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Recipes with particular historical value, as well as recipes for Home Comforts, such as {{IL|Relatively Plausible Curator Skeleton}} can be found [[Assembling a Skeleton (Guide)/Recipes/Home Comforts|here]].

The guide assumes at least level 5 in advanced skills as a baseline. Requirements beyond this will be listed at the top of the recipe.

Unless specifically stated, the following recipes do not have the skeletons declared as a Chimera. [[Declare your (Skeleton Type) a completed Chimera|Declaring it as a Chimera]] leads to a spike in {{IL|Skeleton: Self-Evident Implausibility|Appearance=Self-Evident Implausibility}} that can be troublesome and expensive to deal with.

==Amalgamy==
For these skeletons you will typically need {{IL|Helical Thighbone}}s, {{IL|Skull in Coral}} or alternatively {{IL|Amber-Crusted Fin}}s. The first two will require a {{IL|Shapeling Arts}} challenge, and all of the supplies take some time to gather.

===Knock-Kneed Newt===
*{{IL|Skeleton: Amalgamy|Short = y}} 9, {{IL|Skeleton: Antiquity|Short = y}} 2, and {{IL|Skeleton: Menace|Short = y}} 2, sold to [[a Zailor with Particular Interests]] or [[A Rubbery Collector]]. 
*{{IL|A Complete Account of Frogs, Toads, and Other Croaking Beasts|Appearance = Reptile or Amphibian}}. High {{IL|Shapeling Arts}}

Attaching Helical Thighbones is not automatic until you have {{IL|Shapeling Arts}} 10. If you fail one of the first three thighbones, there are ways to recover the recipe to target {{IL|Skeleton: Amalgamy|Short = y}} 6, and either {{IL|Skeleton: Antiquity|Short = y}} 3, or {{IL|Skeleton: Menace|Short = y}} 3, which will produce the same pay-out of 18. Failing the last roll will result in a pay-out of only 16, and failing two rolls is difficult to recover from.
* {{IL|Thorned Ribcage}}
* {{IL|Horned Skull}} when targeting Antiquity, or {{IL|Plated Skull}} when targeting Menace
* {{IL|Helical Thighbone|3 x}}
* If all thighbones were successfully attached:
** {{IL|Helical Thighbone|1 x}}
** {{IL|Tomb-Lion's Tail}} when targeting Antiquity, or [[decide your Tailless Animal needs no tail]] when targeting Menace
** [[Declare your (Skeleton Type) a completed Reptile]] or [[Declare your (Skeleton Type) a completed Amphibian]]
* If one thighbone failed and targeting Antiquity:
** {{IL|Femur of a Jurassic Beast|1 x}}
** {{IL|Tomb-Lion's Tail}}
** [[Declare your (Skeleton Type) a completed Reptile]]
* If one thighbone failed and targeting Menace:
** {{IL|Femur of a Surface Deer|1 x}} (reduce Menace to prevent overshooting)
** {{IL|Jet Black Stinger}}
** [[Declare your (Skeleton Type) a completed Reptile]]

===Coral-Coiled Cockatrice===
*{{IL|Skeleton: Amalgamy|Short = y}} 6, {{IL|Skeleton: Antiquity|Short = y}} 3
*Zoomania: {{IL|Comprehensive Study of Avian Anatomies, Oneiric and Otherwise|Appearance = Bird}}, Sell to [[Sell your skeleton to a Zailor|the Zailor]]

* {{IL|Thorned Ribcage}}
* {{IL|Skull in Coral}}
* {{IL|Tomb-Lion's Tail}}: Install this early to chance the roll, if it is not 100%. Maybe you could abort or alter the build if you fail, but this must succeed for the recipe to be viable.
* {{IL|Helical Thighbone}}(s): Install these next. If you successfully install one, then this is all you need. If you fail the first leg, try to install another; if you fail both, this recipe won't be optimal.
** If you succeed at the first leg, the other leg can be a {{IL|Femur of a Jurassic Beast}}.
* {{IL|Wing of a Young Terror Bird}}(s): At least one, or both wings if both legs have to be Helical. This/These should bring Antiquity to 3.
** {{IL|Albatross Wing}}: The other wing, if you prefer to raise the value of the skeleton to as high as possible. One of the legs must be a Jurassic Femur if you take this option.
* [[Declare your (Skeleton Type) a completed Bird]]

===Lopsided Lizard===
*{{IL|Skeleton: Amalgamy|Short = y}} 7, Zoomania: {{IL|A Complete Account of Frogs, Toads, and Other Croaking Beasts|Appearance = Reptile}} (1 exhaustion), {{IL|Sell to the Tentacled Entrepreneur (Skeleton)|Appearance=Tentacled Entrepreneur|Image=tentacledentrepreneur.png}}.

* {{IL|Thorned Ribcage}}: This ribcage is relatively easy to get compared to the more expensive ones.
* {{IL|Skull in Coral}}: Since the above ribcage is used, the Shapeling Arts roll for this should be trivial for characters that have maxed out their base skill.
* {{IL|Helical Thighbone|2 x}}s: You may have to begin with these, if your character cannot accumulate up to 10 {{IL|Shapeling Arts}}. What you use next depends on the outcome of these rolls.
**Both failures: {{IL|Helical Thighbone|1 x}} and then, {{IL|Unidentified Thigh Bone|1 x}} or a tentacle, thus leading to a lower Amalgamy rating.
**Both successes: {{IL|Unidentified Thigh Bone|2 x}}
**Give a tail, and [[declare your (Skeleton Type) a completed Reptile]].

