Hobbies And Interests
Types
The two basic kinds of snake hides are green and gray. The green snake hides come from bush snakes and other common poisonous snakes, while the gray snake hides come solely from swamp snakes. Even though they're similar in most all respects save for the slight variation in color, green hides and gray hides stack separately when banked in your inventory. However, once tanned, the snake hides perform exactly the same with no discernible differences.
Locations
The best place to harvest poisonous snake hides is Mos Le'Harmless, a pirate base in the Eastern Sea that becomes accessible after completing the Cabin Fever quest. Snakes gather most often in front of the entrance to the Trouble Brewing activity in the base's eastern section. You may also gather green hides form the bush snakes that appear randomly in the Tai Bwo Wannai Cleanup mini-game. Swamp snakes populate the Temple Trekking and Burgh de Rott Ramble activities.
Obtaining
Killing the poisonous snakes and bush snakes will cause them to automatically drop the collectible snake hides. You will need to use a knife on dead swamp snakes to harvest their hides. You may also acquire snake hides from opening a box of summoning ingredients or by using the "Gamble" option in the Soul Wars mini-game, in which two Zeal points may be turned into five to 10 snake hides with a little luck.
Benefits
Once you have collected snake hides, you can take them to tanners who will transform the hides into snakeskin leathers for a cost of 15 coins. With an appropriate crafting level, you may then turn the tanned hides into a number of useful snakeskin items, including boots, bandanas, chaps and body armor.
Snake hides are also a vital ingredient in making the Spirit cobra pouch, which requires level 63 Summoning and is one of the finest pouches made from crimson charms.