In The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, junk items return. This time, however, some junk items can be dismantled into useful crafting components. As junk items have weight, it is better to either sell or dismantle them when available.
Note that certain quest items, once they are no longer needed, will be put in the junk tab and can then be dismantled or sold off like regular items.
Innkeepers will offer the highest prices if you sell junk items to them over other types of merchants, usually around 5-15% more, although that is hard to quantify due to some hidden item flags and how the calculation formula works. The difference (not the full price) may be even over 100% for some items.
Dismantling[]
The price of dismantling items is approximately 20% of the price at which the armorer or blacksmith's would offer the item for, even though they don't buy or sell most junk items. This includes all factors for dynamic pricing, including area discounts that can be earned by completing quests, plus a small additional area modifier for dismantling on top. Craftsmen in Velen offer the cheapest dismantling, Skelligers are in the middle, and Novigrad ones are the most expensive in the base game. Craftsmen added by the game's expansions are additionally more expensive in progressive order.
- For instance a ladle costs 1
to dismantle by an armorer in Velen, and 2 to dismantle in Novigrad, whilst both times yielding 1 timber. The difference is usually not that high and technically is only around 5-15%, but the prices are rounded up, so particularly for low-value items, it makes a huge difference when the formula results cross whole number boundaries.
The amount of crafting components received from an item depends on the skill level of the dismantler:
- Amateurs can only extract 1 of each possible component per item
- Journeymen will extract random amounts between 1 and maximum-1 of the possible per component (if max is lower than 3, the result is always 1)
- Masters (and the grandmaster in Toussaint) will always extract the full possible amounts
Thus, the higher the number of components possible to be extracted, the bigger difference it makes. For example, dismantling a mug will always result in 1 timber, as the item itself only contains that much material, but a skull may yield up to 3 ashes from a journeyman, and always 4 from a master.
- Since Yoana is the cheapest master level craftsman in the game, it is recommended for penny-pinching to do all your dismantling with her. Before she is unlocked, Fergus Graem is the cheapest and earliest reached journeyman, while armorers in general will also have slightly lower prices for anything but weapons, so consider this in the very early game or otherwise.
- The list below indicates a range between the minimum and maximum amount of components received, as to cover craftsmen of all levels.
Items[]
| Type | Image | Name | Dismantles into | 
|
Base price | Buy | Sell |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Common |  |
Ashes | can't be dismantled | 0.02 | 1
|
2
|
1
|
| Common |  |
Axe head | 1 × Steel ingot | 0.31 | 6
|
11 - 12
|
1
|
| Common |  |
Bards' belongings | can't be dismantled | 0.08 | 100
|
181
|
18
|
| Common |  |
Bear hide | 1 × Hardened leather 1-4 × Fur scrap |
0.75 | 130
|
236 - 305
|
23
|
| Common |  |
Black magic doll | 1-3 × Fiber 1 × Thread |
0.08 | 13
|
24
|
2
|
| Common |  |
Blunt axe | 1 × Steel ingot 1 × Haft |
0.41 | 14
|
22
|
2 - 3
|
| Common |  |
Blunt pickaxe | 1 × Haft 1 × Steel ingot |
0.41 | 14
|
22
|
2 - 3
|
| Common |  |