===Caducean Raptor===
*{{IL|Skeleton: Amalgamy|Short = y}} 6 {{IL|Skeleton: Menace|Short = y}} 6 - {{IL|Sell to a Rubbery Collector|Image=rubberyman2.png|Appearance=Rubbery Collector}}
*Zoomania: {{IL|Comprehensive Study of Avian Anatomies, Oneiric and Otherwise|Appearance = Bird}}/{{IL|A Complete Account of Frogs, Toads, and Other Croaking Beasts|Appearance = Reptile}}, 1 exhaustion, high {{IL|Shapeling Arts}}

* {{IL|Thorned Ribcage}}
* {{IL|Plated Skull}}
* {{IL|Jet Black Stinger}}

The limbs to be used depend on the outcomes of the installation of the skull and tail. If both are successes:
* {{IL|Wing of a Young Terror Bird}}: This should bring {{IL|Skeleton: Menace|Short = y}} to 6.
* {{IL|Albatross Wing}}
* {{IL|Helical Thighbone|2 x}}s
* [[Declare your (Skeleton Type) a completed Bird]]

If both are failures, i.e. you have only 4 levels of Menace, then:
* {{IL|Helical Thighbone|4 x}}s: You have no other choices, really; thus far, these are the limbs that can give up to 2 points of the pertinent qualities. This will bring the multiple of the secondary qualities to at least 20, if you have been having really awful luck with the rolls.
* [[Declare your (Skeleton Type) a completed Reptile]]

If either is a failure, i.e. you have 5 levels of Menace, then go for 7 levels of Amalgamy with these:
* {{IL|Albatross Wing|2 x}}s
* {{IL|Helical Thighbone|2 x}}s
* [[Declare your (Skeleton Type) a completed Bird]]

===Amorphous Arthropod===
*{{IL|Skeleton: Amalgamy|Short = y}} 11
*Zoomania: {{IL|Survey of Arachnids and Insects Native to the Neath and Unterzee|Appearance = Insect}} (4 exhaustion)

This is a skeleton made with the intention of having maximised {{IL|Skeleton: Amalgamy|Short = y}}, without having to resort to a {{IL|Skeleton with Seven Necks}}, in order to sell to the {{IL|Sell to the Tentacled Entrepreneur (Skeleton)|Appearance=Tentacled Entrepreneur|Image=tentacledentrepreneur.png}}. This will require {{IL|Shapeling Arts}} challenges, so train this skill first. 
* {{IL|Flourishing Ribcage}}
* {{IL|Skull in Coral|1 x}}: {{IL|Shapeling Arts}} -2 challenge
* {{IL|Carved Ball of Stygian Ivory|1 x}} To occupy the second neck without adding a skull, which would prevent you from declaring the skeleton an Insect.
* {{IL|Helical Thighbone|4 x}}: Unless you failed the challenge for the Skull, you should try to fail exactly one of these rolls. If you failed the skull, try to fail none of them.
* {{IL|Unidentified Thigh Bone|2 x}}: If you have failed 2 rolls so far and your Amalgamy is 9, then replace one of these with another {{IL|Helical Thighbone}}.
* [[Decide your Tailless Animal needs no tail]]
* [[Declare your (Skeleton Type) a completed Insect]]

This recipe should reach Amalgamy 11, which will maximise the pay-out while keeping your {{IL|Bone Market Exhaustion}} at 4 levels, which will be cleared by Time, the Healer.

===Warped Warbler===
*{{IL|Skeleton: Amalgamy|Short = y}} 14 + {{IL|Approximate Value of Your Skeleton in Pennies|Appearance=Value}}
*Zoomania: {{IL|Comprehensive Study of Avian Anatomies, Oneiric and Otherwise|Appearance = Bird}} (7 exhaustion)

* {{IL|Skeleton with Seven Necks}}
* {{IL|Skull in Coral|5 x|Appearance=Skulls in Coral}}: These involve a lot of Shapeling Arts challenges. which is the main hurdle for this recipe. Fortunately, each skull that is installed reduces the difficulty further.
* {{IL|Sabre-toothed Skull}}: You are wasting the {{IL|Skeleton: Antiquity|Short = y}} (and {{IL|Skeleton: Menace|Short = y}}), of course, but the value is what you want.
* {{IL|Bright Brass Skull}}: This would be good for increasing value while not increasing {{IL|Skeleton: Self-Evident Implausibility|Appearance=Implausibility}} too much that a high-level player character could not reliably handle it.
* {{IL|Albatross Wing|2 x}}s
* [[Declare your (Skeleton Type) a completed Bird]]
That should give you up to {{IL|Skeleton: Amalgamy|Short = y}} 14 for selling to the {{IL|Sell to the Tentacled Entrepreneur (Skeleton)|Appearance=Tentacled Entrepreneur|Image=tentacledentrepreneur.png}}. This will give seven levels of Exhaustion.

