Auto-Salvage

Functionality

The auto-salvage feature enables players to send salvageable items to devourers from a larger chest inventory. By labelling a chest salvage, that chest will feed any devourers on the territory, allowing players to get through massive amounts of items much faster. Once done breaking down the items, the devourers will attempt to stash the results to any matching chest using the same stash feature players use. You can have several chests labelled salvage if you wish, they will all feed into devourers.

Command Activation

to use the salvage feature, the player must ensure the command is enabled:

• Command: .logistics salvage
• Shortcut: .l sal

How to use the Auto Salvage Feature

Step-by-Step Instructions

1. Enable Auto Salvage: Enter the command to activate the feature, or ensure it is enabled:

   .logistics salvage
   

2. Label the Chest: Mark a chest with the name salvage.

3. Automatic Feeding: Salvageable items in the chest will automatically be sent to any devourers within the territory.

4. Stashing Results: After processing, the devourers will attempt to stash the salvaged results.

Important Considerations

• Naming: A chest must contain the word salvage in order to feed into the devourers.
• Territory Ownership: As with most of the features, the actual owner of the territory's settings will determine whether auto-salvaging is possible. Clan mate association is not enough.
• Inventory Management:
  • Make sure that you do not place unsalvageable items in the salvage chest or they will clog it up and never move.
  • Make sure that you have places for the output from the devourers to go- if it does not find a matching stash, it will stay in the devourer's inventory.

Conveyor and Overflow Interactions

You can make a salvage chest act as a conveyor receiver for a specific item so it is continually fed for auto-salvage while preserving a 1‑item seed.

Set up

• Name the chest so it includes salvage and a receiver token, for example salvage r0.
• Seed the chest with 1 of the item you want auto-salvaged. Receiver chests “want” any item types they already contain, so this tells conveyors what to deliver.

Feed sources

• Overflow: Conveyors drain Overflow chests first for any receiver, regardless of group. You do not need to mark Overflow with s# for this to work.
• Station senders: Any s# station in the same group will also supply the salvage receiver.
• Chest senders: s# chests only supply stations, not other chests. They are not used to fill the salvage receiver.

Why this keeps 1

The optional r# on the salvage chest invokes the dontpulllast retain rule, which keeps 1 of each item type in that chest. That 1 acts as a permanent seed so the receiver demand stays active. Devourers will still consume the rest of the stack.

Example utilization: Mark a salvager as a receiver, and seed it with various book types. Don't have them in other chests (or have the chests with books be full and unable to receive), so that the books will stash to overflow. From overflow, it will match to the receiving and seeded salvaging chest, and thus auto salvage all new books.