Skin

Skin is one of the six organs of a corpse, and one of the first three you can work with. You take it out at the Autopsy Table I once you have the Skin and Bones technology (5 green, 2 blue); before that the slot shows as unknown. Every skin in a first-tier corpse is of the lowest quality, so removing one needs Anatomy mastery 1. Below that it cannot come out cleanly (see Corpses and organs).

A successful removal gives 1 red and 1 blue tech point. Only one of the 15 first-tier corpses has a skin with a skull on it: a skin with one red skull, and taking that one out raises the grave the body goes into.

Variants (6)

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

How to obtain

Craft

Workbench Ingredients Yields Mastery Duration Tech points
Formulation Bench
Skin any quality ×1
Organ Improver white skull ×1
★★★ red skull1 white skull3 ×1 5 6 12
Formulation Bench
Skin any quality ×1
Organ Improver red skull ×1
★★★ red skull3 ×1 5 6 12

Body Parts

Found on 51 corpses · Corpse tier 0–4

Used for

Ingredient for

Workbench Ingredients Outputs Mastery Duration Tech points
Formulation Bench
Skin any quality ×1
Organ Improver white skull ×1
Skin ★★★ red skull1white skull3 ×1
5 6 12
Formulation Bench
Skin any quality ×1
Organ Improver red skull ×1
Skin ★★★ red skull3 ×1
5 6 12
Writing Desk
Skin any quality ×1
Leather Scroll × 4 ( Paper maker +2 · Dead printer +2 )
1 3 12

Study

Study requires: Tech points Duration
★ Science ×5 1010 6 ( Researcher −2 )
★★ Science ×5 1010 6 ( Researcher −2 )
★★★ Science ×5 1010 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.

Notes

  • One skin makes a Leather Scroll at the Writing Desk, which is what the paper chain starts from. You can also put a skin back into a corpse’s empty skin slot, or study it: 5 Science for 10 green and 10 blue.
  • A zombie needs all six organs, so a corpse you mean to raise should keep its skin.