===Amalgamy Bomb===
This recipe uses the least number of actions to use up {{IL|Bone Market Exhaustion}} as efficiently as possible.
*{{IL|Ribcage with a Bouquet of Eight Spines}}
**Exchange {{IL|Volume of Collated Research|8 x}} and {{IL|Unprovenanced Artefact|4 x}} for {{IL|Skeleton with Seven Necks|1 x}} in 9 actions, see [[Moonlit Woods (Guide)]].
**Exchange {{IL|Skeleton with Seven Necks|1 x}}, {{IL|Thorned Ribcage|1 x}}, {{IL|Nodule of Trembling Amber|3 x}} and {{IL|Searing Enigma|3 x}} for {{IL|Ribcage with a Bouquet of Eight Spines|1 x}}, see [[Helicon House (Guide)]].
*{{IL|Skull in Coral|8 x}}
**Exchange {{IL|Memory of Distant Shores}} and {{IL|Sworn Statement}} for {{IL|Skull in Coral}}, see [[Canal Cruising in Jericho Locks (Guide)]].
*{{IL|Helical Thighbone|2 x}}
**[[Collate a great number of palaeontological reports]] to grind lots of {{IL|Survey of the Neath's Bones}}.
**[[Dig near Station VIII]] and choose [[An amalgamous interment]]
**{{IL|Shapeling Arts}} 10 the best
*{{IL|Albatross Wing|2 x}}
**Exchange {{IL|Nodule of Warm Amber|25 x}} and {{IL|Bone Fragments|2000 x}} for {{IL|Albatross Wing|2 x}}, see [[Duplicate the wings of a Focused Albatross]].
*No tail
**Or any tail is fine, {{IL|Obsidian Chitin Tail}} is the best but hard to grind.
*[[Declare your (Skeleton Type) a completed Bird]] and [[Sell to the Tentacled Entrepreneur (Skeleton)]] on Amalgamy and bird week
**{{IL|Comprehensive Study of Avian Anatomies, Oneiric and Otherwise}} required
**{{IL|Bizarre}} 13 required, 15 the best.
**Gives {{IL|Final Breath|2895 x}}, {{IL|Memory of Distant Shores|1069 x}} and {{IL|Bone Market Exhaustion|21 x}}
Roughly speaking, this recipe gives around 70 Echoes for every point of {{IL|Bone Market Exhaustion}}. Very efficient.

==Menace==
There are no legs that give menace, so most of these are birds with many skulls.

===Ancient Armoured Avian===
*Goal: {{IL|Skeleton: Menace|Short = y}} 13, {{IL|Skeleton: Antiquity|Short = y}} 3 (1 exhaustion)
*Zoomania: {{IL|Comprehensive Study of Avian Anatomies, Oneiric and Otherwise|Appearance = Bird}}

* {{IL|Skeleton with Seven Necks}}
* {{IL|Plated Skull|}}s: Stack these until {{IL|Skeleton: Menace|Short = y}} lands on 8 to 9.
* {{IL|Horned Skull}}: What to do next depends on the outcome of the roll to install this.
**If the roll to install the above succeeds, {{IL|Skeleton: Menace|Short = y}} should be 10 or 11.
***If it is 10, install another {{IL|Horned Skull|}}. If it is 11, continue to the next step.
* {{IL|Carved Ball of Stygian Ivory}}: Plug any remaining necks with these.
** Or perhaps swap one ball for a {{IL|Bright Brass Skull}} to increase the Value of the skeleton.
* {{IL|Wing of a Young Terror Bird|2 x}}s: This should bring {{IL|Skeleton: Antiquity|Short = y}} to 3.
**Alternatively, you can substitute 2 Plated Skulls for 2 Horned or 2 Sabre-Toothed ones, and install {{IL|Albatross Wing}}s instead. This is less predictable though.
* [[Make your skeleton less dreadful]]: You really shouldn't have to do this if you have been closely managing the increments of Menace.
* [[Declare your (Skeleton Type) a completed Bird]]
This skeleton is to be sold to the {{IL|Sell to an Author of Gothic Tales (Skeleton)|Image=genericwoman1.png|Appearance=Author of Gothic Tales}}, thus giving a return of {{IL|Carved Ball of Stygian Ivory|39 x}} for 1 level of {{IL|Bone Market Exhaustion}}.

You can also replace the {{IL|Horned Skull}} or {{IL|Sabre-toothed Skull}} with a {{IL|Doubled Skull}} for more manageable increases of Menace. Of course, if you do this, the wings must be composed of a {{IL|Wing of a Young Terror Bird}} and an {{IL|Albatross Wing}}.

===Savage Sunfish===
You also want to sell this to the {{IL|Sell to a Rubbery Collector|Image=rubberyman2.png|Appearance=Rubbery Collector}}. The target is {{IL|Skeleton: Amalgamy|Short = y}} 5 and {{IL|Skeleton: Menace|Short = y}} 7.
*Zoomania: {{IL|Unexpurgated Accounting of the Anatomies of Aquatic Life-forms|Appearance = Fish}}

* {{IL|Thorned Ribcage}}: Again, of course you should start with this.
* {{IL|Plated Skull}}
* {{IL|Amber-Crusted Fin|4 x}}s
* [[Decide your Tailless Animal needs no tail]]: (''Author's note: Sunfish have next to no tails.'')
* [[Declare your (Skeleton Type) a completed Fish]]

===Heuvelmans' Nightmare===
*Zoomania: {{IL|Unexpurgated Accounting of the Anatomies of Aquatic Life-forms|Appearance = Fish}}
*{{IL|Sell to a Rubbery Collector|Image=Rubberyman2.png|Appearance=Rubbery Collector}}.

