.: Help for salvage

The salvage command lets you break down items to
recover crafting materials. Your skill determines how much
you recover -- higher skill means better returns.

━━━ Usage ━━━

  salvage        Break down an item for materials.
  salvage 2.sword      Disambiguate with diku-style numbering.

━━━ What Can Be Salvaged ━━━

Any item that was produced by a crafting recipe, plus certain
special items marked as salvageable. Spoiled or declining
potions can also be salvaged, yielding binding paste.

Items that were never crafted and have no salvageable
components cannot be broken down.

━━━ Where to Salvage ━━━

Crafted items can be salvaged for free at the station where
they were made -- swords at the forge, potions at the alchemy
bench, cloth at the loom, and so on.

Alternatively, buy a salvage kit from Fence Dealer Siv
in Thornwall's back alleys. With the kit in your pack, you
can salvage anywhere. The kit is consumed on each use.

━━━ How It Works ━━━

Salvage always destroys the item, even if no materials are
recovered. Each ingredient has a chance to be recovered based
on your salvage skill. At low skill you may get nothing back;
at high skill you recover most materials.

Salvaging takes several rounds depending on the complexity
of the item being broken down.

━━━ Tips ━━━

  Items must be in your backpack -- unequip gear first.
  Salvage cannot be done during combat.
  If attacked mid-salvage, the work is interrupted and the
  item is not consumed.

See Also:

  help craft, help skills