After cleaning one dungeon off some Avians, i looted alot of crappy weapons off them. So i got an idea to smelt them into ingots or some scrap metal and then use it for other things. Like recycle.
Nice idea or maybe the ability to sell some of all the weapons because i usually throw them away and they serve no purpose to me.
A Reverse Engineering Machine would be a nice idea. Instead of all the wasted weapons/shields, you could pop them in a little machine and out comes a bit of wood and some metal. Of course, reverse engineering them would have to yield some sort of detrimental resource refund. Otherwise you could build things willy-nilly, use them once for one purpose and get all your stuff back. Example; I make a sword, using 20 Steel, if I reverse engineer it, I will only get 10 Steel back. This way, you'll receive resources for things you find and don't need, but you won't be able to abuse it.