I've been setting spider basements on fire ever since the first time I tried actually hunting the widows, which ended in complete fucking catastrophe. What loadout/tactics do you use to extinguish the subterranean arachnid menace?
Setting the basement on fire.... I literally just light some web on fire and everything dies. But if you are really have trouble with it, lighting web on fire (I think lighting web on the walls can spread to the other side) and then using a fire extinguisher to keep the doors fire-free might help.
It's less "extract" and more "keep intact in usable form", so yes? It might be too high a requirement, but I'm not in a position to say either way.
Apparently not. I just got 6 survival and butchered yet another entire basement of spiders and got zero chitin. So far I've gotten one chitin from a spider in a forest, but that's it. I think it's safe to say that the drop rate needs to be higher, especially since you need chitin for a refugee center quest.
What's your dex, BTW? Some testing on my part had ants sometimes dropping chitin when butchering them with survival 4 and 12 Dex, while survival higher than that with the same dex yielded chitin nearly all of the time. Dropped down to 6 dex, I needed butchering of 6 to even get a chance at getting chitin, while 8 was the starting point when chitin yields were near guaranteed. All of this was done with a butchering knife (same item you're using to butcher).
And how about clothing? Wearing anything encumbering? I can't say if that would have any affect on this, but you never know.
I have at least 10 dexterity, am using a variety of knives all with 19 butchering, and am generally not encumbered. Even if I was, it's not reasonable to think that that would have such a huge impact, unless I had like, 5 pairs of gloves on.
I'm prepared to call this a bug.