Buffalo fur

[Nick]

I've seen a buffalo. They're furry. Now that fur actually matters, help us out!

[Lumin]

It seems like at least their beards and the curly stuff on top of their heads should count as fur, even if the rest of them is hide.

[Sunni Daez]

I agree

[mortaine]

They're woolly, not furry. You can spin buffalo fur into yarn and weave clothing with it (in real life, not Cantr).

The main difference between a fleece-like or spinnable fibre (wool, cotton) and fur is the staple length and crimp. You can spin cat fur, but if it's short fur, it won't spin very well, for instance. Buffalo have good "fur" for spinning-- crimpy and long.

[formerly known as hf]

Duplicate suggestion - duplicate locked - posts quoted below

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Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2005 4:48 pm
I can't remember, did buffalo ever give fur before?

And if they did, why don't they now?

Or do they and I'm just blind?

Last time I killed a buffalo, I seem to remember only getting hide... which confused me. Buffalo are pretty furry creatures... or hairy, whatever you want to call it. Unless, of course, Cantr has a special species of bald buffalo...

Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2005 6:07 pm
The wiki (http://cantr.net/mwiki/index.php?title=Buffalo) does not list fur as a drop resource for buffalo. The information was provided by Anthony Roberts and can be considered reliable.

Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2005 6:16 pm
All right, thankya, Sho.

But that leaves the important question, and the real reason for the thread: Why not?

Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2005 6:33 pm
Ask RD. Buffalo fur is indeed used, for example in hats, at http://www.bisonridgeranch.com/Cbisonhat.htm, or robes, as in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandan#Dress.

posted: Sun Oct 16, 2005 6:38 pm
I don't think you can get both fur and hide off of an animal, you can't use it as hide once it has been used as fur, and to make it hide you would have to scrape the fur off of it.

Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2005 6:47 pm
The mountain goat (http://cantr.net/mwiki/index.php/Mountain_goat) begs to differ.
We could have a big argument about realism here, or we could agree that making furry animals with stout hides drop both hide and fur is preferable to creating another manufacturing chain involving bare hide, furry hide and fine fur, or whatever we decide is most realistic.

Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2005 11:40 pm
Is it already possible to turn fur into hide using a fur-scraper? I've never tried it IC... or OOC for that matter.

If the mountain goat drops both hide and fur, then it only makes sense that the buffalo should drop hide and fur as well. They're sort of alike, are they not?

Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2005 11:42 pm
I was under the impression that the fur-scraper was only used when making fur clothing...

Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2005 12:09 am
Fur and hide are not currently connected. As Fleegle says, the fur-scraper is a tool only used to make certain things using fur.

[Appleide]

Fur and hide on buffalo, what happened to it?