Salvaging Old Equipment

[AeroFunk80]

So, I have a ton of old equipment I'm no longer using (Iron Pickaxes, Wooden Armor, Rusty Swords, etc). You should be able to break the old equipment down and salvage some of the material used to craft it... perhaps 1/4 of what was used?

[ehyder]

Yes, this mostly works, although I usually get a lot more material back when I recycle it. In case you do not know you can do this in the crafting window: you need to drag an item you want to recycle to the crafting box, the one with the arrow on top.

[AeroFunk80]

Doh! Forget my suggestion and thank you ehyder for letting me know this. I had no idea you could reverse-craft everything. I, literally, just got about 100 iron and a bunch of steel from doing this. Had NO idea you could. Thanks :-)

[phadin]

Wow, I hobnestly did not know that. No wonder I was always so low on iron.

[OdatNurd]

Yes, this helps immensely. Not the least of which is removing some of the clutter from the lists of items when you're equipping. FINALLY a use for all of that rusty gear I get from Skeleton waves.

I also found it somewhat cool that some things can't be salvaged, like leather helmets. Not enough material left, I assume.

[ehyder]

Would be good if you could delete the nonrecyclable items (did I miss this?). My inventory is filling up with hats.

[wulfbein]

wow, that's a news to me!

[OdatNurd]

Yeah, it would be good to be able to drop stuff and have it just be gone. It's nice that some things can't be deconstructed, but that doesn't mean I need to be presented with the stuff in my inventory anyway.

[City Builder]

Awesome... There I was struggling to find enough iron to create some ools and low and behold I had a ton of stuff that could be deconstructed that gave me back plenty of resources to craft what I wanted to craft without having to go and find new resources.

I too would like the ability to drop or delete stuff that can't be deconstructed. Especially all those darn generic hats that my new drawves bring to the settlement that are stuck in my inventory after giving them proper helmets