Butchering a moose produces amounts that differ by a lot from the respective mass in large_mamal_leather

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The corpse is undamaged and I have level 5 survival. All the yields are ~40% lower than the mass ratios

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If I repeat this at survival 7, all the yields are roughly 20% lower.

I understand that the survival skill should help with butchery, but are such large differences intended? Looking into code, there is
return 0.5 * skill_level / 10 + 0.3 * ( factor + 50 ) / 100 + 0.2 * p->dex_cur / 20;

Does this mean that one can obtain more than the designated mass if your survival/dex are high enough? Survival 13 would already make this >1 for me.

Anyway, there is also the problem that field dressing/skinning reduces corpse weight and thus also the rest of the yields.

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intended. that 40% is the liquid mass that falls to the floor, unrecoverable even as butchery refuse.

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“If I repeat this at survival 7, all the yields are roughly 20% lower.”

Speaking of liquid mass, I wonder, why am I not prompted where to pour the blood?

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You can pour the blood through: butchering → bleed the corpse (well, before butchering actually, it’s under ‘l’ letter in butchering menu).