Editing Human leather

{{Infobox main|leathery|
| name = Human leather
| image = Humanleather.png|Human leather
| description = Tanned, dried, scraped human skin. Most people find this material horrifying. Some find it fascinating. While a decent leather, it neither protects nor insulates particularly well.
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| type = Textile
| type2 = Leather
| stuff category = leathery
| hp = 60
| flammability = 1
| marketvalue = 4.2
| beauty = -4
| mass base = 0.03
| stack limit = 75
| path cost = 15
| rotatable = false
<!-- Stat Modifiers -->
| beauty factor = 1
| work to make factor = 1
| work to build factor = 1
| max hit points factor = 1.3
| flammability factor = 1
| armor - sharp factor = 0.64
| armor - blunt factor = 0.24
| armor - heat factor = 1.5
| insulation - cold factor = 12
| insulation - heat factor = 12
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| page verified for version = 1.2.2753
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| always haulable = true
| color = (211,194,143)
| commonality = 0.0025
| default color = (211,194,143)
| default color two = (200,200,200)
| draw gui overlay = true
| graphic class = Graphic_Single
| graphic path = Things/Item/Resource/Cloth
| label = humanleather
| resource readout priority = Middle
| selectable = true
| thing class = ThingWithComponents
}}
{{Info|'''Human leather'''  is a type of [[leather]] produced when a [[Skills#Cooking|cook]] butchers a [[human]] or [[gorehulk]]{{AnomalyIcon}} at a [[butcher table]]. It inflicts a [[mood]] penality on most pawns when worn as [[clothing]].}}

==Acquisition==
The following animals provide human leather.
{{Leather List}}

==Analysis==
{{see also|Human resources}}
Human leather is an abundant and valuable resource, but comes with several downsides. The first is that butchering of humans to acquire the leather inflicts both a colony-wide [[Mood#Misc|mood]] debuff and a further mood debuff to the cook that stacks per corpse butchered. Additionally, seeing human corpses gives yet another debuff. Pawns with the [[Bloodlust]], [[Cannibal]], or [[Psychopath]] [[trait]]s are immune to all three debuffs however. These traits and [[Human resources|other strategies]] can be used to minimize the impact of these penalties.  

The second downside is that while human leather may be used as a crafting ingredient like any other leather, because of its horrifying origins, colonists without the ''Cannibal'' or ''Bloodlust'' [[trait]]s will get a -2 [[Mood#Situation_General|mood debuff]] for each such item of human leather clothing worn, up to a maximum of -8. Colonists with the ''Cannibal'' or ''Bloodlust'' traits will instead get +2 for each item, up to a maximum of +8. Its use in other items such as [[furniture]] is unaffected. 

Lastly, human leather is one of the least protective [[textiles]] in the game, at tied 21st most protective, or tied 8th least protective. Worse, it has terrible insulation, being the 4th and 3rd worst for heat and cold respectively. So giving your bloodlusters/cannibals their mood buff comes with another price.

Despite this, its abundance and oddly high market value mean make it a valuable [[trade]]good, especially if processed into a high [[quality]] item of [[clothing]] or [[furniture]] first.

Additionally, it can be useful for a cheap, accessible and sustainable mood boost for ''Cannibal'' or ''Bloodlust'' pawns, however its terrible protective qualities mean that its use should be limited to skin layer clothing such as [[pants]], while [[duster]]s should be made out of something more protective. Care must also be taken to prevent other pawns from wearing these items however, lest they get the mood debuff. Setting a [[Menus#Assign|custom outfit]] for the relevant pawns can help in this regard, such as banning [[tribalwear]] for all normal pawns and only making tribalwear out of human leather. 

For use in [[furniture]], it has a mediocre [[Property:Beauty Factor|beauty factor]], but its abundancy, high market value and limited use otherwise can make it useful in this regard, especially for bulk furniture. 

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