Hand Tool Salvaging, How Much Can You Make?

How much can you make in Star Citizen with just the humble MultiTool with the salvage head? We find out.
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[@Morphologis]

Great effort with this video man, keep up the great work. Loved the editing style, music choice, and narration!

[@amrmoussa2490]

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[@keith4430]

We, the people, could easily say the same about your content. Keep up the good work yourself. Love everything you put out. You always deliver a AAA video.

[@topcatcoast2coast579]

Love how you left a comment Morph

[@JS-wt8vf]

On the upper right of the inventory screen there is an options menu that lets you always show inventory mount points. You can then just drag them from the numbers rather than having to take them off the armor itself.

[@expressmangaming650]

This is the quality feedback I was hoping to hear.

[@Folkeregor]

this is god-tier knowledge thank you

[@ChrisRollason]

That is something I didn't know. Thank you!

[@-DarkFox-]

My life has just been enhanced

[@Oz_Gnarly_One]

You should be able to simply drag and drop the empty can right onto the full belt slot. No need to pull them off at all. The full can just replace the one you took out of the pack automatically.

[@KerboOnYT]

That was painful but thanks for doing the work to show what's possible when selling

[@WarEagle77]

I think the small canisters are really ment for doing minor repair and keeping a small amount of RMC on your character. Hand salavaging was ment to be done with the salvage backpack which is not fully functional yet but it is in the game. Your profits should jump significantly with the backpack. I'm just not sure how they are going to work out storing the RMC after the backpack is full. Great video!

[@tenryuta]

variable scu containers(filling as needed), which based on SC's track record will make every container an explosive... with inert material

[@grymrammsolkbyrt6203]

cant wait to see what this backpack gameplay would be like when it is up and running.

[@devistator102]

Where is this backpack? And what is it called?

[@AngelaTheSephira]

​@@devistator102I think they mean "in the game files".

[@vahnn0]

Double clicking something in an inventory location will try to equip it to any free slot on your character. At the top-right of Inventory screen, click the gear icon then check the option to show all equipment slots (i forget the exact wording, but you'll know it when you see it.) Then you can quickly drag those off to your backpack. I'd also keep the food and drink in your chest/leg armor so that you can just click Move All to dump the full cans into your ship. Then double click your stack of empty cans to fill your belt with empty cans, then drag the stack of empty cans to your backpack, and repeat!

[@bjornhary1012]

Little Update: If u stack the filled canisters in your inventory, u can sell them at once

[@clethcriss6258]

How? Where? I tried and I had to sell them 1by1 at TDD.

[@smokeyblinker9869]

@@clethcriss6258 you can stack the same items by holding it and moving it on top the next one, same goes with ammo food drinks. if you bought 4 water at once and bought one more after, just grab hold the bottle in the inventory and move it on top of the stack of 4 and let go the mice button.

[@ruckusfpv327]

Good information, I would say that hand mining is much smoother on the selling end but gathering salvage is way safer. Side note: you can double click to equip items quickly.

[@MagnumGreenPanther]

Nice work Thank you. As a new player even seeing your mistakes means that’s one less mistake I might not make Yesterday I learned not to attempt a zero g EVA once you start getting the altitude crawler. Subscribed

[@expressmangaming650]

Yep I could edit it so there are no mistakes, and that would make for shorter videos, but I want to show my mistakes.

[@FullmetalAngyl]

@@expressmangaming650 Thank you very much for doing so.

[@mastersofthemountains7296]

Yo ngl the quality of this vid is much better than sum people with 100k subs I love the pace that it's set at. It keeps you engaged while not being too energetic. Keep it up man lovin ur vids

[@myrchantkobold8268]

the real bonus is being able to repair your armor on your ship somewhat with the tool. So keeping a few canisters full in the ships storage would be handy.

[@Oz_Gnarly_One]

You should be able to simply drag and drop the empty can right onto the full belt slot. No need to pull them off at all. The full can just replace the one you took out of the pack automatically.

[@stevenflaton2693]

Great video! I was always curious about this. I make a decent little profit once a week by cashing out all the collected gowns all over the verse. Made over 10k once, I let it build up in my local for a few weeks by grabbing gowns everytime i came across ANY and brought them back to base lol 😂selling process was painful but free AUEC As far as salvage goes… I’ll be sticking to my vulture 😂. But if they figure out a way to stack the cans it could be a fun thing to do and a reason to get out your little ship and make a little money! Change it up here and again.

