Best use for recycling charges?

[PBR]

Do some objects give more resources than others? Trying to stop wasting charges, sometimes I make a giant pile but the resulting resources aren't quite worth the bother. Thank you.

[Funpire]

You will have more than you can count later. Find blocked off areas you can't get into that are covered in grates or boxes, pile up anything that breaks down, throw a grenade. That's about as frugal as you need to be. I have 20 of them half way through.

[homek76]

Originally posted by Funpire:

You will have more than you can count later. Find blocked off areas you can't get into that are covered in grates or boxes, pile up anything that breaks down, throw a grenade. That's about as frugal as you need to be. I have 20 of them half way through.

I second this. Use your first ones to clear passages for which you would need the "leverage" skill. Additionally, the material you need the most in early stages is mineralic (the grey one) for ammunition, and most of the metal crates and cabinets that are used for blocking are giving mineralic materials.
One important tip! When you use a recycler charge as a regular grenade, and there is a body of one of the crew members in the blast radius, the bidy will be transformed into organic material and all the loot is lost! Additonally, you can't find the body via the security station tracking and the correspondic quest if you try bugs out. So, be careful with them in new enviroments.

[Inardesco]

Originally posted by Funpire:

You will have more than you can count later. Find blocked off areas you can't get into that are covered in grates or boxes, pile up anything that breaks down, throw a grenade. That's about as frugal as you need to be. I have 20 of them half way through.

Yeap, nothing beats spending half an hour collecting stuff to throw a recycle grenade at

[Just a dog]

Originally posted by Funpire:

One important tip! When you use a recycler charge as a regular grenade, and there is a body of one of the crew members in the blast radius, the bidy will be transformed into organic material and all the loot is lost! Additonally, you can't find the body via the security station tracking and the correspondic quest if you try bugs out. So, be careful with them in new enviroments.

Even if your're careful the named phantoms like to glitch into walls so you'll definitely miss out on some quests and stuff whatever you do. You're doomed.

[mrmike_49]

so this is how you get into areas with the parts of the door blocking it (looks like a few random boards)??

[homek76]

Originally posted by mrmike_49:

so this is how you get into areas with the parts of the door blocking it (looks like a few random boards)??

I guess you mean these doors.
https://imgur.com/gallery/fbgud
They cannot be opened, you have to use the shown mimic skill to get through.

[PBR]

Thanks everybody!

[mrmike_49]

Originally posted by homek76:

Originally posted by mrmike_49:

so this is how you get into areas with the parts of the door blocking it (looks like a few random boards)??

I guess you mean these doors.
https://imgur.com/gallery/fbgud
They cannot be opened, you have to use the shown mimic skill to get through.

Yep, those doors

bummer
thanks for info!

[mrmike_49]

btw, I tried a large pile of "stuff" and got very disappointing results: only about 1.5 minerals (which is the key shortage right now)

[Kruzible]

There is a bug where if you toss a recycler grenade in the recycler machine output, and it explodes within a second of the recycled items falling into the bin, it duplicates items. Found it on accident scrapping everything in Morgan's office.

[Inardesco]

Originally posted by mrmike_49:

btw, I tried a large pile of "stuff" and got very disappointing results: only about 1.5 minerals (which is the key shortage right now)

Which is why you need to garher for half an hour

[Stabbey]

Originally posted by mrmike_49:

btw, I tried a large pile of "stuff" and got very disappointing results: only about 1.5 minerals (which is the key shortage right now)

Different items produce different amounts of resources based on what they were.

Try piling up destroyed operators into a big pile. Those are made of metal. There are a ton of them located in the main bay of the Hardware Labs (some past a crate you need to use recycler charges on).

And you did spend neuromods on "Increased Recycling Yield", didn't you? (I don't think that helps with Recycler grenades, but it does with the standard recyclers.) Recycle extra weapons you don't need. There are lots of extra guns and wrenches around you can convert into metal in the recyclers. That's only a worry if you have enabled the "Weapon Degradation" survival mode toggle.