* {{IL|Flourishing Ribcage}}
* {{IL|Plated Skull}} or {{IL|Severed Chimaerical Head of the Vake|Appearance=a copy of the Vake's Head}}; the latter is more expensive.
*{{IL|Carved Ball of Stygian Ivory}}: The fish that you are going to declare can have only one head.
*{{IL|Amber-Crusted Fin|6 x}}s
*{{IL|Jet Black Stinger}}
*[[Declare your (Skeleton Type) a completed Fish]]
If you succeed in all of the rolls, you should have around {{IL|Skeleton: Menace|Short = y}} 10-11 and {{IL|Skeleton: Amalgamy|Short = y}} 8. You would be having a lot of Rubbery Pies, but keep in mind that there will be Exhaustion.

====Chaos Monkey====
Low cost (common component) per point of menace to easily take advantage of Exhaustion. Sell this to A Teller of Terrors for 3 levels of {{IL|Bone Market Exhaustion}}.

*{{IL|Thorned Ribcage}}
*{{IL|Horned Skull}}
*{{IL|Crustacean Pincer|4 x}}s
*{{IL|Jet Black Stinger}}
*[[Declare your (Skeleton Type) a completed Monkey]]


==Antiquity==
These recipes typically use {{IL|Mammoth Ribcage}}, {{IL|Femur of a Jurassic Beast|Appearance=Femurs of a Jurassic Beast}} and tomb lion tails.

===Sauropsid on Shale===
*{{IL|Skeleton: Antiquity|Short = y}} 7, {{IL|Sell your skeleton to the Ambassador|Appearance=Ambassador|Image=Ambassador.png}}. 
*Zoomania: {{IL|A Complete Account of Frogs, Toads, and Other Croaking Beasts|Appearance = Reptile}}/{{IL|Comprehensive Study of Avian Anatomies, Oneiric and Otherwise|Appearance = Bird}}, 1 exhaustion

* {{IL|Mammoth Ribcage}}
* {{IL|Bright Brass Skull}}: Might as well maximise the returns of Memories of Light.
* {{IL|Femur of a Jurassic Beast|4 x|Appearance=Femurs of a Jurassic Beast}} 2 of these may be replaced with {{IL|Wing of a Young Terror Bird}} in order to make a bird.
* Add a {{IL|Tomb-Lion's Tail}}
* [[Declare your (Skeleton Type) a completed Reptile]] / [[Declare your (Skeleton Type) a completed Bird]]


===Terrifying Pterodactyl===
*Goal: {{IL|Skeleton: Menace|Short = y}} 6 * {{IL|Skeleton: Antiquity|Short = y}} 6 to the {{IL|Sell to an Author of Gothic Tales (Skeleton)|Image=genericwoman1.png|Appearance=Author of Gothic Tales}}.
*Zoomania: {{IL|Comprehensive Study of Avian Anatomies, Oneiric and Otherwise|Appearance = Bird}}, 1 exhaustion

* {{IL|Mammoth Ribcage}}
* {{IL|Plated Skull}}: You can also substitute this with a {{IL|Horned Skull}}, if you are confident that the Monstrous Anatomy roll would turn out right.
* {{IL|Jet Black Stinger}}
* {{IL|Femur of a Jurassic Beast|2 x|Appearance=Femurs of a Jurassic Beast}}: If you succeeded with the Horned Skull's roll, replace one of these with an {{IL|Unidentified Thigh Bone}}.
* {{IL|Wing of a Young Terror Bird|2 x|Appearance=Wings of a Young Terror Bird}}: These wings are very much the best limbs for skeletons to be sold to this particular buyer.
* [[Declare your (Skeleton Type) a completed Bird]]

==Sainted skeletons==
{{GuideNeedsWork|Reevaluate the sell value and overall usefulness of this recipe to account for the recent {{IL|Holy Relic of the Thigh of Saint Fiacre|Appearance=relic}} nerf.}}
These skeletons are based on both {{IL|Skeleton: Support for a Counter-church Theology}} and value and should be [[Sell your Skeleton to the Sculptress|sold to the Bohemian Sculptress]]. A variant of this is the exhibition recipe, which shouldn't be sold at all, but is used in order to work the opportunity deck of the Upper River.

===Sainted Spider===
*{{IL|Survey of Arachnids and Insects Native to the Neath and Unterzee|Appearance = Spider}}
This recipe is meant for maximising the value of {{IL|Holy Relic of the Thigh of Saint Fiacre}}. It uses {{IL|Segmented Ribcage}}, currently only available from {{FontWhitsun}} and {{IL|Port Cecil}}. It should be [[Sell your Skeleton to the Sculptress|sold to the Bohemian Sculptress]] during spider week.
*{{IL|Segmented Ribcage|3 x}}
*{{IL|Nevercold Brass Sliver|400 x}}
*{{IL|Holy Relic of the Thigh of Saint Fiacre|8 x}}
*Optional: {{IL|Withered Tentacle|1 x}} or other valueable tails that do not increase {{IL|Skeleton: Antiquity}}

#Start with a segmented ribcage
#Use another segment as its skull.
#Add another segment as a tail.
#Add 8 saint legs. A high {{IL|Mithridacy}} is an advantage.
#Add a tail that gives value but not Antiquity or [[Decide your (Skeleton Type) needs no tail]]
#[[Declare your (Skeleton Type) a completed Spider]]

A high mithridacy will help both reducing {{IL|Skeleton: Self-Evident Implausibility}} as well as increasing {{IL|Skeleton: Support for a Counter-church Theology}}. You will end up at between 80 and 88 Support as well as 0-16 Implausibility. An estimate at {{IL|Mithridacy}} 10 give 84 support and 8 implausibility, giving a {{IL|Shadowy}} 400 challenge on the sale.
~10.5 Support and 14.37 {{e}} skeleton value (incl. Zoomania) equals 40.625 {{E}} value per {{IL|Holy Relic of the Thigh of Saint Fiacre|Appearance=relic}}. The resulting {{IL|Rumour of the Upper River|Appearance = rumours}} can be spent on {{IL|Prismatic Frame}}s for further skeletons.

