Cowhide

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Cowhide
Released							23 June 2001 (Update)
Members							No
Quest item							No
Properties
Tradeable							Yes
Equipable							No
Stackable							No
Noteable							Yes
Destroy							Drop
Examine							I should take this to the tannery.
Values
Value							2 coins
High alch							1 coin
Low alch							0 coins
Weight							2.721 kg
Grand Exchange
Exchange							192 coins (info)
Buy limit							13,000
Daily volume							149,913
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Advanced data
Item ID							1739
Twisted League							Yes

Cowhides are dropped by cows when they are killed. If it is brought to a tanner, it can be turned into soft leather for 1 coin or hard leather for 3 coins. Tanners can be found in Al Kharid, the Ranging Guild, Canifis, and the Crafting Guild. Soft and hard leathers can then be crafted into various pieces of equipment through the Crafting skill.

It is also used alongside a unicorn horn to generate a unicow in the Tower of Life.

Good places to gather cowhides are the pastures in Lumbridge, north of Ardougne market, and south of Falador, though the Falador pastures are closer to a bank.

If a player has completed the Hard tier of the Falador Diary or is level 99 in Crafting, then they can access the bank chest in the Crafting Guild, which is quite close to a field of cows. Note that access to the guild requires a brown apron, golden apron, or a Crafting cape.

Products

Item		Members	Skills	XP	Materials
	Hard leather (Normal tanner)		None	None	1 × Cowhide 3 × Coins
	Hard leather (Sbott)		None	None	1 × Cowhide 5 × Coins
	Hard leather (Eodan)		None	None	1 × Cowhide 30 × Coins
	Hard leather × 5 (Tan Leather spell)		78	81	5 × Cowhide 1 × Nature rune 2 × Astral rune 5 × Fire rune
	Leather (Normal tanner)		None	None	1 × Cowhide 1 × Coins
	Leather (Sbott)		None	None	1 × Cowhide 3 × Coins
	Leather (Eodan)		None	None	1 × Cowhide 10 × Coins
	Leather × 5 (Tan leather spell)		78	81	5 × Cowhide 1 × Nature rune 2 × Astral rune 5 × Fire rune

Item sources

For an exhaustive list of all known sources for this item, see here (include RDT).

Source	Level	Quantity	Rarity
Cow calf	2	1	Always
Cow	2	1	Always
Guard (H.A.M. storeroom)	20	1	9/500
H.A.M. Guard	12; 18; 22	1–3	3/110
H.A.M. Member	15; 20	1	3/100
Undead cow	2	1	Always

Changes

Date	Changes
22 November 2018 (update)	The item's value was increased from 1 to 2.