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Rodent Meat

Rodent Meat
Rodent Meat
Class Raw Meat and Fish
Type Game
Hunger -15
Thirst -
Calories 201
Fresh 2 days
Rotten 4 days
Cook Time 20 min
Weight 0.3
Crafting Skill Butchering: 0
Crafting See How to Craft
Location Containers
Spawn ID /additem Base.Smallanimalmeat
Crafting XP 10 XP (Butchering)

Rodent Meat is raw meat butchered from a small animal such as a squirrel. It is light at 0.3 weight and fairly filling for its size. It is dangerous to eat raw, so it should always be cooked first.

The meat is best used in cooking. It adds a good amount of hunger to soups, stews, pies and stir fries. It can also be used as chum bait for fishing.

Rodent Meat spoils very fast, staying fresh for only 2 days. It comes from butchering small game caught in traps or hunted. The Rancher is the best occupation for raw meat and fish. It starts with the most Butchering skill. The Chef and the Fishing Guide also start with some Butchering skill.

Eating

A piece of Rodent Meat lowers hunger by 15 and holds 201 calories. It is rich in protein at 45 grams, with some fat and very few carbohydrates. That protein helps a character keep muscle and body weight.

Eating it raw is dangerous and can make the character sick. Cooked meat is safe and tastes better hot. It is bad cold, so a cold piece gives a small mood penalty.

Compared with other small game, Rodent Meat sits in the middle. Small Bird Meat also lowers hunger by 15, but carries more calories at 261. Rabbit Meat is far more filling, lowering hunger by 30 with 969 calories. Frog Meat is lighter, lowering hunger by 10.

The table shows the game figures for one serving. Negative hunger and thirst fill the character up, and negative unhappiness and boredom cheer them up.

Item Hunger Calories Carbs Protein Fat
Rodent Meat -15 201 5 45 7.25

Cooking

Rodent Meat cooks in 20 minutes and burns after 70. It cooks over a fire or in an oven. A microwave does a poor job with it, so an oven or fire is better.

The meat adds 15 hunger to Soup, Stew, Pie, Stir Fry, Rice and Pasta. Raw meat can go into these dishes, since they are cooked afterwards. It adds 10 to a Burger or a Salad and 5 to a Sandwich, but only once cooked.

It can also go into fishing chum, adding 15 to the bait. The Cooking skill makes each ingredient go further, so a trained cook gets more from every piece.

These dishes take the Rodent Meat as an ingredient, with the hunger it restores in each.

Dish Hunger Restored Note
Chum 15 -
Pasta 15 -
Pie 15 -
Rice 15 -
Soup 15 -
Stew 15 -
Stir Fry 15 -
Burger 10 Cooked only
Salad 10 Cooked only
Sandwich 5 Cooked only

How to Craft Rodent Meat

Each recipe that makes the Rodent Meat is listed with its materials and the tools it keeps.

Butcher Small Animal

The Butcher Small Animal recipe makes the Rodent Meat. It needs Butchering level 0.

Name Image Amount Kept Spawn ID
Large Knife Large Knife 1x Yes /additem Base.LargeKnife
Dead Bird Dead Bird 1x No /additem Base.DeadBird

Storage

Rodent Meat stays fresh for only 2 days and is fully rotten by day 4. A fridge slows both counts down. A freezer keeps it much longer. Small game should be cooked or frozen soon after butchering.

Locations

Rodent Meat comes mainly from butchering. A sharp knife or meat cleaver turns a dead small animal into meat. The Butcher Small Animal recipe gives Rodent Meat from a dead squirrel. Mice and rats give their own skinned carcasses instead.

The meat is not a normal loot find. It does show up in the stove of a mid game survivor safehouse.

The places where it spawns, with the rough chance per container.

Location Container Chance
Survivor safehouse (mid game) Stove 100%

Notes

  • Never eat Rodent Meat raw, since it can make the character sick.
  • A trap line of small game turns into a steady supply of meat.
  • Freeze or cook it within 2 days, before it starts to go off.
  • It works as fishing chum as well as food.


