Butcher

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Butcher or Butchering is an action performed by pressing the appropriate button when available.

This action is used for creating items from Carcasses.

Mechanics

Any animal that is neutral or hostile can be turned into a carcass, which can then be harvested for Mammal Meat or Oviparous Meat. Some carcasses also allow the harvesting of Hard Bones from them.

Any rock or blunt object can be used for butchering but there are two tools that excel at butchering: aBasalt Chopper or anObsidian Scraper.

Carcasses created by two animals fighting each other will already be butchered and your hominid can grab a piece of meat or hard bone from the carcass.

Most carcasses can be butchered several times depending upon the animal. To butcher a carcass more than once, all the items dropped from the previous butchering must be picked up.

Carcasses for butchering

Icon	Name	Meat Type	Bone?	Times It Can Be Butchered
	African Buffalo Carcass	Mammal Meat	Hard Bone	Three
	African Otter Carcass	Mammal Meat	Hard Bone	Two
	African Rock Python Carcass	Oviparous Meat	—	Two
	Bateleur Eagle Carcass	Oviparous Meat	Hard Bone	Two
	Black-Backed Jackal Carcass	Mammal Meat	—	One
	Black Machairodus Carcass	Mammal Meat	Hard Bone	Two
	Black Mamba Carcass	Oviparous Meat	—	One
	Crocodile Carcass	Oviparous Meat	Hard Bone	Three
	Dorcas Gazelle Carcass	Mammal Meat	Hard Bone	One
	Eastern Green Mamba Carcass	Oviparous Meat	—	One
	Giant Warthog Carcass	Mammal Meat	Hard Bone	Two
	Golden Machairodus Carcass	Mammal Meat	Hard Bone	Two
	Hippopotamus Carcass	Mammal Meat	Hard Bone	Three
	Hyena Carcass	Mammal Meat	Hard Bone	Two
	Megarian Banded Centipede Carcass	Oviparous Meat	—	Three
	Miocene African Horse Carcass	Mammal Meat	Hard Bone	Two
	Miocene Elephant Carcass	Mammal Meat	Hard Bone	Three
	Miocene Pelican Carcass	Oviparous Meat	Hard Bone	Two
	White Machairodus Carcass	Mammal Meat	Hard Bone	Two
	White Rhinoceros Carcass	Mammal Meat	Hard Bone	Three