Heart

The Heart is one of the six organs of a corpse. It stays unknown on the Autopsy Table until you learn Autopsy, Advanced (20 blue), which comes after Skull and Teeth. Removing one takes far more Anatomy than the first three organs: 5 for a quality-1 heart, 9 for quality 2 and 13 for quality 3 (see Corpses and organs).

Most hearts are quality 1 in every tier of corpse: 13 of the 15 first-tier kinds carry one with a single white skull. Quality-2 and quality-3 hearts turn up in a few kinds from the second tier on. A heart with white skulls is worth leaving in a body you mean to bury; for a zombie, the red ones are what count.

Variants (6)

Quality Red Skulls White Skulls
★ 0 1
★ 1 1
★★ 1 2
★★ 2 2
★★★ 0 3
★★★ 3 1

How to obtain

Craft

Workbench Ingredients Yields Mastery Duration Tech points
Formulation Bench
Heart any quality ×1
Organ Improver white skull ×1
★★★ white skull3 ×1 7 8 13
Formulation Bench
Heart any quality ×1
Organ Improver red skull ×1
★★★ red skull3 white skull1 ×1 7 8 13

Body Parts

Found on 51 corpses · Corpse tier 0–4

Used for

Ingredient for

Workbench Ingredients Outputs Mastery Duration Tech points
Formulation Bench
Heart any quality ×1
Organ Improver white skull ×1
Heart ★★★ white skull3 ×1
7 8 13
Formulation Bench
Heart any quality ×1
Organ Improver red skull ×1
Heart ★★★ red skull3white skull1 ×1
7 8 13

Mix

Runes 12 · 8 products

Alkali Berserker Potion III Explosive Dust Zombie Motivator Potion II Zombie Motivator Potion III Philosopher Stone Reanimation Liquid Third Eye Salt

Study

Study requires: Tech points Duration
★ Science ×3 Faith  ×3 1020 8 ( Researcher −3 )
★★ Science ×3 Faith  ×3 1020 8 ( Researcher −3 )
★★★ Science ×3 Faith  ×3 1020 8 ( Researcher −3 )

Each item is studied once, on the Study Table. Studying does not use the item up. With the Scientist perk, a 30% chance of a Story.

Notes

  • A clean removal gives 1 red and 1 to 3 blue tech points, by the heart’s quality, and counts toward Butcher.
  • Any heart can become a quality-3 one. At the Formulation Bench, a heart and the white-skull Organ Improver make the heart with 3 white skulls; the red-skull Organ Improver makes the one with 3 red. Both recipes come with Practical Potions and need Anatomy 7.
  • Quality-3 hearts are alchemy ingredients with one red and two blue runes.
  • Studying one costs 3 Science and gives 10 red and 20 blue.