Salvage Specialist

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As a Salvage Specialist, your job is to explore various wrecks from the space and retrieve any loot that you might find inside them. Use the to pull in a wreck for a limited amount of time and don't get killed by space carps or your own idiocy! Be sure to bring a GPS and memorise current coordinates so that you do not get lost in space.



Finding the Salvage
The location of the salvage is unpredictable. As such, you can use computers to help you locate it or simply jetpack out into space around the and hope you see it.

Some maps will start you with a already built. If you don't have one, make sure to remind Scientists to get you a Circuit Board which you can then construct.

Alternatively you can use the visuals provided by the Cargo_Technician.



Equipment
The most crucial items in your job are the spationaut hardsuit, a breath mask and a breathable gas tank (oxygen for most species or nitrogen for slimes). You will not survive in space without those (though you can try if you're brave).

Salvage Magnet


This console is used for pulling in salvage wrecks, which you can scavenge for loot. The salvage magnet pulls wrecks towards the general area it is facing, but that doesn't do much to narrow down the area. If the magnet is facing the wrong way or is installed too deep inside the station, then you won't be able to pull anything in.

Usage:
The console can be interacted with at any point in time either to start it or get its status.


 * 1) Interact with the console. This will start it up and it will take a few seconds to pull a wreckage.
 * 2) The Engineering radio will record that a wreckage is being located and pulled
 * 3) Wait for a wreckage to be pulled
 * 4) The Engineering radio will record that a wreckage has been pulled
 * 5) Crew have a limited amount of time to get to the wreckage and haul loot back
 * 6) The Engineering radio will record that the wreckage has been lost. Any crew on the wreckage will remain at their coordinates but may be spun (losing navigation). The wreckage will vanish.
 * 7) The console will enter a short cooldown period

Before installing this too far outside in space, consider protecting it against meteors, aggressive space fiends and antagonists.

Mass Scanner
A computer that shows you a non-interactive map of the station, the shuttle location and any unidentified debris / wrecks marked as "Unidentified". Up is not necessarily north. You will see the computer's location (your location) marked in green.

Ore Processor
A machine that takes ore that you have mined (with a pickaxe or mining drill) and when enough has accumulated enables crew to extract a full of stack of material. e.g. 30 steel plates. Can store steel, glass, plasma, uranium (but not plastic).

Tips and tricks

 * You can find a spare small oxygen tank inside your survival box. You're also able to keep it in your pocket, leaving your hands unoccupied.
 * Character with Slime chosen as their race requires nitrogen to breathe in space.
 * Holding down Control, and Right-Clicking on a tile near you while pulling something lets you move it around while standing still. In zero-gravity, you can fling objects such as crates/gas tanks towards the station by timing your release with Q accurately. This is not hard to figure out but is tricky to pull off consistently.