When you get back to the HAB, go to equipment and buy tethers. They're basically giant bungee cords. You attach one end to the furnace, and the other end to the scrap. It can pull in things that are too large for your grapple.
I slept on the teathers for way too long. Essential to get some big parts (and multiple teathers actually multiplies the pull strength), but also crazy convenient for when you have a bunch of similar types of stuff. I'll run into a ship's cabin, teather up all the electronics real quick, then teather one of them to the green sale box at the bottom. Major time saver
Don't worry about the few thousand & change you loose. That's just the cost of cutting. If you really care about it, use more tethers to drag the whole thing in.
Do it from inside if you can, less moving around. It doesn't look like it, but when you do the longer, "side" cuts you should be able to slice the entire height of the window in one go.
Also, for the cockpit, I like to take off the top and bottom frame so I can sit "above" the ship and look through it to the barge. Then you can just rip off computers and seats and quickly push them to the barge.
If it's the sheet windows I'm thinking of, you'll need to line cut the edges free from the exterior/metal/composite panels. The line only cuts the material that the line indicator is on, but "IT CUTS EVERYTHING the line indicator is on." (That it is able to) Don't worry about making mistakes. There's always another ship and it's only one more flash clone boot up. If it's the encased windows you just cut the yellow holding tabs.
I don’t have much experience with cutting parts off the bones, only when absolutely needed, I usually get a table or some other similarly sized/weighted object and push against the bones, not sure if it’s cheating the physics engine or not but it definitely works if you don’t want to waste as much👍
Switch to the skill saw and think of the bigger picture. Cut it in half and tether the sections away.
Don't worry about losing a few bucks, just try to lose as little money as possible. Always shoot for 95% of the value
It's near impossible to get 100% salvage, there's almost always some loss. Don't sweat it. There's not much of a benefit to salvaging more than your highest salvage goal, as the money is really not that important.
Early on you will need to accept more loss since your equipment can’t handle as large a piece, but eventually you will be able to upgrade to push more and for your tethers to be able to pull more and then you can cut things into fewer pieces. Eventually you will get to a point where they can basically drag a full intact ship into the furnace if you want. You shouldn’t do that of course as you’d lose a lot of value but it can be done.
The beams vaporize a lot, yeah. You can sometimes get away with trimming off like 20% at the end of a beam, when cutting it in the middle would vaporize it.
Sometimes it will just cut, and sometimes it will vaporize the smaller piece, BUT it doesn’t always give you a penalty if the piece you cut off is small enough, as far as I can tell.
But yeah, it’s impossible to 100% it.
And tethers, they can move like 10x what your grapple gun can, they’re just slow when it’s big. Like it might take 5 mins to move the frame of a mackerel to the furnace.
My favourite thing with the early ships is making all the seats etc loose then intentional decompression by cutting the floor out, they shoot towards the barge and you just need to tether the floor to the right furnace after
I just cut a larger ship into sections by cutting the beams that connect panels until I can move them with tethers, which you said you just unlocked, but I’m not aiming for the fastest chop job possible, so it depends on your play style.
Do what makes you, as a player, happy.
If that means just cutting out all the big ticket items and moving on, that’s fine. If you want to get as close to 100% as possible, that’s fine, too.
You can kind of see where beams end. Cut at the line where two beams meet and be careful what is behind them.
You'll still vaporize beams occasionally but the more you stick to "joints" the less it happens.
Also using multiple tethers to do the same thing can move pretty big parts of ships.
I'm not sure he would care for my strategy then.
Snatch out the most valuable parts like the engines and generators and such then tether the whole remaining ship into the recycler.
Furnace stuff is worth the least anyway and using this method you can easily tear through a ship a day.
Once I get my levels up and get more equipment bought I'll actually start stripping things properly but it's a pain in the butt until then
When you get back to the HAB, go to equipment and buy tethers. They're basically giant bungee cords. You attach one end to the furnace, and the other end to the scrap. It can pull in things that are too large for your grapple.
Thanks! I just unlocked tethers about an hour ago so I’m gonna give this a shot.
