VFE Pirates Warcasket Corpse Salvage

VFE Pirates Warcasket Corpse Salvage

Requires Vanilla Factions Expanded - Pirates and Harmony. In VFE Pirates, warcaskets are welded shut. You can’t strip them off fallen enemies, and there’s no way to recycle the armor into materials without researching the grim “warcasket removal” surgery (which is meant for living pilots, not loot). This mod lets you strip warcaskets from corpses and smelt the parts for resources.

What this does

• Warcasket corpses can be stripped — the helmet, shell, and shoulders drop as items
• Butchering a warcasket corpse also drops those parts
• Adds a smelt warcasket bill on the electric smelter
• Smelting recovers about half of that part’s build cost, including components (not just steel)
• No warcasket removal research required
• Does not change living warcasket pilots or the official removal surgery

How to use

• Add the smelt warcasket bill on an electric smelter
• Strip warcasket corpses as usual — the parts drop for hauling
• Colonists smelt the hauled parts at the smelter

Notes

• Load after Vanilla Factions Expanded - Pirates
• Safe to add to an existing colony
• Living pawns in warcaskets are unchanged — use VFE’s removal research/surgery if you need to extract a living pilot