Probably Stolen Butcher Guide

The Butcher is a wanted criminal from the Lower Levels with a 450-credit bounty. He first comes to sell raw meat — buying his whole stock is reported to give a 25% wholesale discount — and you can report him while he is at the window. Reporting him does not make him disappear: expect revenge later, and budget for Sawyer's 500-credit hunting service to end it.

Who the Butcher is

• A Lower Levels citizen in a red cap and bloody apron, carrying a satchel, a crowbar and meat. He sells meat and loot scavenged from the Abandoned Sections.
• He is on the Wanted poster. Do not identify him by the apron alone — always compare his face with the poster.
• He is not the Organ Trader starting scenario. The Organ Trader is a post-launch update pitched "for the Butcher fans"; do not treat it as content already in the game.

When he first appears

Reported day numbers differ, but the two accounts are not contradictory. One guide gives the earliest possible appearance: Day 14, or Day 5 if you skipped the intro. A separate playthrough log first met him on Day 19 as a seller, saw the Wanted listing on Day 20, and reported him on Day 26. One is a window, the other is a single run — treat the day as a range, not a fixed date.

The first-appearance window is community-reported and has not been re-checked in 1.0.0.6 for prologue and no-prologue starts.

What he sells on the first visit

• Raw Meat (Small) ×2, Raw Meat (Standard) ×1, Animal Fat ×1, Crowbar ×1 and a Small Satchel ×1, with 25% off if you buy everything.
• Inside the Small Satchel: a Scavenger's Token, a journal entry, Peat, Common Electronic Parts and an Energy Drink. The journal is about a scavenger in the Abandoned Sections; no confirmed connection to Eleanor or Georgio has been found, so do not claim one.

The first-visit stock list and the 25% wholesale discount are reported values, not confirmed for 1.0.0.6.

Keep trading vs report him

The 450-credit bounty, the 7-day return, the 20% discount on later deliveries and the half-second Call Security hold are all community-reported values.

Revenge after arrest

• About 6 days after the arrest, you wake to "MEAT" written across your storefront in blood.
• Three days after the following morning, a meat cleaver and a threat note appear. The cleaver is a usable item — it can also butcher animals you own — and you do not need to hand it to anyone to progress.
• One day later, Sawyer can offer a 500-credit hunting service to take care of the Butcher. Sawyer is tied to the Janitorial Service and the Underground Exchange.

The revenge intervals (graffiti, cleaver and note, then Sawyer) and the 500-credit hunting fee are reported values, not confirmed for 1.0.0.6.

Open questions

Checked against public sources on 5 November 2026, not played through in 1.0.0.6:

• The exact first-appearance day, with and without the prologue;
• The first-visit stock list and the 25% discount;
• The 7-day return interval and the 20% discount on later stolen deliveries;
• The revenge timeline and the 500-credit hunting service fee;
• Whether the cleaver has any use beyond butchering and the threat-note scene.

The 450-credit bounty, the first-visit 25% discount, the later 20% discount, the 7-day return and the revenge timeline are consistent across multiple public guides. One playthrough log shows the credit balance rising by exactly 450 after the report. That makes them well-corroborated, not verified: none of those sources is Rev6, and the 1.0.0.6 patch notes do not mention the Butcher at all.

If the current build disagrees with this page, the build is right.

Read next

• Report him without ruining your reputation: Wanted Criminals & Reporting
• Who Sawyer is and what the crew trades: Underground Exchange Guide
• How arrests and evidence work: Endings, Security & Arrests