# Vehicle workbench cannot be used to speed up butchery

**URL:** <https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/vehicle-workbench-cannot-be-used-to-speed-up-butchery/25887>\
**Category:** The Garage\
**Created:** [February 8, 2021, 10:42am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/vehicle-workbench-cannot-be-used-to-speed-up-butchery/25887 "2021-02-08T10:42:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![ThinkSome](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/278dde/32.png) [@ThinkSome](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/ThinkSome)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2021, 10:42am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/vehicle-workbench-cannot-be-used-to-speed-up-butchery/25887/1 "2021-02-08T10:42:33Z")

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At first I thought it was due to its size limitation, with zombie corpse’s size (63L) being over workbench capacity (30L), but I adjusted the latter to 200L in data/json/vehicleparts/vehicle\_parts.json and it did not help.

Butchery still takes 34 minutes versus 28 minutes next to a furniture workbench.

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**Author:** ![Paul\_Blay](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/paul_blay/32/6803_2.png) [@Paul\_Blay](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Paul_Blay)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2021, 12:59pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/vehicle-workbench-cannot-be-used-to-speed-up-butchery/25887/2 "2021-02-08T12:59:02Z")

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Workbenches are limited by both volume and mass, did you increase the mass limit as well as the volume?

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**Author:** ![ThinkSome](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/278dde/32.png) [@ThinkSome](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/ThinkSome)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2021, 1:18pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/vehicle-workbench-cannot-be-used-to-speed-up-butchery/25887/3 "2021-02-08T13:18:16Z")

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Actually no. I did not consider that as there is no weight limit stated when inspecting the thing in-game.

Perhaps the mass parameter in the following is the one, but I tried changing the “volume” with no effect. Volume was controlled by the size parameter in parent object. But there is no equivalent for mass:  
“workbench”: { “multiplier”: 1.2, “mass”: 300000, “volume”: “30L” },

In any case, mass of 300\_000 should be enough, no? I suppose the unit is grams…

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**Author:** ![Paul\_Blay](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/paul_blay/32/6803_2.png) [@Paul\_Blay](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Paul_Blay)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2021, 1:51pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/vehicle-workbench-cannot-be-used-to-speed-up-butchery/25887/4 "2021-02-08T13:51:13Z")

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> [@ThinkSome](#):
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> In any case, mass of 300\_000 should be enough, no? I suppose the unit is grams…

I honestly don’t know. It’s probably metric?

The furniture workbench is

```auto
    "workbench": { "multiplier": 1.2, "mass": 500000, "volume": "200L" }

```

So still higher than 300000. It’s in json\furniture\_and\_terrain\furniture-surfaces.json

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**Author:** ![ThinkSome](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/278dde/32.png) [@ThinkSome](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/ThinkSome)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2021, 2:39pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/vehicle-workbench-cannot-be-used-to-speed-up-butchery/25887/5 "2021-02-08T14:39:25Z")

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Well, I have 539kg on my furniture workbench…

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**Author:** ![GiggleGrassGatherer](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/gigglegrassgatherer/32/7743_2.png) [@GiggleGrassGatherer](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/GiggleGrassGatherer)\
**Post date:** [February 9, 2021, 12:11pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/vehicle-workbench-cannot-be-used-to-speed-up-butchery/25887/6 "2021-02-09T12:11:43Z")

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maybe it is the mass of an object you can work with on it, not the mass it can hold (that one is probably not limited)

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**Author:** ![ThinkSome](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/278dde/32.png) [@ThinkSome](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/ThinkSome)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2021, 7:34pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/vehicle-workbench-cannot-be-used-to-speed-up-butchery/25887/7 "2021-02-10T19:34:45Z")

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I have discovered that the “plastic sheet” item has clean surface 3 and reduces butchery time as if I had a workbench. But it doesen’t have to be mounted, unfolded or anything, just has to be in a container \<6 tiles away. This is perfect.