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All Raw Meat and Fish


Name Image Hunger Thirst Calories Fresh Rotten Weight Spawn ID
Bacon Bacon -12 - 160 3 5 0.3 /additem Base.Bacon
Baloney Baloney -30 - 200 2 4 0.2 /additem Base.Baloney
Beef Beef -80 - 440 2 4 0.5 /additem Base.Beef
Beef Jerky Beef Jerky -20 - 410 - - 0.2 /additem Base.BeefJerky
Chicken Foot Chicken Foot -12 - 70 2 4 0.1 /additem Base.ChickenFoot
Ground Beef Ground Beef -40 - 300 2 4 0.3 /additem Base.MincedMeat
Ham Ham -60 - 1560 5 10 1 /additem Base.Ham
Meat Dumpling Meat Dumpling -10 - 28 2 4 0.1 /additem Base.MeatDumpling
Mussels Mussels -5 - 15 2 4 0.1 /additem Base.Mussels
Mutton Chop Mutton Chop -30 - 234 2 4 0.3 /additem Base.MuttonChop
Pack of Hotdogs Pack of Hotdogs - - 270 3 6 0.6 /additem Base.HotdogPack
Pepperoni Pepperoni -20 - 180 15 30 0.1 /additem Base.Pepperoni
Pork Pork -60 - 300 2 4 0.5 /additem Base.Pork
Pork Chop Pork Chop -30 - 150 2 4 0.3 /additem Base.PorkChop
Salami Salami -20 - 330 10 15 0.1 /additem Base.Salami
Sausage Sausage -20 - 180 2 4 0.1 /additem Base.Sausage
Steak Steak -40 - 220 2 4 0.3 /additem Base.Steak
Venison Venison -80 - 440 2 4 0.5 /additem Base.Venison
Name Image Hunger Thirst Calories Fresh Rotten Weight Spawn ID
Chicken (Whole) Chicken (Whole) -160 - 1495 2 4 1.2 /additem Base.ChickenWhole
Turkey (Whole) Turkey (Whole) -224 - 1821 2 4 1.3 /additem Base.TurkeyWhole
Name Image Hunger Thirst Calories Fresh Rotten Weight Spawn ID
Frog Meat Frog Meat -10 - 66 4 8 0.2 /additem Base.FrogMeat
Rabbit Meat Rabbit Meat -30 - 969 2 4 0.3 /additem Base.Rabbitmeat
Rodent Meat Rodent Meat -15 - 201 2 4 0.3 /additem Base.Smallanimalmeat
Small Bird Meat Small Bird Meat -15 - 261 2 4 0.3 /additem Base.Smallbirdmeat
Name Image Hunger Thirst Calories Fresh Rotten Weight Spawn ID
Dead Bird Dead Bird -15 - 161 8 12 0.1 /additem Base.DeadBird
Dead Mouse Dead Mouse -10 - 220 6 10 0.05 /additem Base.DeadMouse
Dead Rabbit Dead Rabbit -45 - 1730 8 12 1 /additem Base.DeadRabbit
Dead Rat Dead Rat -22 - 324 6 10 0.2 /additem Base.DeadRat
Dead Squirrel Dead Squirrel -32 - 480 8 12 0.4 /additem Base.DeadSquirrel
Mouse Pups (Dead) Mouse Pups (Dead) -5 - 110 6 10 0.03 /additem Base.DeadMousePups
Rat Baby (Dead) Rat Baby (Dead) -12 - 174.6 6 10 0.12 /additem Base.DeadRatBaby
Skinned Mouse (Dead) Skinned Mouse (Dead) -10 - 220 6 10 0.05 /additem Base.DeadMouseSkinned
Skinned Mouse Pups (Dead) Skinned Mouse Pups (Dead) -5 - 110 6 10 0.03 /additem Base.DeadMousePupsSkinned
Skinned Rat (Dead) Skinned Rat (Dead) -22 - 324 6 10 0.2 /additem Base.DeadRatSkinned
Skinned Rat Baby (Dead) Skinned Rat Baby (Dead) -12 - 174.6 6 10 0.12 /additem Base.DeadRatBabySkinned
Name Image Hunger Thirst Calories Fresh Rotten Weight Spawn ID
Alligator Gar Alligator Gar -15 - 159 4 8 0.4 /additem Base.AligatorGar
Balsamic Vinegar Balsamic Vinegar -20 - 1250 - - 0.2 /additem Base.BalsamicVinegar
Black Crappie Black Crappie -15 - 159 4 8 0.4 /additem Base.BlackCrappie
