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Butchering
Skill in the act of removing meat and useful body organs from a corpse. You need to be carrying a Butcher Knife in order to butcher a corpse. Corpses of sentient creatures, such as goblins and humans, can't be butchered.
Skill Type:	Trade Skill
Max Level:	80
Requirements:	None
Skill Trainers:	Nishika, Noita the Green

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Butchering Overview

Butchering is a skill that allows Adventurers to harvest extra meat and organs from creatures. This option is only available when looting a corpse if a Butcher Knife, or similar tool, is in a character's inventory. If a corpse is butchered, it can not be skinned, or have it's skull extracted. Butchering can also be leveled by extracting skulls, using a Skull Extractor.

In-Game Description

Skill in the act of removing meat and useful body organs from a corpse. You need to be carrying a Butcher Knife in order to butcher a corpse. Corpses of sentient creatures, such as goblins and humans, can't be butchered.

Training Butchering

• Butchering is learned the first time a monster is defeated, and a Butcher Knife is used on the corpse.
• Fainor, the owner of Serbule's Chortling Beaver Inn, sells Butcher Knives.
• Toolcrafters are able to craft a variety of Butcher Knives.
• Nishika, a Rakshasa from the City of Rahu, can raise your Butchering Level Cap from 50 to 60, and from 60 to 70.
• Noita the Green in the Fae Realm can raise the cap from 70 to 80.

Connected Skills

Sub-Skills:

• None

Secondary Skills:

• Anatomy - Raising certain Anatomy Sub-Skills will improve the chance to receive extra meat while butchering, and increases the chance that an organ will be found.

Related Skills:

• Skinning - Another possibility available to those who stumble onto a corpse, Skinning will make it impossible to Butcher.
• Phrenology - Skulls extracted using a Skull Extractor are used in the art of Phrenology.
• Cooking - Butchering is the primary way that cooks obtain meat!
• Toolcrafting - Toolcrafters are able to craft many types of knives usable for Butchering.

