Rock Salt and Mineral Water

[kittenkarate]

I've noticed that salt is one of those oddly rare resources in H&H, despite the natural abundance of rock salt IRL. It got me thinking...

With small changes, we could turn the Salt Basin to a natural mineral/hot spring. It could give seltzer water, which in turn could be used with various roots and berries to create sort of a primitive sort of sports drink.

It sounds a bit odd, but if we implemented mineral water, its function could be a bit interesting!
Quick stamina restoration, hunger reduction, maybe a small and short buff to certain attributes?

And with that, a debuff/wound could be added called Dehydration. The bonuses that salt gives could be leveled a bit with it. With dehydration, stamina could be cut by a percentage until healed or with a nice, refreshing drink (here's where mineral water can come in ).

I'm not super positive on proper implementation, but it would make it so that you still have the same number of limited resources while making salt a more common ingredient.

To be honest, I feel like I didn't explain it very well, but it seemed like a neat concept!

Also, sorry for being a bit noisy in the C&I forum! I just find myself thinking about the game a lot, and about new ideas that might be fun or useful ingame.
Hope that's okay!

[Field]

Energy drink with higher stamina regen? Just because of that I don't think it'll pass because devs don't seem to like things that allow for crazy chases.

I like salt how it is currently. Maybe it's a bit too strong but definetly in a good spot. Equal chances for people to compete against those resources (unlike being lucky to get salt to reduce hunger while mining underground).

[vatas]

I'd support replacing Salt Crystals with something else with identical function (hunger reduction) while adding salt as something that can be mined and processed into stuff that can be added to foods or used in cooking.

[jorb]

Suggested here as well.