Skeleton Recipes

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These recipes are to be used in conjunction with an animal skeleton.

Usage

After activating your skeleton, you may FEED it up to four items and then activate it by RUBbing it. Feeding your skeleton the appropriate items may result in a produced item or effect, the discovered recipes for which are listed further below. Not all items can be fed to the skeleton, and it seems to crush some of them at random. Physical size of the items seem to play a part in what it will eat (ie light edge/blunt weapons but not larger).

• Bonuses from the skeleton are self-cast only [1]
• Cool-down time seems to be one RL hour. The timer does not clear when you are logged out.
• Stat bonuses last 30 minutes.

Solving the Recipes

There are 106 recipes as of Nov 16th. (55/105 found) Confirmed: SGM Lyneya
Click here to see failed attempts.
Click here to see what items the skeleton will and will not eat.

There seems to be an issue with the LX/HX formulas. Specifically HX isn't working (likely the LX formula is suppose to be the HX formula.)

For the Tuesday Tidings #266 release, a review and overhaul of the recopies has begun that should address issues with experience naming and material incompatibility that has occurred since the original release in 2009. The below table and above links should act as a starting point for player review until new testing results are confirmed.

Skillset Bonus Recipes

• The Confirmed column is to track recipes that have been verified after the 2025 updates.

Armor Skillset Bonuses

	Ingredient	Ingredient	Ingredient	Ingredient	Confirmed
Shield Usage skill	shield	gem	gem		no
Light Armor skill	skin	skin	gem		no
	cloth	cloth	gem		no
	bone	bone	gem		no
Chain Armor skill	chain	chain	gem		no
Brigandine Armor skill	helm	helm	metal	gem	no
Plate Armor skill	plate	plate	gem		no
	plate	plate	metal	gem	no
Defending skill	shield	shield	LB	LE	no

Lore Skillset Bonuses

	Ingredient	Ingredient	Ingredient	Ingredient	Confirmed
Scholarship skill	paper	paper	stylus	stylus	no
	charcoal	ear	stick		no
Performance skill	string	ale	stick		no
	bone	bone	bone		no
	strings	rope	wood		no
	wood	wood	pipe		no
	drink	drink	drink	drink	no
Empathy skill	herb	bracelet	dust bunny	herb	no
Astrology skill	burin	tusk			no
Mechanical Lore skill	grass	vine	rock	pestle	no
Appraisal skill	glass	glass	glass		no
Tactics skill	skin	skin	grass		no

Magic Skillset Bonuses

	Ingredient	Ingredient	Ingredient	Ingredient	Confirmed
Primary Magic skill	gem	runestone	paper		no
Attunement skill	gem	runestone	pouch		no
Utility skill	gem	runestone	glass		no
Augmentation skill	runestone	runestone	ring		no
Targeted Magic skill	runestone	gem	arrow		no

Survival Skillset Bonuses

	Ingredient	Ingredient	Ingredient	Ingredient	Confirmed
Evasion skill	herb	herb	food	drink	no
	rope	rope	LE	LE	no
Athletics skill	rope	rope	rope		no
	fish	fish	fish	fish	no
Perception skill	glass	glass			no
Outdoorsmanship skill	paper	herb	dirt	wood	no
	dirt	rock	wood	grass	no
Stealth skill	cloak	gem	dagger		no
Locksmithing skill	lockpick	lockpick	lockpick	box	no
	dirt	rock	wood	box	no
Thievery skill	cloak	dagger			no
	gloves	gloves	cloak	dagger	no
First Aid skill	bandages	bandages	LE		no
Skinning skill	skin	skin	LE		no

Weapon Skillset Bonuses

Note: LE refers to a Light Edged weapon, and LB to a Light Blunt weapon.

	Ingredient	Ingredient	Ingredient	Ingredient	Confirmed
Small Edged skill	LE	gem	gem		no
	LE	LE	gem		no
Large Edged skill	LE	LE	LE		no
Twohanded Edged skill	LE	LE	LE	LE	no
Small Blunt skill	LB	gem	gem		no
	LB	LB	gem		no
Large Blunt skill	LB	LB	LB	gem	no
Twohanded Blunt skill	LB	LB	LB	LB	no
Slings skill	skin	skin	rock	rock	no
	skin	wood	rock	rock	no
Bows skill	wood	wood	rope		no
	wood	wood	rope	rope	no
	wood	wood	wood	rope	no
Crossbow skill	wood	wood	LE	rope	no
	wood	LE	LE	LB	no
Staves skill	wood	wood	LB		no
	wood	wood	wood	LB	no
Polearms skill	wood	wood	wood	LE	no
	wood	wood	LE	LE	no
Light Thrown skill	LE	LE			no
Heavy Thrown skill	LE	LE	LE		no
Brawling skill	wood	rock	boots		no
Offhand Weapon skill	LE	LB			no
Parry Ability skill	wood	wood	gem		no

Other Recipes

• The Confirmed column is to track recipes that have been verified after the 2025 updates.

