Print

Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

[joostheger]

I'm running a fotress with magnetite-ore, beside some sea. When it was winter, i digged town in the water, to get to one of the magnetite's clusters. I used a single up-down stair. At the bottom, i carved a upward staircase in the ice. after clearing out the cluster, I surrounded the remaining ice at the bottom with wood, to prevent the sea from filling up the space.

Now, winter is gone and the ice has melted. When I checked my diggingspot, I spotted a Pile of Salt at this spot! very strange! Does anyone knows what I can do with it? can I generate more? Is it a bug?

[PatrikLundell]

I haven't encountered it, but it seems reasonable that salt water evaporating would leave behind salt contaminants that would probably be salty mud. If it's a contaminant you can't do anything with it except possibly spread it around using the normal contaminant spreading logic.

[Leonidas]

You can certainly make more piles of salt by deliberately evaporating seawater. In the ancient world, that was a great way to generate income. Early Rome might not have developed so quickly without its nearby salt marshes. And in some parts of the world, they still collect salt that way.

But it's just a contaminant in DF, equivalent to mud, blood, vomit, etc. You can't collect it or use it. If you want to get rid of it, you can build on top of it and then remove the building.

I wonder: Does salt contamination prevent grass, plants, and trees from growing on a tile?

[joostheger]

Right, thanks!

I'll try find some use for it ;-)

[Starver]

My comprehensive list of everything you can do with a pile of salt:

• Be married to it.

...no, sorry, that's yer Lot!

[joostheger]

maybe I can unretire my adventurer, take the salt, put it in a bag, play again as my fortress, and then sell it.
:-D but it'll cost me 28 days, after which my fortress will be a mess.
So im not sure if that will be worth it, BUT at least I'll have done something meaningfull with The Pile Of Salt

[Uthimienure]

By the time the pillar eroded into a pile, would you still be able to have children?
Oh well, if it's your Lot in life to marry it, roll with it!

[Thisfox]

I wonder: Does salt contamination prevent grass, plants, and trees from growing on a tile?

That could be useful if you have a sand or clay collection point you want kept clear...

[HungThir]

That could be useful if you have a sand or clay collection point you want kept clear...

you can just build a floor grate over the sand or clay tile, and that’ll stop plants growing on it, while still allowing collection. if it’s already overgrown, construct and then remove a floor, and then build your floor grate