Butchering

Butchering

Learn the Butchering Gathering skill to gain ingredients for Potions from Animals and Monsters.

Butchering is a Gathering skill in Return of Reckoning.

Players with this skill can Butcher animals and non-humanoid monsters to gain ingredients used in the creation of Potions. As a result, this skill is often paired with the Apothecary Crafting Profession. (Each character can learn only one Gathering and one Crafting profession.)

Learning the Butchering Skill

You can learn the Butchering skill by speaking to a Butcher in any of your faction's Capital cities:

Order:

• Altdorf, Market Square: Jorge Eckenhaus
• Karaz-a-Karak, Merchant District: Kadri Thorgun

Destruction:

• The Inevitable City, Apex: Diedrick Goedbloed
• Karak Eight Peaks, Shinez Hall: Kutem Upnpeecez

Let's get to chopping!

Once you defeat an animal or monster, your cursor will become a Meat Cleaver to indicate if you can butcher it.

Now that you've got your meat cleaver and a hankering for fresh meat, it's time to kill some animals and chop them up to see what's inside. (Normal people do this all the time.)

Head into the world and find an animal or monster, and kill it. Once you've looted it of any items, you'll see your mouse cursor turn into a Meat Cleaver, which indicates that you can Butcher this corpse.

Right click to Butcher the corpse, which will grant you an item and will make the corpse vanish afterward.

Leveling up Butchering

Like Scavenging, Butchering is very easy to level as you can immediately begin chopping up any animal, no matter your Butchering level.

Each time you Butcher an animal or monster at or above your current skill level, you'll have a chance of gaining a level.

To quickly level up Butchering, look for large groups of monsters that you can AOE or kill together, then butcher them all rapidly afterward.

Butchering Tips

• The level of the mob determines the level of ingredients you'll gain from Butchering, and every 5 levels a mob increases = +25 to the power of the items you'll find.
  • Example: For level 50 Materials, farm mobs level 10-14. For level 75 Materials, farm mobs level 15-19, and so on.
• As with all Gathering and Crafting professions, you'll gain extra Crafting Bag space at level 100 and 200!
• Any class can Butcher, but Classes that can AOE and farm large groups of mobs at once make this most convenient. As a few examples, Engineer, Slayer, Magus, and Marauder can make good Butchers.
• While leveling, the power of the Butchering ingredients you find is limited by your own skill level. (To get level 200 materials, you'll need to hit level 200 Butchering first.)
• Different animals and monsters all drop different types of ingredients. See the table further below for more info!

Making Money with Butchering

Some of the most sought-after Butchering ingredients are those used in the creation of Armor and Absorb Potions. You can farm these to either make the potions yourself, or sell the ingredients directly to other players.

A few good locations for level 40 players to farm are:

Armor Pot Farming:

• Black Crag, Southeast area: Poisonwing Canyon PQ - There are tons of Wyverns here, including the cave that leads higher up. Both realms can farm these for Scales used to make Armor Potions.
• Reikland, Southeast corner: You'll find a number of Scorpions located on the hillside just Northeast of Destruction's Fields of Reikland PQ. Both realms can farm these for scales used to make Armor Potions. (These are a mix of sub-40 and 40 mobs.)

Absorb Pot Farming:

• Rekland, Northeast corner: Behind the Temple of Reikland you'll find a handful of level 40 bats, which can drop ingredients for Absorb potions. Both realms can farm these.
• Caledor, Southeast Corner (58.6k / 52.6k): Up the cliffside you'll find a number of level 40 Terrorwing Bats, which can drop ingredients for Absorb potions. Both realms can farm these. (If Destruction, you'll need to enter the zone via Southwest Dragonwake.)