Recipe Lists

Butchering Complete Recipe List

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Lvl	Name	First-Time XP	XP	Ingredients	Results	Description	Source
3	Butcher Sinewy Cat Meat	15	3	Stringy Cat Meat x1 Meat Tenderizer x1 (!)	Sinewy Cat Meat x1	Pare down a higher-quality piece of meat into a lower-quality one.	Training: Nishika Training: Rugen
6	Butcher Sinewy Dog Meat	30	6	Stringy Dog Meat x1 Meat Tenderizer x1 (!)	Sinewy Dog Meat x1	Pare down a higher-quality piece of meat into a lower-quality one.	Training: Nishika Training: Rugen
9	Butcher Sinewy Dinosaur Meat	45	9	Stringy Dinosaur Meat x1 Meat Tenderizer x1 (!)	Sinewy Dinosaur Meat x1	Pare down a higher-quality piece of meat into a lower-quality one.	Training: Nishika Training: Rugen
12	Butcher Sinewy Beast Meat	60	12	Stringy Beast Meat x1 Meat Tenderizer x1 (!)	Sinewy Beast Meat x1	Pare down a higher-quality piece of meat into a lower-quality one.	Training: Nishika Training: Rugen
15	Butcher Sinewy Insect Meat	75	15	Stringy Insect Meat x1 Meat Tenderizer x1 (!)	Sinewy Insect Meat x1	Pare down a higher-quality piece of meat into a lower-quality one.	Training: Nishika Training: Rugen
15	Collect Filthy Animal Fat	75	15	Cheap Meat (stack of 25) x25	Filthy Animal Fat x1	Boil down a vat of meat to collect the low-quality fat. Requires a stove or fire pit.	Hang Out: Nishika
17	Butcher Chicken	85	17	Raw Great Chicken x1 Meat Tenderizer x1 (!)	Raw Chicken x1	Pare down a higher-quality piece of meat into a lower-quality one.	Training: Nishika Training: Rugen
18	Butcher Pork Shoulder	90	18	Great Pork Shoulder x1 Meat Tenderizer x1 (!)	Pork Shoulder x1	Pare down a higher-quality piece of meat into a lower-quality one.	Training: Nishika Training: Rugen
21	Butcher Venison	105	21	Great Venison x1 Meat Tenderizer x1 (!)	Venison x1	Pare down a higher-quality piece of meat into a lower-quality one.	Training: Nishika Training: Rugen
24	Butcher Steak	120	24	Great Steak x1 Meat Tenderizer x1 (!)	Steak x1	Pare down a higher-quality piece of meat into a lower-quality one.	Training: Nishika Training: Rugen
27	Butcher Rabbit Meat	135	27	Great Rabbit Meat x1 Meat Tenderizer x1 (!)	Rabbit Meat x1	Pare down a higher-quality piece of meat into a lower-quality one.	Training: Nishika Training: Rugen
30	Butcher Stringy Cat Meat	150	30	Cat Meat x1 Meat Tenderizer x1 (!)	Stringy Cat Meat x1	Pare down a higher-quality piece of meat into a lower-quality one.	Training: Nishika Training: Rugen
30	Collect Lumpy Animal Fat	150	30	Cheap Meat (stack of 60) x60	Lumpy Animal Fat x1	Boil down a vat of meat to collect the low-quality fat. Requires a stove or fire pit.	Hang Out: Nishika
33	Butcher Stringy Dog Meat	165	33	Dog Meat x1 Meat Tenderizer x1 (!)	Stringy Dog Meat x1	Pare down a higher-quality piece of meat into a lower-quality one.	Training: Nishika Training: Rugen
36	Butcher Stringy Dinosaur Meat	180	36	Dinosaur Meat x1 Meat Tenderizer x1 (!)	Stringy Dinosaur Meat x1	Pare down a higher-quality piece of meat into a lower-quality one.	Training: Nishika Training: Rugen
39	Butcher Stringy Beast Meat	195	39	Beast Meat x1 Meat Tenderizer x1 (!)	Stringy Beast Meat x1	Pare down a higher-quality piece of meat into a lower-quality one.	Training: Nishika Training: Rugen
42	Butcher Stringy Insect Meat	210	42	Insect Meat x1 Meat Tenderizer x1 (!)	Stringy Insect Meat x1	Pare down a higher-quality piece of meat into a lower-quality one.	Training: Nishika Training: Rugen
45	Safely Prepare Paralytic Chicken	225	45	Raw Paralytic Chicken x1 Organ Knife x1 (!)	Raw Great Chicken x1	Remove the toxic elements of paralytic chicken, leaving the great-tasting meat.	Training: Nishika Training: Rugen
48	Butcher Great Venison	240	48	Amazing Venison x1 Meat Tenderizer x1 (!)	Great Venison x1	Pare down a higher-quality piece of meat into a lower-quality one.	Training: Nishika Training: Rugen
50	Butcher Great Steak	250	50	Amazing Steak x1 Meat Tenderizer x1 (!)	Great Steak x1	Pare down a higher-quality piece of meat into a lower-quality one.	Training: Nishika Training: Rugen
52	Butcher Great Rabbit Meat	260	52	Amazing Rabbit Meat x1 Meat Tenderizer x1 (!)	Great Rabbit Meat x1	Pare down a higher-quality piece of meat into a lower-quality one.	Training: Nishika Training: Rugen
54	Butcher Cat Meat	270	54	Robust Cat Meat x1 Meat Tenderizer x1 (!)	Cat Meat x1	Pare down a higher-quality piece of meat into a lower-quality one.	Training: Nishika Training: Rugen
56	Butcher Dog Meat	280	56	Robust Dog Meat x1 Meat Tenderizer x1 (!)	Dog Meat x1	Pare down a higher-quality piece of meat into a lower-quality one.	Training: Nishika Training: Rugen
58	Butcher Dinosaur Meat	290	58	Robust Dinosaur Meat x1 Meat Tenderizer x1 (!)	Dinosaur Meat x1	Pare down a higher-quality piece of meat into a lower-quality one.	Training: Nishika Training: Rugen
60	Butcher Beast Meat	300	60	Robust Beast Meat x1 Meat Tenderizer x1 (!)	Beast Meat x1	Pare down a higher-quality piece of meat into a lower-quality one.	Training: Nishika Training: Rugen
62	Butcher Insect Meat	310	62	Robust Insect Meat x1 Meat Tenderizer x1 (!)	Insect Meat x1	Pare down a higher-quality piece of meat into a lower-quality one.	Training: Nishika Training: Rugen

