Guide on How to Survive the Salvage Minigame

This guide will help you with the salvaging phase of the game by letting you know how the mechanics of the minigame work and when the animatronics are in hostile position so you can act accordingly.

Introduction

The salvage minigame will play in between each night unless the player already has the upcoming animatronic inside his pizzeria. When the salvage minigame starts, the player has the choice to either proceed with the minigame or throw the animatronic back into the alley and completely avoid the minigame. If the player avoids the minigame they risk to lock themselves out of the completion ending because they might not be able to get possession of the animatronic later on. If the player chooses to proceed with the salvage they will have to play the salvage minigame which will lead to the player either winning the salvage money and having the animatronic inside their pizzeria or getting jumpscared and still having the animatronic inside their pizzeria. For you to win the salvage minigame and get the salvage money you will need to shock the animatronics when they enter their hostile phase to avoid getting jumpscared and losing the salvage money

Salvage Mechanics

The most important salvage mechanic is aggression. Aggression is what determines the phase of each animatronic, including the hostile phase. Aggression's measurement unit is 1 AN and increases over time during the salvage minigame using specific formulas that gives different outputs depending on the day number and the animatronic that you're facing.

Aggression Phases:
There are 3 phases that each animatronic will enter before it tries to jumpscare you. These phases are passive, agitated and hostile, all of these phases can be recognised by changes in the posture of the animatronics. These phases are determined by the current aggression level, more specifically an animatronic will start in passive phase and 0 AN until it reaches 250 AN when it enters the agitated state until it reaches 500 AN when it reaches the hostile phase. Later it will start producing a sound at 750 AN which will get louder at 900 AN. Then when it finally reaches 1200 AN, it will jumpscare you.

Aggression Formulas:
There are 2 formulas for aggression, one which is calculated every 10 seconds after the salvage minigame starts and one that is calculated every second that the paper is up.
10 second formula:
{ { salvage value {day number} + 1 } 50 } + 100
paper formula:
{ salvage value {day number} + 1 } 10

Animatronics Aggression Increasers:
Each animatronic will have a 50% chance to increase it's aggression every 10 seconds by a specific amount of aggression which differs for each animatronic.
Molten Freddy: 200 AN / 10 s
Scraptrap: 250 AN / 10 s
Scrap Baby: 300 AN / 10 s
Lefty: 350 AN / 10 s

Paper Time Limit:
The paper needs to be flipped up in order for the audio prompt to continue playing. Each animatronic has a limit for how long you can keep your paper up without getting jumpscared.
Molten Freddy: 60 s
Scraptrap: 40 s
Scrap Baby: 30 s
Lefty: 24 s

Animatronic Hostility Signs

Molten Freddy

• A shadow covers the part of the table under Freddy's head
  
• There are overhangs on the left side of Freddy's head

Scraptrap

• He has a straight head
  
• He is looking at you
  
• At least 3 teeth are not covered by shadow on the left side of his mouth

Scrap Baby

• Her head is dropped back
  
• You can see her mouth and her left eye

Lefty

• Her head is dropped forwards
  
• You can see her left eye
  
• There is light on the right tip of the start at Lefty's chest

Additional Tips

Tip 1: Use less shocks
Each animatronics starts off with it's own salvage value, this salvage value will turn into money if you survive the minigame but will start decreasing during the minigame for every shock after the first three shocks so it is crucial to only use shocks when necessary and not waste any shocks. Do this by using shocks only during the hostile phase and perhaps after the sound starts playing at 750 AN or when it gets louder at 900 AN but keep in mind that at 1200 AN the animatronic will jumpscare you.
Tip 2: Be faster
Since aggression increases over time, it is better to spend as little time as possible in the salvage minigame because more aggression will lead to the animatronics entering the hostile phase earlier which might lead to more necessary shocks and thus less salvage value. It also increases the risk of getting jumpscared during the minigame. You can do this by proceeding to the next audio prompt faster and by not wasting shocks as shocks use valuable time.
Tip 3: Don't check off your list
It is not necessary to check off any of the boxes to end the salvage minigame. You will only be required to flip your paper up and down to proceed to the next audio prompt. This tip will help with keeping the paper down longer so that the paper aggression formula runs less and also for the paper time limits that each animatronic has.
Tip 4: Skip with F2
The salvage minigame can be skipped using either the F2 key or the combination of CTRL and S keys. This will allow you to skip the minigame without gaining any money from it and without getting the animatronic inside your pizzerias. After you skip a salvage minigame you will be required to skip all the following salvage minigames using F2 or CTRL + S because the game will otherwise reset the game back to the last tycoon phase of the game.

[acornejonieves]

Thanks a lot, this will help my older brother when he plays FFPS/FNAF 6.

[supperdude4001]

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[rookerpublic]

This helped me out a lot thanks to dead blaze

[dead blaze]

Kermitsauce01 thx

[polla1]

this man keeps dropping the best ffps guides

[dead blaze]

Boxy Boo i jsut checked that myself and you're right, im changing the guide rn

[Schizophrenic Engineer]

You dont need to check off the list. Im playing fnaf 6 salvage as im typing this lol. I just got all the money for completing it and I didnt check off a single one. Just wanted to let you know.

[dead blaze]

oblivian thank you for reminding me of that tip, im adding it rn

[oblivian]

a good tip is to check off on your list before the salvage starts, that way you wont be fumbling around with your mouse and only have to go up/down in one motion, I find this to be pretty handy since the salvage minigame requires the list to be checked off.