How to get leather in Deep Dish Dungeon
Checked 2026-10-16. Steam build 25955406. Patch 1.0.47.0.
The workbench cost is what made this click for me on paper: 3 wood planks, 2 iron rods, and 1 leather. You need leather to build the bench that shows more recipes, and the leather recipe itself stays invisible until the sewer chest. I would loot that chest before I tried to “unlock crafting.”
First piece, then the recipe
NPC Tips and the launch-week Steam thread on animal hides agree. A small sewer chest holds 2 leather and 1 bone club. Until you pick up leather, the recipe does not show. After that, 2 animal hides craft 1 leather. Animal hide comes from processing a rat into raw meat.
In co-op, each player unlocks the recipe on their own inventory. A friend who never touched the chest still has a blank menu.
Order I would follow
The bench is an accelerator, not the thing that reveals leather. Spending iron rods on the bench before the sewer chest just leaves you one leather short of the recipe list.
- Search the sewers for the small chest: 2 leather and 1 bone club.
- Pick the leather up yourself. Co-op partners do not inherit your unlock.
- Build the workbench with 3 wood planks, 2 iron rods, and 1 of that leather.
- Turn rats into raw meat so the hide drops, then craft 2 animal hides into 1 leather.
| Step | Cost | Unlock |
|---|---|---|
| Sewer chest | None | Recipe appears after the first leather |
| Workbench | 3 wood planks, 2 iron rods, 1 leather | More station recipes |
| Craft leather | 2 animal hides | Repeatable after the chest |
| Animal hide | Process a rat into raw meat | No second animal confirmed |
The complaint that is still open
Players say rats are the only steady hide source and they do not love that. Behold has not posted another source. I am not adding a second animal. Armor pages that need ragged cloth are a different material with its own respawning pickups.