Book | 1 × Parchment 1 × String |
0.15 | 32
|
50 - 51
|
5 - 8
|
| Common |  |
Bottle | 1-4 × Glass | 0.09 | 8
|
13 - 16
|
1
|
| Common |  |
Broken oar | 1 × Hardened timber | 0.15 | 12
|
22 - 23
|
2
|
| Common |  |
Broken rake | 1-2 × Hardened timber | 0.29 | 24
|
44 - 46
|
4 - 5
|
| Common |  |
Butter knife | 1 × Iron ore | 0.16 | 2
|
4
|
1
|
| Common |  |
Candelabrum | 1 × Iron ingot | 0.31 | 4
|
8
|
1
|
| Common |  |
Candle | 1 × Wax 1 × String |
0.04 | 10
|
19
|
1
|
| Common |  |
Casket | 1-2 × Timber 1 × Iron ore |
0.26 | 12
|
19
|
2
|
| Common |  |
Chain | 1-2 × Steel ingot | 0.61 | 12
|
23
|
2
|
| Common |  |
Cow hide | 1-2 × Hardened leather 1-2 × Leather scraps |
0.93 | 148
|
268
|
26
|
| Common |  |
Deer hide | 1 × Cured leather 1-4 × Leather straps |
0.21 | 40
|
73
|
7
|
| Relic |  |
Dimeritium chains | 1 × Glowing ore ingot | 0.25 | 162
|
224 - 331
|
18 - 54
|
| Relic |  |
Dimeritium shackles | 1-2 × Glowing ore | 0.25 | 162
|
224 - 331
|
18 - 54
|
| Common |  |
Doll | 1 × String 1 × Thread |
0.06 | 24
|
44 - 46
|
4 - 5
|
| Common |  |
Drum | 1-3 × Timber 1 × Leather scraps |
0.20 | 23
|
40
|
3 - 5
|
| Common |  |
Fishing net | 1-3 × Twine | 0.25 | 36
|
66 - 69
|
6 - 7
|
| Common |  |
Fishing rod | 1 × Timber 1 × String |
0.08 | 13
|
24
|
2
|
| Master |  |
Fisstech | can't be dismantled | 0.03 | 20
|
34 - 44
|
3 - 4
|
| Common |  |
Flowers | 1-2 × Fiber | 0.05 | 6
|
11 - 12
|
1
|
| Common |  |
Flute | 1 × Timber | 0.06 | 5
|
8 - 10
|
1
|
| Common |  |
Fox hide | 1-2 × Fur scrap | 0.17 | 32
|
62
|
6
|
| Master |  |
Glamour | can't be dismantled | 0.05 | 30
|
65
|
7
|
| Common |  |
Glass | can't be dismantled | 0.03 | 2
|
4
|
1
|
| Common |  |
Goat hide | 1 × Cured leather | 0.17 | 32
|
58
|
5
|
| Common |  |
Goblet | 1 × Iron ore | 0.16 | 2
|
4
|
1
|
| Master |  |
Gold candelabrum | 1 × Gold ore | 0.21 | 100
|
117
|
19
|
| Master |  |
Gold casket | 1 × Gold ore 1-2 × Timber |
0.31 | 108
|
182 - 234
|
18 - 25
|
| Magic |  |
Gold diamond ring | 1-2 × Gold nugget 1 × Diamond |
0.07 | 320
|
476 - 670
|
73 - 117
|
| Master |  |
Gold mug | 1 × Gold ore 1 × Timber |
0.26 | 104
|
97 - 122
|
11 - 20
|
| Magic |  |
Gold pearl necklace | 1-3 × Gold nugget 1-3 × Pearl |
0.13 | 330
|
461 - 491
|
46 - 125
|
| Master |  |
Gold plate | 1 × Gold ore 1 × Timber |
0.26 | 104
|
149 - 226
|
16 - 24
|
| Master |  |
Gold ring | 1-2 × Gold nugget | 0.05 | 20
|
19 - 24
|
1 - 3
|
| Magic |  |
Gold ruby ring | 1-2 × Gold nugget 1 × Ruby |
0.07 | 220
|
491
|
55 - 81
|
| Magic |  |
Gold sapphire necklace | 1-3 × Gold nugget 1 × Sapphire |
0.09 | 250
|
349 - 524
|
34 - 94
|
| Magic |  |
Gold sapphire ring | 1-2 × Gold nugget 1 × Sapphire |
0.07 | 240
|
503 - 535
|
55 - 88
|
| Common |  |
Haft | 1 × Hardened timber | 0.15 | 12
|
19
|
2 - 3
|
| Common |  |
Horse hide | 1-2 × Hardened leather 1 × Leather scraps |
0.89 | 140
|
254
|
25
|
| Common |  |
Inkwell | 1 × Vial 1 × Dye |
0.05 | 7
|
13 - 14
|
1
|
| Common |  |
Ladle | 1 × Timber | 0.06 | 5
|
10
|
1
|
| Common |  |
Lead | can't be dismantled | 0.41 | 1
|
2 - 3
|
1
|
| Common |  |
Lute | 1-2 × Iron ore 1-2 × Timber |
0.21 | 16
|
25 - 31
|
2 - 3
|
| Common |  |
Melitele figurine | 1 × Lead | 0.21 | 1
|
2
|
1
|
| Common |  |
Mug | 1 × Timber | 0.06 | 5
|
10
|
1
|
| Common |  |
Nilfgaardian Special Forces insignia | 1 × Leather straps 1-2 × Thread |
0.04 | 10
|
19
|
1
|
| Common |  |
Old bear hide | 1 × Cured leather 1-3 × Fur scrap |
0.41 | 80
|
145 - 185
|
14 - 16
|
| Common |  |
Old goat hide | 1-3 × Leather scraps | 0.13 | 24
|
37 - 46
|
4 - 5
|
| Common |  |