Stat Bonuses

Stat Bonuses range from +2 to +6 for each stat bonus recipe discovered so far. From Hanryu's forge testing, it seems the strength bonus is either +2 or +3 per feeding.
Note - The crystal minds do NOT need to be completed (with the 1 hour psyche cool down.)

	Ingredient	Ingredient	Ingredient	Ingredient	Confirmed
Strength	rock	metal	metal	wood	no
Agility	rope	LE	grass		no
Discipline	wood	runestone	sage		no
	a smooth blue crystal	a jagged blue shard	a jagged blue shard		no
Wisdom	paper	stylus	rock	rock	no
	a smooth red crystal	a jagged red shard	a jagged red shard		no
Intelligence	spectacles	spectacles	gem		no
	a smooth black crystal	a jagged black shard	a jagged black shard		no
Reflex	rope	rope	wood	arrow	no
Charisma	mirror	gem	hairbrush		no
Stamina	rock	rock	wood	dirt	no

Other Recipes

• For italicized ingredients, just match that word. For example, bread could use slice of crusty rye bread or hearty loaf of bread or any of the other numerous items that can be found with the noun being bread.
• In 2018, GM Helje acknowledged that not all foraged items are working properly with the skeletons. See the confirmation notes below on specific foraged items.

	Ingredient	Ingredient	Ingredient	Ingredient	Notes	Confirmed
Health Regen	lavender	lavender	lavender	lavender	As you rub a <type> skeleton, the skeleton seems to briefly take on wounds, and you feel healthier (2018) foraged lavender is working properly	no
Leather Gloves	leather skin	leather skin			(2018) doesn't work with a <creature> skin (ex. crocodile skin), or with leather from the Outfitting Society (ex. rat-pelt leather)	no
bundling rope	vine	vine	vine		(2018) foraged vines are working properly	no
torch	stick	stick	cloth	oil	(2018) not working with metal mixing stick or split-reed mixing stick (pre-conversion) & chamois cloth Skeleton not accepting foraged sticks.	no
mottled gem pouch	skin	skin	gem	gem	(2018) used crocodile skin x2, a chrysoberyl & an alexandrite, also worked with rat-pelt leather (Outfitting Society material) & 2 gems	no
slim lockpick	metal	locked box				no
ordinary lockpick	metal	metal	locked box			no
stout lockpick	metal	metal	metal	locked box		no
Bomb	naphtha	charcoal			(2018) this item is not creating; also tried with each combination of the 2 ingredients	no
Charm Creation	bar, nugget or coin	gem			tested in 2018 with 3 gems (below), presumption is that all charms will come out a spiral <gemstone> charm	no
	nugget	agate			resulted in a spiral agate charm	no
	nugget	moonstone			resulted in a spiral moonstone charm	no
	nugget	pearl			resulted in a spiral pearl charm	no
hard apple cider	apple	apple	ale		(2018) foraged apples not working	no
apple juice	water	apple	apple		(2018) neither purchased or foraged apples working	no
lemonade	water	lemon	lemon		(2018) neither purchased or foraged lemons are working	no
orange juice	water	orange	orange		(2018) purchased oranges not working	no
miniature apple pie	apple	apple	bread	bread	(2018) foraged apples not working	no
miniature cherry pie	cherry	cherry	bread	bread		no
miniature chocolate cream pie	chocolate	chocolate	bread	bread		no
miniature cream pie	milk	milk	bread	bread		no
miniature lemon cream pie	lemon	lemon	bread	bread	(2018) foraged lemons not working	no
almond butter	almond	almond	sugar	sugar	(2018) foraged almonds not working	no
almond-butter sandwich	almond butter	bread			(2018) butter from crushed foraged almonds not working	no
fried rinds	skin	naphtha	oil		type of skin doesn't matter, used both crocodile skin and grey troll skin (rock troll) for testing, with the same results	no
casserole	food	food	food	water		no
meat pie	meat	meat	bread	bread		no
fish pie	fish	fish	bread	bread	(2018) not working with dish of piquant pepper fish	no
ritual bread	holy water	bread			Must be cleric	no
Fire in the Face	pepper	drink			used ale for the drink: : You rub your <type> skeleton and it begins to shudder slightly. As you rub a <type> skeleton, the tiny jaw opens wide to belch a blazing arc of fire at you! You manage to avoid having your face charbroiled by lifting your head away, but your throat is nevertheless not in good condition. : An acrid stench fills the area. Was left with a severe external neck bleeder (You have a shattered neck with gaping wounds.)	no

Still Undiscovered

	Ingredient	Ingredient	Ingredient	Ingredient!!Confirmed
Fatigue Regen					no
					no
Mana Regen					no
Shard of translucent crystal					no