Do you butcher your animals first or just straight up cook them and eat them?

[DoktorFar]

Pros:
Not butchering preserves calories and cooking usually still removes the unhappy debuff. You'll also get less -hunger from it allowing you to eat even more rats'n'squirrels before your full.


Cons:
Compound cooking can refresh a "starting to rot" item for the final dish, you wont get that from just cooking a rat.
Less cooking XP.
Less -hunger if that's in demand, which also means less useful for healing.

[turfish]

I didn't even know you could butcher animals.

[Shenji]

Never ate unprepared animal carcass.
Always carry spoon and fork.
Always have at least one bottle of wine and fine glass wares on my dinner table in my home base(even though I never drinking alcohol in game or IRL).
If I have to live in zombies hell, I still want it in style.

[ambi]

is this new? i never butchered an animal before

[DoktorFar]

Originally posted by female ben shapiro:

is this new? i never butchered an animal before

Originally posted by turfish:

I didn't even know you could butcher animals.

Have a knife in main inventory (not butterknife) then right click animal and choose butcher. the butchered animal meat can now be used in cooking recipes.

[Lord Freedom]

Lol, funny that people either

A) have never butchered / didn't know you could butcher

or

B) have never eaten an un-butchered carcass.

I think we know who would survive better in the wilderness ;)

Personally, I too have never eaten an un-butchered carcass.