Scrap-yard and crafting

Every destroyed monster leaves a pile of space scrap. For the first 20 seconds only the owner and their party see it, then anyone. Besides scrap, piles also hold raw materials and sometimes something rare. Everything goes into your ship's cargo until it is full. When your ship is destroyed, part of the cargo drops on the spot and anyone can pick it up.

How it works

1. Collect scrap and raw materials from monster piles. Harder maps drop more valuable materials.
2. Unload in your private Scrap-yard. Its portal is on your home base and on Zenith Bastion. Scrap goes to storage, materials to your inventory. If you do not want to fly back, send the hauler for your cargo.
3. Start the machines: the recycler, the refinery and the workshop. They keep working while you are offline.
4. Collect the results in the game at the Scrap-yard station.
5. Install the modules and the key into a galaxy gate built on the map – that opens it.

Machines

• The recycler turns stored scrap into components. Every batch has a small bonus chance, for example a rare raw material.
• The refinery burns scrap from storage into Quantum Energy (spent on gate spins) and processes raw materials into components and exotic matter. The refinery is the only source of Quantum Energy. You split your scrap between the recycler (components), the refinery (energy) and selling.
• The workshop crafts galaxy gate modules and keys, repair kits and a few pieces of rare gear. Gear from the workshop costs part of its shop price on top of the materials.

Each machine queues at most 3 jobs, 5 with VIP. Finished jobs you have not collected yet count toward the queue. VIP makes machines 7,5 % faster, never luckier. You can start jobs from the launcher too (Items page), but collect them only in the game.

Selling scrap

Stored scrap can be sold straight away for 100 Q-Credits per piece, with no waiting and no queue. Sell it at the station in your Scrap-yard or in the launcher (Items page, Scrap-yard tab).

Inventory, storage and pickup

• The materials inventory has a limited number of slots (20 at the start). Each slot holds one stack of the same material.
• Scrap storage holds 1.000 scrap at the start.
• Whatever does not fit in the inventory waits in pickup (at most 5 entries). Collect it at the station once you have room.
• Inventory, storage, the recycler and the refinery can be upgraded: more room, faster work, more lines and better yield.

Hauler

If you do not want to fly back to base, send the hauler. It flies after you across maps, takes your cargo and carries it to storage. It is bought and configured at the Scrap-yard station. Automatic trips when your cargo fills up are VIP only.

Crafting map

What is made from what – from scrap and raw materials through components and the workshop to a galaxy gate – is on its own page: Crafting map.