Deconstruction

By spending an Interlude Point, you deconstruct a basic item into materials. You gain 500 matching crafting material per ingot or block used in the item. If the item does not use ingots, you instead get 1 matching crafting material per clim value of the item.

Regardless of the material used in the item, you will only gain the base price amount even if using upgraded materials and all alloys and upgrades are lost.  You can deconstruct up to 5 basic items for 1 interlude point.

Alternatively instead of 1 basic item, you can transmute up to 1000u of random junk into up to 250u of usable basic (ie: Iron, Pine etc) Blacksmithing Materials, Armorsmithing Materials, Carpentry Materials, Calligraphy Material, Magical Fuel Materials or Medical Materials units at a 4:1 ratio.

You can also use Deconstruction as an Errand Action, but the deconstruction limit is reduced to 1 basic item instead of 5 basic items.