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{{artifact
|name=Automated Portable Extractor
|type=quest
|source={{ste}}
|cost=0
|armor=0
|description=''The APE is a multifunction tinker toolbox. It can store temporarily any amount of items and when requested melt them down using metallurgic and chemical processes.''
''The metals are melted into lumps of ore to server for the creation of tinkers.''

''Any remains are melted and turned into valuable materials.''
}}

This item can be set to melt down items instead of transmogrifying them. This yields resources, but does not yield energy for the [[Sher'Tul Fortress]]. 

Only certain items yield materials used by [[Tinkers]] - the rest yields only gold. This can be relevant if you have both an APE and a [[Transmogrification Chest]] having learned tinkering in the [[Age of Ascendancy]] campaign. (You can switch the default destruction item by selecting one when the transmogrification chest icon is empty.) Materials produced by melting them down with the APE:

* Metal items (weapons and armour): 1 lump of metals depending on the items tier + gold
* [[Mindstars]]: 1 herb + gold
* [[Infusions]]: 5 herbs + gold
* Other: Gold