Butcher's ship is used to slaughter tame animals, or to butcher the corpses or skeletons of slain wild animals. A tame animal can be designated for slaughter on the Status / Animals screen.
A butchered animal results into various items with different uses:
Meat / prepared organs | Eaten raw or cooked |
Fat | Cooked to tallow |
Skulls | Crafting skull totems |
Bones | Crafting bone armor, bone bolts, bone crafts and decorations |
Hooves, horns, teeth | Crafts and decorations |
Shells | Crafting shell armor, shell crafts and decorations |
Skin | Tanned into Leather |
Wool | Spun into Yarn |
Hair | Spun into thread, but not woven into cloth |
Labors: Butchery