12-30-2017, 11:11 AM | #21 |
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Re: Salt
Salt was also used to make brine, which was a preservation technique. Salt collection on the coast is actually fairly simple and required minimal skill and investment (though it required a lot of work). You could dig a hole in sand during low tide, line it with leaves and clay to make it waterproof, and let the sea fill it during high tide. You could go collect the salt from the edges of the hole right before high tide (the more saline water in the pool would not mix, so you would have to stir it after high tide to mix the new and old water). Salt collectors would create dozens of holes and could collect a few pounds of salt a day during the summer.
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12-30-2017, 12:48 PM | #22 | |
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Another possible fix is to make normal salt $25/lb and Holy Salt (mined from far away mountainous plateaus infested with flesh eating yeti) costs $15 per oz. |
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12-30-2017, 02:44 PM | #23 | |
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12-30-2017, 05:51 PM | #24 |
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12-30-2017, 06:17 PM | #25 |
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Re: Salt
Well, if you care about the price of salt being realistic and agree that $25/lb is much more so than $15/oz...
(Why you care about realistic pricing in DF treasure tables is left as an exercise for the OP.)
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12-30-2017, 08:04 PM | #27 | |
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I've said before that as a relatively common rock that you can also get by running seawater onto waste ground and leaving it alone for a while, salt can't possibly cost more than, say, iron, which after all requires both fuel and skilled labor to process the no more common rock it comes from into metal. It's "expensive" mostly in the same sense as bread or firewood can be - it's not really *optional* no matter how poor you are.
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12-30-2017, 10:14 PM | #28 | |
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That's one of the things with the "realistic price in DF" issue. It isn't that DF is expected to have realistic prices, its that DF has the only prices.
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12-30-2017, 11:38 PM | #29 |
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Re: Salt
Are the prices or anything in DF realistic? I have known that salt was off for some time now, but assumed that prices for fabrics and gems etc. were more in line with reality.
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12-31-2017, 12:02 AM | #30 |
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