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Deconstructor
Destroys crafted items, but salvages their most valuable material.
A Deconstructor can be used to salvage some of the material of a crafted item. It can be purchased for data-sort-value="20"> 20Qi Gems at Qi's Walnut Room.
Use
The game will check the given crafting item's ingredients and compare their selling price in the Shipping Bin. It will return 100% of the highest value material. It takes one in-game hour to process.
Some items cannot be placed in the Deconstructor. If a player attempts to put something into the Deconstructor that it doesn't accept, they will receive a pop-up saying, "This item can't be scrapped."
All items that can be placed in the Deconstructor are listed below.
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If processed into Wood with a Wood Chipper, it is cheaper than buying Wood (25–50) at the Carpenter's Shop in year 2+, which cost beetween data-sort-value="1250">1,250g and data-sort-value="2500">2,500g.
Cheaper than buying Coal (1)Copper Ore (5) at the Blacksmith, which cost data-sort-value="1000">1,000g in year 2+ (data-sort-value="525">525g in year 1).
Cheaper than buying Coal (2)Iron Ore (10) at the Blacksmith, which cost data-sort-value="3000">3,000g in year 2+ (data-sort-value="1800">1,800g in year 1).
Cheaper than buying Coal (2)Gold Ore (10) at the Blacksmith, which cost data-sort-value="8000">8,000g in year 2+ (data-sort-value="4300">4,300g in year 1).
Fishing tackle can be deconstructed at any durability level. This allows certain tackle like Treasure Hunter and Trap Bobber to be refreshed at little to no cost.
It is possible to repeatedly craft and deconstruct items like Chests, Staircases, Carved Braziers, or Skull Braziers to "collect" resources for a Special Order.
If the Ancient Seed artifact has not been found yet, one can deconstruct a packet of Ancient Seeds obtained from a Seed Maker to obtain the artifact so it can be donated.
If an item's recipe was changed at some point (e.g. the Skull Brazier), the Deconstructor will return the highest value item based on the current recipe - it will not look back to see the materials originally used, even if the particular item was crafted before the recipe change.