Blue Catfish Blue Catfish -15 - 159 4 8 0.4 /additem Base.BlueCatfish
Bluegill Bluegill -15 - 159 4 8 0.4 /additem Base.Bluegill
Brown Sugar Brown Sugar -30 - 337 - - 0.6 /additem Base.SugarBrown
Channel Catfish Channel Catfish -15 - 159 4 8 0.4 /additem Base.ChannelCatfish
Chips - Salt & Vinegar Chips - Salt & Vinegar -15 - 720 - - 0.2 /additem Base.Crisps3
Crayfish Crayfish -10 - 40 2 4 0.2 /additem Base.Crayfish
Fish (Fried) Fish (Fried) -30 - 210 4 7 0.2 /additem Base.FishFried
Flathead Catfish Flathead Catfish -15 - 159 4 8 0.4 /additem Base.FlatheadCatfish
Freshwater Drum Freshwater Drum -15 - 159 4 8 0.4 /additem Base.FreshwaterDrum
Garlic Garlic -5 - 14 14 28 0.2 /additem Base.Garlic
Garlic (Powdered) Garlic (Powdered) -10 20 - - - 0.2 /additem Base.PowderedGarlic
Green Sunfish Green Sunfish -15 - 159 4 8 0.4 /additem Base.GreenSunfish
Jug of Vinegar Jug of Vinegar -100 - 0 - - 2 /additem Base.Vinegar_Jug
Largemouth Bass Largemouth Bass -15 - 159 4 8 0.4 /additem Base.LargemouthBass
Little Bait Fish Little Bait Fish -3 - 30 4 8 0.1 /additem Base.BaitFish
Margarine Margarine -24 - 3255 - - 0.3 /additem Base.Margarine
Muskellunge Muskellunge -15 - 159 4 8 0.4 /additem Base.Muskellunge
Opened Jar of Fish Roe Opened Jar of Fish Roe -10 - 150 3 5 0.8 /additem Base.CannedRoe_Open
Paddlefish Paddlefish -15 - 159 4 8 0.4 /additem Base.Paddlefish
Redear Sunfish Redear Sunfish -15 - 159 4 8 0.4 /additem Base.RedearSunfish
Rice Vinegar Rice Vinegar -20 - 20 - - 0.2 /additem Base.RiceVinegar
Salmon Salmon -30 - 270 2 4 0.3 /additem Base.Salmon
Sauger Sauger -15 - 159 4 8 0.4 /additem Base.Sauger
Smallmouth Bass Smallmouth Bass -15 - 159 4 8 0.4 /additem Base.SmallmouthBass
Spotted Bass Spotted Bass -15 - 159 4 8 0.4 /additem Base.SpottedBass
Striped Bass Striped Bass -15 - 159 4 8 0.4 /additem Base.StripedBass
Sugar Beet Sugar Beet -9 -4 24 4 6 0.2 /additem Base.SugarBeet
Sugar Cookie Sugar Cookie -5 - 120 - - 0.1 /additem Base.CookiesSugar
Sugar Cubes Sugar Cubes -4 - 44 - - 0.02 /additem Base.SugarCubes
Sugar Packet Sugar Packet -1 - 11 - - 0.01 /additem Base.SugarPacket
Vinegar Vinegar -10 - 0 - - 0.2 /additem Base.Vinegar2
Walleye Walleye -15 - 159 4 8 0.4 /additem Base.Walleye
White Bass White Bass -15 - 159 4 8 0.4 /additem Base.WhiteBass
White Crappie White Crappie -15 - 159 4 8 0.4 /additem Base.WhiteCrappie
White Sugar White Sugar -30 - 387 - - 0.6 /additem Base.Sugar
Yellow Perch Yellow Perch -15 - 159 4 8 0.4 /additem Base.YellowPerch
Name Image Hunger Thirst Calories Fresh Rotten Weight Spawn ID
Lobster Lobster -40 - 120 2 4 0.4 /additem Base.Lobster
Oysters Oysters -5 - 15 2 4 0.1 /additem Base.Oysters
Oysters (Fried) Oysters (Fried) -6 - 25 4 7 0.1 /additem Base.OystersFried
Shrimp Shrimp -10 - 80 2 4 0.1 /additem Base.Shrimp
Shrimp Dumpling Shrimp Dumpling -15 - 120 2 4 0.1 /additem Base.ShrimpDumpling
Squid Squid -30 - 205 2 4 0.2 /additem Base.Squid
Tin of Caviar Tin of Caviar -10 - 150 3 5 0.2 /additem Base.Caviar