Butchery

Skill Tree	Cooking and Gathering
Cost	50 sp
Requirements	15 Intelligence
ID	CookingAndGathering_Butchery
Infobox data from game version 2.0.201.71

You can butcher fresh ingredients and other usable parts from animal corpses.

Butchery is a Cooking and Gathering skill that can be bought for 50 sp when the buyer has at least 15 intelligence, ignoring temporary boosts. It can be used to butcher a variety of animal ingredients that can either be eaten raw by a character with the Carnivorous (D) mutation, or preserved into cooking ingredients that can be used by characters with the Meal Preparation skill.

The action cost of butchering a corpse is normally 1000 (one full turn with normal quickness), but equipping one or more steel butcher knives significantly reduces it. The process will also splatter blood to adjacent cells.

Players with the Butchery skill will automatically butcher valid corpses as long as there are no hostiles nearby. This automatic butchering can be turned off in the abilities menu.

The player's starting village faction will teach Butchery if the player chooses a hills starting village. The minimum intelligence required for this skill can be bypassed in this way, as any other taught skill.

Factions That Teach Butchery

Butchering and Cybernetics

Butchery can also be used to retrieve cybernetic implants from the corpses of implanted Putus Templar. Corpses that contain cybernetics are also unable to be consumed as food.^[1] This also counts for limbs that were dismembered that contain the implant.^[2] There is a base 80% chance to salvage the implant. Otherwise, it is "ripped out of the (corpse), but destroy[ed] in the process".^[3] Unlike other butcher attempts, this chance is rolled for every cybernetic in the corpse, which means multiple cybernetics can be butchered from one corpse. Additionally, it's possible to successfully butcher cybernetics that are normally destroyed on removal.

Corpses that can be butchered

Except for the case of cybernetic implants, only one object can be butchered from a corpse. If there are multiple item/food options listed below, the game chooses only one (according to the percentage drop rates shown).

