Skull

Skull

A human skull.

Base Stats

Type

Crafted resources

Market Value

5 

Stack Limit

25

Mass

1.5 kg

HP

100

Deterioration Rate

1

Flammability

100%

Technical

defName

Skull

thingCategories

Items

A human skull, extracted from a corpse.

Acquisition

Skulls can only be extracted with the Ideology DLC, and only pawns with the Skullspike: Desired precept in their ideoligion can extract skulls. This is done by designating corpses with the "extract skull" designator". It takes 180 ticks (3 secs) of work to extract a skull. This destroys head and reduces the amount of meat and leather extracted from the corpse. Blood will be created from non-skeletal corpses when extracting a skull. It is unknown whether skull extraction reduces the market value extracted from the corpse by a greater amount than is gained from the skull.

Skulls can commonly be acquired from gray boxes in the labyrinth.

Skulls can also be carried by pawns with the psychopath trait as a starting possession.

Summary

Skulls retain the name of the person they were extracted from. Their main purpose is for building skullspikes.

Skulls can be consumed by harbinger trees.

Product	Ingredients	Type [ExpandCollapse]
Skullspike	25 (Woody/Metallic, 250 for SMVs) +  1	Building - Ideology (Buildings)

Gallery

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  One skull

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  Partial stack of skulls

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  Full stack of skulls

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  The gizmo used to designate a corpse for skull-extraction

Version history

• Ideology DLC Release - Added as Ideology-exclusive item.
• 1.3.3069 - Now stackable
• 1.3.3072 - Pawns can no longer extract skulls from corpses that have lost their head since designation.
• 1.3.3101 - Skulls now keep track of the name of the pawn they originated from. Skull extraction blood is no longer labeled as being from the extractor. Skull extraction will no longer drop blood when corpse is already a skeleton
• 1.5.4062 - Migrated to core game files, no longer requiring Ideology.