Butchering Mechanics

Leveling Butchering

Failing an attempt to butcher a corpse will grant 1 XP. Successfully butchering a corpse will grant much more experience! If you loot both meat and a bone or organ, you will receive 3x the normal experience.

Collecting Organs, Bones, and Fat

Organs such as Stomachs, Hearts, and Spleens can be looted while butchering a corpse. Bones, such as Femurs can also be obtained. The chances to loot an Organ or Bone improves based on the Anatomy skill of the corpse you are looting.

If you are looting a Sickly Tiger, the bonuses would come from Feline Anatomy. Level 6 Feline Anatomy grants Butchering yields extra bones: +2%, and Level 9 Feline Anatomy grants Butchery yields rare meat or organs: +3%.

Fat drops are based on the monster's level and their anatomy type. Herbivorous animals (such as Ungulates) have the best of all of the resources: skins, meat, organs. Carnivores have the worst. And omnivores are somewhere in between.

Probability of Organ

(As of end of 2020, according to Citan's forum post):

Provided you don't botch the butchering attempt altogether, you get a 3% chance of an organ for every 9 levels (rounded down) of the relevant Anatomy skill, plus any item bonus. If you receive an organ, it is selected at random from the possible organ drops for that mob.

Example: If you have a level 45-53 anatomy skill and Amutasa's +7% organ knife, you would have a 5*3+7 = 22% chance for an organ. Say you are butchering a barghest. Barghests have five different organs (stomach, brain, heart, spleen, tier-4 animal fat) so if you get an organ from one, you have a 1-in-5, or 20%, chance of getting a fat. That amounts to a 22%/5 = 4.4% chance to get fat from a Barghest.

Butchering tools

Tool	Description	From
Butcher Knife	A large knife for cutting meat and organs out of corpses (Keep it in your inventory and you'll have the option to butcher the corpses of some enemies.)	Sold by Fainor.
Organ Knife	A large knife for cutting meat and organs out of corpses (+5% chance for an organ). (Keep it in your inventory and you'll have the option to butcher the corpses of some enemies.)	Toolcrafting
Yogzi's Butcher Knife	Yogzi created this convenient butcher knife that can also extract skulls. (+3 to your effective skill when Butchering or Extracting Skulls). (Keep it in your inventory and you'll be given the option to butcher and/or extract the skull of some enemies.)	End of Year gift from Yogzi
Filleting Knife	A large knife for cutting meat and organs out of corpses (+5 to your effective skill when Butchering). (Keep it in your inventory and you'll be given the option to butcher the corpses some enemies.)	Toolcrafting
Amutasa's Organ Knife	A large knife for cutting meat and organs out of corpses (+7% chance for an organ). (Keep it in your inventory and you'll have the option to butcher the corpses of some enemies.)	Complete a favor for Amutasa.
Skull Extractor	An odd serrated utility knife that can be used to extract a skull from a corpse. (Your Butchering skill is used to determine success)	Given by Glajur at Comfortable Favor.
Multipurpose Knife	A versatile knife for skinning, butchering, oyster-opening, or skull extraction. (Keep it in your inventory and you'll be given the option to skin, butcher, shuck, and/or extract the skull of some enemies.)	Toolcrafting

Butchering Level Up Rewards

Butchering Experience Table

Trivia

Butchering can be used to loot Stomachs, a valuable item used by Cheesemaking.