Butchering quality un-powercreeped

[Barhandar]

Please make switchblades not have atrociously high butchering even if you don't merge this. Any knife with a non-fixed blade is terrible at anything but cutting sausage on picnic and cutting thread when sewing.

[Mshock777]

I am not a hunter, but think I can butcher stuff even with glass shiv, if I take my time.
So I would appreciate if you add quality to it and also to blade.

[Mshock777]

Makeshift machete has -38 and blade -27, maybe up machete.
Also shouldn't "shishkebab" type weapons have at least some quality?

[KA101]

Same problem as the item_groups PRs. Would appreciate a list of what you changed and the changes, not a diff with the item names (in)conveniently each an individual click away.

Makeshift machete is a lawnmower blade with duct tape on one end.

Heatblades have a gasoline spray to light the blade. As such they might sear the flesh but seem more likely to gas up your meat than to effectively butcher it. (Some things are simply weapons, and not butchering implements.)

[Mshock777]

But when heatblades are turned off?

[KA101]

That's what I was thinking of. Gas valve being likely to drip or otherwise contaminate the meat.

If the heatblade's lit when you try to butcher, you either set fire to the carcass or extinguished the heatblade and pumped gasoline into the meat. Either way, no butchering for lit, and I'd suggest none for unlit either.

[Barhandar]

Would appreciate a list of what you changed and the changes

Butchering quality levels and added a comment or two.

• Glass shiv: added butchering -18.
• Added butchering quality to blade, then exchanged it with makeshift machete: resulting in -38 and -27 respectively.
• Reduced honey scraper's butchering to 3 from 20. Should've made it negative, even, google pictures show it's basically a knife-wide trowel and not a knife.
• Increased active electric carver's butchering to 25 from 18.
• Reduced active hedge trimmer's butchering to 40 from 60.
• Reduced active circular saw's butchering to 60 from 74.
• Increased machete's butchering to 15 from 14.
• Increased diamond knife's butchering to 24 from 14.
• Increased diamond machete's butchering to 20 from 14.
• Decreased diamond katana's butchering to 16 from 20.
• Increased tanto's butchering to 18 from 16.
• Increased wakizashi's butchering to 13 from 9.
• Decreased katana's butchering to 9 from 13.
• Decreased rapier's butchering to 9 from 12.
• Decreased broadsword's butchering to 9 from 15.
• Increased steak knife's butchering to 20 from 16.
• Increased butcher knife's butchering to 25 from 18.
• Decreased combat knife's butchering to 19 from 30.
• Decreased pocket knife's butchering to 12 from 16.
• Decreased makeshift knife's butchering to 11 from 14.
• Decreased primitive knife's butchering to 11 from 12.
• Decreased trench knife's butchering to 19 from 24.
• Decreased switchblade's butchering to 8 from 44 - come on, how is inherently weaker switchblade has had higher butchering than proper knives?
• Decreased kukri's butchering to 18 from 22.
• Decreased hunting knife's butchering to 30 from 50 and added comment stating that it's reasonably highest non-powertool can go due to design.
• Increased survival knife's butchering to 7 from 6.
• Decreased swiss army knife's butchering to 11 from 14. Should've dropped it much further, honestly.
• Decreased multitool's butchering to 9 from 10.
• Increased RM42 fighting knife's butchering to 19 from 18.
• Decreased sickle's butchering to 7 from 20.
• Decreased dive knife's butchering to 15 from 30 and added a comment about it being too small, but still somewhat effective due to serrated edge.

[KA101]

Thanks. My only problem there is that the hedge trimmers I'm familiar with have a "blade" that's essentially a lot of scissors parallel to each other and perpendicular to the main axis of the blade. I think that would shred the meat rather than cut it, so would deny butchering altogether for hedge trimmers.

(Circular saw, maybe, but I've heard of butcher saws before so I'm inclined to grant that.)

[Barhandar]

(Circular saw, maybe, but I've heard of butcher saws before so I'm inclined to grant that.)

Depends on what kind of circular saw it is. They shear flesh rather well in any case, but woodworking ones are unwieldy for the purpose.

[KA101]

OK. Unless someone objects in the hour or so I'll probably take to merge, I'll remove the hedge trimmer altogether and merge the rest. If you believe hedge trimmers should be able to butcher, please make that known!