Pile of bone lengths.

[Mendel]

I just started again, and I don't know if this is a new change but:

I -cannot- separate a pile of bone lengths without the skinning skill? I don't care what the mechanics are, it is so intellectually jarring and immersion breaking that I will have to ASK someone to separate them for me.

It is a pile of bones. There is no nuance to the description. I don't care if I am bad at it. Let me sperate it.

[Lotion]

+1

[Inks]

You can, with cooking or forage as far as I know, and less efficiently, pretty sure.

If this isn't working bug report for sure. Personally I also think it is stupid how hard it is for a normal dude to get at least a couple of usuable bones, the recipe should be a little easier.

I think I was the one who convinced them to put the cooking "seperate pile of bone" recipe in all those years back, I have a request about it poking about. So if it isn't working bug report it.

[Jimpka_Moss]

If you can't get bones from a pile of bone lengths, buy an expensive-ish skinning knife and try again. If having a skinning knife doesn't help, circle back to this. Inks is right, it's recently been changed to where everyone should be able to do this.

[JohnMichaelHenry]

You can, with cooking or forage as far as I know, and less efficiently, pretty sure.

If this isn't working bug report for sure. Personally I also think it is stupid how hard it is for a normal dude to get at least a couple of usuable bones, the recipe should be a little easier.

I think I was the one who convinced them to put the cooking "seperate pile of bone" recipe in all those years back, I have a request about it poking about. So if it isn't working bug report it.

I edited this because I just tried it in game and I could NOT separate pile of bones with cooking at advanced. I thought sure it was showing up before under cooking skill as well as skinning.

[Shaydee]

I just checked and it is possible, it's just not exactly the same.

'rack of ribs and a couple bones' using the 'cooking' skill.

[Lotion]

there is a different item with keyword bone.pile that can also be made into bone broth at a fire which can be separated with cooking and skinning but the pile of bone lengths is different

[Mendel]

All I know is I tried it with a knife with "skinning knife" in the sdesc, apprentice cooking and apprentice foraging.

Could not craft it to separate.

If it is more advanced than that, I would be surprised, and very disappointed. It is so immersion breaking to look at a literal pile of bones and your character is just stumped on how to do anything with it.

[Pariah]

Yeah I think the pile of bones which gives you two short, two long and ribs is skinning only.

If you think they should be separable via cooking, I'd put a request in.  But traditionally when they do stuff like that, it's normally a fraction of what a skilled butcher (skinner) can get.

[Brokkr]

The alternate recipe is the one Shaydee noted.

However, it is not available at apprentice skill.  It is at Advanced, at a skill level that combat and light combat would need a tool that boosts cooking level in order to attempt at all.

[BadSkeelz]

Should that be lowered? It seems pretty high for a fairly mundane recipe (particularly when I suspect the cooking recipes gated behind it aren't as high themselves).

[Brokkr]

I will try to remember to look at it when I am on more than just a phone, as you bring up a good point.  The cooking recipe prioritizes the food piece over the bones, so it would be good to somewhat match to those food recipes.