# Crafting & Salvaging Crafting and salvaging are essential activities that help you maintain and upgrade your Mars inventory. Crafting involves using Parts and lower rarity cards to get better cards, which improve your overall stats in the game. Salvaging allows you to break down Cards into its base Parts, so you can use them to craft. ### Why are Parts an important feature for Mission Control? #### Automated Expansion Missions Automating expansion missions helps keep a game dynamic and fresh without the need for constant manual updates. This ensures that the game continues to offer new challenges and objectives, making it a 'forever game.' #### Market-Driven Voting Using parts as a market-driven voting mechanism allows the game's development to reflect the community's desires for expansion. Players use resources and cards to vote, making it an efficient and cost-effective system. This player-driven approach ensures that the game evolves according to player preferences. #### $MARTIA Sink and Burn Integrating a significant $MARTIA sink through crafting and salvaging processes helps maintain a healthy in-game economy. By burning most of the $MARTIA used, the currency supply is regulated, preventing inflation and keeping the economy stable and valuable. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://docs.thriveonmars.com/how-to-play/crafting-and-salvaging.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.