Salvage

Important: A Salvage skill of 1800+ is required for maximum return while crushing

Salvage is a child skill of Repair and Fishing, your Salvage skill level is based on your Fishing and Repair skill levels.
Child: Fishing, Repair

Place down a mcMMO Salvage Anvil and right-click to salvage the item you're currently holding. This will break apart the item, and give back materials used to craft the item.
For example, salvaging an iron pickaxe will give you iron bars.

This ability allows you to get enchanted books when salvaging enchanted items. Depending on your level the chance of successfully extracting a full or partial enchantment varies.
When an enchantment is partially extracted, the enchantment book will have a lower level enchantment compared to what it was on the item.

When unlocked, this ability allows you to salvage damaged items. The yield percentage increases as you level up. A higher yield means that you can get more materials back. With advanced salvage you will always get 1 material back, unless the item is too damaged. So you don't have to worry about destroying items without getting anything in return.
To illustrate how this works, here's an example:
Let's say we salvage a gold pickaxe which is damaged for 20%, this means that the maximum amount you could get is only 2 (because the pick is crafted with 3 ingots - each worth 33,33% durability) which is equal to 66%. If your yield percentage is below 66% you are not able to get 2 ingots. If it is above this value you are able to gain the “full amount”, which means that you will get 2 ingots.

To read this guide on the server type /salvage ? [page]