Assembling a Skeleton (Guide)/Recipes/Home Comforts

World Qualities:	Preferred Quality: Antiquity Preferred Type: Insects Occasional Buyer: An Enterprising Boot Salesman Diplomat's Fascination: Skeleton: Skulls
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Recipes for other skeletons can be found here.

Home Comforts

Besides selling skeletons, you also can Preserve Your Skeleton for Home Use, making it a Home Comfort. Since Approximate Value of Your Skeleton in Pennies basically doesn't matter here (minimal requirements are 100–300), the following recipes present the cheapest ways for obtaining specific Home Comforts.

In addition to the skeleton and some Home Comfort-specific costs, each item also costs one Annings' Complete and Reliable Kit, which you can buy for 125 x Hinterland Scrip at the Upper River Exchange.

Relatively Plausible Curator Skeleton

The skeleton must be a Curator, which requires that you have Connected: The Masters 3+, and a skeleton with exactly 1 x Skull, 2 x Arms, 2 x Legs and 2 x Wings. It cannot have any Fins or Tails. The skeleton also needs 4+ Menace, no Antiquity and less than 5 x Implausibility.

This recipe does not require any seasonal items, and doesn't require adding joints. The hardest part to acquire is the Ribcage, which is most easily done by calling in favours with Rubbery Men at Jericho Locks.

• Flourishing Ribcage
• Plated Skull
• Carved Ball of Stygian Ivory: Plug a skull socket.
• 2 x Crustacean Pincers
• 2 x Albatross Wings
  • You can use one (or two, if you succeeded on the Plated Skull check) of the cheaper Bat Wings instead. If you do, you will need to add and remove a menacing tail, since bat wings reduce Menace.
• 2 x Unidentified Thigh Bones
• Decide your Tailless Animal needs no tail
  • If you fail the roll on installing the Plated Skull and you don't want to restart from scratch, or you opted for the cheaper Bat Wings, you can still attach a Jet Black Stinger and then remove the tail.
• Declare your (Skeleton Type) a completed Curator

Diorama of a Prehistoric Hunter

The skeleton must be a Humanoid, which requires a Torso Style of 10–20, and exactly 1 x Skull, 2 x Arms and 2 x Legs. It cannot have any Wings, Fins or Tails. The skeleton also needs 3+ Antiquity and no Amalgamy.

The home comfort also costs 10 x Unprovenanced Artefacts, 20 x Ambiguous Eoliths and 100 x Bone Fragments.

• Human Ribcage
• Horned Skull (adds 1 x Antiquity), OR Cranial duplicate of John the Baptist
• 2 x Human Arms, OR substitute one with a Fossilised Forelimb (adds 1 x Antiquity at least, 2 on success).
• 2 x Femurs of a Jurassic Beast (adds 1 x Antiquity each); if minimum Antiquity has been achieved, substitute with Unidentified Thigh Bone.
• Declare your (Skeleton Type) a completed Humanoid

Gear-driven Skeletal Monkey

The skeleton must be a Monkey, which requires a Torso Style of 10–20, and exactly 1 x Skull, 4 x Arms and 1 x Tail. It cannot have any Legs, Wings or Fins. The skeleton also needs 3+ Amalgamy and no Antiquity.

The home comfort also costs 5 or 15 x Whirring Contraptions (Having the Albino Rat saves you 10) and 3000 x Nevercold Brass Slivers.

• Thorned Ribcage (adds 1 x Menace and 1 x Amalgamy)
• Rubbery Skull or Skull in Coral. Alternatively, any skull if you have Mithridacy 10.
• 0-4 x Knotted Humeri. Depending on result of adding a skull and your Mithridacy level, add as much as you need for minimum Amalgamy
• 0-4 x Human Arms
• Any tail except Tomb-Lion's Tail
• Declare your (Skeleton Type) a completed Monkey

Regally Re-embodied Bird of Prey

The skeleton must be a Bird, which requires that you have a Study of Avian Anatomies, and a skeleton with a Torso Style of 20 or above and exactly 2 x Legs and 2 x Wings. It cannot have any Arms or Fins. It can have 0 or 1 Tails, but it is best to have 0 to not incur an extra Tailfeather cost. The skeleton also needs 3+ Antiquity and no Menace.

The home comfort also costs 100 x Royal-Blue Feathers and 100 x Silk Scraps, and, if it has a tail, 20 x Tailfeathers Brilliant as Flame.

• Thorned Ribcage (adds 1 x Menace and 1 x Amalgamy): Due to the Torso Style requirement for declaring the skeleton as a bird, this is the most economical ribcage that you can use at this time of writing.
• Carved Ball of Stygian Ivory
• 2 x Bat Wings (removes 1 x Menace each)
• 2 x Femurs of a Jurassic Beast (adds 1 x Antiquity each)
• Tomb-Lion's Tail (adds 1 x Antiquity)
• Remove the tail from your Animal
• Declare your (Skeleton Type) a completed Bird

Anatomically Accurate Batrachian Bench

The skeleton must be an Amphibian, which requires that you have an Account of Frogs etc. The skeleton need a Torso Style of 20 or above and exactly 1 x Skull, exactly 4 x Legs and no Tails. It cannot have any Arms, Wings or Fins. The skeleton also needs 3+ Amalgamy and no Menace.

The home comfort also costs 5 x Relics of the Fourth City.

• Thorned Ribcage (adds 1 x Menace and 1 x Amalgamy)
• Cranial duplicate of John the Baptist (Or whatever is easiest for you – Licentiates have a good option here.)
• 1-2 x Helical Thighbones (adds 1-2 x Amalgamy each, depending on the outcome of the Shapeling Arts challenge)
• 1 x Femur of a Surface Deer (removes the Menace from the ribcage)
• 1-2 x Unidentified Thigh Bones
• Decide your Tailless Animal needs no tail
• Declare your (Skeleton Type) a completed Amphibian