# Unable to butcher with a wood-axe

**URL:** <https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/unable-to-butcher-with-a-wood-axe/5916>\
**Category:** The Garage\
**Created:** [April 21, 2014, 12:50pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/unable-to-butcher-with-a-wood-axe/5916 "2014-04-21T12:50:14Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![Paquito](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d9b06d/32.png) [@Paquito](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Paquito)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2014, 12:50pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/unable-to-butcher-with-a-wood-axe/5916/1 "2014-04-21T12:50:14Z")

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Not sure if this is a bug or intended behavior, but I can’t butcher with a wood axe. It used to be the case that I could butcher with anything that had a cutting score, but has that been changed?

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**Author:** ![Paquito](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d9b06d/32.png) [@Paquito](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Paquito)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2014, 12:51pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/unable-to-butcher-with-a-wood-axe/5916/2 "2014-04-21T12:51:22Z")

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Forgot to mention: I’m using the latest stable build

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**Author:** ![KA101](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/278dde/32.png) [@KA101](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/KA101)\
**Post date:** [April 22, 2014, 4:07am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/unable-to-butcher-with-a-wood-axe/5916/3 "2014-04-22T04:07:01Z")

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I really don’t think a wood axe is good for butchering, so though I don’t think it was planned (and the butcher code in current experimental should allow it again, unfortunately) I’d call Working As Intended.

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**Author:** ![Blackopsman9999](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8797f3/32.png) [@Blackopsman9999](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Blackopsman9999)\
**Post date:** [April 22, 2014, 5:57am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/unable-to-butcher-with-a-wood-axe/5916/4 "2014-04-22T05:57:17Z")

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Try butchering a deer with that… You may as well just be putting it under a Guillotine.

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**Author:** ![Obscure](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Obscure](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Obscure)\
**Post date:** [April 22, 2014, 5:12pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/unable-to-butcher-with-a-wood-axe/5916/5 "2014-04-22T17:12:37Z")

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I agree that it would not give fantastic results, but if your using butcher to dismember zombie corpses, i would think it would be effective enough.

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**Author:** ![Straume21](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/straume21/32/236_2.png) [@Straume21](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Straume21)\
**Post date:** [April 22, 2014, 9:00pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/unable-to-butcher-with-a-wood-axe/5916/6 "2014-04-22T21:00:57Z")

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In the update, you can smash [s] corpses into a immobile bloody pulp rather than cutting them up for all their useful parts, regardless of what you’re wielding.

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**Author:** ![Obscure](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Obscure](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Obscure)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2014, 5:07pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/unable-to-butcher-with-a-wood-axe/5916/7 "2014-04-23T17:07:04Z")

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Really?! that’s handy to know

better break out my atomic zombie smashers fists