EVE New Citizens Q&A

Salvaging uses modules such as the 'Salvager I' or "Salvager II" to extract salvageable materials from ship wrecks. These salvaged items (such as armor plates) are used in manufacturing for ship Rigs.

To do this, equip the highslots of your ship with a Salvager I > Target a wreck and fly within range > activate the Salvager I mod the same way you would shoot a ship > wait until your mod cycles a few times and if successful, the salvaged material will automatically appear in your ship's cargohold.

Some wrecks will not yield anything, and a message will pop up saying "This wreck didnt yield anything of value" (or something along those lines). If this is the case, simply move on to the next wreck.

How to get into Salvaging
• Run a mission site (such as a level 2 or 3 security mission). Once complete, bookmark the site (Control + B in space).
• Fit a destroyer's high slots with Salvager I's and Small Tractor Beam I's
• In your destroyer, warp to the bookmark you made. You will see wrecks.
• Target wreck > activate tractor beam > once wreck is close, activate salvager.

Once you get better at this, you will be able to multitask and have three wrecks being salvaged at the same time as tractoring another 3-4 wrecks into range.

I used to think that everything I saw in space can be salvaged/mined.. there were alot of stuff in space! Then I found out there's only a limited selection of items that can be locked on and used with specific modules to extract some items from them.

All items extracted using a Salvager are basic building blocks for some Rig. This can be a source of a semi-passive income where you get salvage materials, use them with a Rig blueprint and place them into a manufacturing line to bake overnight. Next morning you get the finished rig, $ching$ching$ching$ item to sell.

Watch out for ships with lots of high slots so you can fit multiple Salvager modules on it and bonused ships for salvaging.

UniWiki - Salvaging
https://wiki.eveuniversity.org/Salvaging

Since I'm stuck as an alpha for the time being, and can't fly my noc. I rigged with a couple savage tackles 1s and fitted a catalyst with 5 salvagers 1s and a couple guns(if rats show up) and a tractor Beam and cargo extenders. I got the cargo hold up to 730m3, plenty room to pick up my mobile tractor units I drop in a multi room complex.

[Catalyst,
Expanded Cargohold II
Expanded Cargohold II
Expanded Cargohold II

1MN Y-S8 Compact Afterburner
[empty med slot]

Salvager I
Salvager I
Salvager I
Salvager I
Salvager I
Small Tractor Beam I
125mm Prototype Gauss Gun, Iridium Charge S
125mm Prototype Gauss Gun, Iridium Charge S

Small Salvage Tackle I
Small Salvage Tackle I

As an alpha I can't get but 6 lock ons so so any more than 5 salvagers isn't worth the trouble. I miss my Noc

MTUs make you very easy to scan down and as such setting up and MTU in a busy mission hub will almost guarantee that you get visitors. Sabriz's post was accurate and informative. I just wanted to add that I stopped using MTUs in high sec due to the extremely high increase in the frequencey of mission intruders that came with it.

I forgot I also use a fast atron for ninja salvage. Alphas can't be choosers lol

It's very fast, and can usually get most every thing on the approach from the salvager limit.

[Atron, Salvage Atron]
Damage Control II
Nanofiber Internal Structure I
Type-D Restrained Overdrive Injector

Small F-S9 Regolith Compact Shield Extender
1MN Monopropellant Enduring Afterburner
Limited Adaptive Invulnerability Field I

Salvager I
Salvager I
[empty high slot]
[empty high slot]

Small Salvage Tackle I
Small Salvage Tackle I

Kathern .. the idea to CAT fit for salvage is good a lot but the tractor beam hasnt the same range to MTU´s ... Right ?

I never bother with scanning for MTUs when I look for mission runners as I'm more interested in what type of ship they are flying and whether I can take it. Battleships are just as easy to scan to be honest.

Unless you really care about the loot you can completely ignore people interfering in your mission space. They don't actually want the loot anyway; they are just taking it to provoke you. Abandon your wrecks when they show up and they'll generally just leave.

MTU's are reuseable but they are also able to be shot at without concord interference. Running anoms in null sec I use the same few MTUs over and over and over. I run 3 anoms in my BS and drop 3 MTUs, one in each anom. I then switch to my noctis and go back out and pick up the MTUs and salvage the wrecks.

In high sec if you are in one of the busy mission systems and use MTUs a lot you will loose them regularly. For the cost of the MTUs and how much loot that they bring in it's probably still worth it but you should be aware that in high sec people will shoot at your MTUs. Game mechanic wise they can shoot at them in null sec as well however it brings diplomace issues along with it which are far more of a deterrent than anything concord does.