Going from live animals to meat and hide is a 2-step process.

The Animal Manager slaughters live animals, and the Meat Grinder turns carcasses into meat and hides.

The Animal Manager has a white area for input and a yellow area for output. By rotating it when placing, you can choose which side the input area is on. The output is a single tile. The "Adjust Output Direction" button does what it says.


In the power tab you can specify how big the input area is, at the cost of extra power. You can also provide more power to make it work faster.


The Setting tab allows you to set which animals get slaughtered. I recommend setting up a zone named 'Slaughter' the exact size and position of the input area, and restricting the animals you want slaughtered to that zone. The dead animal carcasses are put in the yellow output tile.

The Meat Grinder has a white area for input and a yellow area for output. The input is a 1-tile radius all around the machine. The output is a single tile. The "Adjust Output Direction" button does what it says.



In the Bills tab you tell it what you want done. The Meat Grinder does all the same recipes as the vanilla Butcher Table, but doesn't need anyone working at it.

If you place them so the output of the Animal Manager is in the input area of the Meat Grinder, you don't need any rollers or belts to connect them.