Butchering

Butchering refers to the activity of Harvesting human or animal carcasses while wielding an appropriate Butcher Tool in order to obtain various bonus resources such as Raw Meat, Rotting Flesh, Animal Fat, Large Bones, Leather, Feathers, or Nitrate Powder. Resources are extracted from carcasses as they are damaged and/or destroyed by your Butchering efforts.

Butcher Tools

While Harvesting carcasses can be done using any non-Butcher Tool, doing so results in minimal resource extraction for your efforts. Typically, only 1-2 Large Bones will be harvested. Equipping a Butcher Tool will speed up the process of destroying the carcass you are harvesting while providing access to the bonus resources that it contains. Butcher Tools used on fresh carcasses will do 4 times its Entity Damage to the corpse, and the Butcher Tool's animation will change from the usual swing/strike animation to a left-to-right backhanded slashing/cutting animation. Butcher Tools do normal Block Damage to old corpses such as animal remains, human remains, or corpses in body bags.
Table below shows all the Butchering Tools and their statistics.

	Weapon	Entity Damage		Resource Multiplier	Damage Multiplier	Max DPS	Durability		Uses		Range		Speed	Repaired with
		Base	MAX				Base	MAX	Base	MAX	Base	MAX
	Bone Knife	5.1		1	1.6		120	220	120	220	2			Bone
	Candy Cane Knife	6.6		1	1.6		462	1200	462	1200	2			Repair Kit
	Hunting Knife	12		1	1.6		462	1154	462	1154	2			Repair Kit
	Machete	20.1		1	1		288	673	288	673	2.3			Repair Kit
	Steel Knuckles	19.1		1	1.7		577	1346	577	1346	2			Repair Kit

Butchering Efficiently

• Your The Huntsman will increase the amount of meat and leather resources you extract while Butchering.
• There are a variety of Mods you can install on your butchering tool in order to increase its Entity Damage and Block Damage.

Notes

• Some tools like Stone Axe or Iron Fireaxe are not strictly Butchering Tools (no animation change during Butchering), but they have the 400% damage multiplier and yield 70% of resources, making them a quick and still efficient tools.
• Stun Baton is not strictly a Butchering Tool (no animation change and no damage multiplier), but it yields 100% of resources from the corpse. Even so, due to the lack of damage multiplier and overall low damage of this weapon, it is very inefficient to be using it as a Butchering Tool.
• Potentially all weapons could be used for obtaining the resources from corpses, although all clubs, hammers and spears have only 25% yield of resources from any type, including Butchering. This makes them potentially not worth it to be used on corpses. Even the Stone Axe gives more.

See also

• Harvesting
• Salvaging