Dried meat in a container works as tanning material

[Sotimieli]

I noticed this by accident. I selected a bich bark box of tasty dried elk meat instead of the elk fat and behold! It worked as tanning material. I doubt this is intentional. I tried dried meat by it self and it didn't work, so it must've been the meat in the container. The tanning didn't consume the birch bark box, just the dried meat.

I'm playing vanilla v3.71

[JP_Finn]

This is known glitch. You can fill birchbark container with water and it will pass as bark. Same “string match” glitch allows you to tan with pine bark.

[Kraker]

Wait, so I'm not supposed to be able to tan with pine bark?

[JP_Finn]

You’d need to extract tannins with ethanol or purified water from pine bark. Where as alder, Rowan and other soft deciduous trees’ bark tends to be usable directly.