Rotten to Leather | Turn Rotten Flesh into Leather

Go to files

Rotten to Leather turns unwanted zombie drops into useful leather through one simple furnace recipe, giving your survival storage a new purpose without adding complicated systems or new items.

Rotten to Leather | Turn Rotten Flesh into Leather

Have stacks of rotten flesh sitting in your chests? Rotten to Leather gives them a useful purpose. Put one piece of rotten flesh into a regular furnace with fuel and get one piece of leather.

Give zombie drops a new use

Instead of letting rotten flesh pile up, you can convert it into leather whenever you need it. The recipe is simple, uses the regular furnace already found in the game, and does not require any new crafting stations or tools.

The conversion rate is one rotten flesh for one leather (1:1). The result is the vanilla leather item, ready to use in the game's normal recipes.

Add-on features

One recipe that converts rotten flesh into leather.
A one-to-one conversion rate.
No new items, blocks, or mobs.
No Resource Pack or scripts required.
No experimental settings required.

The recipe works only in a regular furnace. Smokers, blast furnaces, and campfires are not supported. Cooking speed and fuel usage follow the game's normal furnace behavior.

Download and installation

Download the Rotten to Leather BP pack, then follow these steps:

Open the .mcpack file with Minecraft and wait for the import to finish.
Open your world's settings.
Enable Rotten to Leather BP under Behavior Packs.
Enter the world and use a regular furnace with rotten flesh and fuel.

There is no Resource Pack to import or activate. It is recommended that you test the add-on in a separate world or back up your world before enabling it.

Compatibility

The add-on is intended for Minecraft Bedrock 1.26 or later and does not support Java Edition. If another add-on changes furnace recipes or the rotten flesh recipe, test both add-ons together in a separate world first.

In-game testing has not yet been confirmed for this release, so check that the recipe appears and works in a test world before using it in your main world. Achievement-related warnings may vary depending on your game version and world settings.