Field guide to The Bazaar, the Tempo game. Not the restaurant, the magazine, or Cafe Bazaar.

Salvage Yard

Salvage Yard is the event behind the "when should I not take the loot" question. It is Diamond, it shows from day 4 onward, the choice is free, and you still cannot reroll it.

Official Steam screenshot of The Bazaar
Official Steam screenshot of The Bazaar
Official Steam screenshot of The Bazaar
Official Steam screenshot of The Bazaar

Free is not the same as safe

Extract Loot transforms stash items into loot items based on their tags. The card says that and stops. I do not have the mapping of tag to loot, so I will not write "an aquatic tag becomes a pearl" or any other recipe. If you cannot name the tag on the item you would spend, walk away. A free transform of a Crow's Nest or an Anchor is how a good board becomes a random loot square.

Compare the price with Apothecary before you treat every event as a tax. Apothecary charges gold for a permanent stat. Salvage Yard charges the item. Day 4 is early enough that your only medium weapon might be the thing in the stash. Hellbilly's Double Barrel, if you just picked it up, is a bad thing to feed a transform you cannot reverse.

BazaarDB is the source for the tier, the days, and the option text. The wiki's monster page is a different node, the crossed-swords fight, and it pays gold plus a drop. Do not mix that reward with Extract Loot.

Evidence status

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BazaarDB Salvage Yard1 published source2026-11-08

Questions

Is Salvage Yard free?

The choice does not cost gold. It costs the stash item you transform.

Which loot do I get?

The card says it depends on tags. The mapping is not in the text I have, so I will not invent it.

Sources