New World Skinning Guide

Introduction

Skinning is a gathering trade skill in New World that allows players to gather raw hides and fur resources from skinning animals that will be used in crafting trade skills; Amoring, Weaponsmithing, Arcana, and Engineering. It will also be used in the leatherworking refining trade skill. We’ll cover all this and more in our New World Skinning Guide.

Skinning in New World

When first starting out you will need a flint skinning knife to start skinning animals. This requires engineering level 0 along with 1 flint and 1 green wood to craft it. You can pick up both the flint and green wood without the need of a gathering tool by walking up to the respective bush/flint and pressing your interact key (Default “E). Once all are obtained a tier 1 campfire or workshop is required to craft the flint skinning knife. Once crafted you will need to equip it and you can start gathering.

Higher character levels are able to use better tiers of Skinning Knives:

Item	Level Range	Tier	Gathering Speed
Iron Skinning Knife	3-19	II	200 – 350%
Steel Skinning Knife	16-39	III	350 – 450%
Starmetal Skinning Knife	32-59	IV	450 – 625%
Orichalcum Skinning Knife	51-60	V	625 – 850%
Mythril Skinning Knife	60-65	V	850 – 1100%

It is advised to use the highest tier possible followed by the best gear score possible to best increase your gathering speed.

Skinning Thresholds

As you level your skinning you can skin creatures up to certain levels.

Trade Skill Level	Animal Level
0-49	0 – 30
50-99	31 – 45
100-149	45 – 60
150+	60 – 65
205	65 – 70

How to level Skinning

The information contained in this section will assist you in leveling your skinning trade skill. Leveling skinning is a straightforward process. The general rule of thumb is if you can skin it you should for the experience. You will find people leave dead animals all over, so between that and what you kill, if you have the skill required to skin it then do.

Rare Gathering Items

Rare items can be found when gathering. These items, when taken to a corresponding refining station, can be researched to give the player a substantial amount of gathering tradeskill XP. These items are currently available in 3 rarities for Mining, Harvesting, Skinning and Logging. The skinning variants consist of:

Common – Strange Bone
- Found when skinning Predators that give Rawhide
Uncommon – Abnormal Bone
- Found when skinning Predators that give Thick Hide
Rare – Unusual Bone
- Found when skinning Predators that give Iron Hide
Epic – Bizzare Bone
- Found when skinning Predators that give Dark Hide
These Bones can be researched at a Tannery for a boost in Skinning Tradeskill XP

Level 1-250

The best way to level up Skinning is to skin everything you see and kill. While you progress through the zones in level the animals will also require a higher skill to harvest. As you level up and gain more gathering speed this of course will change the ratios.

You will find the four starting areas where you will be skinning everything until roughly level 70 in skinning. Wolves will be the most abundant at the caves in each starting zone, most people will just kill what they need for their quests leaving the carcass for you to skin for the experience so this part shouldn’t take too long.

From level 70 and beyond you will be working with the various animals in the next higher zones. There you would want to look for Lushhunt Pointer, for example, a level 34 demon-dog type creature. If you skin the animals while questing in the areas you will easily fill your bags between quests to make the trips back to town worthwhile.

There is an experience perk that you will want to seek out on your Knife called Tanner’s Discipline. This perk increases your Skinning experience based on the gear score value of the Knife. The perk is limited to only knives. Having this perk is a must if you are trying to power-level Skinning. At level 250 its great to have for pushing Aptitude Levels.

Finally, make sure your Dexterity Attribute is as high as possible while leveling Skinning.

Resources by Tier

Creature Level	Tier	Resources
1 to 35	1-3	Rawhide, Ragehide, Fur, Scaly Hide, Shadowfur
36 to 55	4	Thick Hide, Thick Fur, Brightscale Hide, Shifthide
56 and 62	5	Iron Hide, Infused Fur, Infused Rawhide, Smolderhide, Scarhide
62 and Above	5	Dark Hide, Infused Fur, Smolderhide, Scarhide

Along with the above resources you will get various meats and special resources from the animals you skin. For example, you will get feathers from skinning a Turkey.

Enhancing your Skinning

Buffs and perks are the 2 main ways to enhance your harvesting. Below is a chart for the sickle perks and their associated perk labels. You can not have 2 perks with the same perk label on your item.

