Erik9631 Posted January 26, 2017 Share Posted January 26, 2017 Whenever you select a wreck, you can see how much material was used to build it, or how much material it consists of. Is it possible to salvage the materials? If so how? Thanks in advance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thedamngod Posted January 26, 2017 Share Posted January 26, 2017 You need to equip a salvaging laser. It works like the mining laser but its only effective on wreckages. Similarly mining lasers are not effective on wreckages. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erik9631 Posted January 26, 2017 Author Share Posted January 26, 2017 You need to equip a salvaging laser. It works like the mining laser but its only effective on wreckages. Similarly mining lasers are not effective on wreckages. Thanks a lot. I appreciate it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thedamngod Posted January 26, 2017 Share Posted January 26, 2017 No problem, welcome to the forums! You might want to check out the Wiki if you have more questions. It's still quite bare, but you should find answers to some of the most common questions there :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tajin Posted January 27, 2017 Share Posted January 27, 2017 If you're salvaging mainly for materials and have plenty of wreckages to pick from, go for the fragile electronic blocks first. Generators, batteries and such. You can easily identify them by their distinct texture. Those break really fast and drop plenty of resources. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xerada Posted January 27, 2017 Share Posted January 27, 2017 If you are really into salvaging, I just came across a cool sector type with wrecks EVERYWHERE, but you have to buy a "salvage license" from the nearby station. It was time based. 5 min license was 1,053 credits. up to an hour license. So you have those to look forward to out there. :) Loving the game concept so far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skullcowboy60 Posted January 27, 2017 Share Posted January 27, 2017 You can chop up wreckage with a mining laser and there is a very small chance of getting a turret or ship system, but no resources. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThePhariser Posted January 28, 2017 Share Posted January 28, 2017 So About salvaging, haven't seen it answered before. Does it matter what kind of turret you are using t salvage? Can I salvage titanium with iron turrets? I am asking this because I have tried it and it works and it doesnt, my turret shoots somewhere random in the sky, then gets on the wreck. After a few seconds it sxplodes, doesnt show damage, gives like 10 titanium, then again doesnt work. Also, sometime when i select the wreck it doesnt show me the amount of resources it has, is it a visual bug? or the wreck doesnt have resources? Any advices or answers? thanks L.E. I found out that forcing closing your game will make your salvaging turrets working again. Only thing, your ships will dissapeear ad you have to retrace your steps to it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SadisticSweety Posted January 28, 2017 Share Posted January 28, 2017 When you select a wreckage to see what's on it, you will see that by your Scanner module (the better, the farther you see). You may also use Iron salvaging turrets, for salvaging Titanium, yes, but each turret has a different efficiency (just because you see a wreck has 5,000 titanium, doesn't mean you can extract it all). Also, it helps not to be in the wreckage's face. Give a little space and try again :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThePhariser Posted January 28, 2017 Share Posted January 28, 2017 I know about the efficiency. I seelected it, it shows the resources no problem. Tried from different angles, tried to destroy the engines first. The thing is, it doesnt do any damage to the ship and I do not understand why. I can't salvage any wrecks even though I found a big scrapyard. I left my turrets on auto fire for the past 10 minutes, nothing. ANyone hase some more experience with the salvaging part? Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadowlight90 Posted January 29, 2017 Share Posted January 29, 2017 I salvaged one time. I had to buy salvage turrets and a salvage licence of the scrapyard (5 minutes about 10.000 credits). The efficency should work about the same way as for the mining turrets. So what you see is not what you will get out of the wreackage (efficency 15.0 = 15% of what is shown is in the wreck) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canute Posted January 30, 2017 Share Posted January 30, 2017 These salvage fields when you need to pay for the license arn't worth the money. Just salvage the pirates/Xsolan they enter the sector, if you don't wan't/can't fight them, let the the sectur guard take care of them. Normaly when you just salvage them, the next wave will spawn. Neverending work. If you are just behind modules, shoot the wrecks together with the salvage laser. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiberiumkyle Posted January 30, 2017 Share Posted January 30, 2017 If you find you can't seem to damage a bit of wreckage, bumping it with your ship seems to wake up the game to realizing that thing needs to take damage, then you can salvage away. I've seen this happen on occasion. As for turret material, that appears to only determine what sot of hull you can mount it on. Tech level is what determines how powerful it can be. Except mining lasers, it matters for those, as they can only mine up to one tier higher than the turret material. