Subscribe to download
Scavenging and Tinkering

Reuploading of any of my mods to Nexus is forbidden. I wil take the necessary steps to have it removed from Nexus if it is reuploaded.

Allows you to harvest scrap from the various junk piles around the world. Scrap can be turned into various materials like iron plates, copper ore, electronics, building materials, and so on without any research or input cost. This lets you build a town without first buying materials.

Also adds four benches to build books, ancient science books, engineering research, and AI cores very inefficiently at a high cost out of various materials such as iron plates, electrical components, building materials, steel bars. The process is slow but it lets you do research without exploring.

You can now optionally build a Scrap weapons table and build 5 grades of scrap weapons which are equivalent to the first 5 tiers of weapon grades, up to Refitted Blade. This is unlocked from the start but weapon blueprints arent, so you still need to buy or steal katana blueprints. They function like a weaponsmith 1 would, except you probably won't crit and get Catun no. 1 from the scrap weapons table.

You can use any part of the mod you want without using the other parts. Each bench is separated so if you don't want to build your own AI cores just don't use the AI lab, and so on. Balance suggestions are welcome but overall the scavenging should be slowed down enough so as to be less efficient than gathering resources the normal way.

Slightly incompatible with Clean and Speed + and maybe Clean and Speed. I have now added buildable scrap piles which directly use the meshes of existing junk foliage in case you want to use the mod. There's tons of different meshes but I gave you 16 separate ones to place down, they all function the same as scrap you can find. This is because Scrap uses the pre-existing junk piles around the world and clean and speed removes those so the game will load faster.