[@galacassball7736]

YOU CAN RIGHT click equip all with mags and probly thoise canisters, also to unload them you can put yoru whole chest peice in storage in ship and it will unequip it all in the storage and then just put the chest back on

[@aaronpaul5990]

Being unable to sell multiple items at once is one of the biggest annoyance of the current system -.- i soooo hope that they add that soon

[@thiagolucas2291]

kkkk Eu passei por isso

[@tachi1579]

you can, you have to merge the stacks

[@aaronpaul5990]

@@tachi1579 Most items seem to resit to merge so far. But maybe i just havent figured it out ... which doesnt speak for the system xD

[@cornflakezgaming]

the faster way of reloading would be to manually put the first canister/magazine in slot 1 and then just double click on the rest of them to automatically put them on your belt

[@expressmangaming650]

THIS is the kind of thing I was hoping to hear! Thank you.

[@ChrisRollason]

Thanks for going through the pain of this, so we don't have to.. That was interesting! Next time I go out in the Vulture, I might hand mine like 10 canisters, just to keep back at base, to take out with me, when I think I might need to repair my ship!

[@Chuck8541]

I didn’t even know we could do repairs. 😮

[@blackcobra8849]

Thanks for focusing on solo players. This really important formation too me. I am the sharing type. Solo is the way to go, I never have to wait for another person.

[@vahnn0]

I probably wouldn't bother doing this as a money maker, but I'd consider doing it once in a while to have a staff of 10-20 cans of RMC to do minor self repairs in the field. I still don't know if repairing with RMC can actually fix damaged engines (which is my main reason for stopping for repairs in my Corsair), but if it can, then I will definitely start doing that.

[@XP_Limit]

being new star citizen again I learn something new thanks this was helpful

[@christophermontoya5995]

You can double click mags in your pack to mount them into its free slots items

[@Inventive15]

Best helmet practices. Check. There's an option to put the item slots on the screen for switching out mags and such.

[@expressmangaming650]

Ooh I will definitely look into that.

[@brianmalone3166]

If you do any delivery or bunker missions, loot all the multitools that you find. Many of them have the SRT attachment and the can, which you can then pull out into inventory. I have more of these things than I'll ever use.

[@brianmalone3166]

Plus, the value of this hand salvaging is not worth the time invested, in my opinion. Not to say that it'll not be worth doing in the future, when the repair functionality is implemented. But as a way of making credits right now, there are many more lucrative ways.

[@expressmangaming650]

Definitely. I was just curious. I would probably prefer hand salvaging to hand mining, but that's about it.

[@esracoon]

to load the canisters, ammo, weapons, multitool, medpens, etc to the suit slots, double click the item from either local or backpack.

[@saltygravy6928]

Nice nfo. That music gives the video a movie like feel , I like it.

[@expressmangaming650]

I take great satisfaction in production value. The trade-off is it takes a lot of time do make.

[@AriesXanatos]

Great video and I learned how manual salvaging works now! Thanks!

[@Bokaj01]

I think I would choose hand mining in caves then, say on Hurston. In an hour, sometimes hour and a half, I was able to mine 130 pieces of Hadanite stored in my armor/backpack (largest I could find) which sold for approx. 36 K aUEC on a nearby station. Later I advanced to renting a Cutlass and ROC etc. But I like the diversity of the Multi Tool and doing different tasks with it.

[@CS-zo7wx]

Did you do a mining mission?

[@Bokaj01]

@@CS-zo7wx No this is just me exploring, are there specific mining missions as well?

[@CS-zo7wx]

@@Bokaj01 just looked into it and apparently you take cave type missions either investigation or bounty and then mine the cave once you finish said mission

[@Bokaj01]

@@CS-zo7wx ah ok yeah know about that. I thought perhaps some specific mining missions had come up, like with salvage etc 😎

[@mrexpendable1232]

There is an option in game settings to turn off camera spring, which will keep the ship from swaying in all these timelapses

[@Lot-sv5sw]

Great work with the explanations and walk through. Very helpful and encouraging, this was very informative

[@grymrammsolkbyrt6203]

Thank you for this, I was wondering if this gameplay loop was profitable, but as of yet it isn't worth the time sync. However, with some further development from CIG I could see it, I would have said they should take a higher price for the smaller canisters, as well as have vendors sell them. Would be cool if you were going out for an exploration to be able to buy several canisters already full for repairs, especially if you are somewhere that readily available salvage is.

[@expressmangaming650]

I think if you were a brand new player who didn't want to do Bounties, and you were smarter than me and stacked your full canisters (they do stack), it can be an okay way to grow some starting money if you enjoy the process. In all other situations, it's not worth it.

