Allow the player to distill seawater into freshwater and salt

[Byrnorthil]

We have saltwater

We have a distiller

Why not put the saltwater in the distiller?

This could give the player access to fresh water if, say, they spawned on a remote island.

But more importantly, it would give an alternate path to obtain small amounts of salt for players who can't find a salt dome and perhaps just want to make some cheese. They would still have to find halite if they wanted potash though.

 

[DeanF]

I'd be happy if I could just identify seawater.

[MelffyCafe]

I couldn't agree more. It's a relatively simple process. I hope they figure out a way to implemnt it!

[LadyWYT]

7 hours ago, Byrnorthil said:

But more importantly, it would give an alternate path to obtain small amounts of salt for players who can't find a salt dome and perhaps just want to make some cheese. They would still have to find halite if they wanted potash though.

Not necessarily. If lore content is turned on, Commodities and Survival Goods traders can both sell halite, while Commodities(and maybe Agriculture) traders can sell potash.

 

2 hours ago, DeanF said:

I'd be happy if I could just identify seawater.

Seawater has a slightly darker coloration, in addition to containing saltwater flora and fauna like kelp and coral. I believe it also tends to have a sandy bottom. Freshwater will have plants like lily pads, crowsfoot, or milfoil, and tends to have muddy gravel bottoms rather than sandy(though not always).

If nothing else, scooping a sample via bucket or other liquid container will tell you whether the water is fresh or salty.

[DeanF]

1 hour ago, LadyWYT said:

Seawater has a slightly darker coloration, in addition to containing saltwater flora and fauna like kelp and coral.

I thought that, but then I kept finding cattails near salt water.  Which I guess might not be totally inappropriate, since there are cattail species that like brackish water.  But not on a beach!  Brackish, not full salt water!

Suffice to say that identifying salt water seems much more difficult in the game than IRL.  Heck, you can smell it.

[Heegrim]

Yeah, this would be a good way to obtain salt if you are playing wilderness survival.

I really think they should add some way to make evaporation pools to collect sea salt early game too. Or even just let us fill a cooking pot full of sea water and boil all the water off to get 1 salt.

It is crazy how hard it is to find any naturally occurring salt right now.