== Khaganian Exports ==
These skeletons are made for sale to {{IL|The Trifling Diplomat}} in {{IL|The Copper Quarter}}. Though you can sell to him as soon as you're able to zail to the Khanate, you will need access to {{IL|Khan's Heart}} proper in order to spend the {{IL|Assortment of Khaganian Coinage}} he pays you. This means these skeletons should only be used late in the railway, after building out the Cabinet Noir at {{IL|Balmoral}}. You'll profit most from him by buying {{IL|Crackling Device}}s to sell when they are in-season at the [[The Rat Market (Guide)|Rat Market]].

The Diplomat gives {{IL|Bone Market Exhaustion}} and does not pay out for it especially well. You're best off selling him skeletons with a high {{IL|Approximate Value of Your Skeleton in Pennies|Appearance=Value}}; Chimeras are ideal, as he ignores {{IL|Skeleton: Self-Evident Implausibility|Short=true}}. On weeks where he has an interest in {{IL|Skeleton: Amalgamy|Short=true}}, {{IL|Skeleton: Antiquity|Short=true}}, or {{IL|Skeleton: Menace|Short=true}}, avoiding {{IL|Bone Market Exhaustion}} is as simple as keeping the relevant quality at 9 or below. On other weeks he uses a sum of all three qualities, which must be 24 or less to avoid {{IL|Bone Market Exhaustion}}. Spiders, Insects, and skeletons with numerous legs are best sold to the Bone Market proper; the Trifling Diplomat will not be nearly as profitable.

Because it's such a long journey, anything you do in the Khanate should be combined with as many other profitable related actions as possible: [[Piracy (Guide)|Piracy]], crates from [[The warehouses of the Peaceable & Godly Trading Company|Peaceable & Godly]], and weekly {{IL|Emetic Revelation}}s from [[Khaganian Intrigue (Guide)|Khaganian Intrigue]] all help raise the profit gained through Khanate trips. 


=== Diplomatic Bird ===

* {{IL|Skeleton with Seven Necks}}
* {{IL|Bright Brass Skull|7}}
* {{IL|Wing of a Young Terror Bird|2}}
* {{IL|Declare your (Skeleton Type) a completed Bird}}

This can be sold during weeks where {{IL|The Diplomat's Current Fascination}} is birds or skeletons with many skulls. It is incredibly easy to source, requiring only a single trip into the Moonlit Woods and the echoes/brass for the skulls.

=== Prismatic Hydra ===

* {{IL|Prismatic Frame}}
* {{IL|Doubled Skull|2}}
* {{IL|Bright Brass Skull}}
* Any limbs preferably ones that add {{IL|Skeleton: Amalgamy}}, {{IL|Skeleton: Antiquity}}, or {{IL|Skeleton: Menace}}.
* {{IL|Declare your (Skeleton Type) a completed Chimera}}
* {{IL|Decide your (Skeleton Type) needs no tail}}
* Sold when {{IL|The Diplomat's Current Fascination}} is skeletons with many skulls.

==Pre-Railway Skeletons==
===Midgame Rubbery Saint===
This skeleton is designed to let pre-Railway players save time and echoes when obtaining the {{IL|Nightsoil of the Bazaar}} from the Tentacled Servant required for the Laboratory equipment upgrade, while minimising reliance on opportunity cards: a single skeleton sells for 205-213 Nightsoil (slightly more than the amount needed) and only requires a single opportunity card.
*{{IL|Human Ribcage}} either from {{IL|The Small Stalls|Image=Bone3.png}} (costs {{IL|Jade Fragment|3000 x}}s), from {{IL|Call in favours at the Shuttered Palace|Image=Palace.png}} (costs {{IL|Favours: Constables|5 x}}), or from [[Brawling with Dockers (Guide)|Brawling with Dockers]].
*{{IL|Bright Brass Skull}} from the Bazaar or from [[The Sanctuary of the Crimson Petals 2|completing an expedition to the Sanctuary of the Crimson Petals]].
*{{IL|Knotted Humerus}} obtained either from the opportunity card {{IL|Bones in the River|Image=River.png}} drawn only in Wolfstack Docks, or from the [[Test the elastic limits of flesh and bone]] experiment in the Laboratory. This piece is vital, as it provides the single point of Amalgamy required to sell to the Tentacled Servant.
*{{IL|Human Arm}} either from {{IL|The Small Stalls|Image=Bone3.png}} (3 arms cost {{IL|Jade Fragment|2000 x}}s), or from [[Call in favours in the Flit]] (3 arms cost {{IL|Favours: Criminals|5 x}}), or from [[Brawling with Dockers (Guide)|Brawling with Dockers]]. While almost worthless it allows you to declare your skeleton a humanoid rather than a chimera, making it easier to sell.
*{{IL|Holy Relic of the Thigh of Saint Fiacre|2 x}} from {{IL|Publish an Expose of Palaeontology|Image=Boneshard.png}} in Doubt Street. You only need these to maximise the value of your skeleton so you could theoretically replace it with some other, less valuable legs, as long as you don't mind sourcing more Humeri, ribcages and arms.
*[[Declare your (Skeleton Type) a completed Humanoid]].

