Butchering – CADRIFT

Introduction to Butchering

Butchers travel the lands to gather hides from animals.
The hides can be refined at a Loom to create leathers for crafting.
The leathers are used in most of the main crafting professions; with Apothecary, Outfitter, and Armorsmith benefiting most.

Training the skill

You will come across a Butchering trainer early in the game, this is to encourage you to take the Butchering profession quickly so you can start gathering hides straight away.
Defiants will find their first Butchering Trainer in Kelari Refuge at /setwaypoint 6572 4597
Guardians will find their first Butchering Trainer in Divine Landing at /setwaypoint 6216 3866
There are many more Butchering Trainers scattered around the world, especially in the major cities.

The Butchering Trainers in the major cities are at..
Meridian /setwaypoint 5989 5218
Sanctum /setwaypoint 7434 2959
Tempest Bay /setwaypoint 12804 11669

You should visit the Butchering Trainer regularly to learn all the new refining recipes and to continue into the next tiers of the Butchering skill. The Butchering trainers are usually found near the Looms. The recipes from the Trainer will allow you to refine the hides you have gathered. These recipes can help you gain some skill points, but the main bulk of your levelling will come from actually Butchering in the open world.

Finding Hides in the World

There are 13 types of hide that can be butchered from animals.
The level of the animal will determine what type of hide you get.

For more information about where to find each type of hide, have a look at the Materials page.

Mathosia
Soft Hide
Thin Hide
Medium Hide
Heavy Hide
Thick Hide
Exotic Hide
Soulhide
Ironhide

Storm Legion
Dense Hide
Striped Hide
Truehide

Nightmare Tide
Fabled Hide

Prophecy of Ahnket
Starhide

How to Butcher

Most of your levelling will come from butchering animals in the open world.
Head out into the world and kill some animals! The animals that you can butcher are pretty varied, pretty much all the ‘livestock’ animal types can be butchered, as well as a bunch of the ‘wild’ animals. For instance: Cows, Boars, Wolves, Crocodiles, Bats, Wild Cats, Drakes, Shamblers, Vhar, Hounds etc.

Once the animal is dead, stand next to them and right click them to butcher. Your character will magically wave their hands around and the hides will be in your bags. You do not need to craft any kind of tool to butcher with, just have the profession trained.

At low level, all the butchering you do will level up your skill. As you advance through the levels, lower level animals will no longer give skill points.
You can see if a dead animal will give you a skill point by mousing over it and looking at the colour of the text. You will need to kill and loot the animal first before you can see the butchering mouseover text.

Red Text
You will always get a Skill Point from this node.

Orange Text
You will always get a Skill Point from this node.

Yellow Text
You will get a high % of a Skill Point from this node.

Green Text
You will get a low % of a Skill Point from this node.

Grey Text
This node will not give you Skill Points.

From this we can deduce that it is best to always be butchering animals that have red/orange text.
The yellow/green level animals will only give a % of a skill point, this % will vary considerably depending on your skill level. At very low levels, the yellow/green animals pretty much always give a skill point from each harvest, but as you go up in level, those yellow/green animals will give less and less of a percentage of a full skill point.
At the highest levels, yellow animals will give 25-50% of a point, while green animals give 10-25%.
These %s do seem to have an element of variability. There is no way to see the % you get from each harvest, just keep butchering!

You can find a full list of all thehides with information about where to find them on the materials page.

Boosting skill gain

You can use a Skill orb! This will increase your chances of gaining a skill point while butchering, and also while crafting hides into leathers. Skill Orbs are available in the Rift Store for credits only. The skill orb only lasts for 2 hours once applied, so be sure to have raw materials ready to craft with, or some great spots picked out to farm.
There is also a Guild Perk called ‘Journeyman‘ that will increase your chance of gaining a skill point.

Celestial Butchering Rune

The Celestial Butchering Rune will temporarily increase your butchering skill level by 50 points, even if that takes you over the max of 525.
The rune is crafted by a Runecrafter. You can apply the rune to any Shoulder gear of any level. You can craft/buy some cheap lower level shoulders to place the rune on, and then switch out your shoulders when you require the extra butchering boost.

The 50 extra points will be a detriment to you while you are trying to level up the skill. It is not recommended that you use the rune until you are already at max level. At max level the rune will increase your yield from each butcher, making it quicker to farm materials that you need to craft.

Butchering to Level

If you are already a high level character while levelling butchering, then you can just go straight to high level zones and mine 500 Starhide to level to 500+ very quickly. It is best to use a skill orb while you do this, as this will drastically cut down the amount of animals you need to kill and butcher! Be sure to visit your trainer every 75 levels as explained below.

A great spot to farm to level butchering is the Critter Glen area of Scatherran Forest. Here you will find many creatures to butcher, especially in the small tunnel entrances. I particularly like to farm the Groundhogs at /setwaypoint 4732 6223.
Note: The smaller critters don’t drop a lot of actual materials, so they are no good for farming Starhide.

If you are levelling butchering as you level your character, then its best to do the zone quests and harvest any animals that you come across as you quest. You can send the materials you gather to an alt and then use them to level up some of the crafting professions when you have decided which of those you want.
When you reach the higher level areas, just keep butchering!

You will need to visit your Butchering Trainer every 75 levels or you will get stuck at the end of a skill tier. You can train up to 5 levels before the end of each tier. Train at 70-75, 145-150, 220-225, 295-300, 370-375, 445-450.

