It would make the even more authentic, if we could salvage Vehicles after they have been destroyed.

Since in Stormworks, vehicles can only spawn or despawn as a hole, I could imagine 2 ways of doing this.

• 1 - Have special Salvage-Buildings where Vehicles can be placed in a specified spot. With the use of a tool like the Workbench, the Vehicle will then despawn, giving you some money and maybe even some resources. If resources like oil, diesel etc. can be returned, they would be automatically deposited in the local containers. For the game to still be a challenge, these Spots would be placed around the world, but NOT close to bases a player can buy. So getting the resources requires getting them with some kind of transport vehicle.
• 2 - Have a screen or workbenchlike Item to be placed on any vehicle. This Item will have an Area of effect, where nothing of the Vehicle itself can be built in (like the space above beds). If the area of effect is placed over a salvageable vehicle, using the screen, will despawn the vehicle and refund some funds needed to spawn it. For resources like oil, diesel, coal, gold etc. the screen will have 2 connectors. The resources will use the pipes of those connectors to fill connected Tanks. The resources might not be pure and need to be filtered, since water could have mixed with the diesel, or the vehicle transported multiple fluids or solids.

One of the reasons I would like to see a feature like that is, that repairing a ship is sometimes way too complicated or even impossible. And that way, you could benefit from the enemies you fought and sunk.

Thank you for your time and feedback ahead.