Salvage

Salvage is the mirror image of Repair: instead of fixing gear, you break it down for parts. Place a salvage anvil, right-click a damaged item, and you get back some of the raw materials it was made from, and, with Arcane Salvage, a chance to recover its enchantments as an enchanted book.

How your Salvage level is calculated

Because Salvage is a child skill, mcMMO never grants it XP. Instead, every time it needs your Salvage level it computes:

Salvage level = floor( (min(Repair, RepairCap) + min(Fishing, FishingCap)) ÷ 2 )

Each parent is first clamped to its own level cap, then the two are averaged. So if you're Repair 80 and Fishing 40, your Salvage level is (80 + 40) ÷ 2 = 60. The fastest way to climb Salvage is to push both parents up. Leaning on only one of them caps your average at half that skill's level.

How salvaging works

1. Place down the salvage anvil (a Gold Block by default, configurable in config.yml).
2. Hold the damaged item you want to scrap.
3. Right-click the anvil. The item is consumed and its materials fly back to you.

Rules enforced by the code:

• The item must meet the minimum Salvage level for that item type.
• Unbreakable items can't be salvaged.
• By default a confirmation click is required (Salvage_Confirm_Required in config.yml): first click warns, second click within ~3 seconds salvages.

How much you get back

Salvage yield depends on how damaged the item is and your Scrap Collector rank. A pristine item returns its full potential; a battered one returns proportionally less.

The base yield is:

potential yield = floor( item's max quantity × (durability remaining ÷ max durability) )

So an item at full durability can return all of its materials, while one at 50% durability returns roughly half. That figure is then capped by your Scrap Collector limit.

Scrap Collector: recover more parts

Scrap Collector raises the maximum number of materials a single salvage can return.

At rank 1 you can only ever get 1 item back. From rank 2 onward the cap is rank × 2, so rank 8 lets you recover up to 16 materials from a single item (assuming the item's own max quantity and its remaining durability allow it).

Arcane Salvage: pull enchantments back out

Arcane Salvage is Salvage's headline trick: when you scrap an enchanted item, you have a chance to extract its enchantments into an enchanted book instead of losing them.

For each enchantment on the item, mcMMO rolls:

1. Full extraction: the enchantment is recovered at its full level. If this succeeds (or if enchant loss is disabled), the book gets the full enchant.
2. Partial extraction: if the full roll fails, and the enchant is level 2+ with downgrades enabled, a second roll can recover it downgraded by one level.
3. Otherwise the enchantment is lost.

Arcane Salvage ranks unlock at these Salvage levels, with these per-enchant chances:

Salvage:
    ArcaneSalvage:
        EnchantLossEnabled: true
        EnchantDowngradeEnabled: true
        MaxEnchantLevel: 5
        ExtractFullEnchant:
            Rank_1: 2.5
            # ... up to Rank_8: 32.5
        ExtractPartialEnchant:
            Rank_1: 2.0
            # ... up to Rank_8: 17.5

Extracted enchants are capped at level 5 by default (MaxEnchantLevel: 5), overridable by ExploitFix.UnsafeEnchantments in experience.yml.

Commands & permissions

Like Repair, Salvage has per-material and per-item-type nodes so owners can restrict what players may salvage. See Permissions for the full list.

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