Butchering Locations

(Wiki editor note: These appear to be old broken links. Seeing if I can dig up the missing images! - Rubius)

Tier 1

Chrace
The Blighted Isle
Nordland
Norsca
Mount Bloodhorn
Ekrund

Tier 2

Shadowlands
Ellyrion
Barak Varr
Marshes of Madness
Troll Country
Ostland

Helpful Butchering Info

Below you can find a work-in-progress table of Butchering ingredients, their names, and locations to find them:

Material Level	Effect	Name	Animal Type	Butchering Location
1	Armor	Shattered Scale	Wyvern, Lizard	The Blighted Isle
25	Armor	Thin Scale	Wyvern, Lizard	Chrace, The Blighted Isle
25	Armor	Brittle Chitin Shard	Scorpion	Chrace, The Blighted Isle
50	Armor	Torn Scale	Wyvern, Lizard	Barak Varr, Marshes of Madness, Ostland, Shadowlands, Troll Country
50	Armor	Thin Chitin Shard	Scorpion	Marshes of Madness, Shadowlands
75	Armor	Brittle Scale	Wyvern, Lizard	Barak Varr, Ellyrion, Marshes of Madness, Ostland, Shadowlands, Troll Country
75	Armor	Worn Chitin Shard	Scorpion	Marshes of Madness, Shadowlands
100	Armor	Worn Scale	Wyvern, Lizard	Ellyrion
100	Armor		Scorpion
125	Armor		Wyvern, Lizard
125	Armor		Scorpion
150	Armor	Thick Scale	Wyvern, Lizard
150	Armor		Scorpion
175	Armor	Supple Scale	Wyvern, Lizard
175	Armor	Glossy Chitin Shard	Scorpion
200	Armor	Firebreath Scale	Wyvern, Lizard	Black Crag
200	Armor		Scorpion	Southeast Reikland
1	Ballistic Skill	Tattered Feather	Vulture, Eagle	Norsca
25	Ballistic Skill	Mangled Plume	Vulture, Eagle	Mount Bloodhorn, The Blighted Isle
50	Ballistic Skill	Torn Feather	Vulture, Eagle	Barak Varr, Ostland
75	Ballistic Skill	Dull Plume	Vulture, Eagle	Barak Varr, Ellyrion, Troll Country
100	Ballistic Skill	Worn Feather	Vulture, Eagle	Ellyrion
125	Ballistic Skill		Vulture, Eagle
150	Ballistic Skill	Chromatic Feather	Vulture, Eagle
175	Ballistic Skill	Flawless Plume	Vulture, Eagle
200	Ballistic Skill	Pristine Feather	Vulture, Eagle
50	Corporeal Resistance	Worn Cockatrice Plume	Cockatrice	Shadowlands
75	Corporeal Resistance	Brittle Cockatrice Plume	Cockatrice	Shadowlands
100	Corporeal Resistance		Cockatrice
125	Corporeal Resistance		Cockatrice
150	Corporeal Resistance		Cockatrice
175	Corporeal Resistance		Cockatrice
200	Corporeal Resistance		Cockatrice
1	Elemental Resistance	Rotting Daemon Flesh	Daemon
25	Elemental Resistance		Daemon
50	Elemental Resistance	Blistered Daemon Flesh	Daemon	Ostland, Troll Country
75	Elemental Resistance	Torn Daemon Flesh	Daemon	Troll Country
100	Elemental Resistance	Dry Daemon Flesh	Daemon
125	Elemental Resistance	Fresh Daemon Flesh	Daemon
150	Elemental Resistance	Pristine Daemon Flesh	Daemon
175	Elemental Resistance	Binding Daemon Sinew	Daemon
200	Elemental Resistance	Chaos-Imbued Daemon Flesh	Daemon
1	Energy
25	Energy
50	Energy	Cracked Manticore Fang	Manticore	Chrace, Shadowlands
75	Energy
100	Energy
125	Energy
150	Energy
175	Energy
200	Energy	Mane Lord's Fang
1	Fiery Breath	Damaged Lizard Tongue	Lizard	The Blighted Isle
25	Fiery Breath	Mangled Lizard Tongue	Lizard	The Blighted Isle
50	Fiery Breath	Bloody Lizard Tongue	Lizard	Barak Varr, Marshes of Madness, Ostland, Shadowlands, Troll Country
