Salvaging
Starting Your Shift
Salvage can be a fun job, and is accessible to everyone, even new players, as it's helps you get familiar with a lot of the game's Interactions. The Salvage Specialist page is always helpful to refer to, as it shows you the equipment available to you at the start of your shift. Equip your hardsuit, don your utility belt filled with tools, and slip on your Magboots, taking care of your internals as well. Note that on many stations, the tank that spawns with your equipment will not be filled with any air. It is recommended that you play a slime as they breathe a lot slower then other races.
Next you'll want to make sure that a crate of steel sheets, and a bulk cable crate are ordered. Taking your time to also make a stack of metal rods, as these will allow you to get started on one of the most important parts of effective salvaging, a salvage platform.
Preparing For Space
The reclaimer (Salvage's shuttle) should have
- An expedition console, you want to mine on expeditions and get some sick loot, no?
- The salvage magnet to pull in salvage wrecks, as magnet asteroids are wack.
- A tank dispenser or oxygen and nitrogen canister.
- Medical items (Gauze, ointment, bruise packs, chemicals and syringes, etc) and a defibrillator.
- The salvage vendor, you need your tools and equipment.
- The ore processor too if your Quartermaster allows it, some don't for some reason.
Advanced Salvaging
Bringing back crates and canisters isn't all of your job. You can also easily deconstruct parts of the wrecks to bring back home.
- Crowbars can pry up floor tiles.
- Screwdrivers can deconstruct crates & chairs into metal sheets.
- Wirecutters can cut lattices into iron bars. (They can cut wires, too, but some wrecks still have power.)
- Your survival knife can damage most wooden objects to the point where they deconstruct themselves. Or you can deconstruct them.
Space Critters
Fauna can be found in space. They aren't always welcoming to you.
Salvage Expeditions
Use the Expedition console to select a planet to warp to, then use the salvage shuttle to FTL to the planet.
Xenomorphs
Megafauna
Tips and tricks for expeditions
- Guns are good, you should ask for some from cargo, they may save your life.Check with security when you ask for weapons.
- Cyrostasis beakers with explosive reactions inside them, it doesn't hurt to have impact grenades when you're fighting a difficult battle.
- Pick up research discs and deliver them to science, they will enjoy it.
- GO MINING ON EXPEDITIONS FOR FUCKS SAKE!!!