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Neurovore

[Solved] Salt water

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In the current game I'm having, I set up my home base in an area that happens to be landlocked for a very long (> 2 days) distance in what seems every direction. I've done a lot of basic setup - I have a house, copper anvil, charcoal, furnace, a BED, food cellar, house, breeding pens for pigs, sheep, and chickens. Flux was 2 days away but I've carted enough back with me to go for a while.

 

I have plenty of fresh water, and have a large farming area set up. I've got grain (which means alcohol), but very limited fruit. My current goal is brine for food preservation. This means salt water, which for me is a 3-day journey each direction per barrel.

 

A couple problems with that. First, a full stack of veggies consumes almost an entire barrel of brine to get it "brined" in one shot. Bug? I'm not liking my chances for pickling veggies or smoking meat for the winter. In any case, here's the real question:

 

If I take a freshwater pond, and replace the shores with sand or gravel, will it produce salt water instead?

 

 

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A full barrel of brine for 160oz of food is intentional, and not a bug. This is the primary bottleneck to stop players from just super-preserving all of their food with pickling and smoking. Decay is a mechanic that was implemented so players learn to deal with it, not as something that is meant to easily be "fixed" and forgotten about.

 

You cannot change a freshwater pond to saltwater through any method other than draining it, and then using a red steel bucket to move salt water source blocks to it. Saltwater generates primarily in ocean and beach biomes, and really cannot be found anywhere else.

 

As for your problem, have you managed to find a donkey? The player's inventory has 37 slots, plus a back slot, and a donkey has 15 slots for storage. That means that you can put a full salt water barrel on your back, and then carry an additional 52 buckets of salt water between your inventory and the donkey's. That's enough salt water for 1 bucket shy of 7 full barrels worth of brine.

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The way I deal with this kind of situation is to setup a post by the beach and do the brinning there. Instead of bringing the salt water back to your base take the fruits to the beach and do all the brining there. Until you have red steel to create a salt water well this is the best solution.

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I think the right solution here would be the saltwater outpost. Even if I do that my lack of fruit will gate vinegar production severely. Winter is just about to start in my game, which means another 6-7 months before I'll be able to collect fruit again. I'll probably take the longer 4-day trip towards a known location for cows, since dairy is currently completely lacking in my diet. I can dual-purpose a cattle ranch and brining outpost.

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