Attaching the Bright Brass Skull and the Knotted Humerus are both Mithridacy challenges so you will have an easier time selling this if you have already gained some {{IL|Mithridacy}} from {{IL|Stay a little while|Appearance=the Waswood|Image=Forest.png}} in Parabola; additionally the challenge on the Humerus will be easier if you take care to attach it before all the other limbs.

===Brass Lollipop===
This skeleton allows you to easily transfer Echoes to {{IL|Bone Fragments}} or {{IL|Hinterland Scrip}}. This could be useful to get {{IL|Parabolan Orange-apple}}s for {{IL|Ivory Femur}}s in order to make high value skeletons with other skeleton recipes, or in order to get scrip to exchange for a {{IL|Sabre-toothed Skull}}, which adds the same value as a brass skull, but doesn't add implausibility. This could be useful when making skeletons with high implausibility like the sculpture above. It can also be done for building the station in {{IL|Ealing Gardens}}.

You need:
* {{IL|Headless Skeleton}} from opportunity cards or from the Bone Market.
* {{IL|Bright Brass Skull}} from the Bazaar
* Declare your finished skeleton a humanoid
* [[Sell a complete skeleton to the Bone Hoarder]] for {{IL|Bone Fragments}}. This gives a bonus of 2 fossils.
* [[Sell to a Constable (Skeleton)]] for {{IL|Hinterland Scrip}}. This gives a bonus of 20 scrip.

===Stupendous Statues===
These skeletons are meant for the {{IL|A Colourful Phantasist|Appearance=Colourful Phantasist|Image=bohogirl4.png}}, and should be possible with no access to Parabola. You will want to focus on Implausibility and either Antiquity or Amalgamy. This is one of few ways for pre-Railway players to benefit from exhaustion.

Start with the following parts:
* {{IL|Human Ribcage}}
* {{IL|Bright Brass Skull}}

Antiquity:
* {{IL|Femur of a Jurassic Beast|4 x}}
(Provides {{IL|Memory of Light}} and {{IL|Knob of Scintillack}})

Amalgamy:
* {{IL|Knotted Humerus|4x}}
(Provides {{IL|Hinterland Scrip}} and {{IL|Slim Volume of Bazaarine Poetry}})

Menace:
* {{IL|Crustacean Pincer|4x}} - from Zailing by {{IL|The Salt Steppes}}
(Provides {{IL|Solacefruit}} and {{IL|Carved Ball of Stygian Ivory}})

And end with [[Declare your (Skeleton Type) a completed Chimera]].

This should give you at least 5 Implausibility and 4 of the other quality for 21 bonus items, but may give a lot more, especially if your advanced stats are low.

==Special skeletons==
{{GuideNeedsWork|Reason=Sections about generator skeletons and Khaganian coinage grind need restoring}}

===Crackpot Export===
The surface-dwellers who purchase bird skeletons through {{IL|Export the Skeleton of a Neathy Bird|Appearance=the Dumbwaiter of Balmoral|Image=moonparliament.png}} are the only ones who are foolish enough to buy the following recipes.
Due to the high {{IL|Skeleton: Self-Evident Implausibility|Appearance=implausibility}}, few other buyers would want these. 

====Septa-Cranial String-Along====
* {{IL|Skeleton with Seven Necks}}
* {{IL|Bright Brass Skull|7 x}}s: The Implausibility would be so high that even the most naive of Neath buyers would be a difficult customer. But Surfacers who presume that anything outlandish is Neathy? Oh yes.
* {{IL|Albatross Wing|2 x}}s: Just to maximise the value; there may be more valuable wings in the future.
*[[Declare your (Skeleton Type) a completed Bird]]

That takes 13 Actions, not counting the trip between Balmoral and London.

====Extravagant Eight-Headed Hoax====
* {{IL|Ribcage with a Bouquet of Eight Spines}}
* {{IL|Bright Brass Skull|8 x}}s
* {{IL|Albatross Wing|2 x}}s
* {{IL|Ivory Femur|2 x}}s: You would think that this would have been too much even for the Surfacers - but it is not.
* {{IL|Plaster Tail Bones|Appearance=Plaster Tail Bone|1 x}}: Ditto.
*[[Declare your (Skeleton Type) a completed Bird]]

That takes 16 Actions, not counting the trip between Balmoral and London.

=== Leviathan Frame Fuel ===
[[Impress her with your own constructions|The Carpenter's Granddaughter]] will trade you a {{IL|Leviathan Frame}} for a completed skeleton if its value is at least 30,000 pennies, including zoological bonus. Therefore, if you want to do this your goal is to hit 30,000 as close as possible.

==== Sufficient Archaeopteryx ====
On a bird week:
* {{IL|Mammoth Ribcage}}
* {{IL|Sabre-toothed Skull}}
* {{IL|Ivory Femur|2 x}}
* {{IL|Albatross Wing|2 x}}
*[[Declare your (Skeleton Type) a completed Bird]]

This produces a skeleton with 0 Implausibility (important because, as a real palaeontologist, the Carpenter's Granddaughter is more perceptive than most buyers) and a value of 30,800 including zoological mania. Exceptionally Shadowy characters may substitute a {{IL|Bright Brass Skull}} for the Sabre-toothed, swap in one {{IL|Wing of a Young Terror Bird}} for one Albatross Wing, and add a {{IL|Jet Black Stinger}}, for a value of 30,030 including mania, with a 200 Shadowy check; [[Ambition: Bag a Legend!]] players may use a Vake skull instead, for 0 Implausibility with the same value.



