Butcher

An important source of resources in 0.D (Danny), such as bones, sinews, bionics, hides, pelt, meat, and many other edible organ parts is butchery. As an added bonus, it also prevents zombies from coming back from the dead, but usually just smashing the corpses is less time consuming method.

How to butcher a corpse

You need a tool with "butchering" quality, a corpse, and some spare time. The higher the butchering quality the faster you butcher, and the more harvest-able meat you get^{Verify (really? This needs a code reference comment)}. Higher survival skill also helps. Butchering also slightly trains survival. An exception to this is dissecting, which uses the "fine cutting" quality and trains first aid. It also consumes a bit of stamina. The game automatically uses the item in your inventory with the highest butchery quality, so no need to worry about swapping out tools.

Several butchery options also need specialized tools like butcher racks, flat surfaces, or trees with a rope, to assist in moving the corpse around and better organizing the butchering process. The game will tell you when you need one of these furniture tools to perform the butchery, a quick butchery option is always available.

The time required for some options can change depending on the previous butchery actions performed. If you field dress a corpse, which removes the internal organs, it will also reduce the amount of time it takes for a full butchery (as the internal bits are already gone).

Step by step instructions

• Press B while standing over a corpse, to open the Butchering menu. There, you will have a choice of several options.
  • B - Quick Butchery. Quick Butchery takes less time and yields less product, however, you also do not require any special tools.
  • b - Full Butchery. Full Butchery requires a Metal Butchering Rack or a Rope and nearby tree^Verify, as well as a flat surface (furniture with the 'FLAT_SURF' flag, or vehicle parts with 'KITCHEN') such as a Table or Leather Tarp. Notably, regular tarps will not work for the purposes of Butchering, only Leather Tarps. Full Butchery yields everything the corpse can possibly yield (Based on your survival skill), but takes a long time.
  • f - Field Dress Corpse. Field Dressing is the act of removing the internal organs from a corpse with the intent of preserving the body for transport. You gain all the internal organs for the corpse, and the corpse becomes a Carcass which does not spoil.
  • s - Skin Corpse. Skinning a corpse takes the same amount of time as Field Dressing and yields the animal's skin, pelt or fur. Larger animals produce full hides, while smaller animals only produce scraps. Although the game makes note that you need a suitably precise knife, skinning can be done with as little as a steak knife.
  • k - Quarter Corpse. Quartering divides the corpse into four equal parts for transport, and can only be done on a previously field-dressed corpse. All four quarters equal roughly 20% of the corpse's previous volume. Ideal for big game.
  • m - Dismember Corpse. Dismembering a corpse completely destroys it, turning the entire body entirely into Butchery Refuse. It takes only a few seconds, and thus is most effectively used to prevent zombies from reviving.
  • d - Dissect Corpse. Dissecting a corpse takes a very long time, and is best used to inspect zombies for Bionics. A scalpel or X-Acto knife is required for dissection, and the yield is most influenced by your First Aid skill.

Results from butchery

The results you get from butchery depends on the size of the corpse, and various flags the monster had. Humans who have not become zombies yet give flesh which counts as cannibalism when eaten. Zombies and other infected monsters generate tainted meat and tainted bones, or tainted veggies in the case of plant based monsters. Monsters with bones also give sinew. The rest of the results are rather intuitive, a furry creature will give a fur pelt when skinned, humans give human skin, others normal raw hides etc.

The various plant based monsters can give Plant fibre fluid sacs, or tainted veggie.

Bionics from butchery can only be gained from corpses if the monster has one of the various CBM flags, such as the Zombie technicians CBM_TECH one. If you are unsure, check the monsters page for more info.

Some monsters also might have special butchery results you can only get from those monsters, but this feature is mostly used for mods.