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Hunting — Skinning a body

You must land the killing blow to skin a body, whether with a weapon, arrow or spell. A party member’s kill can still be looted.

Condition	Skinning allowed
Wilderness	Yes
Dungeons	Yes
Buildings outside settlements	Yes
Settlements	No
Sea	No

Eligible bodies glow and have rose compass marks within 150 m. They do not appear on the Overworld.

Look at the body and its list offers Skin the Rat and Search the Rat, or whatever you've killed. Press Interact (E) to skin, or the Up arrow to move to the search, which opens the ordinary loot. Skinning leaves the loot where it was, so search afterwards. If the animal needs a higher rank, the prompt tells you.

A dotted trace crosses the carcass, with five points on a rat and up to nine on larger animals. Step back if the line is hard to see.

Action	Result
Aim at the first point, hold E and trace to the last	Completes skinning
Release E before the end	Trace restarts
Stay near the line for a steady 0.6–6 s trace	Clean pelt
Stray badly from the line	Torn pelt
Enable Gentle work on the Professions page	Hold E briefly for an ordinary pelt; no clean or torn result

Intelligence, Agility and rank increase tolerance.

Skinning result	Reward
Ordinary	1 hide
Clean pelt	50% chance of a second hide; +50% XP
Untorn pelt	25% chance of a bonus part

Animal	Bonus part
Bear, Tiger, Wolf or Boar	Big Tooth
Spider	Spider’s Venom
Giant Scorpion	Giant Scorpion Stinger
Dragonling	Dragon’s Scales

Most animals also give 1 Raw Meat; Slaughterfish give Raw Fish. Harpies, Dreugh and Dragonlings give no meat. Hides receive no Marches or Tide bonuses.

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