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Practice Welding
Wade's workbench at Rusk Recovery, the scrap it runs on, and how practising Welding actually works.
Rusk Recovery is Wade Rusk's recovery yard, one ordinary walk northwest of Holo Hollow. Once he has put you on the bench there, you can practise Welding as much as you have scrap for — no job, no client, and nothing that has to be finished.
Getting on the bench
Finish Keep the Change and Wade moves back to his own yard. Walk in and he will offer you 10,000 Hours; accepting it hands you six Scrap Metal and opens the workbench.
He hands over all six pieces or none. Scrap does not stack, so each piece takes an inventory slot — if you have not got room for all six he will tell you to make room and come back, and nothing is handed over or started until you do.
How a practice weld works
- Each fresh weld takes 2 Scrap Metal, spent the moment it starts.
- A weld is ten sections, each about three seconds, the same cadence as any other welding.
- Each finished section pays half the Welding XP a repair section pays, because nothing is actually being repaired.
- Finishing a weld produces up to 2 Slag.
Starting, stopping, and coming back
One Start keeps the bench going: as each weld finishes the next one begins, taking two more scrap, until there is not enough left for another. It keeps going while you are away from the screen, the same as any other work.
Stop whenever you like. The half-finished weld stays exactly as it is, and so does the scrap you already spent on it — resuming continues that same weld and costs nothing, even with no scrap left at all. Walking away from the yard stops the bench the same way; you cannot weld from the road.
When the scrap runs out the bench finishes the weld in progress and stops on its own, saying so. Buying more does not start it again — that is your call.
Scrap and slag
Wade sells Scrap Metal at 2 Credits a piece out of the yard, with no limit but your Credits and your inventory. He does not buy anything back.
Slag is yours to keep or throw out: the bench has a setting for it, applied as each weld finishes. Bix pays 1 Credit apiece for Slag in town, so a 4-Credit weld can return 2 if you keep both and sell them. If you keep Slag and run out of room for it, the overflow is thrown out rather than stopping the weld.
Work Orders
There is a beaten-up terminal in the corner of the yard. Finishing 10,000 Hours makes it yours to look at, and it is empty: paying client work is not in the game yet, and when it arrives it will need Welding level 5 as well.