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[Shonai_Dweller]

The Steam release doesn't add anything new to the game though. Except more graphical work for new features.

Depends if additional graphics, music and sound effects support, mouse control and a tutorial were part of the list of features they're calculating from I suppose.

[Thisfox]

I see a potential problem with salt: Rock salt is relatively rare in the game, compared to the real world. As with coal/lignite type substances, and iron ore, salt is extremely common in the Earths surface, but rarer in the game. We could collect salt from seawater (the celts did) but it still would be a rather impossible problem in todays Dwarf Fortress game, to require all forts to acquire and provide milled salt. There are so few places to acquire it.

It's not just a food. Most medieval tanning processes involve salts. Salt can be used as a mordant for dyes. It is involved in some ore purification processes to make metal bars. It is used in a myriad of medieval industries.

So personally, I'm glad salt is not a requirement for the game just yet. It makes it astronomically easier to play.

[IndigoFenix]

I assume that any food preservation techniques are simply abstracted during food preparation, in the same way that masonry and carpentry are done without visible tools.  Butchered meat and prepared fish lasts much longer in game than unbutchered corpses and unprepared fish, so the process probably includes drying, curing, salting, smoking, or whatever other preservation methods are available.

The only thing that salt would do to the game is add another resource to be maintained, and since food can be preserved without salt (via drying and smoking) it really wouldn't change much.

[Iä! RIAKTOR!]

Whats about adding salt as trade good? It cost like silver, we can embark in saltwater biome and sell salt to caravans.