# Protean hide

 Protean hide is a Treasure Hunter reward.If the associated promotion is not currently active, it may not be obtainable.

Protean hides are used to earn Crafting experience without creating any items, rewarded from Treasure Hunter. Crafting catalysts can be used with protean hides. Protean hides, as with all protean items, can be converted at a 3:2 ratio into other protean items. Each hide takes 3 seconds to process, resulting in a maximum usage of 1200 hides per hour without Protean Powerups.

The ingame popup for the Protean hide promotion

## Experience

The experience given by each protean hide scales according to the player's Crafting level (unaffected by level boosts), with a marked increase once level 80 is reached. The exact experience given can be approximated to within 0.1 experience per item using the following formula:

${\displaystyle {\Bigg \{}{\begin{matrix}xp=2.44358\cdot Level+27.3274&Level<80\\xp=2.93187\cdot Level+32.7662&Level\geq 80\end{matrix}}}$

Using the above formula, the following table lists the amount of experience gained from one protean hide based on Crafting level.

Level XP Level XP Level XP Level XP
1 29.8 26 90.9 51 151.9 76 213.0
2 32.2 27 93.3 52 154.4 77 215.5
3 34.7 28 95.7 53 156.8 78 217.9
4 37.1 29 98.2 54 159.3 79 220.4
5 39.5 30 100.6 55 161.7 80 267.3
6 42.0 31 103.1 56 164.2 81 270.2
7 44.4 32 105.5 57 166.6 82 273.2
8 46.9 33 108.0 58 169.1 83 276.1
9 49.3 34 110.4 59 171.5 84 279.0
10 51.8 35 112.9 60 173.9 85 282.0
11 54.2 36 115.3 61 176.4 86 284.9
12 56.7 37 117.7 62 178.8 87 287.8
13 59.1 38 120.2 63 181.3 88 290.8
14 61.5 39 122.6 64 183.7 89 293.7
15 64.0 40 125.1 65 186.2 90 296.6
16 66.4 41 127.5 66 188.6 91 299.6
17 68.9 42 130.0 67 191.0 92 302.5
18 71.3 43 132.4 68 193.5 93 305.4
19 73.8 44 134.8 69 195.9 94 308.4
20 76.2 45 137.3 70 198.4 95 311.3
21 78.6 46 139.7 71 200.8 96 314.2
22 81.1 47 142.2 72 203.3 97 317.2
23 83.5 48 144.6 73 205.7 98 320.1
24 86.0 49 147.1 74 208.2 99 323.0
25 88.4 50 149.5 75 210.6

Note that using Protean Hides on Portable Crafters saves some hides from being used, thereby increasing the overall experience output.

## Drop sources

For an exhaustive list of all known sources for this item, see here.
Showing 100 out of 140 sources.

## Trivia

• Protean hides are the fastest protean item to use, at 3 seconds per item.

## Update history

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• patch 8 June 2015 (Update):
• It is no longer possible to cast Alchemy spells or craft protean hides while balancing on a Hefin serenity post.