Cataclysm-dda: Disassembling basket of plastic yields too much material.

[BBlankie]

[ghost]

Item description states as much: "A plastic basket meant for storing and hauling clothing."

[mlangsdorf]

Laundry basket masses 680 grams and a plastic chunk masses 70 grams. Salvage yield should be calculated from mass, not volume, and should be 9 in this case.

[ghost]

Fair enough.
I thought the material itself was the issue, not amount of produce from disassembling.

[ghost]

Is this to suggest that salvaging materials is not calculating correctly from mass, in ALL cases, or just in this case?

[mount2010]

No, this is Working As Intended. A laundry basket (suitable for large mutated anatomy) is 100 units of volume (25l). (concidentally, 1 unit = 1 chunk of plastic.) Disassembling means you're cutting volumatric chunks out of the laundry basket. In this case, you're cutting 0.25ml chunks from the basket (iuse_actor.cpp: minimum_volume_to_cut). Adjusted for skill loss 99 is almost perfect.

Because you're mostly cutting the area, however, again we run into a problem. A laundry basket isn't a solid block of plastic to cut chunks out of! My proposal is to specify JSON "disassemble" manually, to make better sense that you're cutting up a basket (with empty space in it) rather than a block of plastic.
... which makes me think, it should really yield sheets of plastic instead.
In this case we're talking 11(meters?) of plastic per side.