Yield & Odds

Forge Reclaimer rolls every recipe ingredient separately. Recycling an item does not choose one result for the entire item: its wood, metal, leather, and other materials can each receive different outcomes.

Default outcomes

The default weights total 100, so the default chance matches each number. If an administrator changes the weights, each chance becomes:

outcome chance = outcome weight / all outcome weights combined

Material maximum

Before an outcome is rolled, Forge Reclaimer calculates each ingredient’s maximum possible return:

recipe cost at the item’s quality
× YieldMultiplier
× MaterialMultiplier

If CapAtCraftingCost is enabled, the final maximum cannot exceed that material’s original recipe cost. The game UI displays this configured maximum as 0-max.

The recipe cost at an item’s quality includes its base crafting cost plus the material cost of every upgrade level up to that quality. Higher-quality gear therefore has a higher reclaimable maximum.

Durability

When DurabilityAffectsYield is enabled, non-jackpot returns are multiplied by:

50% + (50% × current durability fraction)

A fully repaired item uses a multiplier of 1. A broken item uses 0.5, so it can return at most half of its rolled amount. Jackpot ignores durability and always returns 100% of the configured maximum.

Fractional materials

Valheim materials are whole items, but calculated returns can be fractional. Forge Reclaimer rounds fairly: for example, 0.4 has a 40% chance to become 1 and a 60% chance to become 0. This keeps low-cost ingredients from being unfairly lost or always rounded up.

Safe balancing starting point

The default values are deliberately conservative: an ingredient has a 20% chance to crumble and only a 5% jackpot chance. For a more generous server, increase GoodWeight or the yield multiplier first. Keep CapAtCraftingCost enabled unless you intentionally want recycling to create more materials than crafting consumes.