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SnoopyMicrobe34

Finding rock salt is driving me insane...

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I developed a strange OCD and I HAVE TO FIND rock salt before winter comes. Every single world I start, I quit because I can't find the rock salt. It takes me on average 3 hours of sailing and finding nothing but useless chert until I decide to quit. Why is something so simple so incredibly near-impossible to find? Any tips? Although at this point I'm asking out of being desperate, I know that it's not uncommon to travel a lot to find the specific rock type.

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There is 1/15 chance of rock salt spawned in certain biome, therefore you need travel a lot.

Or just install Udary mod, in such case you need travel far to south to use evaporation pan.

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18 hours ago, ciekma said:

There is 1/15 chance of rock salt spawned in certain biome, therefore you need travel a lot.

Or just install Udary mod, in such case you need travel far to south to use evaporation pan.

Thank you for your suggestion! Can I ask where you got that information? I can't find it anywhere and I was wondering what are the odds that Limestone will be present on an island?

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14 hours ago, SnoopyMicrobe34 said:

Thank you for your suggestion! Can I ask where you got that information? I can't find it anywhere and I was wondering what are the odds that Limestone will be present on an island?

Which information? If you ask about probability of certain rock type, it is explained here: http://wiki.terrafirmacraft.com/Stone

BTW, my mistake, not 1/15 but 1/22 of salt rock probability, because all rock types can be spawned as the top layer. In case of calcite rocks, 4/21 i.e. 18%

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2 hours ago, ciekma said:

Which information? If you ask about probability of certain rock type, it is explained here: http://wiki.terrafirmacraft.com/Stone

BTW, my mistake, not 1/15 but 1/22 of salt rock probability, because all rock types can be spawned as the top layer. In case of calcite rocks, 4/22 i.e. 18%

Thanks again. About the wiki page, I'm sorry I might be blind but are you sure it's there? I couldn't find the info anywhere, only the categories.

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Yes, under categories there is explanation, where certain rock types are spawned. Because all rock can be spawned on the top layer, and salt rock as sedimentary ones can be only at the top, it is easy to calculate chance of salt rock, because there is 21 rock types total.

In case of flux, there is 4/21 of spawning calcite rocks at the top, and additional 1/13 of spawning marble as the middle layer.

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10 hours ago, ciekma said:

Yes, under categories there is explanation, where certain rock types are spawned. Because all rock can be spawned on the top layer, and salt rock as sedimentary ones can be only at the top, it is easy to calculate chance of salt rock, because there is 21 rock types total.

In case of flux, there is 4/21 of spawning calcite rocks at the top, and additional 1/13 of spawning marble as the middle layer.

Ah, thanks so much. Sorry for bothering you with so many questions :P. Seems strange to me why salt is so rare when it's not even that valuable. 

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In medieval times salt was very expensive.

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