Salvager Class Guide — Tier 4, 10,000 Cores, All 4 Levels
The Salvager class in Drill to Earth's Core: what it costs, what it starts with, and what each of its four level passives actually does.
FAQ
How much does the Salvager class cost in Drill to Earth's Core?
What does Salvager start with?
What is the Salvager Level 3 passive?
What is the Salvager team bonus?
What Salvager actually does
Salvager is a Tier 4 Academy class at 10,000 Cores. Like every class in the game, it hands you starter gear (Salvager Armor Set) and then scales through four levels - three personal upgrades and a team bonus at the end.
The Level 1 passive is the identity: Enemies have a 10% chance to drop iron bars. Everything after that builds on the same idea rather than switching lanes.
Level by level
| Level | Unlock | What changes |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 10,000 Cores | Enemies have a 10% chance to drop iron bars |
| 2 | Class level requirement | Shredding Scrap grants 50% more Cogs |
| 3 | Class level requirement | Scrap can be sold for 100% extra Coins |
| 4 | Career total depth gate | Enemies have a 5% chance to drop iron bars (team bonus) |
Level 4 is the team bonus - it applies to the whole 30-player server and gates on career total depth, not on anything you do in one run.
Is Salvager worth 10,000 Cores?
Salvager sits in the mid-tier band, which is usually the best value in the Academy: expensive enough to matter, cheap enough to reach without a dedicated grind. If its passive matches your bottleneck, it is a reasonable buy before any Tier 5.
Where it fits in a team
The team bonus is what makes Salvager show up in multiplayer lobbies: Enemies have a 5% chance to drop iron bars. In a 30-player server that is a bonus nobody has to spend their own Cores on, which is why team-first classes get picked even by players who main something else.
Scrap-to-Coins conversion stacks with the Core-earning routes in the get-cores guide.
If you have not settled your first purchases yet, the all classes page has every Core price, and the best classes tier list explains where Salvager lands against the rest of the roster.
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