Salvaging gear

Choose Salvage on unwanted equipment in your pack to break it down for materials. There is a 55% salvage roll, and a failed roll destroys the item without returning anything. The material comes from the equipment itself, while its size and rarity affect the amount. Cursed gear has a lower yield.

Bulk Salvage selects unidentified, unlocked equipment in your pack and asks before destroying it. Identified and equipped gear are kept. The individual Salvage action can also warn about valuable items according to your Loot settings.

Salvaging stolen equipment leaves you with stolen scrap. It keeps the theft attached to the recovered material, so breaking an item down does not make it safe to sell as clean goods.

Species wood is different. Splitting a stack into planks returns one plank per log without a salvage roll. Milling that wood at a workbench returns two planks per log, so the bench is worth using when you can get to one.