Salvage Field

A screenshot of a Salvage Field.

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**Salvage Fields**  are Resource Fields where Players can manually collect Salvage, which can be refined into Basic Materials, Diesel and Explosive materials at a Refinery. Mining at a Salvage Field produces raw resources faster than automated Salvage Mines.

Their locations are always shown on the map, they are randomly selected by the game at the start of each war and doesn't change for the whole war.

Salvage Fields cannot be destroyed.

## Use

A Salvage Field is composed of a large decorative center piece that can't be mined and smaller salvage nodes strewn around it that you mine. Salvage nodes are mined by hitting them with a Hammer, Sledge Hammer, or Harvester (hold `Left Click`). The Salvage Field starts with a reserve of 250 nodes. When a node on the field is harvested, a node from the reserve is spawned in after a few seconds. The amount of nodes left in the field's reserve can be seen by hovering your mouse over a field's icon on the map (only if your faction owns the Region Zone it's in) or by pressing `E` on a field's large center piece. Once the reserve is fully depleted, the field replenishes after 80-140 real life minutes (depends on player population). If not depleted, it remains with reduced reserves.

When mined, a node splits into two smaller pieces which themselves split into even tinier pieces. Fully mining one node yields 200 salvage by default, meaning an entire field is worth more than 50,000 salvage.

A node is harvested with 18 hits of Hammer or 9 hits of Sledge Hammer and Harvester meaning a single miner needs at least 75 minutes, 50 minutes or 38 minutes respectively to fully harvest a Salvage Field considering hit rate and efficiency without transportation.

### Resource Transport

Collected salvage can be transported to a Refinery to be refined or to a player-base Materials Factory to be transformed into Construction Materials.

Resource Containers can be brought by Flatbed, Barge, or Freighter then unloaded with a Crane at a resource field to be manually filled with raw resources. The container can hold way more resources than Trucks.

### High Yield Nodes

Rarely a Field spawns a High Yield resource node. They are identified by a bright light on top of them and yield a much higher amount of resources for the same mining effort

### Aluminum, Copper, and Iron

When mining Salvage, every time a node splits, it has a chance to spawn Iron, Copper, or Aluminum nodes. These nodes are mined just like other nodes. A field can only drop one type of technology material, either Aluminum, Copper or Iron at a time. One of these three resources can be randomly selected every time the field is cleared and replenishes.

These three resources are only used for technology research. Due to Copper and Iron being used in the vehicle tech tree, Copper will only spawn once the vehicle tech tree has reached Light Tanks. Iron will not spawn after that, and will not be used for the remainder of the tech tree. Due to this, it is recommended to use up all the Iron you have before the tech tree unlocks Light Tanks.

### Performance

With a Hammer Primary nodes need 6 hits to give 2 secondary nodes. Secondary nodes need 4 hits to give a tertiary node. Tertiary nodes disapear in 2 hits.
It takes 18 hits to wipe a node.
A miner with a Hammer working at 1 hit/s needs 75 minutes to wipe a Salvage Field