# What am I missing to get an NPC to butcher some corpses?

**URL:** <https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/what-am-i-missing-to-get-an-npc-to-butcher-some-corpses/27151>\
**Category:** The Garage\
**Created:** [October 9, 2021, 6:14pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/what-am-i-missing-to-get-an-npc-to-butcher-some-corpses/27151 "2021-10-09T18:14:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![Valase](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/valase/32/6972_2.png) [@Valase](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Valase)\
**Post date:** [October 10, 2021, 3:57am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/what-am-i-missing-to-get-an-npc-to-butcher-some-corpses/27151/2 "2021-10-10T03:57:52Z")

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Did you make sure that the tools are not in use in any other way at the time (vehicle de-/construction or crafting for example)?

Adding a game version to your report would be helpful, as the game is updated multiple times a day and without knowing if this is an old and already fixed bug - or a bug at all - is turning support into a guessing game almost no one wants to play.

Assuming that your tools are not in use and this isn’t just some oversight, I think the amount of forum posts that this produced ([topic 1](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/basecamp-what-do-i-need-to-make-butchering-job-actually-work/22565), [topic 2](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/how-does-npc-butchery-work/22654) & [topic 3](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/basecamp-npc-dont-do-any-jobs/25860)) justifies some deeper look.  
Would you agree to upload your save file somewhere (google drive / dropbox / …) - if it isn’t a “tool in use” problem - so I can take a look at your setup and don’t have to go through the pain of trying to reproduce this behavior myself?

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