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 Salvage Magnet to pull in a wreck for a limited amount of time and don't get killed by space carps or your own idiocy!

Salvage Specialist job might not be avalaible on smaller or older maps.

Salvage Magnet


This console is used for pulling in salvage wrecks, which you can scavenge for extra loot. The salvage magnet will always pull in a wreck in a specific distance away (currently 32 tiles forward) from it, meaning that 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.

Your equipment
The most crucial items in your job is the salvage hardsuit set, a breath mask and an oxygen tank - you will not survive in space without those (though you can try if you're brave). To make your job more efficient, you will also receive magnetic boots, a toolbelt with a myriad of tools, a pickaxe and a fire extinguisher. On some maps, you will also get a combat knife for fighting space entities.

How to use your equipment
In theory, going into space to pick up some items sounds like a cakewalk, but there are some dangers to that task. To efficiently do your job, you will need to know how to properly utilize the items you have received.

Tips and tricks

 * If you run out of water in your fire extinguisher, try throwing some object in the opposite direction that you want to fly to. The momentum will usually quickly propel you onwards to where you wish to fly.
 * 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.
 * If you're running out of time and still want to take something, try grabbing it. Dragged items won't get despawned if the salvage disappears.
 * Holding down Control, and Right-Clicking on a tile near you while pulling something let's you move it around while standing still. In zero-gravity, you can fling objects such as crates/gas tanks twords the station by timing your release with Q accurately. This is not hard to figure out but is kinda tricky to pull off consistently.