Salvage
Salvage is the fishing loop applied to wrecks. There are 120 wrecks in every ocean, shared by everyone, and they show on the chart wherever you have charted the tile.
A wreck stays where it lies. It does not move at midnight the way a fish school or a rogue does: it only re-rolls to somewhere else once it has been picked clean. Send a fleet for one and it leaves everybody else's chart until you are done with it.
How it works
- One hull works the wreck. The best salvage hull in the fleet that can reach that depth does the lifting, and its Salvage stat is how many tonnes it raises a trip. Everything else in the fleet is carrying.
- A wreck has tonnage, so a big one takes several trips and haulers earn their place.
- What comes up is ruined goods: scrap timber, rusted iron, sodden powder and the rest. They are ordinary items, so they can be traded and deployed.
- Ruined goods are refined at the Breaker's Yard as a timed job. The rate starts at 15:1 and improves as you learn the refining manuals, which are found on the wrecks themselves.
- Any merchant buys ruined goods for Sea Silver if you would rather not refine them.
Depths
Each depth needs its own hull, and only the abyss gives up Deadlight Glass.
| Depth | Hull | Gives up |
|---|---|---|
| Shallows |  Salvage Barge
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 1-3 Barnacle Lime
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| Reef |  Wrecking Lugger
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0-1 Barnacle Lime
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| Deep |  Diving Bell Ship
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1-2 Barnacle Lime
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| Abyssal |  Bathysphere Tender
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2-3 Barnacle Lime 1-2 Deadlight Glass
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What is down there
| Wreck | Depth | Tonnage | Ruined goods | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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Sandbar Hull A small hull on a sandbar in sight of land, mast gone, the fish already living in her. Planks, iron and a few casks in the sand. |
Shallows | 800 |  Scrap Timber Rusted Iron Brackish Rum
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Spilt Trader A trader on her side in shallow water, hold split, cargo strewn across the bottom. |
Shallows | 1,600 | Scrap Timber Rusted Iron Brackish Rum Bilge Coin
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Coral Grave A raider broken over the coral. The reef took her and the Wreckers took the rest. |
Reef | 2,400 | Scrap Timber Rusted Iron Sodden Powder Bilge Coin
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Gunned Ribs A warship wedged in the reef, her guns slipped from their ports onto the rock. Something patrols the water above her. |
Reef | 3,200 | Rusted Iron Scrap Timber Sodden Powder
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Gilded Stern A great ship upright on the dark bottom, the gilding still on her stern. Days of work for a bell ship. |
Deep | 6,000 | Rusted Iron Scrap Timber Bilge Coin
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Black Broadside A warship's gundecks lying in the deep, her ports open to the black. The kraken's spawn nest in her. |
Deep | 9,000 | Rusted Iron Sodden Powder Scrap Timber
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Drowned Hulk A hulk older than any chart, far below the light. The Drowned keep it, and something of theirs might yet be raised. |
Abyssal | 15,000 | Rusted Iron Bilge Coin Sodden Powder
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See also Salvage (research) and Breaker's Yard.