Salvage Specialist

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LOGISTICS STAFF
Salvage Specialist	Aliases and Nicknames: Undefined Difficulty: Medium to High Requirements: 6 hours in Logistics Access: Logistics, Salvage, Maintenance, External Extended Access: None Supervisors: Logistics Officer Subordinates: None Duties: Retrieve materials from wrecks, die and get lost in space score some sick loot. Guides: Hostile Fauna, Reverse Engineering

As a Salvage Specialist (AKA "salvager" or "salvie"), your job (currently) is to produce materials and find loot for the station Epistemics department (and other departments) to use or for Logistics to sell. Use the Salvage Magnet to pull in salvage for a limited amount of time and don't get killed by space carps or ore crabs. Be sure to bring a GPS and memorize current coordinates so that you do not get lost in space. Alternatively, use the Mining Shuttle to go to Lavaland and mine there.

An example of a space wreck

It is a good idea to have a friendly communication channel with Logistics. They are unable to see you on the scanner and they are the one making the money so that you might ask The Captain buy a salvage shuttle using The Shipyard Console to make salvaging easier. In addition, they typically hear requests for materials and may have bounty requests for you.

Keep in mind that if you fail to produce materials, Epistemics will get very, very angry.

Equipment

The most crucial items in your job are the pickaxe (or crusher), spationaut hardsuit, and a breathable gas tank (oxygen for most species or nitrogen for slimes/vox). You will not survive in space or on Lavaland without those. If you intend to salvage in space, you will also most likely need a jetpack. Most of your starting equipment can be found in the Salvage lockers in Salvage dorms.

Icon	Name	Description
	Spationaut hardsuit	The obvious component; without it, you will succumb to the low pressure of space. You will find a spationaut suit in your salvage locker. After you equip the suit, you'll have to close the helmet via the action menu on the left. Like other EVA capable suits, provides breathing internals without the need for a mask. Has an integrated flashlight that does not require a cell.
	Mining hardsuit	A less common suit which you can find on debris or purchase at the salvage vendor. It has more armor and brighter headlights, but will slow you down more.
	Oxygen tank	To survive in space for longer than a minute, you will need to breathe. Equip a full tank in your hand, pocket, or suit storage slot to be able to properly use it with your breathing internals. Make sure to check if the tank output pressure is correct (the safe amount is 17-22). You can refill your oxygen tank by putting it inside a oxygen canister (just make sure to close the canister's valve afterwards, or the canister will empty itself into the room). Do not fill your tank with plain air as the gas pressure will be insufficient for your character to breathe.
	Nitrogen tank	Slime people and voxes breathe nitrogen instead of oxygen. Otherwise functionally identical.
	Explorer gas mask	Provides minor damage resistance and acts as a backup to your suit for providing air supply, like any other gas mask.
	Magboots	Equip and turn on magnetic boots to gain a steady hold on wreck's surface. You might walk a bit slower, but at least you won't clumsily fly off into space so easily.
	Utilitybelt (and tools)	Typically comes fully equipped with a screwdriver, welding tool, wrench, crowbar, multitool and wirecutters. Use those tools if you wish to retrieve anchored items, dismantle empty crates or barge through obstacles like closed doors.
	Pickaxe	Sometimes, the salvage magnet might pull in a rocky asteroid. Use your pickaxe by repeatedly clicking on the rock to break through and reach for the stashed away goodies.
	Mining Drill	An upgrade from a pickaxe that can be used to mine ore quicker. Obtainable from a protolathe after researched by Epistemics, or can sometimes be found on debris and wrecks.
	Ore bag	Allows you to store mined ores. Click on the floor to pick up all ores around this spot. Can be equiped in your belt slot and activated to automatically pick up ores around you.
	Fire extinguisher	The poor man's jetpack. Fly through space by aiming and shooting the extinguisher's nozzle on the opposite direction of where you wish to fly. You can refill it with water once it runs dry.
	Jetpack	Advanced Superior form of traveling in space. You need to purchase it from cargo console first (or ask a Cargo Technician / Logistic Officer). You need to fill it up using a gas canister (any gas will do), in the same way you fill an oxygen tank. You can then equip it on your backpack slot, suit storage slot or keep it in your hand. Use UI on the left side of the screen to turn it on or by hitting an action hotkey. Once it is on, you can propel yourself with it via WASD keys. You can only use a jetpack in locations without gravity, it will turn off when you enter any floored area.
	Global Positioning System (GPS)	Shows your current position as (x,y). Note that negative numbers are different to positive numbers, (x,y) is not equal to (-x,y). You can use it to return to the station coordinates in case you get lost in space. Redundant, as your PDA comes with an Astronav program which acts as a GPS, when held in your hands.
	Proto Kinetic Accelerator (PKA)	You can use it to fend off hostile lifeforms such as Space Carps. You can also use it to propel yourself backwards in space, in case your jetpack runs dry. This gun has unlimited ammo but very long reload time. Can be found in salvage lockers at round start, or be made at a protolathe after being researched by Epistemics.
	Combat knife / Survival Knife	It is usually a bad idea to fight hostile alien lifeforms in melee range, but you use this knife as a last resort.

