Salvage

Rune salvage

Salvage is a type of drop whose only function is to be alchemised or disassembled. Salvage cannot be used, equipped or broken down into ore with a spring cleaner. Salvage does not stack and can be traded. There are 120 distinct kinds of salvage divided into five sizes, six tiers, and four types in the format "size type metal tier salvage".

Salvage was introduced with the Mining and Smithing rework to replace most smithable equipment on drop tables, with a few exceptions such as arrows or bolts. Drop tables were altered by swapping out equipment for an equivalent salvage. This was to make smithing the best way to get metal equipment, rather than combat. Salvage is of the same tier as the replaced item (e.g. rune items have been replaced with rune salvage) and the type is the closest match to the item being replaced (e.g. platebodies have been replaced with plated salvage). For most salvage, the size corresponds to the number of bars that were required to make the item prior to the rework (e.g. 1 bar = tiny while up to 5 bars = huge). Halberds have been replaced with two huge salvages and Rune equipment is converted differently.

Metal tiers

The seven tiers of salvage are named after the first seven Smithing metals (bronze - orikalkum). The tier indicates the base alchemy value of the item, and the amount of components it can yield from disassembly. There is no direct mechanical relationship between salvage and its associated metal - metals can not be made into salvage nor can the spring cleaner be used on it to get ore from it.

The base values for high alchemy and components are multiplied by the size of the salvage.

Tier	Base alchemy	Base junk chance
Bronze	20	98.9%
Iron	65	89%
Steel	240	78%
Mithril	600	67%
Adamant	2,000	56%
Rune	8,000	45%
Orikalkum	25,000	34%

Size

These increases work as multipliers for the base high alchemy and component rate. Each salvage gives a base component rate of three.

Size	Multiplier	Replaced equipment
Tiny	$\times 1$	Daggers, hatchets, maces, med helms, limbs, swords, gauntlets, boots, claws, spears
Small	$\times 2$	Scimitars, pickaxes, longswords, full helms, square shields
Medium	$\times 3$	Warhammers, battleaxes, chainbodies, kiteshields, 2h swords, platelegs, plateskirts
Large	$\times 4$	No items use 4 bars
Huge	$\times 5$	Platebodies, halberds (x2)

Rune equipment

Rune equipment use a different conversion table due to the value of most drops being reliant on alchemy values.

Size	Multiplier	Replaced equipment
Tiny	$\times 1$	Daggers, hatchets, maces, med helms, limbs, swords, gauntlets, boots, claws
Small	$\times 2$	2h crossbow
Medium	$\times 3$	Scimitars, pickaxes, longswords, full helms, square shields, warhammers, spears
Large	$\times 4$	Battleaxes, chainbodies, kiteshields, 2h swords, platelegs, plateskirts
Huge	$\times 5$	Platebodies, halberds (x2)

As an example, a rune platebody will drop huge rune salvage instead, which alchemises for $8,000\times 5=$ 40,000 coins.

Alchemy

Since the alchemy value of a salvage is the base alchemy value of the tier, multiplied by the size multiplier, the alchemy values of all salvage can be calculated as shown. This is independent of the salvage type.

Size	Tier
	Bronze	Iron	Steel	Mithril	Adamant	Rune	Orikalkum
Tiny	20	65	240	600	2,000	8,000	25,000
Small	40	130	480	1,200	4,000	16,000	50,000
Medium	60	195	720	1,800	6,000	24,000	75,000
Large	80	260	960	2,400	8,000	32,000	100,000
Huge	100	325	1,200	3,000	10,000	40,000	125,000

Type

The four types of salvage between them cover all the possible components that can currently be disassembled from smithable gear.

Type	Materials		Replaced equipment
	Often	Rarely
Bladed	Base Blade Metallic	Sharp Subtle Dextrous	Scimitars, longswords, battleaxes, 2h swords, halberds, hatchets
Spiky	Connector Spiked Crafted	Swift Precise Light	Daggers, claws, swords, spears, pickaxes, limbs, 2h crossbows
Blunt	Stave Head Smooth	Stunning Direct Strong	Warhammers, maces
Plated	Cover Plated Deflecting	Protective Heavy Strong	Gauntlets, boots, med helms, full helms, sq shields, kiteshields, chainbodies, platelegs, plateskirts, platebodies

Spring cleaner

The spring cleaner 2000 and higher can automatically use high alchemy on a dropped salvage item, at the cost of a spring. Alternatively, the spring cleaner 3000 and higher can automatically disassemble dropped salvage items for free. Because it does not use a spring, automatic disassembly does not advance the spring cleaner towards its next upgrade. Unless manually looted, it is recommended to only alchemise salvage that will cover the cost of springs and disassemble everything else.