=== Fragment Farming ===
==== Incomplete Skeleton====
This deliberately-incomplete skeleton is meant to convert {{IL|Penny|Appearance=Echoes}} into {{IL|Bone Fragments}} by intentionally failing the Dangerous check during [[Break down your (Skeleton Type) for parts|disassembly]]. Additional parts are optional and Implausibility is not a concern since we're not selling. The base skeleton, the only part that can't be bought directly, is not consumed upon disassembly, so you can always do this so long as you have the Echoes to afford skulls.

* {{IL|Ribcage with a Bouquet of Eight Spines}} (or {{IL|Skeleton with Seven Necks}} if you lack access to Helicon House)
* {{IL|Bright Brass Skull|7-8 x}}

You can ensure failure on the dissassembly check by having only a {{IL|Weasel of Woe}} equipped. The mere presence of this wretched little creature is enough to reduce overcapped Dangerous to negative double digits. You'll also want it equipped for the {{IL|Mithridacy}} checks to [[Affix a Bright Brass Skull to your (Skeleton Type)|add the Brass Skulls]]. Each failure reduces the skull's value by {{E}}2.50 but saves you {{E}}2 worth of Nevercold Brass.

If you cannot afford the {{IL|Weasel of Woe|Appearance=Woesel}}, you can approximate its effect with a {{IL|Talkative Rattus Faber}} and other Dangerous-reducing gear. Success on the check can actually be useful, once: it will gain you Whispered Hints instead of bone fragments, which should be sold to the Bazaar, so you can buy the Woesel, so you don't accidentally succeed again.

In this way, you can gain up to {{IL|Bone Fragments|48000 x}} in 10 actions at the cost of 500 {{e}}. If your normal EPA is 6, you can gain <math>\frac {48000}{10+500/6}=514.3</math> Fragments per action.

====Seven Heads Bird====
*[[Build on the Skeleton with Seven Necks]]
**(estimation) gain {{IL|Unprovenanced Artefact|4 x}} in 2 actions
**(estimation) gain {{IL|Volume of Collated Research|8 x}} in 4.8 actions
**{{IL|The Seal of St Joshua}} required
**[[Compel the Ghillie to extend your visit]]*2, [[Enter the woods]], [[Keep to the fringes]], [[Lay a trail]], [[Wander the woods]]*2, [[Track down the Capercaillie]] and [[Report a sighting of Grouse]]. 9 actions in all, see [[Moonlit Woods (Guide)]].
**Actions are 16.8.
*[[Affix a Bright Brass Skull to your (Skeleton Type)]]*7
**{{IL|Nevercold Brass Sliver}} sourcing from [[Seek out spy-holes]]
**Actions are <math>7+7*200/380=10.68</math>
*[[Add the Wing of a Young Terror Bird to your (Skeleton Type)]]*2
**Other wings are fine.
*[[Declare your (Skeleton Type) a completed Bird]]
*[[Sell a complete skeleton to the Bone Hoarder]] on a bird week and use 1 {{IL|Hastily Scrawled Warning Note}} each time
**(estimation) gain {{IL|Hastily Scrawled Warning Note|1 x}} in 0.25 actions.
**(estimation) Actions are 2.5.
In this way, you can gain {{IL|Bone Fragments|57680 x}}. If your normal EPA is 6, actions are <math>16.8+10.68+2+1+2.5+\frac{62.5*7-2.5-5}{6}=104.6</math>, which means you can gain <math>57680/104.6=551.2</math> Fragments per action.

===Warm Amber Farming===
Similar to [[Assembling a Skeleton (Guide)/Recipes#Seven Heads Bird|Seven Heads Bird]].
*[[Build on the Skeleton with Seven Necks]]
**Actions are 16.8
*[[Affix a Bright Brass Skull to your (Skeleton Type)]]*2
**Actions are <math>2+2*200/380=3.05</math>
*[[Affix a Sabre-toothed Skull to your (Skeleton Type)]]*5
**Sourcing from [[Buy a Sabre-toothed Skull off him]]
**Actions are 10
*[[Add the Wing of a Young Terror Bird to your (Skeleton Type)]]
*[[Put an Albatross Wing on your (Skeleton Type)]]
**Sourcing from [[Duplicate the wings of a Focused Albatross]]
**(estimation) Actions are <math>(2000/550+2.5/5+1)/2+1=3.57</math>
*[[Declare your (Skeleton Type) a completed Bird]]
*[[Sell your skeleton to a Zailor]] on a bird and Antiquity week
In this way, you can gain {{IL|Nodule of Warm Amber|5745 x}}. If your normal EPA is 6, actions are <math>16.8+3.05+10+1+3.57+2+\frac{120.51*0.508*5+62.5*2-2.5*2-2-3.5*6*5*0.508}{6}=98.21</math>, which means you can gain <math>5745/98.21=58.5</math> Warm Amber per action.

==Recipes with historical value==

===Primordial Ape===
{{Wiki Note|As of 11 August 2022 Fossil Apes are no longer a viable grind, due to a increase in {{IL|Fossilised Forelimb}} cost}}

This recipe requires '''{{IL|Monstrous Anatomy}} 15''' to guarantee success on all checks, but for those who can attain that level it <s>is</s> '''was''' a quick and comparatively simple way to generate a chunk of {{IL|Hinterland Scrip}} without accruing {{IL|Bone Market Exhaustion}}. It produces a skeleton with {{IL|Skeleton: Antiquity|9 x|Appearance=Antiquity}} and {{IL|Skeleton: Menace|2 x|Appearance=Menace}}, for which {{IL|An Author of Gothic Tales}} will pay 18 secondary rewards ({{IL|Carved Ball of Stygian Ivory|Appearance=Carved Balls of Stygian Ivory}}), just below the Exhaustion threshhold. When {{IL|Bone Market Fluctuations:|Appearance=Bone Market Fluctuations}} is [[Skeleton: Antiquity|Antiquity]], the payout increases to 22 without generating additional Exhaustion.

