Butchering

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Butchering
Active

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Type

Target Object

Range

1

- Requires a sword, an axe, a dagger, a two-handed sword, or a two-handed axe.

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Carves the targeted animal carcass for meat

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Butchering is a Survival Skill that allows you to extract and process meat and skins from killed animals, provided you also acquire the skill Resourcefulness.

• Butchering requires you to have one of the 5 listed weapon types in your inventory. When standing near the corpse of an animal, you can use the Butchering skill, spending one turn.
• The loot you will receive from Butchering varies:
  • The pelt + meat + other loot (like horns or tusks).
  • Just meat + other loot.
  • Nothing at all.
• The player character comments upon not receiving the pelt or anything at all, vaguely explaining the reason.
• Killing animals with Unholy, Poison and Caustic damage types will almost always cause the meat to spoil. Arcane damage type spoils the meat too, but less often.
• Killing animals with Fire damage type might cause the meat to become cooked.
• Currently all animals are skinnable except birds who can be plucked instead, and friendly NPCs such as Pigs, Sheep and Horse that can not be killed but only put in Coma upon taking fatal damage.
• If the only suitable weapon is in the character's inventory and is cursed, the latter does not prevent it from being used for butchering.

Butchering mechanics

The Butchering mechanics are as follows:

• Each pelt has a hidden HP number, which decreases each time the animal receives damage.
• If the pelt's hidden HP is too low when the animal is killed, you won't get any pelt from butchering.
• Damage to the pelt is multiplied from certain damage types. Fire deals more damage to pelts than Slashing, which deals more damage than Piercing or Crushing.
• Bleeding damage doesn't damage the pelt at all.

Skinnable Loot

Some items can only be obtained after learning the Huntmaster skill. These items are marked with asterisk (*).

Animal	Valuables	Meat
Ancient Troll	Troll Tusks Troll Pelt
Bear	Bear Fat* Bear Pelt	Tough Meat
Bison	Bison Horns Bison Pelt	Tough Meat
Boar	Boar Tusks* Boar Pelt	Fatty Meat
Crawler	Crawler Eye* Crawler Mandibles
Deer	Deer Antlers Deer Pelt	Fatty Meat
Dungeon Bat Bat Swarm		Meat Morsels
War Dog Wolfhound	Dog Pelt
Feral Dog	Mangy Pelt	Sinewy Meat
Forest Viper	Snake Skin	Meat Morsels
Fox	Fox Pelt	Sinewy Meat
Small Ghoul Ghoul Large Ghoul	Ghoul Heart* Ghoul Hide
Gulon	Gulon Liver* Gulon Pelt	Sinewy Meat
Harpy	Harpy Stomach* Harpy Feathers
Hedgehog		Meat Morsels
Horse	Horse Pelt
Moose	Moose Kidney* Moose Antlers Moose Pelt	Fatty Meat
Pig	Pig Pelt
Rabbit	Rabbit Pelt	Tender Meat
Sheep	Sheep Pelt
Saiga	Saiga Horns Saiga Pelt	Fatty Meat
Squirrel	Squirrel Pelt	Meat Morsels
Wolf	Wolf Tongue* Wolf Pelt	Sinewy Meat
Young Troll	Troll Gland* Young Troll Pelt
Rockeater Worker Rockeater Hunter Rockeater Soldier	Rockeater Gland*	Rockeater Flesh

See Also

• Damage Types
• Crafting
• Cooking
• Alchemy

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