# Is there a portable butchery rack?
**URL:** https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/is-there-a-portable-butchery-rack/16283
**Category:** The Bunker
**Created:** [August 18, 2018, 2:32pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/is-there-a-portable-butchery-rack/16283 "2018-08-18T14:32:48Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@TheKobold](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/TheKobold)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2018, 2:32pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/is-there-a-portable-butchery-rack/16283/1 "2018-08-18T14:32:48Z")
I don’t think it makes sense to haul around the mats for a butchery rack to butcher critters, and I don’t have the space to haul most of them when I hunt. So is there a portable butchery rack item that will allow me to butcher in the field?
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### Author:  [@Barex](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Barex)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2018, 4:38pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/is-there-a-portable-butchery-rack/16283/2 "2018-08-18T16:38:14Z")
The metal butchering rack is a portable furniture item. You have to set it up for it to be used, however.
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### Author:  [@Santos](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Santos)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2018, 8:26pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/is-there-a-portable-butchery-rack/16283/11 "2018-08-25T20:26:24Z")
Or carry a rope and set up next to a tree.
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### Author:  [@TheKobold](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/TheKobold)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2018, 11:46pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/is-there-a-portable-butchery-rack/16283/12 "2018-08-25T23:46:22Z")
Yea, they added that after I asked this. I’m pretty happy with the butchery system now. Much better fleshed out…
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### Author:  [@Sneaky\_Potato](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Sneaky_Potato)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2018, 11:54pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/is-there-a-portable-butchery-rack/16283/13 "2018-08-25T23:54:55Z")
It should be made a placeable item just like the brazier and also made installable into a vehiche frame.
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### Author:  [@Santos](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Santos)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2018, 4:20pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/is-there-a-portable-butchery-rack/16283/14 "2018-08-26T16:20:04Z")
I think it’s fine as long as the yields from the butchery rack are much better, making it worth while to carry a carcass back to base. I have noticed a significant drop in how much bone you get. (with the nutrition system)It was hard enough to maintain calcium levels before now its near impossible…
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### Author:  [@Sanehatter](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Sanehatter)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2018, 4:44pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/is-there-a-portable-butchery-rack/16283/15 "2018-08-26T16:44:34Z")
We need to somehow be ale to drag carcasses or other huge items. No point in having a butchery rack on your base if taking fresh game there is almost impossible.
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### Author:  [@Santos](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Santos)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2018, 4:49pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/is-there-a-portable-butchery-rack/16283/16 "2018-08-26T16:49:25Z")
OMG yes! i wish you could drag piles of stuff too, regardless if it takes more time. Just less hasle. To be fair though, the new butchering system does allow you to field dress (remove guts and organs) and quarter (cut into 4 pieces) a carcass.
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### Author:  [@mlangsdorf](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/mlangsdorf)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2018, 5:20pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/is-there-a-portable-butchery-rack/16283/17 "2018-08-26T17:20:51Z")
Skin and quarter the animal, turn the skin into a hide bag, carry the bag full the quarters home.
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### Author:  [@Sanehatter](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Sanehatter)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2018, 5:53pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/is-there-a-portable-butchery-rack/16283/18 "2018-08-26T17:53:40Z")
Didn’t think of that. Neat.
Dragging very large or heavy items does sound useful tho.
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### Author:  [@TheKobold](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/TheKobold)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2018, 5:57pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/is-there-a-portable-butchery-rack/16283/19 "2018-08-26T17:57:57Z")
I thought quartering ruined the skin.
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### Author:  [@Trigon](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Trigon)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2018, 7:57pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/is-there-a-portable-butchery-rack/16283/20 "2018-08-26T19:57:56Z")
I too was under this impression. Unless there’s a skinning option separate from quartering that I somehow missed.
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### Author:  [@Mantar](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Mantar)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2018, 6:00pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/is-there-a-portable-butchery-rack/16283/21 "2018-08-27T18:00:47Z")
If you only need to move it a short way, the Advanced Inventory Management system (’/’ is the default key) will let you move it two tiles at a time.
For longer hauls you’ll want a cart or a travois or something.
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### Author:  [@Vastin](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Vastin)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2018, 8:28pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/is-there-a-portable-butchery-rack/16283/22 "2018-08-27T20:28:13Z")
Alas, even though the butchery rack is semi-portable, you still can’t do full butchery without a table - which is decidedly _not_ portable.
I just carry around the lumber to build a table on the spot when I find something I really want to butcher and just set up a temporary butchering station outside my tailgate, then deconstruct and pack it up when it is time to move on.
For the phase of game before I have a reliable vehicle, I’ll find a decent intersection and set up a semi-permanent butchering station there, and just lure back any fat zombies or other things I really want to butcher to that position and kill them on the spot so I don’t have to drag them - obviously not a convenient method for butchering non-hostile animals however, and you need to be a good enough fighter to be able to take reasonable control over a couple blocks of your current town.
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### Author:  [@Trigon](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Trigon)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2018, 9:19pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/is-there-a-portable-butchery-rack/16283/23 "2018-08-27T21:19:57Z")
Is the vehicle table acceptable for this purpose? Because I would be willing to add it to my woodland ATV if that were the case.
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### Author:  [@Sanehatter](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Sanehatter)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2018, 9:29pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/is-there-a-portable-butchery-rack/16283/24 "2018-08-27T21:29:38Z")
Even then, you can’t mount the portable rack inside a car, so the table needs to be close to a door.
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### Author:  [@Trigon](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Trigon)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2018, 9:30pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/is-there-a-portable-butchery-rack/16283/25 "2018-08-27T21:30:47Z")
This is why I make liberal use of shutters.
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### Author:  [@JENTHULHU](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/JENTHULHU)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2018, 9:37pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/is-there-a-portable-butchery-rack/16283/26 "2018-08-27T21:37:18Z")
You can make a leather tarp or a fiber mat to [a]pply to the ground to act as a table
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### Author:  [@TheKobold](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/TheKobold)
#### Post date: [August 28, 2018, 12:39am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/is-there-a-portable-butchery-rack/16283/27 "2018-08-28T00:39:57Z")
Yea the leather tarp and a long rope+tree works. I’m pretty happy with the system now that it isn’t so strict and has a few more items with it.
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### Author:  [@JENTHULHU](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/JENTHULHU)
#### Post date: [August 28, 2018, 1:28am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/is-there-a-portable-butchery-rack/16283/28 "2018-08-28T01:28:22Z")
About the only thing I wonder… since I have no frame of reference for such, is the 10 liters that the folded metal rack takes up.
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