Four {{IL|Fossilised Forelimb}}s can be purchased from {{IL|Anning and Daughters}} in [[The Upper River Exchange]] for <s>220</s> '''340''' [[Hinterland Scrip|Scrip]]. Because the [[An Author of Gothic Tales|Author]] pays out in Scrip, that investment <s>will be recouped immediately, along with a profit of 55 Scrip</s> results in a net '''loss''' of 65 Scrip. [[Carved Ball of Stygian Ivory|Stygian Ivory]] will also sell to the Upper River Exchange for 5 Scrip apiece, if you are so inclined. Rinse and repeat!

* {{IL|Human Ribcage}}
* {{IL|Horned Skull}}
* {{IL|Fossilised Forelimb|4 x}}
* [[Declare your (Skeleton Type) a completed Ape]]

===The Frog of Faith and the Reverent Reptile===
''This skeleton has been superseded by the arrival of {{IL|Segmented Ribcage}}s''

You make this skeleton to sell to the {{IL|Sell your Skeleton to the Sculptress|Appearance=Bohemian Sculptress|Image=mushroomhat.png}}. Keep in mind that the skeleton must not have any {{IL|Skeleton: Antiquity|Appearance=Antiquity}}.
* {{IL|Thorned Ribcage}}: This is the default choice of ribcage. The others give the {{IL|Skeleton: Antiquity|Appearance=Antiquity}} quality, do not qualify or is otherwise just too much hassle to deal with.
**{{IL|Mammoth Ribcage}} can be more rewarding, but you have to do a relatively long lab experiment or use the Balmoral woods to get it.
* {{IL|Duplicate the skull of John the Baptist, if you can call that a skull|Appearance=Copy John's skull|Image=head.png}}
* {{IL|Affix Saint Fiacre's Thigh Relic to your (Skeleton Type)|4 x|Image=reliquary.png|Appearance=Holy Thigh Bones}}: If you are using the {{IL|Mammoth Ribcage}}, you get more rewards, but the Mithridacy rolls will be tougher - and you still have to [[Carve away some evidence of age|remove the Antiquity]].
* Add a tail and [[Declare your (Skeleton Type) a completed Reptile|declare it a Reptile]], or don't and [[Declare your (Skeleton Type) a completed Amphibian|declare it an Amphibian]]. Both ribcages have a tail socket that you need to deal with anyway.
Such a calcified congregation would bless you with at least 5 {{IL|Skeleton: Support for a Counter-church Theology|Appearance=Counter-church Theology}} points, more if you use the other ribcage. This should net you a lot of {{IL|Rumour of the Upper River|Appearance = Rumours of the Upper River}}. And flowers, of course.

===Beatific Bird===
If you still insist on using skeletons to get the Rumours, but you don't want to risk failed Mithridacy rolls or go through [[Invent a false nature for this bone|the tedium of getting the holy thigh bones]], then use this build:
* {{IL|Skeleton with Seven Necks}}
* {{IL|Duplicate the skull of John the Baptist, if you can call that a skull|Appearance=Copy John's skull, 7 times|Image=head.png}}: If you don't have high {{IL|Artisan of the Red Science}}, expect Nightmare build-ups. Failure is just an inconvenience though; it won't set your skeleton back.
* Any two wings (at this time of writing)
* [[Declare your (Skeleton Type) a completed Bird]]

===Ancient Asymmetric Alliterative Arachnid===
{{Wiki Note|In case spiders ever get good}}

Use this when antique spiders are in vogue. Your targets are {{IL|Skeleton: Antiquity|9 x|Appearance=Antiquity}} and {{IL|Skeleton: Amalgamy|4 x|Appearance=Amalgamy}}, which can be tricky to pull off due to the number of legs this skeleton will have. You'll want to {{IL|Sell to a Zailor with Particular Interests}} to get the most out of your qualities.
* {{IL|Mammoth Ribcage}}
* {{IL|Carved Ball of Stygian Ivory}}: Since spiders aren't supposed to have skulls, this is the only option. Fortunately you only need to pass the {{IL|Mithridacy}} check once, unlike multi-necked skeletons.
* {{IL|Add four more joints to your skeleton}}
* {{IL|Femur of a Jurassic Beast}} x7
* {{IL|Helical Thighbone}} x1: Any more than one will exceed our Amalgamy limit.
** '''Note:''' If you want an exhaustion-free version of this skeleton with only 2 {{IL|Skeleton: Amalgamy}}, replace this with an {{IL|Unidentified Thigh Bone}} or another {{IL|Femur of a Jurassic Beast}} and [[Apply_a_Withered_Tentacle_as_a_tail_on_your_(Skeleton_Type)|apply]] a {{IL|Withered Tentacle}} as a tail to negate the extra {{IL|Skeleton: Antiquity}}.
* {{IL|Plaster Tail Bones}} [[Decide_your_(Skeleton_Type)_needs_no_tail|(Optional)]]
* [[Declare your (Skeleton Type) a completed Spider]]

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