[@piledrive]

@@expressmangaming650 What we dont know yet is if we can use the RMC from hand salvaging for crafting. I would assume that it would be a required material for crafting, and that we wouldnt be able to use the 1 scu boxes, but would instead use the canisters of them.

[@Lot-sv5sw]

Very informative and a very good topic to review, answered lots ofquestions. Thanks

[@shazam3218]

This was a very nice vid. Glad to find out the where with all of those SRT canisters, gosh.

[@seanwattles9264]

I tried this a few days ago and it took me longer to sell than it took to salvage.

[@expressmangaming650]

It looks like you can stack the completed cans. In that case selling them might be a sane process? I need to verify that.

[@clethcriss6258]

Okay, so you inspired me to try this because it looks fun (to me). I spent more than an hour to prepare and to go to the location. I'm a newbie, okay. I need time to figure out things. Like you can't just travel to Yela from Area 18. I mean, you can't set route, because... you can't set route more than 2 stops. Touche. I went to Crusade. From Crusade to Daymar, because Yela was obsctructed and I still couldn't set a route. Thankfully I was able from Daymar. Okay, I'm at the belt. Flew around here and there when I finally found some good looking scrap. Cool! Now open back of the ship, shut down, hop into the space! Equiped my multitool, added the canister as attachment. Approached the selected scrap and... I can't salvage. If I selecet salvage, the "Canister is full", if I select repair the "Canister is empty". I hit reload a couple of times, nothing changed. Can't salvage. Fuck this shit. This game did nothing from the first login than dip its balls deep in my mouth. Ship blew up at landing because of no reason > gear byebye. I was looking for my blown up ship the get the gear back... > Fell under starport of Area 18 and quit right away. I was leaving a planet and a ship came close, then 1 second something on the coms > got Crime Stat 1 and 20K fine... Went to surrender myself, but put my gear into my ship's storage and stored it. Spent time in jail, claimed my ship. > Yep, indeed, gear byebye. And now this shit. When will this game be fun?

[@clethcriss6258]

A relog solved the problem, then 30K disconnect...

[@expressmangaming650]

@@clethcriss6258 this is the way....

[@Kakeyoro]

CIG will definitely need to work on bulk selling these canisters. Perhaps someone shouldakena ticket on the issue council.

[@FullmetalAngyl]

Can't wait for the salvaging backpack to be fully implemented.

[@Berilia24]

you are a hero, im sorry you had to do this for our learning experience

[@michael5021]

you can normally load you accessories (ammo, med pens, etc.) by double clicking

[@Mechanical3000]

Took one for us ! Good job 👍

[@NexAlea]

Double clicking on a cannister in any inventory should auto-equip it, like magazines, isn't it ? Draging and dropping an item on another item from the same type should stack them up (useful to de-clutter your inventory). In your vehicle inventory, clic "sort" then choose an empty category, it will makes it way easier to transfert items in (the vehicle inventory will appear as empty, so no unwanted item switching). Or, if you can, get all your non-cannister items in your core / legs inventory, keep all your cannisters in your backpack and then use the "move all" button to transfer everything at once. If you are really serious about this, the quickiest way I can think of would be: Grab a lot of backpacks in your ship inventory Get the 'cannister "sort" tab' only filled with empty cannisters (use a container for any item that would be in the same tab) Transfert all your items in your core / leg compartiment and keep only cannisters in your backpack Go salvage When you have to swap, access your ships inventory Drag the full backpack in Equip an empty backpack Switch to the cannister's tab Left clic as crazy to fully equip with empty cannisters Fill your backpack with empty cannisters ???? Profit

[@rybuds47]

Thanks for filming the test!

[@sethdevine7181]

I’d try stacking the canisters to see if I could sell more then one at a time

[@brianmalone3166]

In my experience, stacking items in inventory does not work for selling multiples. You get an error, and have to sell the items one at a time anyway. When you loot items that are pre-stacked, then you can sell multiples.

[@expressmangaming650]

Big oof. I was hoping stacking would solve that.

[@lokivalknut5449]

you dont have to manually remove the filled canisters just move the empty ones into your mag slots and the filled will move into your backpack\

[@watchoutbinzillazabout5960]

they should add a backpack just for hand salvage so that you can do it into a bigger container and change the cannister into a hose attachment for the bag , sod changing cannisters that regularly. not worth the time sink and faffing around, better off just stripping parts when we get the update

[@TokiSamurai]

Drag the empties directly into the belt slots and it should swap the full ones out don't need to grab the full ones first

[@davidgilbert5048]

double click the cannisters to put in belt slots

[@munkan9435]

Woah finally someones pc runs like mine!❤ great vid

[@TheTamestGamer]

Very cool and maybe relaxing way to play if that's what you're after but man that's very slow and tedious.

