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Animal Fat is one of those Windrose materials that feels easy to ignore until you suddenly need it. Current item and Workbench listings show it as the refill material for the Oil Lamp, which makes it part of the exploration chain rather than just a background animal drop.

What It Is Used For

Where It Comes From

Why It Matters More Than It Looks

• You do not feel the shortage until you start spending serious time underground or in darker interiors.

• It links the hunting loop to the exploration loop in a very practical way.

• On crowded servers, even common animal drops become annoying if your whole group is trying to keep lamps fueled.

Good Habits

• Keep a small reserve near your Workbench instead of carrying all of it with you.

• If you are planning a long cave or dungeon route, restock the lamp first rather than waiting until darkness becomes the reason the run turns sloppy.

• Do not treat Animal Fat as junk loot if you are still mining, spelunking, or learning interior layouts.

Where to Buy

Animal Fat can be purchased from the following vendor.

Complete Crafting Uses

Animal Fat is an ingredient in the following recipes.

See Also

• Oil Lamp - the main reason most players track Animal Fat closely

• Rough Hide - another high-value early animal material

• Resources - how animal drops fit into the larger resource ladder

Oil Lamp Refill Procedure

The Oil Lamp refills at a Workbench rather than in the main crafting interface. The refill option lives on a separate Refill/Repair tab, not on the standard crafting tab most players open first. Selecting the lamp from this tab consumes 3 Animal Fat and restores the lamp to full fuel regardless of its current charge level. Because the refill always tops the lamp to 100%, it is more fuel-efficient to drain the lamp close to empty before refilling rather than topping off a partially full lamp.

Boar Variants Beyond the Starting Island

On the starting island, Boars and Sows both produce Animal Fat, but Boars are the more reliable source: Sow kills sometimes return no fat, while Boars produce it more consistently per engagement. Once a ship is available, the islands south and southeast of the starter zone introduce larger Boar variants that serve as the main mid-game fat source.

Savage Boars and Charging Boars hit harder than starter-island Boars but drop Rough Hide on top of Animal Fat, which covers a second mid-game supply line at the same time. Charging Boars telegraph a horizontal charge attack that closes ground quickly; dodging sideways rather than backward is the standard counter.

Replacement Oil Lamp Recipe

If the starting Oil Lamp is lost, it can be recrafted at the Workbench after the initial pickup has unlocked the recipe. The replacement cost is modest but not trivial on a fresh run:

• 4x Copper Ingot

• 1x Rope

Because Copper Ingot production needs a Furnace and Copper Ore from cave deposits (which themselves require a lamp to explore safely), the practical advice is to avoid losing the first lamp rather than relying on the replacement path. A Floor-Standing Torch placed as a temporary waypoint light is the cheap fallback while Copper is being processed.

How Many Lamps to Carry

One lamp is sufficient for starting-island caves, which are short enough that running dry is recoverable. Larger islands burn through one to two full lamp charges per cave run, so carrying two or three lamps on longer expeditions prevents a dry-lamp forced retreat. Once Savage Boar farming is established, the Animal Fat economy is generous enough that extra lamp capacity is effectively free.