Creature & Corpse Drop Rate	Corpse	Butchered Items	Butchered Food	BF Value	BF Weight	PreservedInto	P Value	P Weight
albino ape (10%)	albino ape corpse	albino ape heart (20.2%)<br> albino ape pelt (40.4%)<br> ape fur cloak (13.1%)<br> ape fur gloves (13.1%)<br> ape fur hat (13.1%)
barkbiter (30%)	barkbiter corpse		raw barkbiter meat (100%)	$4	5#	5x barkbiter jerky	$1 /ea.	0#
bear cherub (50%)<br> bear (50%)<br> chairbear (100%)<br> Chiliad bear (50%)<br> mechanical bear cherub (50%)	bear corpse		raw bear meat (100%)	$4	5#	5x bear jerky	$1 /ea.	0#
bloated pearlfrog (20%)	bloated pearlfrog corpse		raw frog meat (100%)	$4	5#	3x frog jerky	$1 /ea.	0#
boar (15%)<br> slugsnout (100%)<br> two-headed boar (25%)<br> two-headed slugsnout (100%)	boar corpse		raw boar meat (100%)	$3	3#	3x boar jerky	$1 /ea.	0#
bone worm (100%)	bone worm corpse		compacted bone matter (100%)	$0.01	1#	3x bone meal	$8 /ea.	0#
chitinous puma (5%)	chitinous puma corpse	puma chitin vest (100%)
Slog of the Cloaca (100%)	corpse of Slog	Slog's annunclus (100%)
croc (20%)	croc corpse		raw croc meat (100%)	$2	3#	3x croc jerky	$1 /ea.	0#
dawnglider (50%)	dawnglider corpse		dawnglider tail (100%)	$50	8#	10x cured dawnglider tail	$5 /ea.	0#
worm of the earth (100%)	earthworm corpse		raw worm meat (100%)	$2	3#	3x worm jerky	$1 /ea.	0#
electric snail (100%)	electric snail corpse	electric snail shell (100%)
enigma snail (20%)	enigma snail corpse	enigma cap (50%)<br> enigma cone (50%)
eyeless crab (25%)	eyeless crab corpse	eyeless crab shell (5%)	eyeless crab legs (95%)	$1	1#	1x crab jerky	$1 /ea.	0#
eyeless king crab (25%)	eyeless king crab corpse		eyeless king crab legs (100%)	$3	3#	3x crab jerky	$1 /ea.	0#
fire ant queen (20%)<br> fire ant (10%)	fire ant corpse		fire ant gaster (100%)	$50	1#	10x fire ant gaster paste	$5 /ea.	0#
beetlebum (50%)<br> clockwork beetle (25%)<br> giant beetle (25%)	giant beetle corpse		raw beetle meat (100%)	$3	3#	3x beetle jerky	$1 /ea.	0#
leering stalker (25%)	giant heap of chrome scrap	chassis plate (100%)
burrowing girshling (8%)<br> Chiliad girshling (8%)<br> conjoined girshlings (8%)<br> girshling (25%)<br> polarized girshling (8%)<br> prism girshling (8%)	girshling corpse	girshling fangs (100%)
cryptic girshling (8%)	girshling corpse	zigzag fangs (100%)
plasmatic girshling (8%)	girshling corpse	incandescent fangs (100%)
rank girshling (8%)	girshling corpse	rank fangs (100%)
glowmoth (1%)	glowmoth corpse	luminous mote (100%)
Chiliad goat (10%)<br> goat (10%)	goat corpse		raw goat meat (100%)	$2	3#	3x goat jerky	$1 /ea.	0#
Chiliad goatfolk (5%)<br> goatfolk shaman (crazed) (5%)<br> goatfolk bully (5%)<br> goatfolk hornblower (5%)<br> goatfolk shaman (5%)<br> goatfolk sower (5%)<br> goatfolk thrall (5%)<br> goatfolk yurtwarden (5%)	goatfolk corpse		raw goat meat (100%)	$2	3#	3x goat jerky	$1 /ea.	0#
greater voider (15%)	greater voider corpse		voider gland (100%)	$50	1#	10x voider gland paste	$5 /ea.	0#
ice frog (10%)	ice frog corpse		raw frog meat (100%)	$4	5#	3x frog jerky	$1 /ea.	0#
tongue tyrant (12%)	jumble of tongues		tongue twist (100%)	$70	2#	3x fermented tongue	$8 /ea.	0#
kaleidoslug (6%)	kaleidoslug corpse	kaleidocera cape (33.3%)<br> kaleidocera krakows (33.3%)<br> kaleidocera muffs (33.3%)
knollworm (100%)<br> plated knollworm (100%)	knollworm corpse	knollworm skull (2%)	raw worm meat (98%)	$2	3#	3x worm jerky	$1 /ea.	0#
memory eater (35%)	memory eater corpse		psychal gland (100%)	$90	1#	5x psychal gland paste	$8 /ea.	0#
ogre ape (10%)	ogre ape corpse	ogre ape heart (20.2%)<br> ogre ape pelt (40.4%)<br> ogre fur cloak (13.1%)<br> ogre fur gloves (13.1%)<br> ogre fur hat (13.1%)
quartz baboon (6%)	quartz baboon corpse	quartzfur cloak (33.3%)<br> quartzfur gloves (33.3%)<br> quartzfur hat (33.3%)
rhinox (30%)	rhinox corpse	rhinox-skull maul (100%)
salthopper (8%)	salthopper corpse	salthopper mandible (15%)	salthopper chip (85%)	$0.5	0#
scorpiock (10%)	scorpiock corpse		raw scorpiock meat (100%)	$2	3#	3x scorpiock jerky	$1 /ea.	0#
seedsprout worm (100%)	seedsprout worm corpse		raw worm meat (100%)	$2	3#	3x worm jerky	$1 /ea.	0#
spark tick (10%)	spark tick corpse		spark tick scutum (100%)	$50	3#	8x spark tick plasma	$4 /ea.	0#
sultan croc (20%)	sultan croc corpse		raw croc meat (100%)	$2	3#	3x croc jerky	$1 /ea.	0#
Chiliad svardym (20%)<br> svardym eld (20%)<br> svardym jut (20%)<br> svardym scrounge (20%)	svardym corpse		raw frog meat (100%)	$4	5#	3x frog jerky	$1 /ea.	0#
Chiliad pig (100%)<br> mechanical swine cherub (100%)<br> pig (100%)<br> swine cherub (100%)	pig corpse		raw pig meat (100%)	$3	3#	3x boar jerky	$1 /ea.	0#
urchin belcher (20%)	urchin belcher corpse		raw fish meat (100%)	$4	5#	3x fish jerky	$1 /ea.	0#
voider (15%)	voider corpse		voider gland (100%)	$50	1#	10x voider gland paste	$5 /ea.	0#

Tips

Following a salt kraken through the salt dunes or a star kraken through the Palladium Reef is a good way to rack up lots of meat and other products for cooking, as well as certain pieces of equipment. Rarer corpses such as kaleidoslug corpses, or corpses of more dangerous game such as giant heaps of chrome scrap, are often faster to encounter and safer to retrieve in the path of a kraken in a high zone tier than from their respective creatures.