Salvage
Salvage is a department focused on mining and slaying monsters to enrich yourself and the station. The main spots you will mine at the beginning of the shift are asteroids floating around the station, as well as asteroids you can pull in via the salvage magnet. Later in the shift, consider searching for the dangerous (and valuable!) vgroid.
Points
Besides giving the station materials, mining awards you mining points when you drop off your resources at the ore processor. You only receive mining points if the ore processor is linked to a silo, be sure its linked before dropping off your hard earned ore! These points can then be spent at the salvage vending machine for equipment that is useful for mining.
Mining
Pickaxes (when wielded), drills, and protokinetic accelerators, as well as a few others, are capable of destroying asteroid rocks, causing them to drop any resources they are holding. Your locker will spawn with these items as well as an ore bag that can be toggled on to automatically pick up nearby ore.
Tips:
- Wideswings (right click by default) can hit 2 or 3 rocks at a time, greatly increasing your mining speed.
- Bananium, bluespace crystals, and diamonds are the most valuable ore, if you need more mining points focus on these!
Space POIs
Floating around the station, are various places you can investigate and salvage for ore and various loot. You can see them on the mass scanner as well as the shuttle console
| Color | Meaning | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Red | Asteroids | |
| Blue | Wrecks | Very few (if any) ore, but contains randomly generated loot. |
| Yellow | Misc. | Shuttles, pre-made structures, or the object from the magnet, usually better than blue ones. |
Magnet
The salvage magnet lets you pull in large asteroids or special wrecks. These asteroids usually have more ore, but more empty space, taking longer to mine.
VGroid
Spotted on the mass scanner as a giant red asteroid, often larger than the station itself. This is where you will spend most your time if you want to maximize points.
Fauna
- Goliath: Has a ranged attack that knocks you down and stuns you for several seconds, can stunlock if there are multiple goliaths but this attack does no damage and can't hit you if you are floating in space. When butchered, drops goliath plates for making armor.
- Hivelord: Spawns small minions to attack you, when butchered drops a piece of meat that heals you when eaten.
Smuggler Crates
Semi-Rarely while mining, you may come across one of these crates. The easiest way to open them is to hit them with your mining instrument until they break, however they can also be hacked with a screwdriver and multitool. There is plenty of unique items from these crates.