Butchery

is a Cooking and Gathering skill that can be bought for 50 sp when the buyer has at least 15 intelligence, ignoring temporary boosts. It can be used to butcher a variety of animal ingredients that can either be eaten raw by a character with the Carnivorous mutation, or preserved into cooking ingredients that can be used by characters with the Meal Preparation skill. This takes one full turn and will also splatter blood to adjacent cells.

Players with the Butchery skill will automatically butcher valid corpses as long as there are no hostiles nearby. This automatic butchering can be turned off in the abilities menu.

Butchering and Cybernetics
can also be used to retrieve cybernetic implants from the corpses of Putus Templar. Corpses that contain cybernetics are also unable to be consumed as food. This also counts for limbs that were dismembered that contain the implant. There is a base 80% chance to salvage the implant. Otherwise, it is "ripped out of the (corpse), but destroy[ed] in the process". Unlike other butcher attempts, this chance is rolled for every cybernetic in the corpse, which means multiple cybernetics can be butchered from one corpse.

Corpses that can be butchered
Only one of the results will be chosen.