75	Fiery Breath	Severed Lizard Tongue	Lizard	Barak Varr, Ellyrion, Marshes of Madness, Ostland, Shadowlands, Troll Country
100	Fiery Breath	Large Lizard Tongue	Lizard	Ellyrion
125	Fiery Breath	Monstrous Lizard Tongue	Lizard
150	Fiery Breath	Pristine Lizard Tongue	Lizard
175	Fiery Breath	Flawless Lizard Tongue	Lizard
200	Fiery Breath	Gruesome Lizard Tongue	Lizard
1	Healing	Weak Ichor	Spider, Scorpion	Ekrund, Nordland, The Blighted Isle
25	Healing	Thin Ichor	Spider, Scorpion	Chrace, Nordland, Norsca, The Blighted Isle
50	Healing	Milky Ichor	Spider, Scorpion	Norsca, Barak Varr, Marshes of Madness, Ostland, Shadowlands, Troll Country
75	Healing	Waxy Ichor	Spider, Scorpion	Barak Varr, Ellyrion, Marshes of Madness, Ostland, Shadowlands, Troll Country
100	Healing	Syrupy Ichor	Spider, Scorpion	Barak Varr, Ellyrion, Ostland
125	Healing
150	Healing	Thick Wyvern Blood	Wyvern
175	Healing	Viscous Wyvern Blood	Wyvern
175	Healing	Flowing Ichor	Spider, Scorpion
200	Healing	Fang Lord's Blood
200	Healing	Mottled Ichor	Spider, Scorpion
1	Intelligence	Shattered Unicorn Horn	Unicorn	The Blighted Isle
25	Intelligence	Carious Unicorn Horn	Unicorn	The Blighted Isle
50	Intelligence		Unicorn
75	Intelligence	Short Unicorn Horn	Unicorn	Ellyrion, Shadowlands
100	Intelligence		Unicorn
125	Intelligence		Unicorn
150	Intelligence		Unicorn
175	Intelligence		Unicorn
200	Intelligence		Unicorn	The Last Unicorn - Chaos Wastes "Near the giant worm corpse"
1	Multiplier	Crusty Squig Bits	Squig	Mount Bloodhorn
25	Multiplier	Crumbly Squig Bits	Squig	Mount Bloodhorn
50	Multiplier		Squig
75	Multiplier	Squishy Squig Bits	Squig
100	Multiplier	Crunchy Squig Bits	Squig
125	Multiplier	Steaming Squig Bits	Squig
175	Multiplier	Whole Lotta Squig Bits	Squig
200	Multiplier	Special Squig Bits	Squig
1	Restoration	Watery Wolf Blood	Wolf	Norsca
1	Restoration	Foul Animal Humor	Any
25	Restoration	Thin Wolf Blood	Wolf	Mount Bloodhorn, Nordland, Norsca, The Blighted Isle
25	Restoration	Putrid Animal Humor	Any
50	Restoration	Runny Wolf Blood	Wolf	Mount Bloodhorn, Nordland, Norsca, Barak Varr, Ostland, Shadowlands, Troll Country
50	Restoration	Decomposed Animal Humor	Any
75	Restoration	Stale Animal Humor	Any
75	Restoration	Clotted Wolf Blood	Wolf	Barak Varr, Ellyrion, Marshes of Madness, Ostland, Shadowlands, Troll Country
100	Restoration	Flowing Wolf Blood	Wolf	Ellyrion
100	Restoration	Fresh Animal Humor	Any
125	Restoration	Mottled Animal Humor	Any
150	Restoration	Hazy Animal Humor	Any
175	Restoration	Clear Animal Humor	Any
200	Restoration	Pristine Animal Humor	Any
1	Shielding	Emaciated Bat Wing	Bat	Mount Bloodhorn
25	Shielding	Anorexic Bat Wing	Bat	Chrace, Mount Bloodhorn, Nordland
50	Shielding	Scrawny Bat Wing	Bat	Chrace, Nordland, Marshes of Madness, Ostland, Shadowlands
75	Shielding	Wizened Bat Wing	Bat	Marshes of Madness, Shadowlands
100	Shielding		Bat
125	Shielding		Bat
150	Shielding		Bat
175	Shielding		Bat
200	Shielding		Bat	Reikland
1	Slow	Wattery Rat Spittle	Rat
1	Stabilizer	Wild Zoic Gore	Any
25	Stabilizer	Primal Zoic Gore	Any
50	Stabilizer	Untamed Zoic Gore	Any
75	Stabilizer	Feral Zoic Gore	Any
100	Stabilizer	Ferocious Zoic Gore	Any
