Animal Fat

Three fat and a scrap of cloth make four low grade fuel. That is what the fat from every hunt is for, from your first furnace to fire arrows.

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Characteristics

Category: Resources

Stack size: 1000

Craftable: No

Researchable: No

Overview

In-game description

Harvested from animals, combine with cloth to create a low quality fuel source.

Fat has one real job: it becomes low grade fuel. Three of it plus one cloth gives four fuel, and fuel is what your first day runs on. Torches, lanterns, fire arrows and above all the furnace, which wants fifty fuel just to be built.

Do the sum and the hunt starts to matter. Thirteen crafts for one furnace means close to forty fat, plus cloth from the hemp you picked on the way. A boar or two opened with a combat knife covers that far quicker than the same carcass worked with a rock, which simply gives less.

Tip

Craft the fuel right after the hunt, out in the field. The recipe needs no bench, and you walk home with one stack of fuel instead of two half stacks.

The Frankenstein pieces and candle sets on the list below are Halloween stuff. Later in the wipe most groups refine crude oil into fuel in bulk, but fat stays the quickest source when you need fuel right now, for a second furnace or a stack of molotovs.