Mending is a Survival Skill that is used to repair equipment, such as Clothing and certain Tools. Mending also has a large variety of training options relative to most other skills due to the number of types of clothing that can be repaired.
How to repair clothing
Mending is the skill used to repair Clothing and Bedrolls in The Long Dark; as the player successfully repairs items, their skill in mending increases. Clothing requires a Sewing Kit or Fishing Tackle, resources the item is made out of (e.g. Cloth or Cured Leather), and sufficient light in order to begin repairs (daylight, full moonlight, artificial lighting or an active Fire or Storm Lantern).
To repair a piece of clothing select the item the backpack or the worn clothing menu. Then select "Actions" and "Repair"; the required resources, time required and amount repaired if successful will be displayed. Higher Mending skill decreases the time required to mend and increases the condition restored as well as the successful repair rate.
Failing to repair results in the materials used in the repair to be wasted, but causes no additional condition loss to the item. Repairing clothing successfully or failing causing condition loss to the Sewing Kit/Fishing Tackle used.
Equipment
A tool is required to repairing clothing.
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 Sewing Kit
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 Fishing Tackle
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Sewing Kits can be found by looting. Fishing Tackle can be found or crafted from Hook and Line. Fishing Tackle is 100% slower (twice as long) to repair than using Sewing Kits.
Repair materials
| Image | Item | Method |
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Cloth | Cloth is found by looting, harvesting cloth items (clothing, bedrolls, pillows, curtains), breaking down certain furniture (e.g comfy chair) and Beachcombing. |
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Cured Leather | Cured leather is found by looting, harvesting leather clothing and beachcombing. It is unrelated to the leather obtained from animal hides in the game. |
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Cured Gut | Gut are harvested or quartered from animal carcasses (except Ptarmigan). |
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Ptarmigan Down | Ptarmigan Down is harvested from Ptarmigan carcasses |
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Cured Rabbit Pelt | Rabbit Pelts are harvested from Rabbit carcasses. |
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Cured Deer Hide | Deer Hides are harvested from Deer carcasses. |
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Cured Wolf Pelt | Wolf Pelts are harvested from Wolf or Timberwolf carcasses. |
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Cured Black Bear Hide | Black Bear Hides are harvested from Bear carcasses. |
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Cured Moose Hide | Moose Hides are harvested from Moose carcasses. |
Note: Fresh Animal hides must be cured before they can be used in crafting/repair. Hides are cured by dropping/placing them indoors (e.g. inside of a house) or sufficiently deep cave. If a hide is curing, it will display "X% cured", which will increase over time. Hides do not cure inside of containers or in the player's inventory.
Skill levels
Mending skill is increased by successfully repairing an article of clothing (1 point), or finishing a Research Book "Sewing Primer" (10 points, for 5 hours of reading).
Once enough skill points are achieved a new skill level is reached, a new bonus gets unlocked/bonuses get better.
| Level | Skill points | Effects |
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| 1 | 0 |
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| 2 | 25 |
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| 3 | 75 |
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| 4 | 150 |
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| 5 | 350 |
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