125	Stabilizer	Mad Zoic Gore	Any
150	Stabilizer	Viscous Zoic Gore	Any
175	Stabilizer	Savage Zoic Gore	Any
200	Stabilizer	Brutal Zoic Gore	Any
1	Strength	Shattered Feline Tooth	Cat	The Blighted Isle
25	Strength	Carious Feline Tooth	Cat	Chrace
25	Strength	Carious Bear Tooth	Bear	Chrace, Norsca, The Blighted Isle
50	Strength	Rotting Feline Tooth	Cat	Chrace
50	Strength	Rotting Bear Tooth	Bear	Norsca, Shadowlands
75	Strength	Fractured Feline Tooth	Cat	Ellyrion, Troll Country
75	Strength	Fractured Bear Tooth	Bear	Ellyrion
100	Strength	Worn Feline Tooth	Cat	Troll Country
100	Strength	Worn Bear Tooth	Bear	Ellyrion
125	Strength	Bloody Feline Tooth	Cat
125	Strength	Bloody Bear Tooth	Bear
150	Strength	Pristine Feline Tooth	Cat
150	Strength	Pristine Bear Tooth	Bear
175	Strength	Viscous Feline Tooth	Cat
175	Strength	Viscous Bear Tooth	Bear
200	Strength	Special Feline Tooth	Cat
200	Strength	Special Bear Tooth	Bear
1	Super-critical	Watery Porcine Bile	Boar	Mount Bloodhorn, Nordland
25	Super-critical	Thin Porcine Bile	Boar	Chrace, Mount Bloodhorn, Nordland
50	Super-critical	Runny Porcine Bile	Boar	Chrace, Mount Bloodhorn, Barak Varr, Marshes of Madness, Ostland
75	Super-critical	Clotted Porcine Bile	Boar	Barak Varr, Ellyrion, Ostland, Troll Country
100	Super-critical	Flowing Porcine Bile	Boar	Ellyrion, Ostland
125	Super-critical	Thick Porcine Bile	Boar
150	Super-critical	Viscous Porcine Bile	Boar
175	Super-critical	Savage Porcine Bile	Boar
200	Super-critical		Boar
1	Toughness	Weak Arachnid Venom	Spider, Scorpion	Ekrund, Nordland, The Blighted Isle
25	Toughness	Thin Arachnid Venom	Spider, Scorpion	Chrace, Nordland, Norsca, The Blighted Isle
50	Toughness	Milky Arachnid Venom	Spider, Scorpion	Norsca, Barak Varr, Marshes of Madness, Ostland, Shadowlands, Troll Country
75	Toughness	Acrid Arachnid Venom	Spider, Scorpion	Barak Varr, Ellyrion, Marshes of Madness, Ostland, Shadowlands, Troll Country
100	Toughness	Thick Arachnid Venom	Spider, Scorpion	Barak Varr, Ellyrion, Ostland
125	Toughness		Spider, Scorpion
150	Toughness		Spider, Scorpion
175	Toughness	Caustic Arachnid Venom	Spider, Scorpion
200	Toughness	Pristine Arachnid Venom	Spider, Scorpion
1	Willpower	Shattered Canine Tooth	Wolf	Norsca
25	Willpower	Carious Canine Tooth	Wolf	Mount Bloodhorn, Nordland, Norsca, The Blighted Isle
50	Willpower	Smooth Cat Sinew	Cat
50	Willpower	Rotting Canine Tooth	Wolf	Mount Bloodhorn, Nordland, Norsca, Barak Varr, Ostland, Shadowlands, Troll Country
75	Willpower	Furtive Cat Sinew	Cat	Ellyrion, Troll Country
75	Willpower	Fractured Canine Tooth	Wolf	Barak Varr, Ellyrion, Marshes of Madness, Ostland, Shadowlands, Troll Country
100	Willpower	Resilient Cat Sinew	Cat	Troll Country
100	Willpower	Worn Canine Tooth	Wolf	Ellyrion
125	Willpower	Gibbous Cat Sinew	Cat
125	Willpower	Bloody Canine Tooth	Wolf
150	Willpower	Fine Cat Sinew	Cat
150	Willpower	Pristine Canine Tooth	Wolf
175	Willpower	Strong Cat Sinew	Cat
175	Willpower	Caustic Canine Tooth	Wolf
200	Willpower	Pristine Cat Sinew	Cat
200	Willpower		Wolf
75	Thorny	Fractured Daemon Vine
100	Thorny	Worn Daemon Vine
175	Thorny	Viscous Daemon Vine