Butchering

XSkills - Works as of 1.8.0 - 18/02/2025

Expanded Foods - Works as of 1.13.3 - 15/05/2026

Medieval Expansion Patch - Works as of 1.13.3 - 15/05/2026

Equus Horses - Works as of 1.13.3 - 15/05/2026

Fauna of the Stone Age: Caninae - Works as of 1.13.3 - 15/05/2026

Fauna of the Stone Age: Patherinae - Works as of 1.13.3 - 15/05/2026

Fauna of the Stone Age: Dinornithidae - Works as of 1.13.3 - 15/05/2026

Fauna of the Stone Age: Capreolinae - Works as of 1.13.3 - 15/05/2026

Fauna of the Stone Age: Sirenia - Works as of 1.13.3 - 15/05/2026

 

Note:

After some thought and delibration I reached out to another modder for help mantain compatibility going forward and we have come to the conclustion that only animal mods are 1.22 will remain compatible.

More to Come :)

Fishing 2 - Causes ghost items and other weirdness

Bug - When picking up a animal with a saddle bag it causes a crash. Comment: The saddle bag code is calling for a certain 'despawn' to drop its stuff which Butchering doesn't use thus crashes. PLEASE remove any items from a mount before picking up.

These stats are for use when creating custom JSON traits within a class mod (or any other mod that uses traits)

The Suggested MAX values exist for a reason and if you go above them they can cause strangeness and worse, crashes.

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butcheringSpeedMul - Suggested MAX values: -0.5 to 0.5 - Speed at which you butcher animals on both hook and table.

butcheringDurabilityLossMul - Suggested MAX values: -0.8 to 0.8 - This reduces tool damage when butchering for both knife and cleaver.

animalCarryingEfficiencyMul - Suggested MAX values: -0.5 to 0.5 - This one counters the animals mass slowing you down when carrying animals.

xskillsButcheringExpMul - Suggested MAX values: -0.5 to 2 - Amount of exp multipler you get for animals butchered (you always get a little bit, this is just a multiplier)

fieldHarvestRateMul - WIP (doesn't work)

It is now!

Currently it works with other animal mods installed but doesn't change or apply to those creatures.

After crafting the butchering bench it will go into a bag slot (like a skep or linen bag) or fall onto the floor. You also need a free bag space for larger animals to go into OR use a butchering bag (which opens up inventory slots for larger animals)..

Kill it, right click on it and pick it up into a bag space or inventory stot (if you have a butchery bag or it's small enough to carry in a normal slot).

Bring it to a skinning hook then cut off the skin with a knife, let it bleed out until the colour changes.

Finally bring to a butchery table and harvest again with a knife.

This will provide the most resources from the animal. (Keep in mind that animal weight matters in this mod still so low weight animals may not be worth the effort to kill).

It doesn't give extra yield to vanilla meats/hides for the copper butchery table BUT does give extra items such as blood, sinew and primemeat on ALL benches to reward you for your time.

The animalLootDropRate is factored into the butchering system and works but the harvestingTime remains only for field harvesting.

(see section above Q&A for more stat info)

Place a bucket 3-4 blocks beneath the bleeding out animal and wait for the bleeding out animal to go from a bleeding state to the bled out state. The transfer of blood only happens on the state change.

I will not, as it's a bit more complex to do than I have time for.

You are looking for the ModConfig folder within VintagestoryData which contains a file called ButcheringConfigV3.json

C:/Users/{YOURCOMPUTERUSERNAME}/AppData/Roaming/VintagestoryData/ModConfig is where I would find it on my pc.

Open it up and change the what you want. Making sure to save the file and not be in your vintagestory world whle you change configs (won't break anything but won't apply either until reload).

If you are still struggling to find it you can press the "open mod folder" button within the vintage story client on the enabling mods screen. That should get you closer to the mod configs within your files.