worldgen Chunk sized halite deposit

[yAn451]

I was exploring random worlds while messing with world generation options and stumbled across a "Halite obelisk", upon further inspection I found out that most of the chunk is made up of halite.

I don't think this is a common occurance or if it's even normal for this to happen lol.

Game version: 1.20.3 Stable

Seed: 1804598796

Coords: -831, 147, 692

[Zippy Wonderdust]

If memory serves, halite contains salt, yes? Halite can form as massive intrusions or pillars, both in game and in the real world.  It's totally a thing that the game is intentionally coded to do.  The pillar should go all the way down to y=0.  If it is wider than it is tall it is usually called a "salt dome" in real life, and you can often find deposits of oil or methane beneath them; thankfully not in-game, as I have no interest in simulating the industrial age!

[Michael Gates]

I've seen salt pillars in cliff sides a couple times, but I don't think it's supposed to stick up by itself like that, no.Worldgen should really poison the land for a couple hundred squares around when you get salt out in the open like that

[yAn451]

10 hours ago, Zippy Wonderdust said:

Halite can form as massive intrusions or pillars, both in game and in the real world.  It's totally a thing that the game is intentionally coded to do.

Oh wow, that's really cool honestly, thanks for the explanation.

And yeah, it nearly goes down to y level 0, there is a slight bit of granite under the whole cluster, but it would seem to be what you said, a salt dome.

[Dilan Rona]

18 hours ago, Zippy Wonderdust said:

If memory serves, halite contains salt, yes? Halite can form as massive intrusions or pillars, both in game and in the real world.  It's totally a thing that the game is intentionally coded to do.  The pillar should go all the way down to y=0.  If it is wider than it is tall it is usually called a "salt dome" in real life, and you can often find deposits of oil or methane beneath them; thankfully not in-game, as I have no interest in simulating the industrial age!

Hopefully one day, there will be oil in the game as well