Melted Fat
Melted Fat is rendered in the Distillation Cube, and nowhere else; the town Pharmacy is the only trader that stocks it. The cube works on its own once you load it. One Fat, 2 Clay Plates and 20 Fuel make 4 Melted Fat; the Cube distillations perk adds 3 more.
It is the bottleneck of the Barracks: Oiled Planks, and through them the Reinforced Planks for the barricades, all need it. It also goes into Polished Stone (4 Pieces of stone, 1 Melted Fat and 2 Sand make 4), which Expand graveyard II and the Resurrection Table I are built from.
The cube stands in the tower laboratory, and its technology, Alchemy, Distillation (5 red, 5 green), hangs from the alchemy technology that Albert gives you. So there is no Melted Fat before his part of the story. The door to the resurrection room under the morgue also takes one Melted Fat and a Bronze Detail to open.
How to obtain
Craft
| Workbench | Ingredients | Yields | Mastery | Duration | Tech points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Distillation Cube |  Fat  1 ×1  Clay Plate ×2  Fuel ×20 | × 4 ( Cube distillations +3 · Dead distiller +3 ) |  1 | 6 | 11 |
| Distillation Cube |  Seed oil ×3 Clay Plate ×2 Fuel ×20 | × 3 ( Cube distillations +2 · Dead distiller +2 ) | 1 | 8 | 11 |
Traders
| Name | Tier | Stock |
|---|---|---|
| Apothecary · town building — build it first | All tiers | 20 |
Used for
Ingredient for
| Workbench | Ingredients | Outputs | Mastery | Duration | Tech points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Formulation Bench |  Melted Fat ×1  Preservative ×1 |  Solution for Corpses ★–★★★ ×1 | 6 | 8 | 11 |
| Formulation Bench | Melted Fat ×1 Preservative ×1  Comet's Tail ×1 |  Injection for Corpses ★–★★★ ×1 | 8 | 12 | 12 |
| Formulation Bench | Melted Fat ×1  Fragrance ×1  Dream Dust ×1 | 5 | 8 | 13 | |
| Formulation Bench | Melted Fat ×1 Fragrance ×1 | 1 | 4 | 12 | |
| Writing Desk |  Ash ×1  Water ×1 Melted Fat ×1 |  Ink ×4 |  2 | 6 | 23 |
| Stonemason's Workbench Required extension: Fine Tool Rack |  Marble Plate ×4 Melted Fat ×1  Sand ×2 |  9 | 6 | 5 | |
| Woodworking Workbench II | Melted Fat ×1  Wooden beam ×2 |  Oiled Beam ×2 | 6 | 8 | 2 |
| Woodworking Workbench I Woodworking Workbench II | Melted Fat ×1  Wooden Plank ×4 |  Oiled Plank ×4 | 4 | 8 | 2 |
| Old door | Melted Fat ×1 | — | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| Woodworking Workbench I Woodworking Workbench II Required extension: Tool Rack | Sand ×2 Melted Fat ×1 | 5 | 6 | 3 | |
| Stonemason's Workbench Required extension: Tool Rack | Melted Fat ×1 Sand ×2 | 5 | 6 | 3 |
Mix
Runes 3 · 8 products
Philosopher Stone Study
| Study requires: | Tech points | Duration |
|---|---|---|
Science ×2  Faith ×2 | 1510 | 6 ( Researcher −2 ) |
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.
Other uses, out of reach (2)
Ingredient for
Notes
- The cube needs Anatomy mastery 1 to start. It is an Anatomy workbench, not a Smithing one, so your hammer does not count; the first Anatomy node on the talent tree does.
- Fuel comes from a Firewood shed in the same area. Two Firewood put into the shed become 20 Fuel, so each batch of Melted Fat costs 2 Firewood.
- Seeds work instead of Fat. Three Seed oil, 2 Clay Plates and 20 Fuel make 3 Melted Fat. The Millstone presses 4 seeds into 2 Seed oil, and Herm sells wheat seeds from his first tier. The recipe comes with Alchemy, Distillation even though its icon is not shown on the technology.
- In alchemy Melted Fat is a strong red ingredient (3 red runes).