Salvage Magnet

This console is used for pulling in salvage ("pulls"), which you can scavenge for loot or mine for ore. The salvage magnet pulls wrecks towards the general area it is facing, but that doesn't do much to narrow down the area. If the magnet is facing the wrong way, is installed too deep inside the station or something is blocking the area in front of it, then you won't be able to pull anything in.

Location of the pulled in wrecks ("pulls") can be determined using a mass scanner console (typically found alongside the salvage magnet) or a handheld mass scanner.

Salvage wrecks ("pulls") are categorized into asteroids (of various types), debris and wrecks:

• Asteroids provide ore by mining them. Unlike on Lavaland (or Glacier Surface) all rock mined on an asteroid provides ore, not just ore veins. Has a chance to spawn hostile ore crabs when a rock tile is mined. Also has colourful crystals which can be broken to produce crystal shards, to craft coloured light tubes.
• Debris are randomly generated structures, filled with lockers, crates and other. They contain randomly chosen loot, including various broken objects and machinery, which can be put in the Recycler for a decent amount of materials. Debris often spawns with hostile Space Carps and their variants.
• Wrecks are pre-made structures, which cost 1000 Mining Points to pull and have predefined loot. They can be either quite valuable and contain unique items or be barely worth it at all. Wrecks have a wide variety of threats and hazards, such as space bears, mines, turrets, space adders, and are thus the most dangerous of the three.

Usage

The console can be interacted with at any point in time either to start it or get its status.

1. Interact with the console to start the pull sequence. The magnet sends a corresponding message to the Supply channel.
2. Wait for a wreckage to be pulled. The magnet sends a message once the debris is ready. You can use the Mass Scanner Console to locate the wreck.
3. Your team has 6 minutes to get to the salvage and haul loot back. The magnet sends a message when 30 seconds remain.
4. When the timer expires, the wreck and every item present on it vanish. Any crew remain at the same coordinates but may be spun around.
5. The console enters a short cooldown period, indicated by the small green lights on it. One they are all lit the console can be used again.
6. Do not unanchor the magnet while it has salvage currently in its magnetic field.

Before installing this too far outside in space, consider protecting it against meteors and antagonists.

Mass Scanner Console

Outdated visual of what you are looking for.

A computer that shows you a non-interactive map of the station, the shuttle location and any unidentified debris / wrecks marked as "Unidentified". Up is not necessarily north. You will see the computer's location (your location) marked as a blue dot.

Ore Processor

The Ore Processor machine that takes ore that you have mined (with a pickaxe, crusher or mining drill) and enables crew to produce materials, similar to how an autolathe works. Can make steel, glass, plasma, uranium, gold, silver, bananium, refined diamonds (but not plastic). Has an ore magnet that can be turned on or off. Producing materials creates "mining points" which can be claimed by a salvager. Points are currently individual to each salvager.

Can be upgraded into an industrial ore processor, which produces materials by consuming less ore and allows production of plasteel. An industrial ore processor machine board can be made by the Epistemics department using their circuit imprinter, after appropriate research.

Mining Points and the Salvage Vendor

When materials are made at the ore processor, mining points are generated. The rarer the materials and ore, the more points per material. Points can be claimed from the ore processor by pressing the "Claim" button on the bottom right of the processor UI. Currently points are individual to each salvager and can only be claimed all at once, so make sure to share with your fellow salvagers!

Mining Points can be spent in two ways:

• Purchasing equipment and other boons from the Salvage Vendor:
  • Mining hardsuits
  • Fultons and Fulton Beacons
  • Exchaning points into spesos
  • Medkits
  • Alcohol
  • And other.
• Pulling in wrecks at the Salvage Magnet.

Tips and tricks

• You can find a spare small oxygen tank inside your survival box. You're also able to keep it in your pocket, leaving your hands unoccupied.
• Liquid oxygen provides more oxygen per volume. A canister of liquid oxygen a common request by salvage teams for the logistics team to order.
• Holding down Control, and Right-Clicking on a tile near you while pulling something lets you move it around while standing still. In zero-gravity, you can fling objects such as crates/gas tanks towards the station by timing your release with Q accurately. This is not hard to figure out but is tricky to pull off consistently.