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I've just started dabbling in bone armor myself, but I'm finding it very difficult to make any headway. Just ONE set of gloves requires almost 50 pieces of a combination of bone and hide! It took me roughly 30 minutes of hunting around the outskirts of Mos Espa just to accumulate enough materials for this. I've checked the bazzaar, but as of now I don't see the sense in buying the materials there, as most people are asking 200-300 credits for a stack of 10 bone (this seems excessively high to me-- if it isn't, I'm in the wrong business). At this rate, I'll be lucky to make 3 to 4 pieces a day.

Thus, my question How other crafters are obtaining the necessary bones and hides to make bone armor pieces in any significant numbers?

Any help here would be MOST appreciated!

The bazaar is a den or ripoffs and insanity... you must look to the players around you for your supplies..

today I bought 200 bone for only 1k and I sold a bone helm for 2k the turn around is fantastic when you get going.

Whenever I'm on, I visit the bazaar regularly, in between crafting sessions, etc. I have been able to find bone and hide, in significant quantities, for 4-5 credits a unit. I don't find this everytime I look, but I do find it. Just be patient and keep checking the bazaar. If you can make friends with a few scouts, you'll have it even better.

I actually picked up novice scout so that I could hunt myself, but that is a bit hard at times. What I have done is actually picked up missions and asked to have someone help me out. In return for any hides or bone they obtain, I'll craft them an item (drinks, foods, clothing, weapons, etc.). There is NO way i'm going to spend time in Bazaar allowing people to leave with my shirt just for some hides and bone :-) There are other ways to skin a tauntan :-) The other players around you are the key. Maybe you can even trade some training for hides and bone too? The other components, like minerals and fiberplast, I do myself and actually pick up more than I need in hopes of trading for items that I need later.

i have found that people who want the armour are more than happy to go out and collect bones and hides for it. i've made 5 full sets plus various pieces for people and i havent had to hunt out any of it my self.

I put my name on the first set and that person told every person that asked him where he got it, and now people just randomly show up to me or sent me mail asking how many bones/hides for certain pieces or a full set.

It sure beats charging money and having to hunt the stuff my self.

Thanks for all the replies, folks. I'll be sure to try everything mentioned in this thread.

To Ninachuu I've also made a few pieces of armor by having the requestor collect the items. I would like to start working on building at least a minimal inventory however, which is why I was asking about how other crafters obtain their bones and hides.

Thanks for the input!

What I actually do besides just buying it I will go out and use my scout skill to take the bones and hides off the aniamals this saves somemoney.

What you need to do is start broadcasting that you are looking for hide and bone. Generally it goes for 4-5 cred per piece. But if you are lucky you can get it for 3. Once you have enough to start making a couple pieces of armor, put them on bazaar for instant sale. Once they sell, you got money to buy more hide and bone. Now you will definitely start making a profit. The armor sells very fast on the bazaar, but you can broaden your sales just by yelling out that you are selling. Before you know it, you will be rolling in the dough. Dont forget you can be surveying at the same time you are crafting.

what i did was took artisan - marksman - scout

i do kill missions for cash...skin the corpses for hide and bone then make armor

currently at hunting II i am taking clost to 17 - 25 hides per kill and bone. now i get plenty along with 10 - 15 k a day to run my harvesters.

engineer IV ,survey IV ,Domestic I , (scout) Hunting II , Expert Pistol

I've also taken Scout and Marksman skills. I'llusually survey a bit and kill what creatures are around and harvest the bone and hide. I have gone on some destroy missions with a friend who is going full on Marksman/Scout. We split the money for the mission, which helps me if I need to buy anything at the Bazaar, and they let me harvest all the bones and hides I want. I've worked out with them that if they go kill something and harvest it for me, I'll give them a percentage of the profit I make on the item I create. Its a totally great symbiotic relationship.

I've also found, there are more creatures to kill and harvest on Tatooine near Mos Entha, if that helps. Tons, to be exact and they're easy to kill.

Aazhia Korano

Surveyor

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I don't know why, but earlier today outside of Mos Eisley (on Tatooine, of course), all the enemies outside one side of town were the same type. I killed them all and skinned them. Netted about 80 Hide. I would have gotten more, but the server was about to shut down for morning maintenance.

Yes the volume of hide and bone is high

The first lot I aquired I simply traded with a scout for survey materials he could (be bothered to) get, I think the deal was 170 steel for 100 bone and 750 credits (I had a big grin on my face) since then I picked up scout myself but its still hard going so I tend to encourage customers to supply the bone and hide themselves and as a result they get it much cheaper since I'm only suppling the fiber and steel