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thundercraft Posted January 31, 2017 Share Posted January 31, 2017 You may also use Iron salvaging turrets, for salvaging Titanium, yes, but each turret has a different efficiency... Q: While we can use Iron salvaging turrets to salvage Titanium, is there an efficiency penalty for doing so? Wouldn't we get more Titanium by using a Titanium salvaging turret with the same (stated) efficiency? ...Except mining lasers, it matters for those, as they can only mine up to one tier higher than the turret material. What about salvaging turrets? Aren't they restricted by turret material and what they can salvage in the same way that mining lasers are restricted by turret material? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xaoc Posted January 31, 2017 Share Posted January 31, 2017 1. Salvage turrets can only salvage one tier above its material, same as mining turrets. 2. Salvaging above the turret material tier gives an efficiency and speed penalty, salvaging below the turret material gives a bonus, same as mining turrets. 3. Salvaging turrets and modules is random and can also be done with normal weapons, does not depend on anything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SageThe13th Posted January 31, 2017 Share Posted January 31, 2017 A cool trick to keep in mind while salvaging is that the game only accounts for the last turret hit to determine what to drop. So you can use armed turrets to wear down high HP blocks then turn those off and last hit the block with high efficiency salvage laser and get the full benefit. In general I don't have dedicated salvage builds I just mix high efficiency salvage lasers into my combat builds. Helps when those pesky pirates or Xoatan show up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiberiumkyle Posted January 31, 2017 Share Posted January 31, 2017 Somewhat related, I've noticed salvage turrets are the highest raw dps turrets in game, just really short ranged and appear to do nothing to shields. Against unshielded ships, those'll just melt against a good salvage turret array. Game doesn't care if the ship is wreckage yet or not. Combat salvaging is entirely viable long as you can weather the incoming fire to get close enough and drop any shields the target ship may have. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SageThe13th Posted January 31, 2017 Share Posted January 31, 2017 On top of that I've exotic salvage turrets that have like 20000% increased bonus damage vs hull. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CharlieMBTA Posted February 2, 2017 Share Posted February 2, 2017 I have about 4 hours in the game now and have only made it through a couple sectors after losing 2 ships. I have collected and sold all sorts of enhancements from various wreckages, but have no clue how to actually get the metals from the wreckages. I've tried shooting them, and using a mining laser (both iron and titanium) and have only got 1-10 out of 2200 iron/titanium in a ship. Am I doing by something wrong? Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SageThe13th Posted February 2, 2017 Share Posted February 2, 2017 Yes. There are salvage lasers used to harvest wrecks. I guess it's just bad luck you haven't gotten one yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thedamngod Posted February 2, 2017 Share Posted February 2, 2017 I have merged some topics about salvaging wrecks into this one, as a little clean-up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xsinx Posted February 3, 2017 Share Posted February 3, 2017 These salvage fields when you need to pay for the license arn't worth the money. Wow, this is so untrue. If you do it right you can easily get 3-400k of ore in an hour in those systems. There is no way in hell you can get that much fghting random invaders... Also most of these will have lower tier materials... Salvage yards are gold mines.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canute Posted February 4, 2017 Share Posted February 4, 2017 1. Nearly all of these wrecks are "faction" ships and i notice these ship got a higher durability then pirate/xsolan ships. Thats why i like to salvage pirate/xsolan primary. 2. If you look for hidden mass system, you will find alot sectors with nearly same amout of wrecks you don't need to pay for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DoragonKeiyou Posted February 5, 2017 Share Posted February 5, 2017 You can also try to amass the goods and money to make salvaging turrets at Turret Factories. You can build some really good ones with 35-45% efficiency if you're lucky. I did that to get 5 Xanion ones cause I was tired of relying on drops for them or shops to sell decent ones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GaryP Posted July 4, 2017 Share Posted July 4, 2017 If you are really into salvaging, I just came across a cool sector type with wrecks EVERYWHERE, but you have to buy a "salvage license" from the nearby station. It was time based. 5 min license was 1,053 credits. up to an hour license. So you have those to look forward to out there. :) Loving the game concept so far. Sorry to resurrect an old post but I came across this sector too. I purchased a license and started to work on the wrecks but each time I did I lost credibility (friendly) with the church faction that I've been trading with. Any ideas why? Also, when I salvage a wreck I get upgrades, but I know when I look that I'm missing some. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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