Skyrim:Netch Leather

Netch Leather can be harvested from slain Netches. Armor made from the material is lightweight, and is usually decorated, such as with Charcoal, or strengthened by boiling the material. As a result, variants of the armor exist.

Netch Leather is added by the Dragonborn DLC but crafting armor from it can only be done with the Netch Leather Armor Creation installed.

Material

	Name	ID
	Netch Leather	(xx01cd7c)	2	10

• Gathered from dead betty netches and bull netches
• One of the required materials for crafting bonemold and chitin style armors
• Can be bought from blacksmiths and general goods traders in Solstheim

Netch Leather Smithing

Netch Leather Smithing requires the completion of the quest More Than You Can Chew. A free set of painted netch leather gear can be collected from the chest in the Riekling camp. A full set of regular netch leather gear can be collected by completing the additional objective from reading the Crafting with Netch Leather book and traveling to Fort Hraggstad. Doing this will also get you the netch leather boots artifact known as the Boots of Blinding Speed.

Netch leather armor can be tempered with a single tanned netch leather. One netch leather can be converted into one tanned netch leather at a tanning rack. The armor material is considered leather for the Matching Set perk.

Netch Leather Armor

The cuirass is on par with scaled armor. The regular shield sits between a leather and an elven shield in terms of armor stats, while the tower shield scores a bit worse than a glass shield on that regard, and in terms of weight sits between dragonscale and stalhrim. However, the other pieces of armor are equivalent to glass.

	Name (ID)				Raw Materials			Delta		Ratio
					Tanned Netch Leather	Leather	Strips
	Netch Leather Armor (FExxx801)	6	250	32	4	0	3	-2.3	201	0.72	5.10
	Netch Leather Boots (FExxx800)	2	50	11	2	0	2	-2.2	24	0.48	1.92
	Netch Leather Bracers (FExxx802)	2	50	11	1	0	2	-0.2	34	0.91	3.13
	Netch Leather Helmet (FExxx803)	2	100	16	2	0	1	-2.1	77	0.49	4.35
	Netch Leather Shield (FExxx806)	4	150	18	3	0	1	-2.1	117	0.66	4.55
	Netch Leather Tower Shield (FExxx805)	8	200	24	1	3	0	0	160	1.00	5.00
Totals (with shield):		16	600	88	12	0	9
Totals (with tower shield):		20	650	94	10	3	8
Totals (without shield):		12	450	70	9	0	8

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  A male Nord wearing Netch leather armor (regular shield)

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  A female Imperial wearing Netch leather armor (regular shield)

Boiled Netch Leather

Despite having the same recipe, the only difference between the boiled versions and the regular versions (aside from gold value) are its armor stats, with the cuirass' sitting between scaled and glass armor, and the helmet being superior to even the dragonscale and amber^CC helmets.

	Name (ID)				Raw Materials		Delta		Ratio
					Tanned Netch Leather	Strips
	Boiled Netch Leather Armor (FExxx807)	6	300	35	4	3	-2.3	251	0.72	6.12
	Boiled Netch Leather Helmet (FExxx804)	2	150	20	2	1	-2.1	127	0.49	6.52
Totals (with shield):		16	700	95
Totals (with tower shield):		20	750	101
Totals (without shield):		12	550	77

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  A male Nord wearing boiled Netch leather armor (tower shield)

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  A female Imperial wearing boiled Netch leather armor (tower shield)

Shadowed Netch Leather Armor

Shadowed Netch leather armor is the same as the regular version, except for the need of a piece of charcoal to create each piece of armor, surpassing the regular version with 1 point of base armor rating. That makes for instance, the boots, gauntlets and helmet equivalent to dragonscale armor.

	Name (ID)				Raw Materials				Delta		Ratio
					Tanned Netch Leather	Leather	Strips	Charcoal
	Shadowed Netch Leather Armor (FExxx951)	6	250	33	4	0	3	1	-2.8	199	0.66	4.90
	Shadowed Netch Leather Boots (FExxx952)	2	50	12	2	0	2	1	-2.7	22	0.43	1.79
	Shadowed Netch Leather Bracers (FExxx958)	2	50	12	1	0	2	1	-0.7	32	0.74	2.78
	Shadowed Netch Leather Helmet (FExxx95A)	2	100	17	2	0	1	1	-2.6	75	0.43	4.00
	Shadowed Netch Leather Shield (FExxx950)	4	150	19	3	0	1	1	-2.6	115	0.61	4.29
	Shadowed Netch Leather Tower Shield (FExxx94F)	8	200	25	1	3	1	1	-0.5	158	0.94	4.76
Totals (with shield):		16	600	93	12	0	9	5
Totals (with tower shield):		20	650	99	10	3	8	5
Totals (without shield):		12	450	74	9	0	8	4

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  A male Nord wearing shadowed Netch leather armor (regular shield)

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  A female Imperial wearing shadowed Netch leather armor (regular shield)

Shadowed Boiled Netch Leather Armor

Similar to the regular versions of the boiled armor and helmet, the shadowed boiled netch leather pieces have superior stats to the regular shadowed pieces. The cuirass scores a little worse than glass armor in terms of armor rating, though also weighing slightly less. The helmet has a whopping score of 22, the dragonscale helmet pales in comparison with a rating of 17.

	Name (ID)				Raw Materials			Delta		Ratio
					Tanned Netch Leather	Strips	Charcoal
	Shadowed Boiled Netch Leather Armor (FExxx974)	6	300	36	4	3	1	-2.3	251	0.72	6.12
	Shadowed Boiled Netch Leather Helmet (FExxx973)	2	150	22	2	1	1	-2.1	127	0.49	6.52
Totals (with shield):		16	700	101
Totals (with tower shield):		20	750	107
Totals (without shield):		12	550	82

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  A male Nord wearing shadowed boiled Netch leather armor (tower shield)

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  A female Imperial wearing shadowed boiled Netch leather armor (tower shield)