Crafting to Level

Butchering is a gathering skill, not a crafting skill!
Most of the crafting involved is to refine the hides into leathers.
By the time you have gathered decent amounts of hides, you will already be high enough level that refining them wont give XP anymore!
So the best way to craft to level is to buy a bunch of the raw materials from the AH and then use them to craft.

All the refining recipes will be learned from your Butchering Trainer as you level up.
You will also find 5 recipes in the store to buy with crafting marks. These are for Leather/fur themed dimension items.

Due to the limited amount of recipes, there will be a lot of gaps in crafting where your only option is to go out and butcher to level until you reach the next craftable item.

You can use the Butchering rune to bump up your level temporarily and craft items of a higher level. The rune will also allow you to train recipes that are up to 50 levels higher than you actually are. With careful management of the rune (taking it off and back on again) you will be able to level up a lot of skill points by just crafting. Even using the rune there are still gaps in the levelling that will require you to go out into the world and butcher.

37 Recipes Available for Butchering

Bulk Materials

Name of Item	Learn At	High Until	Medium Until	Low Until	Expansion	Free?	Source of Recipe
Twenty Soft Leather	35	35	35	35	Vanilla		Learned from your skill trainer in Tempest bay.
Twenty Thin Leather	75	75	75	75	Vanilla		Learned from your skill trainer in Tempest bay.
Twenty Medium Leather	115	115	115	115	Vanilla		Learned from your skill trainer in Tempest bay.
Twenty Heavy Leather	145	145	145	145	Vanilla		Learned from your skill trainer in Tempest bay.
Twenty Thick Leather	185	185	185	185	Vanilla		Learned from your skill trainer in Tempest bay.
Twenty Exotic Leather	225	225	225	225	Vanilla		Learned from your skill trainer in Tempest bay.
Twenty Soulbind Leather	260	260	260	260	Vanilla		Learned from your skill trainer in Tempest bay.
Twenty Steeled Leather	280	280	280	280	Vanilla		Learned from your skill trainer in Tempest bay.
Twenty Dense Leather	335	335	335	335	Storm Legion		Learned from your skill trainer in Tempest bay.
Twenty Striped Leather	350	350	350	350	Storm Legion		Learned from your skill trainer in Tempest bay.
Twenty Truehide Leather	375	375	375	375	Storm Legion		Learned from your skill trainer in Tempest bay.
Twenty Fabled Leather	390	395	400	405	Nightmare Tide		Learned from your skill trainer in Tempest bay.
Twenty Starhide Leather	475	475	475	475	Prophecy		Learned from your skill trainer in Tempest bay.

Dimension Items

Name of Item	Learn At	High Until	Medium Until	Low Until	Expansion	Free?	Source of Recipe
Sheep Rib Cage	60	70	80	90	Vanilla		Bought in the Rift Store for In Game Currencies.
Bearskin Rug	120	130	140	150	Vanilla		Bought in the Rift Store for In Game Currencies.
Pile of Fox Furs	180	190	200	210	Vanilla		Bought in the Rift Store for In Game Currencies.
Bed with Furs	240	250	260	270	Vanilla		Bought in the Rift Store for In Game Currencies.
Bone Torch	300	310	320	330	Storm Legion		Bought in the Rift Store for In Game Currencies.

Materials

Name of Item	Learn At	High Until	Medium Until	Low Until	Expansion	Free?	Source of Recipe
Soft Leather	1	5	10	20	Vanilla		Learned from your skill trainer in Tempest bay.
Thin Leather	35	40	45	55	Vanilla		Learned from your skill trainer in Tempest bay.
Medium Leather	75	80	85	95	Vanilla		Learned from your skill trainer in Tempest bay.
Fine Leather	115	120	125	135	Vanilla		Learned from your skill trainer in Tempest bay.
Heavy Leather	115	120	125	135	Vanilla		Learned from your skill trainer in Tempest bay.
Thick Leather	145	150	155	165	Vanilla		Learned from your skill trainer in Tempest bay.
Exotic Leather	185	190	195	205	Vanilla		Learned from your skill trainer in Tempest bay.
Reinforced Leather	185	190	195	205	Vanilla		Learned from your skill trainer in Tempest bay.
Soulbind Leather	225	230	235	245	Vanilla		Learned from your skill trainer in Tempest bay.
Steeled Leather	270	275	280	290	Vanilla		Learned from your skill trainer in Tempest bay.
Imbued Leather	280	285	290	300	Vanilla		Learned from your skill trainer in Tempest bay.
Dense Leather	290	295	300	310	Vanilla		Learned from your skill trainer in Tempest bay.
Steel-Stitched Leather	300	305	310	320	Vanilla		Learned from your skill trainer in Tempest bay.
Striped Leather	330	335	340	350	Storm Legion		Learned from your skill trainer in Tempest bay.
Truehide Leather	350	355	360	365	Storm Legion		Learned from your skill trainer in Tempest bay.
Fabled Leather	375	380	385	390	Nightmare Tide		Learned from your skill trainer in Tempest bay.
Impervious Truehide Leather	375	376	377	380	Storm Legion		Learned from your skill trainer in Tempest bay.
Stately Swatch	375	380	385	300	Storm Legion		Learned from your skill trainer in Tempest bay.
Starhide Leather	450	455	460	465	Prophecy		Learned from your skill trainer in Tempest bay.