Salvage Mine
| “ | An old mine that automatically gathers Salvage using Fuel. | „ |
| — In-game description |
The Salvage Mine is a world structure that automatically produces Salvage by consuming either Diesel or Petrol as fuel.
Construction
It cannot be built, it is found in the world. Its location is indicated by an icon 
on the map. The locations are semi-randomly selected from a pool of possible locations at the start of each War.
Reconstruction
A destroyed Salvage Mine can be rebuilt with a Construction Vehicle and 200 Basic Materials.
At the beginning of a new war, all Salvage Mine start destroyed, like every other World Resource Mines.
Use
Its interface can be accessed on foot or from the driver seat of a logistics vehicle by pressing E.
Salvage Production
| Input(s) | Output(s) | Time |
|---|---|---|
1L x Diesel  | 9-15 x Salvage  | 00:00:08 |
1L x Petrol  | 27-45 x Salvage | 00:00:08 |
The mine automatically start producing when there's Diesel ("Low Efficiency") or Petrol ("High Efficiency") in its internal tanks. If it has both it will produce using all the Petrol first.
The amount produced depends on the global player population, it is lower when there are fewer players online. Using Petrol produces triple the output of Diesel.
Fuel
Its internal Petrol and Diesel tank can each hold 1000L (10 cans of Diesel and 20 cans of Petrol). It can be refuelled, either by hand with a fuel can or with the "Refuel" button 
next to each fuel gauge in the interface if a fuel source is nearby.
A full tank will run the mine for 2 hours and 13 minutes.
Delivering a Liquid Container of fuel is enough to run a single mine for 22 hours if it contains Diesel or 11 hours if it contains Petrol.
Storage
Its stockpile can hold up to 5000 Salvage. The production automatically halts when it is full. With Diesel, the production fills the stockpile in 1h14m and consume 556L. With Petrol, it takes about 22m and consume about 164L.
You can remotely view the amount in its stockpile by putting your cursor on its icon on the map. This is only available if your faction controls the Region Zone the mine is on.
Loading Area
You can place a Resource Container in front of the mine, on an invisible loading area, with a crane to directly transfer items in or out. In order to use it, aim the crane's arm holding the container towards the front of the Mine until the icon under the Container has a gear symbol.
Resistance
It is immune to small arms, fragmentation grenades, and 12.7mm machine gun fire, but not to heavier explosives.
Tips
- Every time you collect resources from the Resource Mine, you should refuel it in order to get the most resources out of it.
- While Salvage is pretty abundant compared to other resources, if there is a steady source of Petrol nearby (i.e. an Oil Field producing Public Petrol in the region), it is worth using that to fuel it.
- As a liquid container holds half as much Petrol as it could hold Diesel, but Petrol produces three times as much Salvage per liter of fuel, it is always more efficient to supply Petrol if the distances to the closest Refinery and the closest Oil Field are comparable.
Trivia
- All World Resource Mines used to produce much faster prior to Update 1.50 (officially known as 'Inferno'), with the Salvage Mine used to having its tick speed being every second
- they now produce resources at a slower rate, but this was compensated with Facilities being introduced, which made Petrol much easier to obtain
Gallery
All World Resource Mines (with each Resource Mine labelled)
The Salvage Mine's interface
A Salvage Mine
Direct Collection with a Resource Container
