This guide is based on the PTU (Public Test Universe) on 3.18 prior to it releasing to live so gameplay might vary slightly once the patch lands

Hand Salvage⌗

As well as stripping hulls with a salvage ship you can also use a new multi-tool attachment. You can collect RMC to sell or to use later to fix up the hull of a ship! This improves the HP of the ship but will not repair individual components or missing structures like wings, etc.

To perform FPS hull stripping you need to purchase the following:

  • Pyro RYT Multi-Tool
  • Cambio-Lite SRT Attachment
  • Cambio-Lite SRT Attachment (can) - these are the RMC canisters
Hand Salvage Toolkit
Hand Salvage Toolkit

You can pick these up from locations such as:

  • Dumper’s Depo in locations such as Area 18. Grim Hex or Port Olisar
  • Cousin Crow’s on the Providence platform in Orison
  • Tammany and Sons in Lorville, Hurston

Once you have the multi-tool you can fill up a couple of empty RMC canisters by salvaging material from partially destroyed ship hulls and keep them around to use at a later point in time. The process for finding salvage will be the same as if you were in a ship - see our article on ship hull stripping for reference. If you find a wreck in space you can EVO out of your ship and capture salvage that way. This is actually the best way since you can navigate around the entire ship in space. Its also a very cool experience! Oh and remember to wear your flight suit and helmet before heading out into the black!

To hand salvage the process is

  • Equip the multi-tool by dragging the multi-tool from your inventory to your character
  • Equip the Cambio-Lite SRT Attachment by dragging the attachment from your inventory to your multi-tool
  • Equip some canisters by dragging them from inventory to a free item port on your character (typically on the chest armour)
  • Locate the ship you wish to Salvage. The shields must be down before you can strip the hull
  • Equip the multi-tool Key: 4
  • Point at the hull and fire the tool Left mouse button. This will extract the hull
  • Once the canister is full you can reload to get a new one Key: r
  • When all canisters are full you can stash your multi-tool Hold Key: r
Hand Salvage
Hand Salvage

Once you have a bunch of canisters you can sell them at an Admin office or you can use them to repair the hull of your ship after taking damage. For the purposes of research I had a falling out with a couple of stationary turrets and took some damage to my Cutty Black. The process I followed to repair is described below

Repair⌗

Repairing your hull is very similar to the process of hull scraping. By default the multi-tool will be in salvage mode and you can switch to repair mode using Key: b (you should see repair shown on the tool).

Hull Repair
Hull Repair

Simply point the tool at a damaged area with an equipped RMC canister of your ship and fire Left mouse button A couple of things to note:

  • You must equip a canister containing RMC. You can reload canisters when they are empty Key: r
  • You need to bring your ships shields offline before it can be repaired Key: o