[@expressmangaming650]

I agree but I think the selling mechanic kills it. Thats the most tedious part.

[@tevarinvagabond1192]

It's not really meant to make profit on...the real purpose of it is to get material to repair with...that's it.

[@c3l7ic]

it would be nice if you could feed all of those canisters into a box and then sell that box

[@Darnelj1]

Use double click to equip. And stack items.

[@amrmoussa2490]

This so nice and hard work , thanks Captain

[@deltanine1591]

thanks for the effort bro

[@N1ghtR1der666]

hand mining you net between 30 - 50k in the same or less time, perhaps the mining backpack will help here

[@thibni_]

Okay, I ended up bursting with laughter when you got to selling them. Everything went great until I saw the amount you got for all of your hard work. It's unintelligent to have to do all of that hard work only to find yourself incapable of making a quick profit, forcing you to go individually with EACH tiny cannisters. The profit was indeed good, but woooowww. Way too much hard work.

[@jonathanmason6100]

you need to carry about 20 SRT canisters because without them you cannot collect hull scrap.

[@andrewfanner2245]

Repairs not in as yat afaik, but that looks quite "spaceman-y" and fun once in a while although there is the overhead of buying canisters ofc. Given that you can prestack clothes to a certain extent in your inventory and then sell stacks of them its a pity you cannot do the same for canisters.

[@TacticalBeard]

Man and I was actually kinda interested in hand salvage untill the vulture was for sale in game until I saw that you need to sell the canasters individually 1 at a time

[@CounterLink]

This dude was straight up talking to himself on another profile in global chat in my shard just to promote this youtube channel

[@expressmangaming650]

lol you're extending the joke you said at the time. No, its the KZbin algos that giveth, and taketh away, not a whisper campaign in pub chat!

[@brendanarsechter8117]

I totally wanted to buy 100 canisters, and then I saw the end of the video. =)

[@andrea913]

u can double click on the can to equip it

[@nicksmacro]

good stuff, thanks for this.

[@ikencu2]

Nice video, but the music was a bit on the loud side..just a friendly feed back..

[@alu2387]

I cant make a dime. Since 3.19 I cant use the multi tool at all. Loading it up, setting up the correct accesory works well.. but I simply cant point and SHOOT at anything, either mining, cutting, dettaching or tractor beaming...

[@Ace-Brigade]

You should be able to double click on them to add them to your armor

[@Chuck8541]

How do you 'un-target' someone? Just tap T again?

[@expressmangaming650]

ALT + T

[@Chuck8541]

@@expressmangaming650 Thank you!

[@DataDownLynk]

My brother in christ, you do not have to drag and drop into the magazine slots. You can right click the stack of empty cartridges and click equip all.

[@draconusspiritus1037]

Hand mining can be iffy. As in IF you find a good place to mine. IF you don't blow yourself up. ROC mining is better, with a bit of practice you can be making 200K per hour easily from ROC mining. You MIGHT be able to sell multiple cans at once if you stack them in your backpack or inventory.

[@ManonCrutches]

Earned my sub for all your efforts o7

[@Kalyptic]

Sheesh all of that work for under 20k! The amount of brainpower used for that workload was magnitudes more than mining or regular Vulture+ salvaging, a poor player would be better off just running package delivery missions and keeping their sanity 🥴

[@expressmangaming650]

Yeah it was an experiment. I didn't expect it to be very profitable. But really you have to compare it to hand mining.

[@DJLKM1]

Hmm, think in the time it took you to stare at that 600i panel for an hour you could have run about 4-5 bunkers and be fairly ok for money. Hand salvaging obviously isn't good for new players, unless you hate deliveries and can't shoot straight, so adds almost nothing in the form of early money making.

[@amegatron07]

Hand tool salvaging could be pretty vital in general, but inventory-management hell negates everything.

[@gusmc2220]

agreed the inventory system needs a LOT of love. speaking of which does anyone know of a way to stack all like items automatically? having to drag them all into a pile one by one is annoying

[@havelockvetinari9395]

I was thinking about trying it but don't think I will bother. I'll stick to mining with my ROC which gets about 230K aUEC an hour

[@expressmangaming650]

Yeah really the only fair comparison I think would be to hand mining. Any heavy equipment will be far better.