Old sheepskin | 1-4 × Leather scraps 1-2 × String |
0.20 | 48
|
87 - 92
|
8 - 15
|
| Master |  |
Ornate sword | 1 × Silver ingot 1 × Leather straps |
0.22 | 52
|
88 - 113
|
8 - 12
|
| Common |  |
Painting of Hierarch Hemmelfart | can't be dismantled | 0.18 | 80
|
145
|
14
|
| Common |  |
Parchment | 1-3 × Leather scraps | 0.13 | 24
|
37 - 46
|
4 - 5
|
| Common |  |
Perfume | 1 × Vial 1 × Oil |
0.13 | 4
|
7 - 8
|
1
|
| Common |  |
Pickaxe head | 1 × Steel ingot | 0.31 | 6
|
11
|
1
|
| Common |  |
Pig hide | 1 × Cured leather 1 × Oil |
0.27 | 34
|
62
|
6
|
| Common |  |
Platter | 1-2 × Timber | 0.11 | 10
|
19 - 20
|
1 - 2
|
| Master |  |
Pure silver | 1 × Silver ingot | 0.21 | 50
|
47
|
4 - 7
|
| Common |  |
Rabbit pelt | 1 × Fur scrap | 0.09 | 16
|
25 - 29
|
2
|
| Common |  |
Razor | 1 × Iron ore 1 × Fiber |
0.18 | 5
|
8 - 10
|
1
|
| Common |  |
Redanian special forces insignia | 1 × Leather straps 1-2 × Thread |
0.04 | 10
|
14
|
2
|
| Common |  |
Rope ladder | 1-3 × Hardened timber 1 × Rope |
0.63 | 62
|
113 - 119
|
11 - 13
|
| Common |  |
Rotting flesh | 1-2 × Ashes | 0.03 | 2
|
4
|
1
|
| Common |  |
Rusty breadknife | 1 × Iron ore | 0.16 | 2
|
4
|
1
|
| Common |  |
Rusty hammer head | 1 × Steel ingot | 0.31 | 6
|
10
|
1
|
| Common |  |
Saltpeter | 1 × Iron ore | 0.16 | 2
|
4
|
1
|
| Common |  |
Sea shell | 1 × Black pearl | 0.03 | 8
|
15
|
1
|
| Common |  |
Shell | 1 × Pearl | 0.02 | 4
|
8
|
1
|
| Magic |  |
Silver amber necklace | 1-3 × Silver 1-3 × Amber |
0.13 | 465
|
921 - 1036
|
151 - 170
|
| Magic |  |
Silver amber ring | 1-2 × Silver 1 × Amber |
0.07 | 160
|
317 - 335
|
40 - 52
|
| Master |  |
Silver candelabrum | 1 × Silver ingot | 0.21 | 50
|
72 - 109
|
7 - 11
|
| Master |  |
Silver casket | 1 × Silver ore 1 × Casket |
0.41 | 39
|
56 - 85
|
6 - 9
|
| Magic |  |
Silver emerald necklace | 1-3 × Silver 1 × Emerald |
0.09 | 265
|
394 - 591
|
56 - 97
|
| Magic |  |
Silver emerald ring | 1-2 × Silver 1 × Emerald |
0.07 | 260
|
387 - 580
|
55 - 95
|
| Master |  |
Silver mug | 1 × Silver ore 1 × Timber |
0.16 | 29
|
49 - 63
|
4 - 6
|
| Master |  |
Silver pantaloons | 1-2 × Silver 1 × Silk |
0.11 | 42
|
71 - 91
|
7 - 10
|
| Master |  |
Silver platter | 1 × Silver ore 1 × Timber |
0.16 | 29
|
42 - 63
|
4 - 6
|
| Magic |  |
Silver ruby necklace | 1-3 × Silver 1-3 × Ruby |
0.13 | 615
|
1218 - 1370
|
200 - 226
|
| Magic |  |
Silver sapphire ring | 1-2 × Silver 1 × Sapphire |
0.07 | 230
|
482 - 513
|
53 - 87
|
| Master |  |
Silver teapot | 1 × Silver ore | 0.11 | 25
|
42 - 55
|
4 - 6
|
| Common |  |
Skull | 1-4 × Ashes | 0.05 | 4
|
8
|
1
|
| Common |  |
Smoking pipe | 1 × Timber | 0.06 | 5
|
8 - 10
|
1
|
| Common |  |
Squirrel tail | 1 × Fur scrap | 0.09 | 16
|
26-28
|
1-7
|
| Common |  |
Tableware | can't be dismantled | 0.14 | 10
|
19
|
1
|
| Common |  |
Temerian Special Forces insignia | 1 × Leather straps 1-3 × Thread |
0.04 | 14
|
26
|
2
|
| Common |  |
Valuable fossil | 1-10 × Ashes | 0.11 | 10
|
19
|
1
|
| Common |  |
Vial | 1 × Glass | 0.03 | 2
|
4
|
1
|
| Common |  |
White bear hide | 1 × Hardened leather 1-5 × Fur scrap |
0.83 | 146
|
265
|
26
|
| Common |  |
White wolf hide | 1 × Cured leather 1-2 × Fur scrap |
0.33 | 64
|
116
|
11
|
| Common |  |
Wolf hide | 1 × Cured leather 1 × Fur scrap |
0.25 | 48
|
87
|
8 - 13
|
| Common |  |
Worn leather pelt | 1-2 × Leather scraps | 0.09 | 16
|
29 - 31
|
2 - 3
|
Notes[]
- A few other junk items are technically part of the base game, originally cut content, but have been later repurposed and appear in the Blood and Wine expansion. For simplicity, they are listed under Blood and Wine junk.