Let me recycle metal armor!!!

[Burnese Herbs]

i think it would be nice if i could put my metal armor in the refining forge and get some metal back based on the durability left.

[SgtSausagepants]

Oh, I would like this. I have older, lower quality armor, weapons, and tools. Be nice to smelt them down instead of storing them and never using them or throwing them away.

[EvilSmoo]

I'd like to recycle all of them. Spare chitin especially.

[Limpsalot]

+1

[tom_gore]

Yeah we need a recycling station or something like that in the game for sure.

[sf]

I would like a means of recycling equipment in general as well.
to make it more 'balanced' we can have a two stage for some processed materials like metal (because it would be strange if we get metal ingots back from say our pike directly).

A 'dismantle' for equipment which will breakup the equipment into its components (with a loss from original, maybe 50%?). For processed materials like metal ingots used in the equipment, we will get back "scrap metal" instead. These "scrap" materials can then be processed separately into the 'unused' form. (e.g. melt scrap metal in a forge to get back metal ingots).

Some component types will be never be recycled though (e.g. cementing paste, polymer, electronics)

[Okim]

Originally posted by sf:

I would like a means of recycling equipment in general as well.
to make it more 'balanced' we can have a two stage for some processed materials like metal (because it would be strange if we get metal ingots back from say our pike directly).

A 'dismantle' for equipment which will breakup the equipment into its components (with a loss from original, maybe 50%?). For processed materials like metal ingots used in the equipment, we will get back "scrap metal" instead. These "scrap" materials can then be processed separately into the 'unused' form. (e.g. melt scrap metal in a forge to get back metal ingots).

Some component types will be never be recycled though (e.g. cementing paste, polymer, electronics)

Scrap metal in your case is equivalent to basic metal - so no need to create any new 'resource'. Just give us back metal out of anything recycled so we could smelt it back into ingots again.

As for paste - yeah, this one i can`t imagine how you can recycle into basic components again.

But any other resource, like polymer/electronics/chitin/hide should be provided back as is (at a reduced amounts of cause). After all you can use the scrapped electorincs to set up smth again out of it.

[DiabolusUrsus]

+1; demolish and recycle feature for non-structures would be appreciated.

[Zerim]

What. Why not repair it/give it to someone else/store it as emergency armor?

[DiabolusUrsus]

Originally posted by Zerim:

What. Why not repair it/give it to someone else/store it as emergency armor?

1. Single player.
2. Reasons.

[sf]

Originally posted by Zerim:

What. Why not repair it/give it to someone else/store it as emergency armor?

because there will always be leftover/extra whatever. e.g. from supply drops as well. And we don't need 10 sets of emergency armor ;)
Basically, we need some method that feels less wasteful than just dropping them to the ground to decay away. Even using some of them as fuel is better than that. (e.g. allow us to burn thatch foundation/wall/ceilings?)

[Arsenic_Touch]

http://steamcommunity.com/app/346110/discussions/8/535152276584694655/

There's a suggestion subforum.

[Kainan]

i think it would be nice if i could put my metal armor in the refining forge and get some metal back based on the durability left.

Sounds nice!
I've to much low level tools and think about the same when I was stand in front of the refining forge. ^^
I hope the developer keep an eye on this.

[Okim]

Originally posted by Zerim:

What. Why not repair it/give it to someone else/store it as emergency armor?

1. i got tons of hide armor out of green drops. Do i need them? No. Good thing i had a supply of fresh initiates to share these with them. But now i just throw away all these hides as initiates have grown up to chitin/flaks.

2. i did get chitin which i don`t like for it`s looks from the drops. I throw it away cause reasons. I would appreciate being able to reconstruct these. Tribe is of the same opinion as i :)

3. i get loot from other players i PvP against. This loot is mostly damaged and useless (as armor breaks when you shot others, you know?). I would prefer to use that looted stuff to fix my armor with it on the way (like tearing out a metal breast plate from flak and wiring it on your holled one and etc).

4. singleplayer where you don`t really need tons of armor sets 'left for emergencies'.

[Matti]

Originally posted by Burnese Herbs:

i think it would be nice if i could put my metal armor in the refining forge and get some metal back based on the durability left.

i always thought of dismantling armor in general....^^, you find so much frikking stuff from carnivores attacking you, and then inpsecting their inventory, if i could dismantle those cloth/hide armors, then it would be much more useful probably. at least for early/mid game people.

[Nexux]

They should introduce a system much like many games have. Regarding armour and weapons you should be able do dismantle the item for raw maths. Regarding structures instead of straight off demolish without receiving any maths back make it in a way that on pvp there's the possibility if the building is abandoned to scrap it for maths. This would promote abandoned building hunting and make it worth looking for them if you can get maths from demolishing them.