When you start Craftopia, you'll be standing on the shore in nothing but some underwear. Whilst that might be great for getting a suntan, it isn't so useful when you need to survive the harsh challenges that you find on Craftopia's islands.

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Leather is an extremely important material that you can use to craft your very first set of clothes in Craftopia. However, you'll come back to leather many times, as it is also used to make some advanced weapons and armor that you will need when exploring dungeons.

How To Get Leather In Craftopia

Craftopia Aiming A Bow At A Deer

To get leather in Craftopia, you need to hunt some animals. Of course, you don't want to use your fists, so you should get a weapon first. In the early stages of the game, you won't have many options.

If you want to use melee weapons, make a stick and start searching for animals. However, we'd recommend making a workbench and crafting the branch bow instead. This will allow you to attack from a distance, which should help you get away from angry bears that fight back.

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When you have a weapon ready, you need to start searching for animals that drop leather, such as deer and bear. Leather doesn't seem to drop often but kill enough animals and you should eventually get enough for some early recipes.

How To Get Light Armor In Craftopia

Craftopia How To Get Light Armor

After gathering leather, you might be wondering what you can use it for. If you aren't sure what to craft, look no further than the light armor set that you can make in the blacksmith crafting station.

You'll need 20 pieces of leather, so keep hunting if you don't already have enough. You'll also need 20 iron ingots, which you can make by smelting iron ore in the smelting furnace.

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Use a copper pickaxe to collect iron ore and then take it to the smelting furnace to create iron ingots.

When you have 20 pieces of both leather and iron, head to the blacksmith and create a set of light armor. You can get light armor in either red or black, but this has no effect on its stats.

There are many other items that you can make with leather, but light armor is one of the first things you should make in Craftopia. It will make your defense stat higher, allowing you to delve into some dungeons so that you can search for some rare loot.

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