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 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. 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 up to 5 bars = huge). Halberds have been replaced with two huge salvages and Rune equipment is converted differently.

Metal tiers

The six tiers of salvage are named after the first six Smithing metals (bronze - rune). 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.

While Orikalkum salvage items exist in the game, they are currently unobtainable.

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%

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
Small	$\times 2$	Scimitars, pickaxes, longswords, full helms, square shields
Medium	$\times 3$	Warhammers, battleaxes, chainbodies, kiteshields, 2h swords, platelegs, plateskirts, spears
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 alch 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 alchs for $8,000\times 5=$ 40,000.

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.

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

Grand Exchange prices

Bronze

Size	Bladed	Blunt	Plated	Spiky
Tiny	34	34	33	33
Small	67	67	64	67
Medium	104	100	96	100
Large	134	134	134	134
Huge	167	167	167	167

Iron

Size	Bladed	Blunt	Plated	Spiky
Tiny	109	109	109	92
Small	217	217	211	217
Medium	325	325	330	325
Large	434	434	434	434
Huge	542	542	565	542

Steel

Size	Bladed	Blunt	Plated	Spiky
Tiny	415	400	392	383
Small	847	800	831	800
Medium	1,277	1,200	1,271	1,200
Large	1,600	1,600	1,600	1,600
Huge	1,861	2,000	1,741	2,000

Mithril

Size	Bladed	Blunt	Plated	Spiky
Tiny	1,029	886	961	872
Small	2,094	2,000	1,871	2,000
Medium	2,926	3,000	2,667	3,029
Large	4,115	4,000	3,802	4,000
Huge	4,682	5,056	4,379	4,759

Adamant

Size	Bladed	Blunt	Plated	Spiky
Tiny	3,076	3,334	2,633	3,182
Small	6,360	6,667	3,980	6,667
Medium	6,472	10,000	5,165	9,628
Large	13,123	13,334	12,779	13,334
Huge	11,283	15,105	9,178	15,165

Rune

Size	Bladed	Blunt	Plated	Spiky
Tiny	10,777	7,107	7,336	7,101
Small	25,596	26,667	24,329	21,475
Medium	22,952	31,400	22,916	22,882
Large	30,961	50,979	30,902	51,639
Huge	39,180	49,686	39,076	47,686

Trivia

• During the second Mining and Smithing beta, orikalkum salvage was present in the game code, but was unobtainable. It was added a 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.