Tool	Perk Label	Perk Name
All Tools	Azoth Gain	Azoth Extraction
All Tools	Durability	Durable
All Tools	GatheringProc	Gathering Recovery
All Tools	GatheringProc	Gathering Alacrity
All Tools	5th Perk, Motes	Fire Alignment
All Tools	5th Perk, Motes	Earth Alignment
All Tools	5th Perk, Motes	Air Alignment
All Tools	5th Perk, Motes	Water Alignment
All Tools	5th Perk, Motes	Spirit Alignment
All Tools	5th Perk, Motes	Life Alignment
All Tools	5th Perk, Motes	Death Alignment
Skinning Knife	Bonus	Tanner’s Discipline
Skinning Knife	Bonus	Skinning Efficiency
Skinning Knife	Luck	Skinning Luck
Skinning Knife	Yield	Skinning Yield

Buffs can stack if they come from different sources. For example, you can stack yield increase buff from a proficiency potion and territory control. If you attempt to stack buffs from the same source it will just refresh your buff timer.

There is a skinner armor set that is ideal for players to use while skinning as it should always come with dexterity and reinforced skinning luck. Players should encounter these items around level 19+ monsters as a rare drop and supply chests.

Other Skinning Perks

Armor:

Reinforced Skinning Luck (Mod: Jagged Animal Fang)

Amulet:

Adored Skinning Luck (Mod: Pristine Animal Fang)

Bag:

Tanner’s Burden Reduces the weight of rawhide, leather, and skinning knives (Mod: Animal Fang)
Extra Pockets You can hold more weight (Mod: Sliver of Adderstone)
Alchemist’s Burden Reduces the weight of reagents, potions, and Sickles (Mod: Steel Arcanist’s Charm)

Buffs

Potions:

Weak Proficiency Booster Increase gathering yield by 5% for 10 minutes
Common Proficiency Booster Increase gathering yield by 7% for 15 minutes
Strong Proficiency Booster Increase gathering yield by 10% for 20 minutes
Powerful Proficiency Booster Increase gathering yield by 15% for 30 minutes

Foods:

Roasted Carrots Increase Skinning Luck by 1000 points for 20 minutes
Herb-roasted Carrots Increase Skinning Luck by 1400 points for 25 minutes
Carrot Soup Increase Skinning Luck by 1700 points for 30 minutes
Vegetable Boil Increase Skinning Luck by 1900 points for 35 minutes
Savory Fish Cake Increase Skinning Luck by 2000 points for 40 minutes
Grilled Tenderloin and Vegetables Increase Skinning Luck by 2500 points for 50 minutes

Trophies:

Minor Skinning Gathering Trophy Increase Skinning Luck by 500 points
Basic Skinning Gathering Trophy Increase Skinning Luck by 1000 points
Major Skinning Gathering Trophy Increase Skinning Luck by 1500 points

Dexterity Bonus

25 Points +10% skinning Speed
50 Points 20% haste for 3s after skinning
100 Points +50 encumbrance
150 Points -10% weight reduction for skinned items
200 Points +20% skinning speed
250 Points +10% yield when skinning
350 Points +10% chance of finding rare items while skinning

Skinning Level

Skinning Luck Skinning Level * 10 = Skinning Luck Points
Gathering Speed +5% until level 20 and then +0.3% thereafter

Territory Buffs:

Cutlass Key Fort +10% to global gathering luck
Monarch’s Bluff Fort +5% Increase to all experience gains
Territory Control +10% Yield while gathering
Farmer’s Harvest +20% Yield while Skinning for 3 days. (Settlement Quality of Life Buff)
Territory Bonus [5-37]% Gathering Speed – Varies based on how many points. Bonus decays at 86.5% per point

PvP:

While Flagged +3% Gathering Luck

Music Buffs:

You can check our Music guide for a full breakdown of the music trade skill.

Decidedly Dexterous: Gathering speed increases by 75% for 30-90min.
Fortune’s Favor: Gathering yield increases by 3%-10% for 30-90min.
Luck’s Labor: Gathering luck increases by 2% – 5% for 30-90min.

BiS Skinning Set Up

Spinweaver Hat GS 700 | 32 Dex & 5.6% Skinner Luck
Dark Leather Chest GS 700 | 32 Dex & 5.6% Skinner Luck
Spinweave Gloves GS 700 | 32 Dex & 5.6% Skinner Luck
Spinweave Pants GS 700 | 32 Dex & 5.6% Skinner Luck
Spinweave Shoes GS 700 | 32 Dex & 5.6% Skinner Luck
Mythril Earring | 32 Dex & 10.45% Adored Skinner Luck
Mythil Harvesting Sickle GS 700
- Luck
- Harvesting Yield
- Horticulture Discipline
- Alignment of Choice (Fire, Water, etc.)
3x Dark Leather Adventure’s Satchel 700 GS
- Extra Pockets
- Skinners Burden
Level 250 Skinning

Skinning Luck

Luck is important for Skinning is because it will increase the odds of you obtaining a rare Skinning item and an increase to items gathered. Some thresholds must be reached to obtain the rare items. These thresholds can be obtained by just level Skinning but can be reached sooner with the help of the resources.