Bones used to be the bane of our existence. But now, with the advent of farming, bone (for bonemeal, for compost) is a useful material. As well, the new Darfari armors require lots of bone to craft.
Bone is now a desirable material.
Right now, the cleaver doesn’t give a single bone when you use it. This is strange, given that it is a tool for chopping meat from a carcass. I’d love to have the choice of what to do with that carcass, once it is stripped of meat.
Last night while playing, I needed to get bone in order to make bonemeal. I decided to make a cleaver to help, as that made sense in my mind. But lo’ and behold, no matter how many corpses I harvested with that cleaver, not a single bone was to be found.
Good suggestion. Though if you are feeling adventurous try hunting a few mammoths, as I did today with cleaver, the heads when placed in Fluid Presser gives a generous amount of bones. I too have green fingers. The bones and blood from pressing those heads all adds to compost.
Skin spiders. They die in one hit and in a matter of 1-2 minutes you’ll have more bonemeal than you can ever fertilize with. One trip should get you more than a week’s worth.
There are definitely some alternative / better routes, but the issue I’m presenting here is that the tool doesn’t do people might think it does. A cleaver should give both meat and bones.
I believe that it should still give human flesh, but you should get a feat to strip the bone from it, as we can stretch hides when we learn the tannery.