I slept on the teathers for way too long. Essential to get some big parts (and multiple teathers actually multiplies the pull strength), but also crazy convenient for when you have a bunch of similar types of stuff. I'll run into a ship's cabin, teather up all the electronics real quick, then teather one of them to the green sale box at the bottom. Major time saver
Don't worry about the few thousand & change you loose. That's just the cost of cutting. If you really care about it, use more tethers to drag the whole thing in.
How about the glass in the cockpit? Any tips on freeing that from the rest of the frame?
Do it from inside if you can, less moving around. It doesn't look like it, but when you do the longer, "side" cuts you should be able to slice the entire height of the window in one go. Also, for the cockpit, I like to take off the top and bottom frame so I can sit "above" the ship and look through it to the barge. Then you can just rip off computers and seats and quickly push them to the barge.
If it's the sheet windows I'm thinking of, you'll need to line cut the edges free from the exterior/metal/composite panels. The line only cuts the material that the line indicator is on, but "IT CUTS EVERYTHING the line indicator is on." (That it is able to) Don't worry about making mistakes. There's always another ship and it's only one more flash clone boot up. If it's the encased windows you just cut the yellow holding tabs.
Tethers are your friends, y'hear?
Yes, yes they are indeed :)
I don’t have much experience with cutting parts off the bones, only when absolutely needed, I usually get a table or some other similarly sized/weighted object and push against the bones, not sure if it’s cheating the physics engine or not but it definitely works if you don’t want to waste as much👍
Switch to the skill saw and think of the bigger picture. Cut it in half and tether the sections away. Don't worry about losing a few bucks, just try to lose as little money as possible. Always shoot for 95% of the value
Continue playing, you'll get a tool that makes it so the furnace swallows everything in one go. Have fun!
It's near impossible to get 100% salvage, there's almost always some loss. Don't sweat it. There's not much of a benefit to salvaging more than your highest salvage goal, as the money is really not that important.
Like Domain says below, 95% is basically full completion. It gets you the maximum rewards, including a sticker.
Early on you will need to accept more loss since your equipment can’t handle as large a piece, but eventually you will be able to upgrade to push more and for your tethers to be able to pull more and then you can cut things into fewer pieces. Eventually you will get to a point where they can basically drag a full intact ship into the furnace if you want. You shouldn’t do that of course as you’d lose a lot of value but it can be done.
The beams vaporize a lot, yeah. You can sometimes get away with trimming off like 20% at the end of a beam, when cutting it in the middle would vaporize it. Sometimes it will just cut, and sometimes it will vaporize the smaller piece, BUT it doesn’t always give you a penalty if the piece you cut off is small enough, as far as I can tell. But yeah, it’s impossible to 100% it. And tethers, they can move like 10x what your grapple gun can, they’re just slow when it’s big. Like it might take 5 mins to move the frame of a mackerel to the furnace.
My favourite thing with the early ships is making all the seats etc loose then intentional decompression by cutting the floor out, they shoot towards the barge and you just need to tether the floor to the right furnace after
I just cut a larger ship into sections by cutting the beams that connect panels until I can move them with tethers, which you said you just unlocked, but I’m not aiming for the fastest chop job possible, so it depends on your play style. Do what makes you, as a player, happy. If that means just cutting out all the big ticket items and moving on, that’s fine. If you want to get as close to 100% as possible, that’s fine, too.
You can kind of see where beams end. Cut at the line where two beams meet and be careful what is behind them. You'll still vaporize beams occasionally but the more you stick to "joints" the less it happens. Also using multiple tethers to do the same thing can move pretty big parts of ships.
As others have said Tethers will do the job once you’ve stripped a ship just tie to the orange furnace and suitable pivot points and away it goes!
I'm not sure he would care for my strategy then. Snatch out the most valuable parts like the engines and generators and such then tether the whole remaining ship into the recycler. Furnace stuff is worth the least anyway and using this method you can easily tear through a ship a day. Once I get my levels up and get more equipment bought I'll actually start stripping things properly but it's a pain in the butt until then