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=== [[Salvaging Laser]] === Salvaging lasers are used for mining wreckage (or hulls). They are more efficient than just shooting wreckages with chainguns and refining the resulting ore because they get more resources from the wreckage. They can only salvage up to one above the material they're made of. (i.e. Iron salvaging laser can salvage [[iron]] and [[titanium]], a [[titanium]] salvaging laser can salvage [[Naonite]], [[Titanium]] and [[Iron]], but not [[Trinium]] etc.) Salvaging lasers can be found everywhere. Salvaging laser efficiency determines what percent of the harvested material is returned as usable alloys. Salvaging Lasers can also be used to obtain additional Turrets or [[Subsystems]] from wreckage, specifically by targeting [[Turret Base Blocks]] or Technical Blocks. The fact that Salvaging Laser returns are based on the build cost of the blocks they harvest mean that it is usually the most efficient to only salvage expensive technical blocks like Generators, and leave most of the inexpensive-but-durable Armor blocks behind. On rare occasion, Salvaging Lasers can also be used as viable weapons systems, albeit at very short range. ==== R-Lasers ==== Mining and Salvaging lasers come in two types: Purifying and [https://avorion.fandom.com/wiki/Mining#Raw_Mining Refining]. Refining lasers, also known as R-Mining or R-Salvaging lasers, have hugely increased Efficiency (60-90%, versus a Purifying laser's 15-25%), however rather than returning Alloys, R-lasers return Ore or Scrap Metal, which must be picked up and carried as Cargo and processed at a Resource Depot to create usable alloys. Despite the required storage space, the impact of the increased Efficiency cannot be understated, as the gap between a 15 Efficiency Purifying laser and a 90 Efficiency R-Laser is quite literally 6x the Alloys from the same asteroids or ship wrecks.
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