boots, sandals, shoes, runes, bags and backpacks There are also Silk Dyes that can be bought from a NPC Tailor. Only the most skilled tailors are able to use these. Double click the silk dye, then target a dye tub. You will get around 5 colors from one dye some better than others. Unlike the regular color menu's silk dyes are random in the color they produce. If you do not want to keep a color you may re use the dye tub's until it is set with a color. Fortified HatsTake any hat or "head covering" you have made and a helm of your choice. Use the Sewing Kit on hat/head covering then target the helm you will use to fortify with. Pass the skill check and you fortify the hat. This can also be done with masks. Use a sewing kit on the mask, target the helm and pass a skill check. Pack AnimalsTailors make the bridles for packhorses and pack llamas. To get a pack animal, you use the bridle on a tamed horse or llama. The command "fetch" will drop what he is carrying, and if you say "fetch" and open his pack, he will put the fetched item in his pack. Items Menu |
