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Joshkidd

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I cant skin/butcher corpses.
« on: December 22, 2010, 03:36:44 am »
From my knowledge of this you walk over a dead body and hit x and then butcher the body, but when i hit b or enter it don't work. The body was not mangled or decapitated in anyway.
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Re: I cant skin/butcher corpses.
« Reply #1 on: December 22, 2010, 03:56:50 am »
you need to be holding something to butcher with.  put away your weapon and get a knife.

Genesis mod allows knapping of stone tools for this (along with a pretty full crafting tree for the products with multiple creatable tools)
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Re: I cant skin/butcher corpses.
« Reply #2 on: December 22, 2010, 05:15:41 am »
Anything with an edge or point will work for butchering whether it be a sword, axe, spear, or even an arrow/bolt.

Keep in mind. though, that not all corpses are butcherable, which includes any creature with [INTELLIGENT] or one of its related tags like [CAN_SPEAK]. Certain other creatures can't be butchered either. Harpies and nightwings can't be butchered for instance; foul blendecs probably can't be either. Despite world gen, elven adventurers won't butcher goblins that they killed either.
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Re: I cant skin/butcher corpses.
« Reply #3 on: December 22, 2010, 09:28:05 pm »
Quote from: Joshkidd on December 22, 2010, 03:36:44 am
From my knowledge of this you walk over a dead body and hit x and then butcher the body, but when i hit b or enter it don't work. The body was not mangled or decapitated in anyway.

You cant be THAT hungry ;)
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Re: I cant skin/butcher corpses.
« Reply #4 on: December 23, 2010, 01:23:06 am »
Also you do not hit "b", you have to move the selector on the right and select the corpse piece.

Notice that the stuff in your containters (backpack, bags) is invisible for crafting, so you should have a sharp object in your hand or on the ground under you.
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Re: I cant skin/butcher corpses.
« Reply #5 on: December 23, 2010, 06:30:16 am »
Quote from: sirquote on December 22, 2010, 09:28:05 pm
You cant be THAT hungry ;)

I actualy have the problem that when I butcher something it states that: 'You are not that hungry', slighty problematic if you only need it for leather or bone.
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Re: I cant skin/butcher corpses.
« Reply #6 on: December 23, 2010, 09:00:21 am »
Quote from: Samohan25 on December 23, 2010, 06:30:16 am
Quote from: sirquote on December 22, 2010, 09:28:05 pm
You cant be THAT hungry ;)

I actualy have the problem that when I butcher something it states that: 'You are not that hungry', slighty problematic if you only need it for leather or bone.
We can craft from bone or leather now?
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Re: I cant skin/butcher corpses.
« Reply #7 on: December 23, 2010, 09:18:52 am »
With mods, yeah. Genesis is the main one.
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Re: I cant skin/butcher corpses.
« Reply #8 on: December 23, 2010, 09:33:53 am »
Yes, I'm using Genesis, but is the 'not hungry enough' still present in vanilla and why?
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Re: I cant skin/butcher corpses.
« Reply #9 on: December 23, 2010, 09:35:19 am »
What are you trying to butcher?
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Re: I cant skin/butcher corpses.
« Reply #10 on: December 23, 2010, 01:07:38 pm »
That message means "no you can't, that would be cannibalism."
So, "you are not hungry enough to eat People (intelligent creatures)."
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Re: I cant skin/butcher corpses.
« Reply #11 on: December 23, 2010, 01:12:23 pm »
Oh, thanks for clearing that up, the corpses are normaly either night creatures or the corpses in their lairs.
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Re: I cant skin/butcher corpses.
« Reply #12 on: December 23, 2010, 01:34:01 pm »
Quote from: The Merchant Of Menace on December 23, 2010, 09:35:19 am
What are you trying to butcher?

A Dragon. But i just noticed that its tail is missing.. does that change anything?
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Re: I cant skin/butcher corpses.
« Reply #13 on: December 23, 2010, 09:53:08 pm »
ANYTHING can be missing from a corpse and you can still butcher it...
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Re: I cant skin/butcher corpses.
« Reply #14 on: December 23, 2010, 11:37:17 pm »
Quote from: doomdome on December 23, 2010, 09:53:08 pm
ANYTHING can be missing from a corpse and you can still butcher it...

True, no matter how many body parts it's missing it'll still be a butcherable "mutilated corpse".  However, you won't get things like a skull from a decapitated corpse or anything like that.  It keeps track of which parts are missing so it gives you the correct amounts of everything.
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