RuneScape Dragonwilds: How to Craft Padded Cloth & Upgrade Your Armor Fast

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How to Get Padded Cloth in RuneScape: Dragonwilds – Step-by-Step Guide

If you’ve made it past the early stages of RuneScape: Dragonwilds, chances are you’re beginning to feel the pressure of tougher enemies and more punishing environments—especially in Ashenfall and surrounding biomes. To survive what’s coming, you’ll need to move past basic gear and start upgrading your armor. One of the first major hurdles is acquiring Padded Cloth, a crucial crafting material used in mid-tier armor and certain advanced furniture.

While the item itself isn’t too complex to make, the process to unlock it is resource-heavy, time-consuming, and requires braving some of the game’s most dangerous zones. In this guide, we’ll break down how to get Padded Cloth, where to find the materials, and how to build the structures needed to process it.

🧵 What Is Padded Cloth?

Padded Cloth is a refined textile in RuneScape: Dragonwilds, crafted by combining Rough Cloth and Wool Cloth in a Loom with a Loom Harness upgrade. It’s a core material used in crafting stronger armor pieces, and is one of the first real checkpoints in your gear progression.

Think of Padded Cloth as your gateway to survivability in hostile regions like the Stormtouched Highlands or Fractured Plains. You’ll need it not only for defensive gear but also for progressing into tougher biomes.

🔧 How to Craft Padded Cloth – Required Materials

To make Padded Cloth, you’ll need the following:

Raw Materials:

• Rough Cloth – Made from Coarse Animal Fur

• Wool Cloth – Made from Soft Animal Fur, Flax, or Fleece

• Loom – Standard crafting structure

• Loom Harness – Unlocks dual-input for Loom

You cannot create Padded Cloth with just a base Loom. You’ll need to build a Loom Harness to allow it to process two separate cloth types simultaneously.

🛠️ How to Build a Loom Harness

The Loom Harness is the primary progression wall for most players and requires multiple steps to complete.

Key Materials:

• Iron Bars

• Ram Horns

• Ash Planks

Let’s break down how to get each component.

🪨 Step 1: Smelt Iron Bars

Iron Bars are made by smelting Iron Ore in a Furnace. Fortunately, Iron Ore can be found near the border of the Stormtouched Highlands and Fractured Plains.

• Best Tool: Use the Rocksplosion spell to gather ore quickly and reduce exposure to enemies.

• Furnace Requirement: You’ll need Clay and Charcoal to build a Furnace. These materials are easily found in nearby swamp zones.

✅ Pro Tip: Smelting Iron is easier than Bronze—no Tin or Coal needed, just Iron Ore.

🐏 Step 2: Hunt Rams for Ram Horns

While Sheep drop Fleece, only Rams provide Ram Horns, and they exclusively spawn in the Stormtouched Highlands.

• You’ll find Rams near Iron Ore deposits, making it easy to gather both materials in one trip.

• Be cautious — the Highlands are home to aggressive monsters, so bring upgraded gear or travel at night when some enemies retreat.

🪵 Step 3: Craft Ash Planks

To complete your Loom Harness, you’ll need Ash Planks, crafted using a Sawmill.

• Gather Ash Logs from local trees in moderate-level regions.

• Use your Sawmill to convert logs into planks.

• If you haven’t built a Sawmill yet, this is the perfect time to do so—it’ll become essential for all future armor crafting.

🧶 Step 4: Combine Materials in the Loom

Once your Loom Harness is built and placed:

1. Insert Rough Cloth into one input.

2. Insert Wool Cloth into the second input.

3. Process the materials to receive Padded Cloth.

How to Make Rough and Wool Cloth:

• Rough Cloth → Made from Coarse Animal Fur

• Wool Cloth → Made from Fleece (from Sheep), Soft Animal Fur, or Flax

These are basic drops from hunting local wildlife, so it’s wise to gather and store fur early during your explorations.

🛡️ Why Padded Cloth Matters

Padded Cloth opens up your gear tree to a wide range of mid-tier armor sets that significantly boost defense. As RuneScape: Dragonwilds enemies scale in damage and aggression, basic Cloth or Leather Armor simply won’t cut it anymore.

Moreover, Padded Cloth is also used in furniture upgrades, making it essential for building a sustainable, functional base.

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✔️ Tips for Efficient Padded Cloth Farming

• Multi-task runs – Farm Iron Ore and hunt Rams in a single trip to the Stormtouched Highlands.

• Use teleport Lodestones – Place one near Iron/Ram spawn areas and one at your base.

• Stockpile early fur – Don’t throw out Coarse or Soft Animal Fur; they’ll be vital later.

• Upgrade your Tannery – Unlock Hard Leather while working on Cloth to build stronger hybrid armor.

Final Thoughts

Padded Cloth is your ticket to surviving RuneScape: Dragonwilds’ mid-game challenges. While the process to unlock and craft it is more complex than earlier items, it’s a necessary investment for progressing in tougher zones like the Stormtouched Highlands. Take the time to prepare properly, optimize your resource runs, and make sure to build the right structures in advance.

With your Loom Harness in place and your first set of Padded Cloth gear crafted, you’ll be more than ready to handle anything Ashenfall throws your way.