# Tainted Metal

- **ID**: `AF_METAL`
- **What it is**: Salvaged Scrap
- **Category**: Special
- **Base value**: 380 units
- **Storage**: Sell: Sell - park in 7 Sellables. Sell it. Until you reach a terminal, park it in 7 Sellables. Why: The Scrap Dealer on any space station buys it.
- **Gettable**: loot (medium): Derelict freighters, Corrupted Sentinels, Autophage camps. Highest volume, not highest per unit: 150-500 from one derelict run.

On the site: https://nmsii.dlu.one/#/recipes?item=AF_METAL · chain planner https://nmsii.dlu.one/#/chain/AF_METAL

## Cheapest chain

Not reachable from any source tier, even with cooking. Gettable: loot (medium), Derelict freighters, Corrupted Sentinels, Autophage camps.

## Made by (0)

No recipe makes it.

## Used in (1)

| Make | From | Operation | Mult | Time | Machine | Rate/h | Profit | Gettable |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [2 Nanite Cluster](TECHFRAG.md) | Tainted Metal | Doom Cycling | x2 | 1.5m | Portable | 80 | -340 | loot (medium) |

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