The Ultimate Guide to the Butchery Mod in Minecraft

A complete walkthrough of every mechanic, tool, block, item, and processing method.

If you want a mod that turns mob harvesting into a full-on simulation—blood, carcasses, skins, grinders, rotisseries, sausages, and even decorative skeletons—The Butchery Mod is exactly that.

This guide covers every feature you need to know, with clear steps, tips, and examples.

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1. Getting Started – Cleavers & Carcasses

Cleavers: The Core Tool

You must kill mobs using cleavers to obtain carcasses.

If you kill a mob with a sword or any other weapon: no carcass.

Cleaver types:

• Bone Cleaver – early game, basic mobs only
• Iron Cleaver – basic mobs
• Netherite Cleaver – lets you harvest boss mobs (Elder Guardian, Ender Dragon, etc.) + higher durability

Carcasses

After killing a mob with a cleaver, walk over the corpse to pick up the carcass.

This is the raw, unprocessed body that you then hang, bleed, and butcher.

2. Hanging Carcasses – Hooks, Ropes & Blood Grates

How to Hang a Carcass

Early game:

• Hanging Rope (3 uses, cheap)

Later:

• Chains + Chain Hooks

Right-click chain hooks onto Minecraft chain blocks for a permanent hanging setup.

Blood Grates

Place a blood grate under the carcass.

It:

• Catches all dripping blood
• Prevents bloody splatter everywhere
• Stores the blood for cross-mod compatibility (Hexerei, EvilCraft, Vampirism, Blood Magic, etc.)

Bleeding the Carcass

Right-click with your cleaver → the carcass begins draining.

It turns grey once fully bled.

3. Cross-Mod Blood Conversion (Butcher’s Papers)

Crafted with:

• 1x Paper
• 1x Any meat

Right-click a butcher’s paper on the blood grate to convert the stored blood into:

• Blood Magic blood
• Hexerei blood
• Vampirism blood
• EvilCraft blood

You can also right-click butcher’s papers on certain blocks to rotate them decoratively.

4. Butchering Basics – What You Get

Once fully drained, right-click again with your cleaver to butcher the body.

Typical drops include:

• Hearts
• Intestines
• Stomachs
• Bones
• Animal Fat
• Heads
• Pork belly, pork loin, etc.
• Hooves (convert to slimeballs using the pestle & mortar)

Different mobs produce different parts, and some require special steps (see next sections).

5. Pestle & Mortar – Slime, Bone Meal & More

Place the pestle & mortar, then right-click items into it:

Useful grinding examples:

• Hooves → Slimeballs
• Chicken Feet → Bone Meal
• Flowers → Crushed Flowers → Bottled Flowers → Frying Oil
• Wither Bones → Wither Bone Meal

6. Cleaning Up Blood – Sponges, Rags & Cauldrons

If you don’t use a blood grate, the floor becomes a crime scene.

Two options:

Sponges

1. Craft or obtain a sponge
2. Right-click it into water → Wet Sponge
3. Clean the butcher table or the floor
4. Sponge becomes Blood-Soaked Sponge
5. Clean it in a cauldron of water

Rags

Work the same but have lower durability.

7. Processing Chickens – Table Butchery

Chickens have special steps:

1. Hang the carcass → bleed it
2. Shift-right-click to take it off
3. Place it on the Butcher Table
4. Use the tools the icons show:
• Shears → remove feathers
• Cleaver → behead
• Pliers → remove wishbone
• Wishbone can be broken for loot or used in brewing to create magic wishbones
5. Continue cleaving to extract all parts

8. Processing Cows – Skinning & Leather Making

Steps

1. Hang and bleed
2. Use Skinning Knife to remove hide
3. Skin drops as an item
4. Finish butchering with the Cleaver

Turning Hides Into Leather

Place hide on a Skinning Rack, then:

1. Wet it using a wet sponge
2. Salt it
• Craft a Basin
• Fill with water
• Leave it outside in sunlight
• After half a Minecraft day → salt
3. Apply salt to hide
4. After ~45 seconds → Leather

Any animal skin works with this process.

9. Preserving Corpses – Turning Bodies Into Skeletons

If you want decorative skeletons:

1. Brew Sulfuric Acid
• Sulfur (Y-64 to Y5) + water bottle in brewing stand
2. Right-click a carcass repeatedly with sulfuric acid
3. After a short time → it turns into a skeleton model

10. Special Mobs – Turtle, Frog & More

Turtles

1. Bleed on hook
2. Move to butcher table
3. Use Hammer to break shell
4. Use Cleaver to finish
5. You get:
• Turtle shell fragments (craftable into turtle helmet)
• Turtle shell decorative item

Frogs

1. Place carcass on metal tray
2. Cleaver it apart directly

11. Meat Grinder & Sausage Maker

Basic Grinder

1. Place the grinder
2. Insert valid meats (mostly steaks)
3. Right-click the handle → meat comes out
4. Right-click with cleaver → collect minced meat

Sausage Attachment

1. Right-click to install on the grinder’s front
2. Right-click Pork Intestines onto it (the casing)
3. Insert any pork cut
4. Grind → sausages fill the casing
5. Cleave to remove sausages
6. Cook them

12. Rotisserie – Cook Whole Animals Automatically

1. Place a campfire under the rotisserie
2. Fully bleed a pig or cow
3. Right-click onto the rotisserie
4. It spins and slowly cooks completely
5. When brown, right-click with cleaver to shave off pre-cooked meat

This is one of the best mass-meat methods.

13. Cleaning Basins With Lightning (Advanced)

To clean bloody water basins:

1. Craft a Basin
2. Create Brine Solution (water bucket + salt)
3. Place brine in basin
4. Insert a Lightning Rod
5. Wait for a thunderstorm
6. Lightning hits the rod → brine becomes Chlorine
7. Bottle the chlorine
8. Use it to clean bloody cauldrons

Optional but very immersive.

14. Decorative Items

The mod includes many aesthetic blocks:

• Butcher statues
• Rugs (goat, panda, etc.)
• Trophy head mounts
• Food display cases
• Freezers
• Barrels of cod/salmon/bones
• Jars for storing brains, organs, etc.
• Canopies & butcher shop signs

Perfect for creating full roleplay butcher shops.

15. Dragon & Boss Resources

Using the Netherite Cleaver, you can harvest boss mobs.

Ender Dragon

Drops:

• Dragon Scales
• Spiked Dragon Bones
• Dragon Scale Ingots (better than Netherite)

Craft full Dragon Scale armor using:

• Netherite armor piece
• Dragon Scale Ingot
• Dragon-Smithing Template

Pillagers

Drops:

• Pillager Disguise Armor
• When worn fully: pillagers ignore you
• Press C to make pillager noises

Witches

Drops:

• Witch clothes and hat (wearable)

Elder Guardian

Drops:

• Elder Guardian Eye → wearable eye granting underwater night vision

16. Infected Blood & Zombie Conversions

Some mobs produce infected blood.

You can:

• Bottle it
• Brew splash infected blood
• Throw it at mobs to convert them into their zombie variants (sheep, cows, villagers, etc.)

Create infected-blood sources and farm zombie versions of most animals.