The spring cleaner's dismantle mode does not work on any salvage items.

List of salvage

Bronze

Size	Salvage
Tiny	Bladed	Blunt	Plated	Spiky
Small	Bladed	Blunt	Plated	Spiky
Medium	Bladed	Blunt	Plated	Spiky
Large	Bladed	Blunt	Plated	Spiky
Huge	Bladed	Blunt	Plated	Spiky

Iron

Size	Salvage
Tiny	Bladed	Blunt	Plated	Spiky
Small	Bladed	Blunt	Plated	Spiky
Medium	Bladed	Blunt	Plated	Spiky
Large	Bladed	Blunt	Plated	Spiky
Huge	Bladed	Blunt	Plated	Spiky

Steel

Size	Salvage
Tiny	Bladed	Blunt	Plated	Spiky
Small	Bladed	Blunt	Plated	Spiky
Medium	Bladed	Blunt	Plated	Spiky
Large	Bladed	Blunt	Plated	Spiky
Huge	Bladed	Blunt	Plated	Spiky

Mithril

Size	Salvage
Tiny	Bladed	Blunt	Plated	Spiky
Small	Bladed	Blunt	Plated	Spiky
Medium	Bladed	Blunt	Plated	Spiky
Large	Bladed	Blunt	Plated	Spiky
Huge	Bladed	Blunt	Plated	Spiky

Adamant

Size	Salvage
Tiny	Bladed	Blunt	Plated	Spiky
Small	Bladed	Blunt	Plated	Spiky
Medium	Bladed	Blunt	Plated	Spiky
Large	Bladed	Blunt	Plated	Spiky
Huge	Bladed	Blunt	Plated	Spiky

Rune

Size	Salvage
Tiny	Bladed	Blunt	Plated	Spiky
Small	Bladed	Blunt	Plated	Spiky
Medium	Bladed	Blunt	Plated	Spiky
Large	Bladed	Blunt	Plated	Spiky
Huge	Bladed	Blunt	Plated	Spiky

Orikalkum

Only medium bladed orikalkum salvage, medium spiky orikalkum salvage, and huge plated orikalkum salvage are currently legitimately obtainable.

Size	Salvage
Tiny	Bladed	Blunt	Plated	Spiky
Small	Bladed	Blunt	Plated	Spiky
Medium	Bladed	Blunt	Plated	Spiky
Large	Bladed	Blunt	Plated	Spiky
Huge	Bladed	Blunt	Plated	Spiky

Drop sources

For specific salvage items, see the item pages.

For a list of all drop sources of any type/size/metal salvage, see Salvage droppers.

Specific types:

• Bladed salvage droppers
  • Bladed bronze
  • Bladed iron
  • Bladed steel
  • Bladed mithril
  • Bladed adamant
  • Bladed rune
  • Bladed orikalkum
• Blunt salvage droppers
  • Blunt bronze
  • Blunt iron
  • Blunt steel
  • Blunt mithril
  • Blunt adamant
  • Blunt rune
• Plated salvage droppers
  • Plated bronze
  • Plated iron
  • Plated steel
  • Plated mithril
  • Plated adamant
  • Plated rune
• Spiky salvage droppers
  • Spiky bronze
  • Spiky iron
  • Spiky steel
  • Spiky mithril
  • Spiky adamant
  • Spiky rune

Update history

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• patch 11 March 2019 (Update):
  • Easy and Medium Treasure Trail clue rewards will now reward their equivalent in type and size of salvage for rewards that would previously be smithable items.

• patch 14 January 2019 (Update):
  • Salvage and Stone Spirits are now in the correct category on the website.
  • Spears on drop tables have been replaced with salvage.
  • The Spring Cleaner will once again upgrade as it uses charges when high alching salvage.

• patch 7 January 2019 (Update):
  • All smithable items on drop tables have been replaced with new "salvage" items which alch for what the smithable items used to alch for.

Trivia

• During the second Mining and Smithing beta, orikalkum salvage was present in the game code, but was unobtainable. It was added as potential future-proofing, and just in case a drop needed an item of that value. It was not present in the full release of the rework.
• Initially some salvage, such as huge spiky rune salvage, was unobtainable outside of trading with Elof due to having no types of equipment that correspond with the number of bars needed to smith that type, until they were added to drop tables of newer monsters.