The crafting guide has a short blurb on salvage updates for crafting. Can you give us more details?
TL;DRSalvage turns debris into RMC, which no recipe uses yet but future blueprints will, and disintegration is meant to yield processed materials matching what the ship was made of, with some loss.
Salvage consists of two different methods of how you convert the ship debris that you found into material. One side is RMC, and right now I don't think we have any recipes making use of RMC. We don't yet, no. In future patches, we will have blueprints that actually will make use of RMC. So RMC will be used as a craftable material there. On the other side, the construction materials that you get from the disintegration process: right now you get the construction material. That was never the intent. We always wanted the materials that you get from disintegrating the ship to be based off what the ship is actually made of. So an example is, if you find a Vanduul ship, you get a Vanduul material out of it. If you find a Gladius, you will get some GT alumnide, which is the Aegis material, from it. So you get these processed materials in a certain quality, which the ships were made of, and then you can process them and re-utilize them for the crafting process. So like everything that we dismantle, the goal is that this also applies on the larger scale, which is the disintegration of ships. So that means that the materials that you basically recycle from them have the quality that they were made with. You lose some amount of the material, but at least the materials that it was made of, you can repurpose them with the quality that you found them in.
And just a note on those, the Vanduul materials, those will be exclusive to this collection method, so to speak. So they'll be a high value in the salvage game.
Yep. You cannot invade Vanduul space just for them. Well, not yet.