Scrap Metal

[Badger]

What is this for? I get it sometimes, I think from repairing blocks (I have to do a lot of repairing). What can I do with it?

[Freely]

^^ yep

[Badger]

Awesome. Not sure why I didnt think to try stick it in the refinery.

[Mightylink]

Its a little bit of a refund for repairing half destroyed blocks, you get a little bit of material back in the form of scrap instead of completely losing it.

It has nothing to do with grinding though from which you get 100% of the material back in the form of its original parts.

[VanGoghComplex]

Originally posted by Mightylink:

Its a little bit of a refund for repairing half destroyed blocks, you get a little bit of material back in the form of scrap instead of completely losing it.

It has nothing to do with grinding though from which you get 100% of the material back in the form of its original parts.

Not quite.

If you accidentally grind a part down but don't have the inventory space to hold it, the remaining components spawn where the part was. Should you accidentally hit those with a grinder, they turn to scrap metal, regardless of what they were made of originally.

[Badger]

Originally posted by VanGoghComplex:

Originally posted by Mightylink:

Its a little bit of a refund for repairing half destroyed blocks, you get a little bit of material back in the form of scrap instead of completely losing it.

It has nothing to do with grinding though from which you get 100% of the material back in the form of its original parts.

Not quite.

If you accidentally grind a part down but don't have the inventory space to hold it, the remaining components spawn where the part was. Should you accidentally hit those with a grinder, they turn to scrap metal, regardless of what they were made of originally.

That makes more sense. I'm very erratic with my grinder, and horrible at managing inventory space, so I constantly drop ♥♥♥♥ (If I don't have something in inventory, there's a good chance I dropped some on the ground somewhere). It's very likely I ground down some parts.

[VanGoghComplex]

Originally posted by scottvdken:

Originally posted by VanGoghComplex:

Not quite.

If you accidentally grind a part down but don't have the inventory space to hold it, the remaining components spawn where the part was. Should you accidentally hit those with a grinder, they turn to scrap metal, regardless of what they were made of originally.

That makes more sense. I'm very erratic with my grinder, and horrible at managing inventory space, so I constantly drop ♥♥♥♥ (If I don't have something in inventory, there's a good chance I dropped some on the ground somewhere). It's very likely I ground down some parts.

It hurts extra good when you mangle expensive things like gravity generator components. XD

[Badger]

Originally posted by VanGoghComplex:

Originally posted by scottvdken:

That makes more sense. I'm very erratic with my grinder, and horrible at managing inventory space, so I constantly drop ♥♥♥♥ (If I don't have something in inventory, there's a good chance I dropped some on the ground somewhere). It's very likely I ground down some parts.

It hurts extra good when you mangle expensive things like gravity generator components. XD

No, the best is when you're grinding down a block on top of your small ship, and the steel plate falls onto the back of the ship 'cause you have no inventory space, causing said ship to spin out of control and into the poor, unsuspecting platform below.

I've never done that though..... it happened to....my.... friend? Yeah, my friend! Not me :P

Gotta love the new mass/weight mechanics.