[@draconusspiritus1037]

if you scan those pieces each will say it is 100 tons

[@starboi142]

Right click, equip all. ❤

[@kajanov]

25:43 - micro SCU, not mili as in milionths rather than thousndths cSCU is centi SCU - hundredth

[@expressmangaming650]

Thank you. It is well, well established I struggle with the maths.

[@kendalhurless8138]

how do you move things so quickly from yours inventory?

[@eavdmeer]

The base Pisces has two guns, not four. Only the C8X has 4 guns

[@N1ghtR1der666]

this definately isnt on the PTU, salvage is gone from PTU servers and only spawns in the belt at a low rate now

[@Maxtorym]

Where can in buy a jet pack for my armor set?

[@testypresidentgaming]

i can right click and equip all or swap on the empty ones and it fills

[@crawshaws1234]

I think the issue where you had to sell each individually is becuase you had them all in single stacks. Are you not able to stack all of them together into a single stack of 10 or something?

[@morarucosmin6776]

I love the soundtrack/ the background music at 03.00 ... what is it called? thanks

[@expressmangaming650]

elements.envato.com/space-exploration-2N97ZS5

[@ImNoTourist]

you can do 5 of the most basic bunker missions solo and make a BUNCH more cash within the same time. No special gear needed and no skills needed.

[@skellnehausen]

Well, you need at least a little skill at FPS for bunker missions; I have none, so…😢

[@BDA1137]

The fastest way to do it is to just space all of it and go do a bunker instead... XD

[@Phoenixstorm36]

Selling thos canisters takes longer than to fill them up ...

[@darudeSandstorm.]

Whats the song at 17:01 called? 🙂

[@AthosRac]

now i know thanks

[@matt5635]

thanks for trying this, so i don't have to!

[@sarfa8193]

I haven’t played a bit, but can you put them all in the box to sell?

[@thiagolucas2291]

Doing it manually is it also possible to level up the salvage missions?

[@MsD0V3R]

still no way to sell theses faster ?

[@MetalsirenIXI]

what is even the point of using a hand tool? I feel like at most this is for ground vehicles but even then it feels very silly.

[@MikePhilbin1966]

LOL, it's not about 'how much you can make' it's about THE QUALITY OF THE MONEY-MAKING EXPERIENCE, surely?

[@expressmangaming650]

FUN AND ENGAGING!

[@tenryuta]

ya, whether on uex or in a vulture, a full load is 92k... i didnt expect much... so go get a vulture and never hand salvage again... how the hell did you even get in to record, i only get black screen on clicking enter universe:/

[@gusmc2220]

is it just me or is eva, especially in structures and ships, not nearly as good as it used to be? I can remember floating through the colvex station years ago and being blown away by how smooth and intuitive it was. now it's a puke/clip through walls/die from the slightest bump fest

[@GokouZWAR]

TL;DR = 189 UEC per can. 30 minutes of mining 10 cans is 1,890 UEC. Get a ROC go mine hadanite, you’ll make a lot more. Wait till the ship is available to buy with in game money or buy it with real money if you’re impatient.

[@expressmangaming650]

Yeah didn't expect it to be a good payout! Was just curious. Any machine will improve things dramatically.

[@GokouZWAR]

@@expressmangaming650 I was thinking that having this stuff "on hand" would be more viable and worth the time to collect some bottles of the stuff. Question I have though is the repair mechanic in the game yet or is that a 3.19 thing? If the latter, then it would seem this will be pointless to do until 3.19 because of the planned wipe at release of 3.19. Thoughts?

[@GokouZWAR]

also you said 18 thousand... by my math it was 188 per can, not 18,800 per can... did I miss something? by my math, 25,000 SCU giving you 189 per can means the value is actually 0.00756 which explains why they say 25000 uSCU per can, that means its a decimal of a single SCU to make the value of it be .025 SCU making the value per .001 of SCU be 7.56k aUEC. That way they don't have to give you a 0.00 value for a full SCU which you basically get peanuts for each can. This is really not a very good replacement for hand mining in any way. The value per SCU is garbage compared to hand mining, and its far too simple to salvage compared to mining.

[@Nine-Signs]

Ah so it wasn't broken I was just badly informed... I see, cans. Thanks. edit: 18K... for an hour... yikes that's bad. Worth it for repairs though.

[@holyhelga]

i think targeting somone for no reason is harassment

[@Darnelj1]

Why didn't you have a completely empty backpack except for the canisters for this specific example? Your backpack just annoyed me the whole time.

[@israelwhitefoot7745]

Lol i was about to start hand salvage. After this video hell no lmao

[@4DCResinSmoker]

Wow hand salvaging looks very tedious.